Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Observers in Europe observed a sharp peak in the number of meteors visible around 0210 UTC during the early morning hours of November 18. ... Early morning risers around the world have enjoyed the sight of bright planets in this week's predawn skies - further enhanced by the celestial spectacle of the waning crescent Moon. From some locations the Moon was seen to pass in front of Jupiter or Venus, a lunar occultation. ... What are those bright objects in the morning sky? ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

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... A1 centered at 2500 angstroms with a width of 1200 angstroms . ... UGC 6151 is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy which is at the center of the first deep survey field taken with UIT. The total exposure time was 1370 seconds out of a planned 2000 through the A1 filter. ... The galaxy has very faint outer spiral structure and tightly wound inner spiral structure. The outer spiral structure should be more prominent at UV wavelengths if star formation is occurring out there. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... BigStarCatalogExtension::StarWrapper< Star > Class Template Reference . StarWrapper (const SpecialZoneArray < Star > *a, const SpecialZoneData < Star > *z, const Star *s) . ... getJ2000EquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

... Here is an image a supernova in NGC4704. The image taken at 6.4.1998 at 21.08 UT, CCD ST-7, 840s. Track and Accumulate exposure (21x40s), no filter, dark and flat corrected, temp -20c, telescope used 152/2063 refractor. Image were taken at the center of our city, Jyvaskyla. ... Dark lines in image are error of track and accumulate process and even dark and flat field were corrected, there still remain some noise. ... Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies. ...

... A lightweight stick with two balls of equal weight at its end obviously has its CG in the middle. When one ball is twice the weight of the other, the CG divides the distance between them by a ratio 1:2, in a way that makes it closer to the heavier mass ( see figure ). ... Even though the balls are separate, one can speak of their common center of gravity, on the line connecting their centers, 1/3 of the distance from the center of the heavier ball. ...

EPIC ESAC Energy calibration refinement of the EPIC -pn Burst mode M.G.F. Kirsch1, E. Kendziorra2, G. Sala3, G. Winroth1,4 2 ESA XMM-SOC, ESAC Spain IAAT, University of Tuebingen, Germany 3 MPE, Munich, Germany 4 University LinkЖpings, Sweden 1 Marcus Kirsch , XMM-Newton European Space Astronomy Center Page 1 Burst mode ground cal 1,045 1,040 EPIC · · ESAC peakposition_sw/peakposition_ ...

... Observing may be done from any location. ... See this link for further details, limiting magnitude charts, and star count tables: http://www.imo.net/visual/major/observation/lm Proof Point Information : Shapley-Sawyer Classification: Reference: http://x.astrogeek.org/articles/article.php?article_id=15 Brief Description: I - High concentration toward the center; E.g ., NGC 6864, M75 II - Dense central condensation; E.g ., NGC 7089, M2 III - Strong inner core of stars ; E.g ., ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 February 24 . Barnard's Loop around the Horsehead Nebula . ... Although hard to make out, the famous Horsehead Nebula is the slight dark indentation in the bright streak just to the left of the image center. Glowing like an emission nebula , the origin of the bubble , known as Barnard's Loop , is currently unknown. ... About APOD | ...

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | 2 Comments October is an interesting month for astronomers as World Space Week falls from 4 October until 10 October and coincidentally itтАЩs a good month for keen astronomers to take to [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... No Comments I have never met a child who is not fascinated by the stars. €аLearning to find and recognise planets and constellations is the first step in what can be a [ ] . ...

... As is known, the observed distribution of massive stars in the direction of the Galactic center looks very peculiar: the vast majority of all massive stars are concentrated towards the central 1 pc or so (Genzel et al. ... In order to compare the observed distribution of X-ray sources in the Galactic center with what would be expected from the population synthesis computations, we have considered two hypothetical scenarios for the location of the starburst. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Investigations of the ionospheric response to strong magnetics storms which are usual for our latitudes, are of great interest. ... In the figure, we present ionospheric parameter dynamics during three perturbed days in July 2000. ...