รวบรวมภาพเมฆ, ท้องฟ้า, ดาว, เดือน, พระอาทิตย์ เพือเก็บตัวอย่างไว้ศึกษา

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]FULL MOON: [/FONT] How can you tell this Moon is full? Is it the enormous disk? The glaring moonlight? No. The real clue is the orange color of the office windows. Scroll down for the reason why:

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"The orange light in the windows is reflection of the sunset," explains photographer M. Raşid Tuğral of Ankara, Turkey. "The sun and Moon were on opposite sides of the sky--the defining geometry of a full Moon!"



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เมื่อเช้าวันจันทร์ที่ 30 สิงหาคม 2010

 

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AURORA AUSTRALIS: [/FONT] Earth is exiting a solar wind stream that has been causing bright auroras around the poles--both poles. Michael Zupanc sends this picture from Australia's Davis Station on the coast of Antarctica:

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"The tail end of the solar wind stream produced a nice outburst on Aug. 27th," says Zupanc. "Despite having to contend with a nearly full Moon, the auroras were easy to see."​

The green laser lancing into the sky is the station's lidar, the optical equivalent of a radar. "We use it to study stratospheric clouds," says Zupanc. The polar atmosphere is a sensitive 'barometer' of climate change and ozone recovery, and the Davis Station lidar is a key tool for researchers. It is able to measure the density, temperature, wind velocity and aerosol loading of critical atmospheric layers above the frozen continent. Plus it looks great during a geomagnetic storm!

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CloudSat intersects thunderstorms over areas in Pakistan responsible for the devastating flash floods.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"></td> <td>9 AUGUST 2010 | CloudSat In the News <a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-262&cid=release_2010-262" target="_blank">Send in the Clouds
CloudSat's view of the clouds during the past four years.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"></td> <td>28 JULY 2010 | CloudSat Education Network <a href="http://www.globe.gov/stars/articles/globe-cloudsat-mission-involves-students-in-climate-research" target="_blank">GLOBE CloudSat Mission Involves Students in Climate Research
Collaboration between GLOBE and CEN provides student research opportunities.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"></td> <td>21 JULY 2010 | CloudSat Presentation <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/blogs/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowBlog&NewsID=352" target="_blank">CloudSat expands into the 3-D Universe
Dr. Matt Rogers talks about the CloudSat mission to teenagers using Second Life, a virtual online world.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"></td> <td>19 JULY 2010 | CloudSat in the News <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/nasa-uav-hurricane-formation.html" target="_blank">Hurricane drone joins NASA fleet
CloudSat data will help corraborate NASA's new hurricane hunting drone.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"></td> <td>16 JULY 2010 | CloudSat Summer Intern <a href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/news/summer_intern" target="_blank">JPL summer intern joins CloudSat team
JPL intern, Patricia Song, writes about her experiences as intern at JPL for the CloudSat project.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"></td> <td>8 JULY 2010 | CloudSat in the News <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jul/HQ_10-160_GRIP_Research.html" target="_blank">NASA's Hurricane Research Project
CloudSat will play a key role in supplying data for the Summer 2010 GRIP hurricane research project.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"><a href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/news/china_flood"></td> <td>2 JULY 2010 | CloudSat Overpass <a class="newsLink" href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/news/china_flood">Heavy Rains in China
Heavy rains in southern China during June have killed hundreds and left thousands homeless.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"><a href="http://ccplot.org/" target="_blank"></td> <td>30 JUNE 2010 | CloudSat Graphical Tools <a class="newsLink" href="http://ccplot.org/" target="_blank">CloudSat plotting tool
Check out <a href="http://ccplot.org/" target="_blank">ccplot, a CloudSat and CALIPSO python plotting tool.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"><a href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/news/france_flood"></td> <td>16 JUNE 2010 | CloudSat Overpass <a class="newsLink" href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/news/france_flood">Flooding in France
One of the worst floods in 180 years swept across southern France killing at least 25 people
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr><td> <table align="left" vspace="5" width="100%" hspace="5"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="75"><a href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/newsletter/Winter2010.pdf"></td> <td>1 FEBRUARY 2010 | CloudSat CEN Newsletter <a class="newsLink" href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/newsletter/Winter2010.pdf">CEN Winter Newsletter
The latest release of the CloudSat Education network newsletter is available.
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/news/">More CloudSat News...
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<center>Northern Plain's Thunderstorm

</center> An early morning thunderstorm (0915 UTC) moved across portions of Montana, North Dakota and Canada bringing heavy rain and small hail to the areas. CloudSat overpassed the western section of the storm providing a unique vertical view of the storm. The cirrus canopy extends well beyond the core of the storm from the overshooting clouds tops hitting the tropopause and spreading out. Heavy rain is contained in the red and orange reflectivity's with some of the heavier precipitation attenuating in the lower 5 km of the storm. A cold trough moved through the area, moist air ahead of the system helped fuel the thunderstorms.
<center><a href="/canada_tstorm.png"></center> <hr> 02 May 2010


