Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This activity is believed to be promoting the unusually high rate of star formation seen in M82. ... Radio image of M82 made with the MERLIN and VLA telescopes. Insets show MERLIN images from April 25th and May 3rd 2009 demonstrating the sudden appearance of the mystery object.€а All images are at a frequency of 5 GHz. ... Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 . ...

... Oleg V. Verkhodanov . ... The last few years have changed our view on the evolution of galaxies: the most distant galaxies (i.e. systems having stellar population) have been found at redshift z=6.68 (Chen H.-W., Lanzetta, K. M., Pascarelle, S. 1999, Nature, 398 , 586) and radio galaxy at z=5.19 (van Breugel W., De Breuck C., Stanford S. A., Stern D., Rottgering H., Miley G. 1999. astro-ph/9904272 ). ... Redshifts and age of stellar systems of distant radio galaxies from multicolour photometry data. ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

SURNAMES OF THE ASTRONOMERS IN THE NAMES OF THE LUNAR OBJECTS. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia The whole complex information about toponymy, morphology, selenographical coordinates and dimensions of the lunar objects was included in the automated information system for the Lunar Nomenclature. ... You may receive more detailed information in the Russian version of this article (nomen.pdf). ...

... 18-Jan-2010 16:45 . ... Muon_Telesc(hourly_values)/ . ... Muon_Telesc(minute_values)/ . ... Neutron_Monitors(daily_values)/ . ... Neutron_Monitors(hourly_values)/ . 15-Nov-2010 15:12 . Neutron_Monitors(minute_values)/ . ... Neutron_Monitors(monthly_values)/ . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/image_category/ . ... The Chandra x-ray telescope (in orbit around Earth) has been sending back a wide range of images of what deep space objects would look like if seen with "x-ray sensitive" eyes. ... Web Sites for Asking Astronomy Questions . ... Ask an Astronomer for Kids: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/index.shtml...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... Status of the ELECTRON experiment . ... The objective of the ELECTRON experiment is to perform 3-D measurements of the plasma electrons in the energy range from 10 eV to 26000 eV, with good angular resolution, sensitivity and large dynamical range. ... Figure 1 presents the ELECTRON sensor. ... Click on the picture to view large one) . ... Figure 3 shows dynamical spectra with counting rate measurements performed by ELECTRON experiment during very multiple magnetopause crossings on February, 4, 1996...

... 1998: . Creation of the world's largest database of radio astronomical catalogs, designated CATS was completed, which is now free and available online at the web server cats.sao.ru . It includes the data of X-ray, optical, infrared and radio wavelength ranges on 4.5 million space objects from 300 catalogs (the radio astronomical catalogs were presented in full for the first time). Archive . ... Last update: 20/02/2013 ...

... ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Nonstellar objects Description: NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). ... The order of the new catalog is strictly by right ascension, the NGC and IC objects being merged into one machine-readable file. ... The book also contains a table of right ascensions for NGC and IC objects. ...

... IC443 is thought to have been formed between 30,000 and 35,000 years ago, and most likely is the remains of the pulsar, G189.6+3.3. Located about 5,000 light years away, the pulsar’s X-ray emissions excite the material of the nebula, causing the chemical components to emit light in their characteristic wavelengths. ... TAK FSQ . ... FSQ: 12x30 minute subs plus 14x5 minute subs, totaling 7 hours, 20 minutes . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Preface The necessity of the preparation and edition of such intricate publication, that is the printed version offered to the reader, of geoinformation system including the chronological catalogue and evolutionary database of the global tropical cyclogenesis is dictated, in opinion of the authors, whole number of objective circumstances. ... It derivates the serious dissensions in the initial ('raw') information as well as in databases and archives of regional cyclogenesises. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... One in particular was named Charles Messier (he was French, so don't pronounce it ``mess ee er''! ... Between the years 1771 and 1784 the list grew to about 100 objects (many of which were found by others as well), and he gave his list to other comet hunters so they might not be fooled. ...

. SOME OF WELL-KNOWN DEEP SKY OBJECTS: . All images taken with 150/695mm homemade Newton reflector + SBIG ST6 CCD camera (falsecolors) . The treasures of Orion - some special images . Some galaxies on the Lion's mane . Messier 98, 99, 100 - three fine galaxies in Coma . NGC 6946 and NGC 6939 - nice galaxy and fine star cluster in one field of view. HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus)

... Плоское облако Хиллса (Hills Objects). ... Облако Оорта (Oort cloud). В 1950 году Ян Хендрик Оорт (Jan Hendrik Oort) (1900-1992) [1,2] предположил существование массивного облака объектов, имеющего форму, близкую к сферической, возможного источника долгопериодических и гиперболических комет (в последний раз предположение исследовано Талкотом в 1999 году) в области от 10000 до 150 000 а.е. от Солнца (по ряду оценок, может простираться до одного светового года от центра системы). ... Облако Оорта. ...

The sky inhabitants - the constellations. ... The constellations of Zodiac. The constellations of Zodiac are very popular. ... They were counted from the point of vernal equinox. ... As a result all the Zodiac row of constellations as if displaced in the two positions the count traditionally begings from the constellation where the point of a vernal equinox is. ... That is why the Sun comes to each Zodiac sign two - five weeks before the time when it comes to the constellation of the same name. ...

... Latest Supernovae . ... Sorted by Name For the years covered, 7501 supernovae and 114 extragalactic novae were reported. 378 of these supernovae were named by CBAT, 1714 were given possible supernova designations, and 5409 were not reported to CBAT. 220 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 875 were found in named galaxies 343 objects were discovered by amateurs 4 were brighter than 13th Magnitude 208 were brighter than 16th Magnitude 1080 were brighter than 18th Magnitude 1349 ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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