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Stellar Properties - Temperature. The Size Of Our World. Solar System Simulator. Planetarium - Interactive star map and virtual sky. Earth Time Lapse Video from ISS is Amazing! This time lapse video, taken by the International Space Station, is filled with lightning storms, the Northern Lights, tropical currents and pure awesomeness. The video is a series of sequence photographs taken with a low-light 4K-camera by the crew of Expedition 28 and 29. If you have commitment issues and do not want to watch a five minute video, there are some screen grabs below. But trust me, the lightning storms a lone are worth it. Here is what you are seeing, in order of appearance: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. DaylightMap. DaylightMap shows the pattern of night and day on a Google map, for any area of the Earth, for any date and time.

The night-side satellite view includes city lights as seen from orbit. It also allows you to select up to ten locations on the map; in addition to seeing at a glance whether it's daytime there, you can show their local time, sunrise and and sunset times, and length of day. These locations can be remembered for future visits, saved as a bookmark, or sent to other people as a web link. This site can thus function as a graphical world clock, and can be used to show relative times of any future or past event. This particular DaylightMap is highlighting times for . More Information Mobile phones running the Android operating system - the Droid, Galaxy, Nexus, Xperia, and more - can now have DaylightMap on board. There's also a near-real-time view of global cloud cover available, updated every hour from weather satellite imagery.

Sun`s path June to December « Helpmyphysics. Last June I placed some photographic film into a tin cannister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin cannister was then attached to a clothes pole in my backgarden and left. This afternoon I fetched the cannister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic film and with the aid of some image software made the image negative. The result is the picture above. The picture clearly shows the path of the sun through the sky over the last six months.

I believe you can see we didn`t have a great summer by the broken lines at the top. This has been a fascinating simple project that was carried out very easily. Solar Path Experiment. Moon Phase. Space Shuttle Discovery - 360VR Images. Photopic Sky Survey. WIKISKY.ORG. High Mass Stars. Chromoscope - View the Universe in different wavelengths. Chromoscope - View the Universe in different wavelengths. Scale-of-universe-v1.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)