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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Nearly 16 000 light years from Earth, Omega Centauri is a vast globular cluster of several million stars. ... Recent research using observations by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) agrees with this simile.€а The stars in central region of the cluster were imaged with the WFC3 in 200s and then again in 2006. ... Tweets that mention Hubble Space Telescope sees into Omega Centauri's future | ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

Originally a manually operated photographic telescope, the Uppsala Southern Schmidt (USS, 0.5 metre corrector plate aperture) has been refurbished and modernised. ... This image of omega Centauri shows the central portion of the field. ... Built in 1956 at the Uppsala Observatory workshop in Sweden, the telescope was first located at Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra in 1957. ... The Uppsala Southern Station was relocated to Siding Spring Observatory in 1982. ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Two observations of HD 32633 obtained at close phases, one with NARVAL (Phase 0.689, taken 17 Dec 2006) and one with ESPaDOns (Phase 0.700, taken 26 Jan 2008). ... In this paper we describe and evaluate new spectral line polarisation observations obtained with the goal of mapping the surfaces of magnetic Ap stars in great detail. ...

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These images have been selected from those recorded with the telescopes at Mt. ... This is the full 25 arcminute field of view of the CDK700 with its Apogee U16 camera. ... Jupiter on November 1, 2011, at 07:06 UT was recorded with the CDK125 Shared Skies Live telescope and an AVT Prosilica GX-3300 video camera. ... The first quarter moon on August 17, 2010 at 02:20 UT was recorded through thin cirrus with the CDK125 Shared Skies Live telescope at Moore Observatory. ...

... Table of Contents -- Index -- PS reprint -- PDF reprint . ... The recently reshaped VizieR system, a unified query interface to an increasing number of catalogs (presently ), is presented. ... Besides the adoption of this new protocol, the most visible changes in this new version of VizieR are an easy access to notes, and possibilities of navigation between the tables of a catalog. ... There are presently rows in this table, i.e. an average of tables per catalog. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... LINKS . ... AAL Members Sites . ... Amateur Astronomy . ... Mars Missions . Observatories Telescopes . ... astronomylinks.com. - astronomy and space links, shortcuts, favorites and bookmarks . ... Mel Bartels' Homepage about Amateur Telescope Making and a lot of interesting links (thx to Hugues Laroche for the link!) ... STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) consists of two space-based observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind . ...

Observational Stellar Astronomy . Articles | ... We are made of star stuff" . ... TEMPERATURE OF A STAR: . ... The temperature of a star can be found out easily by simple observations. ... STAR . ... SPECTRAL CLASS: . All the stars in this universe are divided in to spectral classes based on their spectral lines. ... The spectral class of a star and the temperature of a star are related. So the spectral class can be found for a star since we know its temperature. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... 8.3 Tarantula Nebula 6.8 8.4 4 47 Tucanae 9.2 7.2 11.5 99 COAL SACK Cru 100 IC 2944 Cen 101 NGC 6744 102 IC 2602 103 NGC 2070 104 NGC 362 105 NGC 4833 106 NGC 104 107 NGC 6101 108 NGC 4372 109 NGC 3195 Sub Total: 33 Pav Car Dor Tuc Mus Tuc Aps Mus Cha Observed: Yes Caldwell Object Con Her 1 2 3 4 5 6 NGC 188 NGC 40 NGC 4236 NGC 7023 IC 342 Cep Cep H58-4 Dra H51-5 Cep H74-4 Cam Dra H37-4 Type ...

Advisor's project abstract: . ... The reduction and analysis of H-alpha and ultraviolet spectra, and comparison to other objects is a good summer project. ... The cryogenic x-ray detector research group is seeking a summer student to assist with the development of a balloon payload for studying the hard x-ray emission and the processes of nucleosynthesis in supernova remnants. ... The full archival project includes 29 galaxies; this pilot project would include 2-4 galaxies. ... Abstract: . ...

... But the condition of the hardware that we were working with, because we had a whole group of people as I described in my book [Flight: My Life in Mission Control ] in the Apollo Program Office who were inexperienced in manned spaceflight, we had everybody working on Mercury and Gemini, the President [John F. Kennedy] said we're going to the Moon, and we had about maybe, at that time, 350 to 400 people at most working on the program, as far as the government was concerned. ... You personally had to...

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... AUTO SELECT TEXT "Introduction" "This tour is designed to give you an idea of" "the vast distances in space. ... Using current technology, it would take thousands of" "years to travel to our closest stellar neighbor, which is only 4.2 light years" "away. ... AUTO SELECT USER 05:16:41 45d59m53s "Step 3-A Star" "Capella is a bright binary" "star system that is 45 light years distant. ... AUTO SELECT USER 00:53:00 -72d50m "Step 5-Galaxy" "The Small Magellanic Cloud" "is 190,000 light years away from us...

... 2013, Nature Pepe et al. ... HARPS-N ­ Fit offset to each night Prot = 21 days Prot = 12.4 days Extra information is needed Corot 7b Bayesian Analysis with correlations (NEW) Tuomi et al. in prep. ... No planets reported RMS 2.0 m/s over 7 years Star 3 Star 3 ... but we also got lucky :) RMS ~ 0.9 m/s Kapteyn b, P = 48.7 days, M sin I = 4.0 Mearth, Kapteyn c, P = 121.0 days, M sin I = 7.0 Mearth, ... but we also got luck/y] :)-0 [Fe H ~ .9 Age > 10 Gyrs? ... 5 AU Kapteyn's 0. 0 0. 15 b c 0. ...