... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 12, 1997 . Comet Hale-Bopp Develops a Tail . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp has quite a tail to tell already. ... In the above picture, the blue stream is the ion tail which consists of ions pushed away from the comet's head by the solar wind . ... Comet Hale-Bopp is now visible in the morning sky , moving a few degrees each day. ...

... February 3, 1998 . A Magellanic Mural . ... Explanation: Two galaxies stand out to casual observers in Earth's Southern Hemisphere : the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). ... Recent observations of the LMC (on the left) have determined that it is on a nearly circular orbit around our Galaxy, and have even helped in the determination of the composition of dark matter in our Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Credit: Arturo Gomez Hernan Tirado, CTIO , NOAO , NSF Explanation: A comet bright enough to be seen with binoculars is swooping into southern skies. ... In the above picture from the Curtis Schmidt 0.6-meter Telescope in Chile , a 30-second exposure in red on December 4 captured detail in Comet LINEAR WM1's emerging dust tail . ... Publications with keywords: comet - southern sky - Comet Linear WM1 . Publications with words: comet - southern sky - Comet Linear WM1 . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments An image from the European Southern Observatory, reveals two galaxies, NGC 3169 and NGC 3166, meeting in intergalactic space. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment NGC 2841 is a rather beautiful flocculent spiral galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... Posted on October 28, 2010 | ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

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... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

ESO PR 06/96; 16 February 1996 . ... In the early morning of January 31, 1996, Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake made his second comet discovery within five weeks. ... Information about some earlier comet encounters may be found in the Appendix at the end of this Press Release. ... By a straightforward extrapolation of the current brightness, it would appear that Comet Hyakutake will reach magnitude 1 on March 25, 1996, at the time of the closest approach to the Earth. ...

UC Santa Cruz Press Release: Astronomers discover an enormous halo of red giant stars around Andromeda 4/1/08 10:54 PM January 7, 2007 Contact: Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu Astronomers discover an enormous halo of red giant stars around Andromeda Astronomers have found an enormous halo of stars bound to the Andromeda galaxy and extending far beyond the swirling disk seen in images of the famous galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

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ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... While early stages of commissioning continue at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) , the ASKAP Computing team has meanwhile been refining processing pipelines by running simulated observations on the ASKAP Central Processor. ...

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NAIC Guidelines for ALFA Consortia Proposals (Draft May 7, 2004) R. L. Brown At the May 6, 2004 teleconference of the ALFA System Advisory and Planning (ASAP) committee several issues were identified as being critical to informing the process by which guidelines are developed by NAIC for handling the ALFA consortia proposals. ... Planning for shared-risk precursor observations, a primary purpose of which is to demonstrate the readiness of the survey teams to conduct their planned survey observations. ...

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