<center>Tennessee Flooding

</center> Portions of Tennessee experienced some of the worst flooding on record with more than 16" (40 cm) of rain over the area during May 1-2, 2010. Deep tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean fed the intense storms ahead of a slow moving cold front. CloudSat overpassed the area twice on May 2 (0800 & 1900 UTC). CloudSat slices through the tall cumulonimbus clouds revealing the structure of the storm.
<table align=center> <tr><Td></td> <Td></td> </table> <hr> 30 March 2010


<center>NE Storm</center>

CloudSat intersected a storm system moving across New England on March 30, 2010. This storm brought large amounts of rain (3-8 inches) and snow at higher elevations to an already saturated area. Thousands of residents lost power and were evacuated as streams and rivers in the area started to overflow. Record amounts of rains up to nearly a foot for the month of March were recorded in New York and Connecticut. The CloudSat overpass slices through the western part of the storm revealing the large swath of bright reflectivity indicating large amounts of water falling as rain. The comma shaped system is indicative of a mature midlatitude storm system.
<center></center> <hr> 10 March 2010


<center>Peru Thunderstorm</center>

CloudSat overpassed a single cell thunderstorm on March 10, 2010 NE of the Andes Mountains. Moist air from the east is being pushed up against the mountains, fueling thunderstorm development as viewed from the MODIS satellite image. CloudSat captures the vertical development of the storm, precipitation is most likely falling at the base and the top of the storm (anvil) is moving outward away the storm center. Thunderstorms such as these are frequent in this area during the southern hemisphere summer.
<center></center> <hr> 16 February 2010


<center>TC Rene</center>

Tropical cyclone Rene, located to the east of Australia and at one stage a powerful category 4 storm, weakens as the circulation moves SW across an area of unfavorable TC formation (lower SST's) in the South Pacific on Feb. 16, 2010. CloudSat intersected through the center of the storm revealing the low clouds associated with the weak surface low. Nearly all of the deep convection and heavy precipitation has been reduced to stratus/cumulus deck (darker grey clouds on the IR image and an absence of cold cloud tops in the AMSR-E image) with cloud top heights below 5km.
<table align=center> <tr><Td></td> <Td></td> </table> <hr> 14 January 2010


<center>Cloud Fly Over Video

</center> Check out a new video put together by Dan Woods (JPL) of a cloud fly over using a fog machine!
<hr> Click here for more CloudSat news and overpasses.
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<!--CloudSat and CALIPSO are mounted on the Delta II launch vehicle at NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg AFB in preparation for launch. Yesterday, engineers and mission managers assessed a suspect temperature sensor on the Boeing Delta II rocket's second stage. Following a thorough data analysis, they concluded the unusual temperature sensor readings observed during the previous two launch attempts were primarily the result of higher temperature pressurization rates and are not indicative of any defect in the sensor itself. They concluded the sensor does not require replacement and can fly as is. Weather is not expected to be a concern for Friday morning's launch. --> <!--
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Orbital elements (two-line elements or TLEs) for CloudSat are available here (CloudSat DPC). CloudSat ground tracks may be predicted using tools located on this NASA LaRC page. Orbital elements at the LaRC page are updated regularly, but use the DPC link for the very latest TLEs.
For an overview document (PDF) of science and research themes, click here. The BAMS 2002 article (PDF) describing the CloudSat mission is available here.
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On 18 January, the CPR (Cloud Profiling Radar) was transitioned from Operate Mode to Intialize Mode by autonomous fault protection. Initial analysis showed that two body current trips occurred in the High Power Amplifier -2 (HPA2).

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ถ่ายเมื่อเช้า 10 กันยา ประมาณ 6 โมงเช้า

ถ่ายเมื่อ 6 นาฬิกา

ภาพนี้ถ่ายทางทิศตะวันออก





ภาพเหล่านี้ทางทิศตะวันตก ตื่นมางงมากนึกว่าพระอาทิตย์ขึ้นทางทิศตะวันตก
(แต่คิดว่าเป็น reflection)

 

PURPLE AURORAS: Auroras are dancing around the Arctic Circle and some of them are purple. This is how the sky looked on Sept. 8th over Bø, Norway:

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"It's not often I get to see purple auroras," says photographer Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen. "This was truly a fantastic sight!"​

Auroras get their colors from specific atoms and molecules in Earth's atmosphere. Green comes from oxygen molecules excited by geomagnetic activity. Purple, on the other hand, is usually a mixture of red and blue emissions from molecular nitrogen. O₂ and N₂ were both revved up in Norway last night!​

More purple is possible tonight as a solar wind stream continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras.​

 

