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... Armagh Observatory astronomers report the publication of the first stunning celestial images obtained with the 11-metre multi-national Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) . ... Exactly five years after groundbreaking, the SALT project has released its first colour images, marking the achievement of 'first light' and the successful debut of full operation for SALTICAM, a $600,000 digital camera designed and built for SALT at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) . ...

... Уран - седьмая планета от Солнца и третья по размеру. ... Кольцо Урана рассмотреть вообще очень сложно, обычными оптическими средствами здесь не обойтись. ... Уран - старинное Греческое божество Неба, самый ранний высший бог, который был отцом Хроноса (Сатурна), Циклопа и Титана (предшественников Олимпийских богов). ... Как у Земли, Юпитера и Сатурна, у Урана есть магнитный хвост, состоящий из захваченных полем заряженных частиц, растянувшийся на миллионы километров за Уран от Солнца. ...

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Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

... Science Fiction with Good Astronomy . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... Anderson, Poul "Kyrie" in Jerry Pournelle, ed. Black Holes. ... Explores the distortion of time near a black hole. ... An ancient intelligent black hole comes to our solar system. ... Advanced races use black holes to bear with the loneliness of a universe in which life is still rare. ... Haunting story combining episodes from the life of Karl Schwarzschild and black hole images. back to topic list . ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Site Info . ... Last Saturday night (August 15, 1998) I was watching the local NBC news station , and the meteorologist was excited because their time lapse camera-- which usually shows weather changes over the day-- caught an unexpected surprise: sun pillars. ... However, what the video showed were not sun pillars, they were crepuscular rays. ... The big difference here is that pillars are vertical, while crepuscular rays spread out in all directions. ...

... Night Sky Questions . Q. I saw a bright light streak across the sky last night. ... A. Meteors are the bright trails left by fragments of natural space debris called meteoroids (usually chunks of rock or metal) falling through the EarthтАЩs atmosphere. ... As the Earth moves around the Sun over a year, planets will move in and out of view, so the sky changes.To confirm if it was one of the planets, go to www.heavens-above.com . ... Q. I saw a bright light moving steadily across the sky last night. ...

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... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-136 OM Flux conversion factors Bing Chen December 10, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS ag OM COLORTRANS 0008 2000-01-01T00:00:00 COLORMAG No 2 Changes Flux conversion factors for U, B, V, UVW1, UVM2 and UVW2 lters are added in the keyword in the colormag extension. These ux conversion factors help users to get a rough estimation of ux (expressed in erg=cm 2 =s=A) from countrates directly. ...

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