The experiments, led by specialized researchers, will also draw on observations by
amateur sky watchers and students.
Depending on their location,
sky watchers just outside these regions should be able to see at least part of the eclipse too.
It might therefore seem that the game is essentially over
for sky watchers after Halloween.
From NASA's point of view, the value of amateurs is obvious: The more pairs of telescope - aided eyes scanning the cosmos, the greater the likelihood that significant discoveries will be made — and given the budget crunches of the past few years, the agency needs all the
unpaid sky watchers it can get.
The last
time sky watchers in North America had a good opportunity to witness this event, during which the planet showed up as a moving dot on a projected image of the sun, was in 1960.
Paul and I have always been interested in astronomy & outer space and are
avid sky watchers.
Midnight sky watchers find their eyes directed beyond the galaxy toward the yawning blackness of the intergalactic void.
When the shuttle Endeavour flew its Astro - 2 mission this past March, thrice - daily updates from AAVSO and its amateur
sky watchers let astronauts know which variables were active and worth observing.
The northern and southern lights have
dazzled sky watchers for millennia with their eerie, greenish glows.
Ever since Archimedes made an ingenious mechanical device to demonstrate the motions of the sun, moon, and planets,
visionary sky watchers have developed increasingly elaborate tools for creating the illusion of seeing the universe from new vantage points.
Perhaps scientists haven't figured out why auroras prefer autumn, but it's easy to understand
why sky watchers do....
After completing the mission, an Avvar shaman known
as Sky Watcher can be persuaded to join the Inquisition army.
In November, the Leonid meteor shower produced a spectacular fireworks display
for sky watchers.
I have always been
a sky watcher.
Sky watchers, first with the naked eye and later with telescopes and radar and other gear, have assembled strange facts about the planet hiding in the sun's blaze.
Sky watchers could catch a dazzling treat this week, with the peak of what is expected to be an unusually good Taurid meteor shower.
For
sky watchers, this means the chance to see auroras after sunset.
The closest supernova in our own lifetime lay a safe 170,000 light - years away in an adjacent dwarf galaxy, appearing as a dim star to
my sky watchers» group.
Sky watchers have catalogued more than 16,000 objects larger than about 10 centimeters, most of them in low Earth orbit, at altitudes of 200 to 2,000 kilometers.
LONDON, United Kingdom — This season, we saw a wide diversity of fashion films — from a gorgeously animated «
Sky Watcher» from Trussardi to the quirky charm of i - D's «A-Z of the World's Top Supermodels» — evidence that the genre has matured well past its roots in moving fashion editorial and simple behind - the - scenes clips.
Scientists and
sky watchers are converging on the northeast coast of Australia, near the Great Barrier Reef, for a total eclipse of the sun.