Astronomicheskaya nedelya s 19 po 25 oktyabrya 2009 goda
16.10.2009 17:08 | Aleksandr Kozlovskii

Dannaya nedelya yavlyaetsya perehodnoi s letnego vremeni na zimnee. 25 oktyabrya v tri chasa nochi strelki chasov na territorii nashei strany budut perevedeny na chas nazad. Lyubitelyam astronomii eto neobhodimo uchityvat' v pervuyu ochered' pri planirovanii nablyudenii v samom konce nedeli.

Gershel' nablyudaet Mlechnyi put'
16.10.2009 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Gershel' — imya novoi infrakrasnoi observatorii Evropeiskogo kosmicheskogo agenstva. Etot kosmicheskii teleskop nazvan v chest' rodivshegosya v Germanii angliiskogo astronoma Frederika Vil'yama Gershelya, kotoryi otkryl infrakrasnoe izluchenie 200 let nazad. Diametr zerkala Gershelya raven 3.5 metrov, to est' bol'she, chem u kosmicheskogo teleskopa im. Habbla.