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The Acadia Night Sky Festival is an annual celebration of the starlit skies above Acadia National Park on Maine's Mount Desert Island and the Schoodic Peninsula. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The festival takes place every September.
Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky. The first photograph of an astronomical object (the Moon) was taken in 1840, but it was not until the late 19th century that advances in technology allowed for detailed stellar photography.
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. Aurorae light up the skies above the ...
University of Leicester. Known for. The Sky at Night. Scientific career. Fields. Astronomy. Peter B. Lawrence is a British amateur astronomer. Since 2004, he has been a presenter on the BBC's The Sky at Night. He makes high resolution images of the Sun, Moon and planets, and takes images of time-limited phenomena such as eclipses and the aurora.
International Dark Sky Week. International Dark Sky Week (formerly the National Dark Sky Week) is held during the week of the new moon in April, [1][2] when people worldwide may turn off their lights to observe the beauty of the night sky without light pollution. This event was founded in 2003 by high school student Jennifer Barlow of ...
The National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ( NGS-POSS, or just POSS, also POSS I) was a major astronomical survey, that took almost 2,000 photographic plates of the night sky. It was conducted at Palomar Observatory, California, United States, and completed by the end of 1958. [ 1][ 2]
The Next Generation of NASA Night Sky Network: A Searchable Nationwide Database of Astronomy Events. Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future. Proceedings of a conference held September 12-16, 2009 in Millbrae, California, USA. p. 456. Bibcode: 2010ASPC..431..456A.
The Bortle dark-sky scale (usually referred to as simply the Bortle scale or sometimes Bottle scale) is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a particular location. It quantifies the astronomical observability of celestial objects and the interference caused by light pollution .