In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

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Next: The Plan Up: No Title Previous: No Title . On the afternoon of 19 October 1999, it was discovered by John Briggs that the secondary mirror in the 2.5m SDSS telescope had developed a series of circular cracks around its axis of symmetry. As the telescope had not been in use since the early morning of 16 October 1999, there was a great deal of concern and consternation as to what caused these fractures in the glass. ... 11/24/1999 ...

. Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1998/05 Boston (USA) :: 4 Harvard . Up . << Prev . Harvard Medical School, view from the previous building . Next >> . Album created by album from David Madison 's MarginalHacks on Tue Jun 23 14:46:43 2015 .

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Previous . Next Click the image to view it in fullsize. Previous . Next . ASM in twillight. Bright object above the tower is Venus, Mercury is just above the horizon and Saturn between them.

... Imaging of the core of the OMC-1 region using NICMOS camera 2 through the F212N and F215N filters shows a wide variety of interesting structure on scales of 0.2" at a very high dynamic range (Stolovy et al. ... The application of image restoration techniques, including multi-channel variants of the Richardson-Lucy technique, offers the chance to enhance structure on the finest scales and also to suppress the prominent and richly structured point-spread functions of the many bright stars in the...

. Next: *tprint* - Reading a Up: *imexamine* - General analysis Previous: Contour Plot . Some other useful functions which also give graphical results are: . r gives radial plot of surface brightness. c (column) gives brightness in a vertical slice through the cursor. l (line) gives brightness in a horizontal slice through the cursor. rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . 1998-06-10

Next: References Up: On the problem of Previous: The spectrograph design and . Figure: Fragment of the echelle spectrum of protoplanetary nebula RAFGL 618 in H . In Fig. 3 are shown fragments of the echelle spectra of the quasar S5 0014+81 ( ) obtained with the PF echelle spectrograph within the frames of the programme of study of absorption spectra of bright quasars (authors of the programme are D.A.Varshalovich and A.V.Ivanchik). ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 18.06.2013 . ... J142023.5-485540. ... MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 относится к редкому подклассу . ... Астронома ATel #5144: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5144 . ... The brightest MASTER's dwarf nova discovered in Argentina! ... astronomical object - dwarf nova MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 in Lupus . ... record (12.6m) belonged to the dwarf nova in Perseus MASTER . ...

. Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). Viewing of image. Use the following functions of the program for viewing an image: . 1) Increase/decrease of scale. For this purpose, press / on the toolbar; and click on any place of the frame. There will be a change of scale. Besides the image will be centred on this place. 2) Increase/decrease of brightness is made by buttons / , or through adjustment of values of a background and range. This is the  button. 3) Mode of a negative is . Previous Next . Main page

... PUL2 catalog contains original absolute proper motions of 59646 stars in 149 fields with galaxies. ... Mean errors of relative proper motions in PUL2 catalog is 5.5 mas/year. ... The external mean error of one relative proper motion of a bright star of PUL2 catalog is 9 mas/year for both of coordinates. ... After issue of UCAC2 catalog, we decided to improve accuracy of proper motions, using Pul-3 coordinates (of 1950s) as the first epoch, and UCAC2 coordinates as the second epoch. ...

We have analyzed dimmings (i.e. transient coronal holes) and manifestations of a . coronal wave in the famous event of 14 July 2000 using images produced with the EUV . telescope SOHO/EIT. ... this event was studied using running -difference EIT images at 195 formed by the . ... Running -difference images . ... fixed -difference images are considered. ... 171, 195, 284, and 304 , as well as the light curves of the main dimmings including . several later images at 195 . To event page ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph is one of the new instruments put on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in February of 1997. ... Imagine my surprise when I added the images together and saw that smudge turn into a beautiful spiral galaxy! ... Just from the picture it is hard to know how far away that galaxy is, but I guess that it is about one billion (1,000,000,000) light years away. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 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 . ...

... Jupiter without its Southern Equatorial Belt . The Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) started to fade during the latter part of 2009 and completely disappeared around May of 2010. It is believed that bright ammonia clouds obscure the dark belt at irregular intervals. The SEB previously vanished in 2007. The belt returned around November 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... On-line Data . ... The program enables to find out the exact present Earth coordinates of the international space station and "Shuttle". ... J-Track - this program is similar to the previous one, however it knows how to display images and orbits of space vehicles. ... NASA SkyWatch - a program for those, who are fond of watching artificial space objects through the telescope, field - glass or with the unaided eye. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . ...

... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... 10a. Scale of Solar Sys. ... If the mean distance of Earth from the Sun is 1 AU ("Astronomical Unit"), then that of Venus is 0.723 AU, of Mercury 0.387 AU and that of Mars is 1.524 AU. ... By noting (1) where on the Sun's disk is the crossing seen, (2) timing its duration at two far-apart points on Earth, and (3) comparing the times, one can calculate the distance to Venus and from it the scale of the solar system. ... One occurred in 1639--too early. ...

ASTEROIDAL DAMAGE TO THE EARTH: IMPLICATIONS BY ASTEROIDS ­ RUBBLE PILES. ... 13, Moscow 119892, Russia, E-mail:san@sai.msu.ru In the cause of asteroids ­ rubble piles its effective cross-section of collision to the Earth is determined not by consolidated body, but by cluster of its fragments. Since the stage of rubble ­ piles may be ~108 years (see our communication at previous symposium), it may be significant for estimation the asteroidal damage to the Earth. ...

... BIRTHDATE/PLACE: . ... EDUCATION: . ... B.S., Geology, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1990 . M.S., Geology, University of Arizona, 1992 . ... Full Biographical Data . ... M.S., Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 . ... B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of the Pacific, 1984 . ... JAXA Astronaut . ... M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, 1997 . ... Astronaut Candidates | ... Biography Page Curator: Kim Dismukes . ...