Bibliography: Johannes Hevelius

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APOD 1.4

This is a picture of Mars engulfed in a planet-wide dust storm.

Could you imagine, "Today, there is a 100% chance of blinding dust storms, stay inside folks", Or how about dust days, or seven inches of dust fell today.

Anyways, this picture above of the increasing dust storms makes me think, what if something like this happened to us, our entire planet covered in something like a hurricane. This is really quite disturbing that this can happen to a planet, that sometimes has quite a stable environment. These dust storms caused a problem that heated up its atmosphere, and drastically cooled the planet's surface. One reason that this was being watched so closely at the time was that NASA's Mars Odyssey was due to arrive only a week after the dust storm looked like the picture on the right at the top. What a harsh environment. It is so weird that a planet so close and quite a lot like ours could end up that way, especially with calm luscious Earth such a short distance away.

Captain's Log 3: 6:45 A.M.-7:10 A.M. Thursday, September 2010

This observation was collected while driving (safe) on Englewood Rd./Manasota Beach Rd. on the South Venice, Englewood border all the way to Pine View School.

The moon was as amazing and full as could be. The sun was rising in the east, and the moon was only getting more and more yellow. I have never actually watched a full moon set as the sun was rising like I did this morning on the way to school. Jupiter being at opposition could also be seen very clearly this morning, about 7 degrees away from the full moon, but faded out slowly as the sun approached the horizon.

Simply put I had a lot of fun looking up this morning. Did the people of old not see the dark spots on the Moon as being imperfections?

Captains Log 2: 6:30 A.M. Monday, September 20, 2010

This observation was taken from my driveway. The moon was in a waxing gibbous phase, and the light pollution from street lights and the moon. The moon was very clear in the sky, and rather cool looking in shape.

Orion could be seen pretty well, and really did not know much else to look for, because the moon was very bright, and blotted out a lot of the other stars.

APOD 1.3

Tycho's Supernova Remnant
I have never seen so many awesome colors in one thing in space. Apparently this is possible to see with the naked eye, but the problem is, with how much light pollution? This supernova originally discovered by Tycho Brahe, hence the name. This is an expanding bubble of hot gas that has a fluffy look, because a lot of the solar winds are different, and expand different parts at separate rates. This is an X-ray image, a infrared image, and a regular image all chocked together to make this beautiful image. I did not really know that pictures of space were developed this way until I read about this one.

Captain's Log 1: 6:25 A.M. Friday, September 10, 2010

This observation was taken from the end of my driveway. The best place to see the sky...

This morning, the moon was non existant. But, Jupiter was very bright in the western sky, as the Sun was rising in the eastern sky.

As for constellations, sadly the only one i could recognize was Orion, which was almost directly overhead.

APOD 1.2

MORNING GLORY CLOUDS
    Nobody truly knows what causes this meteorological phenomena, but it is known that they happen yearly in Northern Australia, especially over Burketown, a small town on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Some meteorologists believe it is a form of roll cloud, which is formed when storm fronts come into contact with advancing cold fronts, cooling the air and causing the cloud. Another thought for how these clouds could form is that cool flowing air hits an inversion layer, which is a large body of air that unlike usual parts of the world, increase in temperature as altitude increases. Very awesome clouds, wish they would roll over to Florida some time.

APOD 1.1

Thor's Helmet

 Named for its helmet like shape and its winged appendages, the bubble nebula like mass is a very awesome find. Thor's helmet is a star called a Wolf-Rayet star. This is a star that actually loses mass from its large solar winds. The loss of mass is a constant yearly loss, and it is what creates the bubble formed around the strong star. The star is thought to be near super nova, but it is hard to tell since the star is so many light years away (15,000). This can be found in the Canis-Major constellation.