... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

... Astrophysics Group . Astronomers . Software for Astrophysics . ... Bambi . BayesX . ... The following software packages have been developed by members of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group, and are made available here: . Bambi Blind Accelerated Multimodal Bayesian Inference code. BayesX Bayesian Inference of X-ray Observations of Galaxy Clusters . ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

. There are several different shells available for Unix; the most popular are described here. You can use any one of these shells if they are available on your system. And you can switch between the different shells once you have found out if they are available. Bourne shell (sh) . C shell (csh) . TC shell (tcsh) . Korn shell (ksh) . Bourne Again SHell (bash) .

... 12c. Venus transit (1) . 12d. Venus transit (2) . 12e. Venus transit (3) . ... 1 The 2004 Venus transit . ... Kepler's third law allows one to evaluate the dimensions of the solar system in relative units, e.g. in " astronomical units " (AUs), where 1 AU is the mean Sun-Earth distance. ... Edmond Halley suggested using the transit of Venus across the Sun's disk, when it appears as a dark round spot --or to quote one observer of the 2004 transit, "like a blueberry in front of an orange." ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . 10 Apr 2016 jump to navigation jump to content . ... ALMA . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Public Surveys . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 26 May 2014 . ... A brief description of the ALMA calibrator survey was recently published . ... Published: 23 Apr 2014 . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

Next: The course and unit level Up: Ceilidh - On Line C Tutoring System Previous: Introduction . ... To enter the system at the general level, the appropriate command (which should have been set up by your computer systems administrator) is . ... q quit this session fs find student | ... text ceilidh only) in X the courses available appear on main window.This command tells you which courses are available and supported by the Ceilidh system, their full title and their abbreviation. vp . ...

... Moon . ... What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa? ... We can use the colors of Europa s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface and subsurface of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a close visit to Europa, astronomers on Earth used telescopes to study the moon and were able to use a technique called spectroscopy to determine that Europa s surface is composed mostly of water ice. ...

XmTel is intended for interactive remote telescope operation. ... LX200 ===== XmTel was originally developed control a Meade LX200 16-inch fork-mounted telescope. ... It is essential to have the LX200 hand control initialized for the location and local time, NexStar ======= XmTel supports the Celestron NexStar command sets, including auxiliary commands that access hardware directly. ... XmTel is actively being used and developed with the Celestron Corrected Dall-Kirkham C20 telescope. ...