Analemma Apollona
22.09.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Segodnya v 20:44 po Vsemirnomu vremeni Solnce peresechet nebesnyi ekvator, dvigayas' na yug. Eto astronomicheskoe yavlenie – ravnodenstvie – otmechaet pervyi den' oseni v severnom polusharii i vesny – v yuzhnom. Kogda Solnce nahoditsya na nebesnom ekvatore, dlya vseh obitatelei Zemli i den', i noch' prodolzhayutsya pochti 12 chasov.

Zapusk rakety Antares
21.09.2013 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Nebo vyglyadit temnym na etoi fotografii, snyatoi v Sredneatlanticheskom regional'nom kosmoporte (Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport – MARS) na kosmodrome NASA Uollops v shtate Virdzhiniya. V sredu, 18-go sentyabrya raketa Antares Korporacii Orbital'nyh Nauk (Orbital Sciences Corporation) vzletela so startovoi ploshadki 0A s gruzovym korablem Cignus (Cygnus). Kazhetsya, chto snimok sdelan noch'yu.