DEEP SPACE with David Attié

Orion Nebula, from Liwa desert, Wednesday Night 30.1.2014.

Telescope C11, Canon EOS 450d. Exposure time: 30s, Sensitivity= 800 ISO

Raw image of M82 galaxy. It really need to be processed but inside the galaxy, you can see the supernova wich has been detected few weeks ago. It looks like a star inside this galaxy (right side of the galaxy). But it wasn't there few days ago. Usually it is impossible to see any star inside another galaxy. That one has turn in supernova (massive explosion), that's why wee can see it from earth. It should stay visible for a few weeks.

"SPACE PROBE ROSETTA" the sleeping beauty IS AWAKE!!!



The European probe Rosetta woke up Monday after 31 months of hibernation in a nearly decade-old quest to explore a comet.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced. "Hello, world!" ESA said on Twitter, imitate the signal sent back from deep space by the billion-dollar unmanned craft.

The agency described Rosetta as a "sleeping beauty" that had emerged from a long sleep.

"It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter," it said.

Europe's most ambitious space mission, the craft was launched in 2004 on a trek of seven billion kilometres (4.3 billion miles) around the inner Solar System.

In August with a comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and in November send down a lander to carry out experiments on the icy wanderer. Rosetta was put in hibernation in June 2011 by bringing far from the Sun that light was too dim to power its solar clothing. Scientists waited more than eight hours on Monday before getting the priceless signal, sent home from a distance of more than 800 million km (500 million miles), to confirm that it had woken up.

IS YOUR NAME INCLUDED?

Want your name to go to Bennu? Submit your name online by Sept. 30:  through http://planetary.org/bennu    pic.twitter.com/Pge0iG9I2M

The Project

OSIRIS-REx

Messages to Bennu!

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and The Planetary Society invite you to submit your name for a round-trip ride to asteroid Bennu. Your name will hitch a ride to the asteroid, spend 500 days there, and return in the Sample Return Capsule to Earth in 2023.

Plus your name will be on the spacecraft, which will remain in space long after returning the sample return capsule to Earth.

Like the mission on Facebook for mission updates, plus notifications on just where your name is from launch in 2016 to return to Earth in 2023.

Engage the mission on Twitter for late-breaking news.

WEEKEND DESERT STARGAZING

Abu Dhabi Astronomy organizing first desert stargazing for 2014.
Date: 10th January 2012 (Friday)
Time: 3:00pm at the meeting place
Place: refer to the pictures above

if interested to join email: abudhabiastronomy@gmail.com or call 0502259963

see you there!!!

JUPITER AT OPPOSITION

JUPITER AT OPPOSITION

The giant planet will be at it's closest approach to Earth and it's face will be fully illuminated by the Sun on January 5, 2014. This is the best time to view and photograph Jupiter and it's moons. A medium-sized telescope should be able to show you some of the details in Jupiter's cloud bands. A good pair of binoculars should allow you to see Jupiter's four largest moons, appearing as bright dots either side of the planet.