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Kevin Krisciunas


krisciunas@physics.tamu.edu

Texas A & M University
Department of Physics
4242 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4242
Phone: 979-845-7018


Here I am standing on top Huayna Picchu in Peru. Machu Picchu is way down below.

Below is the night sky at Cerro Tololo, including the Galactic plane and the zodiacal light, which is sunlight scattered off interplanetary dust between the Earth and the Sun. (Image by Roger Smith.)

Astronomy 101 (Basic Astronomy), Spring 2010

Right Ascension and Declination of the Sun for 2010

Solar eclipses from 1901 through 2051

Right Ascension and Declination of the Moon for 2010

Lunar eclipses from 1901 through 2051

The Moon's motion in the horizon coordinate system

How can we determine properties of dust in other galaxies?

Supernova 2006dd

Supernova 2008ds

Meeting in Cairo, plus images from there and Paris (April 2008)

Gnomon experiments

Sunsets in La Serena, Chile

Some reasons why climate changes on Earth

The cosmological distance ladder

The constellation song

The Monty Python galaxy song

The accelerating universe

Look-back time, the age of the universe, and the case for a positive cosmological constant (an article published in 1993 in the Journal of the RAS of Canada).

Astronomy research at Texas A&M

Type Ia supernovae and the ESSENCE supernova survey

How long do astronomers live?

Total Eclipse comic opera

Sky & Telescope name index

Some publications...

This is an image of the burn-up of a Space Shuttle fuel tank, just south of the Big Island. It was taken at the 9200-ft level of Mauna Kea by William Albrecht in April of 1984. The view is to the southeast.

Last modified on 11 January 2010.

Please address any comments to: krisciunas@physics.tamu.edu