... Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. ... A Halo Around the Moon . ... Cameras around the globe pointed skyward this week to capture the spectacular conjunction of a crescent Moon and bright planets Venus and Jupiter. ... Venus in the Moon . ... On December 1, bright planets Venus and Jupiter gathered near the young crescent Moon, an inspiring celestial scene in early evening skies around the world....

... 2005 September 5 . Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae from SALT . Credit: South African Astronomical Observatory . ... Of the over 200 globular star clusters that orbit the center of our Milky Way Galaxy , 47 Tucanae is the second brightest globular cluster, behind Omega Centauri . Known to some affectionately as 47 Tuc or NGC 104, it is only visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

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The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The George Observatory, a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, is one of the largest in the United States dedicated to public observing on a regular basis. ... Web Site . http://www.hmns.org/see_do/george_observatory.asp . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

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RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

Lisnyky observatory of A&SPD is located in the village of Lisnyky in Kyiv region. AZT-8 (right) Diameter 0.7 m, Newton, Cassegren. ... Spiral jets of comet Hale-Bopp have been observing on the 3-rd of April, 1997 with 70-cm reflector and image intensifier, time of exposure: 1 second, field of vision: 1.5 minute of arc. This color image was obtained with Fuji color film (Super Plus 400) in focal plane of the 70-cm reflector (F = 27 m) at Lisniki Observatory by A.M.Evtushevsky. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

International Workshop NAROO-GAIA "A new reduction of old observations in the Gaia era", Paris Observatory, June 20-22, 2012 Registration of participants of Workshop NAROO-GAIA Before the first meeting OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP The natural planetary satellites are observed since centuries in order to understand their dynamics and their evolution. ... Science results, reports, data mining. ... L. Beauvalet: Strong need of a new reduction of Pluto's old observations W.Thuillot: very important. ...

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The Small Libration of the Satellite in the System of the Asteroid 39 Laetitia . ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), small libration of the satellite , Asteroid 39 Laetitia , Crimean astrophysical observatory (CrAO), to automate the observation process, method of frequency analysis , periodicity of changes of asteroid brightness, binary asteroid , binary system , period of axial rotation of components, a satellite ...

Arecibo Proposal No. ... And I guess the primary one-dimensional message is more understandable by unfamiliar aliens and the music is the most universal expression of intellectual activity by means of one-channel ear-like radio link. ... So, I suggest to implement the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens from Arecibo or Evpatoria Radar facility. ... There were four Messages from Earth to proposed aliens -- two material (Pioneer Plaque and Voyager Record) and two ethereal (Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999). ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Before we get to this week's snack, let me remind you that Leonids meteor shower peaks November 17. ... Theorists take that data and work mathematical models, trying to see if they can get the known laws of physics to mimic reality. ... It was an interesting feeling to actually see that area of sky with my own eyes. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter!...

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ADC CATALOG HOLDINGS SHORT TITLE LIST March 29, 2002 (adapted from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/key) Category 1: Astrometric and Positional Data - March 29, 2002 1090 Positions of 502 Stars in Pleiades Region (Eichhorn+ 1970) 1107A Washington Cat Visual Double Stars 1984.0 (Worley, Douglass 1984) 1131A SAO Star ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...