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Skyglow (or sky glow) is the diffuse luminance of the night sky, apart from discrete light sources such as the Moon and visible individual stars. It is a commonly noticed aspect of light pollution . While usually referring to luminance arising from artificial lighting , skyglow may also involve any scattered light seen at night, including ...
Pavo is a constellation in the southern sky whose name is Latin for ' peacock '.Pavo first appeared on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603, and was likely conceived by Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
The night sky is the nighttime appearance of celestial objects like stars, planets, and the Moon, which are visible in a clear sky between sunset and sunrise, when the Sun is below the horizon. Natural light sources in a night sky include moonlight , starlight , and airglow , depending on location and timing.
Vroom in the Night Sky, [a] known in Japan as Soratobu Bunbun Burn, [b] is an action racing video game for the Nintendo Switch developed and published by Poisoft.It was released on the eShop on March 3, 2017 in Japan and other territories as a launch title for the system, and in North America on April 5.
Of the deep-sky objects in Apus, there are two prominent globular clusters—NGC 6101 and IC 4499—and a large faint nebula that covers several degrees east of Beta and Gamma Apodis. [37] NGC 6101 is a globular cluster of apparent magnitude 9.2 located around 50,000 light-years distant from Earth, [ 38 ] which is around 160 light-years across.
A Connecticut-Sized Glow Beneath the Indian Ocean From Hong Kong to California, there are some beautiful — and unique — beaches that glow neon blue at night.
Airglow at night may be bright enough for a ground observer to notice and appears generally bluish. Although airglow emission is fairly uniform across the atmosphere, it appears brightest at about 10° above the observer's horizon , since the lower one looks, the greater the mass of atmosphere one is looking through.
A Bird Story is an adventure role-playing video game developed and published by Freebird Games. It was released in November 2014 for Linux , OS X , and Windows as a minisode connecting the previous game by Freebird Games, To the Moon , with its sequel, Finding Paradise .