... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

... We had a unique diagnostic tool for determining whether or not the secondary was fractured during the dark run in that we had 3 sets of focus sweep data for the imaging camera taken on the nights of 05 October 1999, 11 October 1999, and 14 October 1999. ... Figure: 05 October 1999, CCD g1 . ... Surface plot. ... Figure 32 plots the same data but for CCD g3. ... Figure: Comparison of normalised brighness for the out-of-focus doughnuts for the nights of 05, 11, and 14 October 1999 for CCD g1. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 01/01/2015 18:28:32 . Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) in the constellation of Columba . It is the 5th comet discovered by the Australian amateur astronomer, Terry Lovejoy using an 8-inch telescope. This comet has a very long orbital period of 11,500 years. ... On January 1, 2015, Comet Lovejoy is in the constellation of Lepus and is visually a 5.6-magnitude glowing fuzz ball in moderately sized telescopes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... First of all, you can obtain a map of the final coordinates of your objects and guide stars by using the command: PLOT/OPTOPUS [table] [label] [EW_flag] , . where [table] is the table output by REFRACTION/OPTOPUS . ... In order to avoid object misidentifications at a later stage, and for a cross identification between object identifiers and hole numbers, it is recommended to bring a printout of the table output created by the command REFRACTION/OPTOPUS to the telescope. ...

... On rare occasions (few times a year or so), ground based observations in the morning sector show highly monochromatic amplitude modulated oscillations in the Pc 4 range (see the sample ). ... As these particles circle the Earth and reach the morning hours only when the ExB drift is small, giant pulsations are observed only during geomagnetically quiet times (Chisham, 1996). ... Chisham, G., Giant pulsations: An explanation for their rarity and occurrence during geomagnetically quiet times, J....

LOC Web-site . The 13 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Trieste (Italy) on October 13-21, 2008. ... There were 19 teams participated in the XIII IAO: . ... Monday, October 13 - Day of arrival . Tuesday, October 14 - Day of opening ceremony . ... M.G.Gavrilov (IAO Chairman) - Chairman, . C.Boehm (Trieste, XIII IAO-2008 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

... Opening of COSMION - 99 Chair - M.Yu.Khlopov 10.50-11.25. A.Yu.Kamenshchik, I.M.Khalatnikov, A.V.Toporensky "Dynamics of Closed Cosmological Model with a Scalar Field" 11.25-12.00. A.A. Starobinsky "A new life of the Lifshitz-Khalatnikov quasi-isotropic solution" Coffee break Chair - A.A.Starobinsky 12.20-12.55. ... M.Yu.Khlopov "Cosmological Consequence of the Particle Theory: Dark Matter, Antimatter and Mirror Matter in the Universe" Coffee break Chair - Yu.N.Parijsky 12.30-13.10. ...

JSC History . JSC Oral History . NASA History . History-NASA Centers . Spaceflight History . ... JSC History Collection . ... The 50th anniversary of NASA on 1 October 2008 found an agency in the midst of deep transition. ... Alphabetical List A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z Administrators Aviatrix Herstory Ballistics JSC OHP NACA OHP Experts OHP Space Shuttle Program Earth System Science NASA at 50 STS Recordation Chilean Miners Rescue Shuttle-Mir OHP SCA-SRB OHP . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Meetings . Past meetings . THE@INT Science Discussion Meeting: 6th October 2014, RAS, London . ... We will be holding an afternoon (2pm start) meeting on 6th€аOctober 2014€аto present and discuss the prospects of a new high resolution spectrograph installed on the Isaac Newton Telescope.€а This meeting is in light of the recent call for new instrument ideas ( http://www.ing.iac.es/about-ING/int2014.html ) put forward by the ING group in La Palma. ...

КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

... ST-ECF . ABOUT ST-ECF . ... After an initial agreement between NASA and ESA in 1977 and following Hubble's more than twenty years in space and 110,000 orbits of the Earth, the aim of this conference is to celebrate the huge contributions made by the Hubble observatory to our knowledge and understanding of the Universe. ... David Southwood . ... Robert O'Connell . ... Robert O'Dell . ... Questions and information: HST3@stecf.org . ... Maintained by HST 3 Webmaster <HST3@stecf.org> . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 CCD observations of planetary satellites and occultations and close approachments of stars by asteroids with 26­ inch refractor of Pulkovo observatory T. P. Kiseleva, I. S. Izmailov, M. A. Mozhaev Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia ST--6 CCD camera has been used with 26-- inch Refractor at Pulkovo for ob­ servations of ... These estimates are \Sigma0:015 arcsec and \Sigma0:014 arcsec for X and Y correspondingly. ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... ASTEROID 2005 YU55 . ... We observed this asteroid with the Arecibo Planetary Radar system on April 19-23 2010. ... ASTEROID FLYBY : NASA radars are monitoring 2005 YU55, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier, as it heads for a Nov. 8th flyby of the Earth-Moon system. ... Astronomers used the planetary radar system at the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope to spot the asteroid, called 2005 YU55, over four days starting on April 19 . ...

... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

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... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... Gallery . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . View full size . Title: Ganymede . Description: A close up view of Ganymede taken with the 24-inch (60cm) telescope at Siding Spring in October 1999. Areas of varying brightness define subtle differences in the surface terrain of the Moon. ... File name: ganymede.jpg . ... Ganymede A close up view of Ganymede taken with the 24-inch (60cm) telescope at Siding Spring in October 1999. ...

... VLBA+Italy survey (to contact the schedulers) (closed) E.Fomalont and J.Romney: To provide some review of problems happened with fringe search in VSOP project. (closed) M.Popov : To compose a tentative time -table of possible observations , and inform the observatories on the specific time slots that might be requested for fringe search program in October-November. (continued) C. Gwinn: to try to compile FAKERAT software on modern platforms. (closed) GBT and ...

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! ...