หาดูแล้ว ไม่มีจ้า

เห็นแต่เมฆสว่างด้านทิศตะวันตก :boo:

 

แสงออโรล่าที่กรีนแลนด์ เกิดจากปฏิกิริยาแม่เหล็กโลกรอบๆ ขั้วโลก

GREEN LIGHTS OVER GREEN LAND: Earth is entering a solar wind stream, and this is causing geomagnetic activity around the poles. "We have seen our first auroras of the season," reports Rune Christiansen of Nuuk, the captital city of Greenland:

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It's been a while since Northern Lights were visible over Greenland. During summer, they are usually overwhelmed by the midnight sun. With the approach of northern autumn, however, Arctic nights are getting dark again and the auroras have returned. "I'm looking forward to a good season," says Christiansen.

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NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of geomagnetic activity during the next 24 hours as the solar wind continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras. ​

 

คุณเฉลิมชัย โฆษิตพิพัฒน์ “ ที่จริงผมจะเขียนสามรูปคือ ออกเรือ แล้วก็เรือล่ม แล้วก็ว่ายน้ำ ๗ วัน ๗ คืน แต่พระบาทสมเด็จพระเจ้าอยู่หัว เมื่อทอดพระเนตรรูปเสก็ตช์ของผมทั้งหมด ทรง จินตนาการว่า น่าจะมีรูปสักรูปมาเสริมตรงนี้ คือก่อนเรือล่ม ควรจะเขียนบรรยากาศของเรือ ที่พระมหาชนกยืนอยู่ตรงหัวเรือ แล้วชี้ไปเห็นปูกับปลาต่อสู้กัน ในความหมายของพระองค์ท่านทรงบอกไว้ว่า ฝ่ายปูนี่เป็นฝ่ายที่หนุนเท้าพระมหาชนก เป็นฝ่ายดีฝ่ายธรรมะ ฝ่ายปลานี่เป็นฝ่ายกิเลส ดังนั้น อยากให้เขียนรูปแบบนั้น ทรงอธิบายถึงสีสันของทะเลตอนก่อนที่พายุจะมาเป็นอย่างไร ออกสีส้มออกสีเหลือง อันนี้เป็นรูปที่มาจากจินตนาการของพระองค์ท่านทั้งหมด ผมไม่ได้คิดเลย ดังนั้น รูปจะออกมาเป็นสามลักษณะด้วยกันคือ รูปของความสงบนิ่ง กับรูปของการกำลังจะเกิดความวุ่นวาย แล้วก็รูปความวุ่นวาย.”

 

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]EGYPTIAN SUNSET: [/FONT] Yesterday in Giza, Egypt, Aymen Ibrahem positioned himself in front of the Pyramid of King Khephren to photograph the sunset. "Every year, just after the autumnal equinox, the sun sets directly behind the east-west aligned Sphinx," he explains. "This would be a great photo-op." His pictures, however, revealed more than he expected. Scroll down below the Sphinx to find out what he saw.

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"When I took a closer look at the images, I found two sunspots," he says. Indeed, sunspots 1108 and 1109 are large enough to see without the amplification of a solar telescope. "Drifting clouds and the dusty air lowered the brightness of the sun enough for me to capture them using nothing more than my camera (a Sony DSC H5)."

 

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AMAZING HALOES:[/FONT] On Oct. 30th in Kittilä, Finland, photographer Sauli Koski witnessed a brief but unforgettable display when the rising sun shone through a morning cloud of wintery ice crystals. Fortunately he had his camera:

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"These were the best ice haloes I have ever seen," says Koski. "They were there for only about 10 minutes and then gone. What a delight!"​

"It was a gem of a halo display," agrees atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "Koski saw at least 13 different arcs. Some, including two types of Parry arc, are rare. Three more arcs, the helic, Parry supralateral, and Moilanen are exceedingly rare. See the key for the arc identities. With winter fast approaching, now is the time for outstanding halos."​

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]DANGEROUS BEAUTY:[/FONT] As November begins, Venus is passing almost directly between Earth and the sun, an event astronomers call "inferior conjunction." The view through a telescope is both beautiful and dangerous. Henry Mendt of Maracaibo, Venezuela, took this daylight picture of Venus only 7^o from the blinding sun on Oct. 31st:

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Venus is such a slender crescent because the planet's night side is almost-squarely facing Earth. "Only 0.7% of the disk was illuminated," says Mendt, "but the crescent was bright and wide, a full arcminute in diameter. This made Venus easy to find even in the midday sky." Here he describes how he safely targeted Venus using an 8-inch telescope and photographed the planet from inside the shadows of a parking garage.​

Venus will become even easier to find in the weeks ahead as it emerges from the glare of the sun into the pre-dawn sky. The crescent will be a little fatter, but much less dangerous and no less beautiful. Stay tuned for the Morning Star.​