... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

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Sydney, December 3 4, 2009 . ... The following participants have registered for the workshop: . Hayley Bignall (ICRAR / Curtin University) . ... Mark Calabretta (ATNF) . ... Miroslav Filipovic (University of Western Sydney) . ... James Green (ATNF) . Christopher Hales (University of Sydney / ATNF) . ... Deanna Matthews (La Trobe University / ATNF) . Greg Madsen (University of Sydney) . ... Tara Murphy (University of Sydney) . ... Quentin Parker (Macquarie University / AAO) . ...

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God Science Forum Message . ... God and Science | ... Pluto Is Not A Planet, But A Moon Of Neptune. ... Pluto Is Not a Planet, but a Moon of Neptune . 60 years ago, at 1947, the late Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Hilly, said in his book: (The Universe and the Quran), that Pluto is not a planet but a moon of Neptune. ... He said: " Astronomers, however, think that Pluto is a planet, but I say it is merely a moon of Neptune, and actually it is not a planet. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Ryoanji Temple and around. d01. Pond in the garden of Ryoan-ji temple, where Rock Garden is. d02. In the Ryoan-ji temple garden. d03. The trees, moss and rocks look like handpainted. ... In the garden. d05. In the garden. d06. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. ... Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d11. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d12. Ryoan-ji temple, inner yard. d13. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d14. ... In the forest, on the hill near the temple. d17. In the forest, on the hill near the temple. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Three space launches under Dnepr Program were performed during less than 3 months, two of which were carried out within mere six days. European Space Agency s (ESA) CryoSat-2, launched on 8 April, was the first satellite delivered to orbit from Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2010. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... The following tools are available: 3.1 strbs: Star Tracker BoreSight calculation  SYNOPSIS strbs instrument = instr ra= ra dec = dec apos = apos odffixout= true |false bstoolsout= true |false  DESCRIPTION Given the prime instrument instr and its viewing direction in terms of Right Ascension and Declination of the boresight + astronomical ... REFERENCE See task epicbscalgen and cal documentation for de nition of boresight related coordinate frames. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... The questions was: "During a flight, I saw a round rainbow shaped like a doughnut. ... However, she said that all rainbows are actually circles, and that she could not find a name for this phenomenon. ... One is that rainbows really aren't full circles. ... Basically, rainbows are due to light getting bent ("refracted") inside of raindrops. ... It's called a "glory", and is formed in a somewhat different way than rainbows. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

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August, 2011, Odessa, Ukraine EVENTS: Monday, 22.08.2011 Arrival 09.00 ­ 22.00 Registration of participants 20.00 ­ 22.00 Evening session : , ( -), ( - «») Tuesday, 23.08.2011 06.05 09.00 09.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 18.00 19.00 19.55 21.00 06.06 09.00 11.00 11.30 13.00 14.30 16.30 18.30 19.53 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 13.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 ... Discussion 6 SECTION SESSIONS Section 1. ... 15.50 - 16.20 Coffee break 16.20 - 18.00 Section sessions .. ...

In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...