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Hipparcos / Hipparcos Catalogue

Type: Database

For more information, please visit: http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=HIPPARCOS

Multimedia Items Available Relating to Hipparcos / Hipparcos Catalogue

This movie shows the orbits of the fleet of NASA spacecraft exploring the heliosphere.<p><p><p>For complete transcript, click <a href=   3595   Sentinels of the Heliosphere
This movie is a sample tour of the skymap. It starts looking at the North Celestial Pole (the Little Dipper is visible). We then make short trips to the Big Dipper, the Summer Triangle (Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila), the Orion and Taurus region, southward to Canis Major, and over to Scorpius and Saggitarius. The movie ends pointed at the South Celestial Pole (the Southern Cross is visible to the right).   3572   The Tycho Catalog Skymap - Version 2.0
This movie shows the orbits of the fleet of NASA spacecraft exploring the heliosphere.   3570   NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace
The movie zooms up to the Earth from the direction of the magnetotail to view the orbits of the THEMIS satellites in their dayside orbital configuration.   3569   THEMIS Dayside Science - Sampling the Bow Shock
This image shows the 3 regions in North Africa: The Sahara, the Sahel, and the Sudan. The Sahel, a word derived from the Arabic ’sahil’ meaning shore, is a semi-arid belt of barren, sandy and rock-strewn land which stretches 3,860km across the breadth of the African continent and marks the physical and cultural divide between the continent’s more fertile south (the Sudan Region) and Saharan desert north.   3539   Blue Marble Next Generation Images from Terra/MODIS
Earth with clouds and sea ice from December 8, 2008 with a transparent background.   3525   Two Posters of Earth with Sea Ice and Clouds over a Star Background
This movie is a sample tour of the skymap.  It starts looking at the North Celestial Pole (the Little Dipper is visible).  We then make short trips to the Big Dipper, the Summer Triangle (Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila), the Orion and Taurus region, southward to Canis Major, and over to Scorpius and Saggitarius.  The movie ends pointed at the South Celestial Pole (the Southern Cross is visible to the right).   3442   The Tycho Catalog Skymap
This image shows a view of the Earth on September 21, 2005 with the full Arctic region visible.   3402   Global View of the Arctic and Antarctic on September 21, 2005
This image is a lower resolution composite of the Earth image and star field background.   3379   Arrange for Change Poster

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