... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Clubs . ... PUBLIC Telescopic observing is conducted at the Wheaton College Observatory every clear Friday (call for times) when college is in session. ... The College has a 12.5 " Newtonian/cassegrain telescope. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page and the college's page . ... Aldrich Astronomical Society Paxton, MA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

Contents. planet: 5 - Jupiter satellites: J1 - Io : 10, J3 - Ganymede : 15, J4 - Callisto : 6 total number: 31 type: relative dates: 1997-1997 observatory: see observatories list in the relevant article. ... Emelianov N. V., Vashkovjak S. N. (2009) Astrometric results of the observations of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter in 1997. ... Position angle A in degrees (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual eclipse) 10. ...

The Hubble orbiting telescope. The Earth's atmosphere, while transparent to visible light, absorbs most "electromagnetic radiations" which belong to the same family as light: parts of the infra-red (IR) and all of the ultra-violet (UV), X-rays and gamma rays. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

... Fields Observed . ... Data Archive . ... Complete Optical and X-ray data for all ChaMPlane fields are available through the DS9 VO interface . ... functionality of DS9 is available to manipulate the results in addition to those provided by the "Champlane tools" You can select images, compare . ... our region of interest has been selected by drawing a red square region on the image. at bottom left the high res optical image of that selected region, and on the right is the X-ray image. ...

... Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics . ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences . EXPLORE ANU . ... Research . ... ANU College of . ... SEARCH . ... Search query . Search . Search query Search button . ... Intranet . MSO intranet . ANU Outlook 365 login . ... The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) website has moved to http://rsaa.anu.edu.au . Please visit the RSAA site for more information about the school, our research, or observatories. ...

The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Research results on fast active processes General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases ... Distribution of the recorded spikes in duration . ...

These images were taken at Moore Observatory in Louisville, Kentucky, and at Mt. Kent Observatory in Queensland, Australia, with Nikon D200 digital SLR cameras. ... 2:10 EDT (Full moon) . 3:19 EDT (Penumbral eclipse underway) . ... 5:22 EDT (Totality 30 minutes away) . ... 5:53 EDT (Totality) . ... Kent Observatory are Copyright 2007 by the University of Southern Queensland and Rhodes Hart. Images from Moore Observatory are Copyright 2007 by John Kielkopf , University of Louisville. ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

Optical Observatories . ... National Optical Astronomy Observatories . ... Adam Mickiewicz University - Astronomical Observatory . ... Astronomical Institute and National Observatory of Athens . ... Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory - Scientific research here comprises radio and extragalactic astronomy, solar radio emission, active galactic nuclei, interstellar matter, galaxies, cosmology, variable stars and comets. ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory Home Page . ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton