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" . ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based program including a command line utility cmdtel developed by John Kielkopf (kielkopf@louisville.edu) to operate a telescope connected to a Linux computer system. ... In other words, slew to a bright or easily recognized target, center it in the field, and click Reference -> Target. ... See the main README for cautions.) ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

ATNF Annual Report 2000 (submitted) . ... One of the first products is the HIPASS {\it Bright Galaxy Catalogue}, which is a catalogue of the 1000 apparently brightest HI galaxies in the southern hemisphere. ... In Figure 1 we show the spatial distribution of the brightest HIPASS galaxies. ... Figure 4 shows the velocity distribution of the 1000 brightest HIPASS galaxies (orange) compared to the 1000 brightest optical galaxies (selected from the Lyon/Meudon Extragalactic Database using blue magnitude). ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... My mother had a 'star named for me' with the International Star Registry (henceforth ISR) as a gift for this Christmas. ... On the back of the chart, a sticker described the precise location and visual magnitude of the star, taken from the Hubble Guide Star Catalog. The first thing I noticed, was the chart was Epoch 1950. ... The coordinates were also exactly those on the ISR sticker, so I now knew that even though the ISR chart was epoch 1950, the coordinates on the sticker were epoch 1983. ...

Proposal Identification No.: P2113 Date Received: 2005 -Jun-01 17:32:14 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Pulsars Extragalactic 37.5 Hours An L-band (ALFA) Search for Giant Pulses from M33 We propose to conduct a systematic search of the M33 galaxy with ALFA for potential bright giant pulses from Crab-like pulsars. ... This proposal requires coordination with GPS L3 at 1381 MHz. ...

On the problem of using of the ICRF radio coordinates reference system Lipovka A.A. (1), Lipovka N.M. (1) Center of research for physics, Sonora State University e-mail: nila_lip@mail.ru Bibliography 1. ... Columns 8, 9 are corrections to right ascension and declination, which should be added to coordinates of ICRF2 radio sources, to obtain coordinates of optical objects, with which these radio sources are identified. ... Lipovka .. ... Fig 3 Fig 3 ...

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...