SUNDAY’S ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE: FIRST REPORTS By: Kelly Beatty | February 27, 2017

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/feb-2017-annular-eclipse-reports/

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY, SUPERNOVA 1987A By: Alan MacRobert

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/happy-30th-birthday-supernova-1987a/

A SOLAR ECLIPSE WITH A BEADED RING OF FIRE Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Bedingfield

What kind of eclipse is this? On Sunday, visible in parts of Earth's southern hemisphere, the Moon blocked part of the Sun during a partial solar eclipse. In some locations, though, the effect was a rare type of partial eclipse called an annular eclipse. There, since the Moon is too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun, sunlight streamed around the edges of the Moon creating a "ring of fire". At some times, though, the effect was a rare type of annular eclipse. Then, an edge of the Moon nearly aligned with an edge of the Sun, allowing sunlight to stream through only low areas on the Moon. Called a "Baily's bead" or a "diamond ring", this doubly rare effect was captured Sunday in the feature photograph from Chubut, Argentina, in South America. This summer a total solareclipse will swoop across North America.

METEOR Taken by Beehive SEO on September 8, 2017 @ Moab, Utah

COMET 45P/HONDA-MRKOS-PAJDUŠÁKOVÁ Taken by Michal Kaluzny on February 27, 2017 @ Belecin Nowy, Poland

Comet nearby galaxy NGC3629.

THE APPROACH TO THE MARS AND URANUS CONJUNCTION Taken by Marion Haligowski on February 26, 2017 @ Lancaster, PA, USA

It has been a couple of busy months in the constellation of Pisces! The following image has been an ongoing project of mine since the end of November 2016. I wanted to record the movement of Uranus among the backdrop of the constellation of Pisces. The first set of images was taken on the evening of November 27, 2016. I took a sequence of images and stacked them using Nebulosity. The stacking was helpful to counteract light pollution and the occasional high cloud cover. Unfortunately, the weather was uncooperative until December 8, 2016; thus the gap in the path of Uranus at this time. Uranus was stationary on the evening of January 5, 2017.

After January 5th, Uranus can be seen moving eastward each evening. Fortunately, the weather began to cooperate and I was able to get many more photographs to adequately image the movement of Uranus. On February 13, 2017, Mars began to enter my field of view. I was able to image both Uranus and Mars together on the path to their close conjunction on February 26, 2017. At this conjunction, they were 0.6 degrees apart. I wanted to get a couple more after the conjunction; however, the weather had other plans!

The images were all taken with a Canon 70D and a Canon 100 mm f/2 lens. On each night a sequence of photos was taken with an iOptron Sky Tracker and stacked in Nebulosity. Each master image was then aligned in Nebulosity. Varying exposure times and apertures were used according to conditions, moonlight, light pollution, etc.

GEGENSCHEIN IN LEO Taken by Steed Yu on February 26, 2017 @ Beijing, China

Gegenschein is a faint brightening of the night sky in the region of the antisolar point. By the end of February, the gegenschein is located in the Leo, just under the lions belly. About half a year later, when the Great American Eclipse occurs, the black sun will be located in the same constellation, not far from the Regulus.

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