ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS06 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Fun with galaxies: Time series imaging of Milky Way satellites for science and (Extra)galactic observations for curricular development PI: Beth Willman and several undergraduate research assistants OBSERVER(S): (people who will be doing the observing) Beth Willman and several undergraduate research assistants (Chris Nagele, Eric Smith, Chris Garling of Haverford; Conor Hunt of Wesleyan; possibly another). ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Observation Report On Mars And .. ... Post Message | ... Despite the bad conditions we had yesterday, we couldn?t resist the Mars? ?attraction? and here it is the report. ... We disassembled the LPR filter to preserve its colour balance and we prepared a set of Ultima series eyepieces and filters. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

Supernova 2000cr in NGC 5395 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000cr in NGC 5395 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... CROSS has a 2000cr page in Italian [ Translate ] . ... CROSS image . ... R Poncy image . ... Rafael Ferrando image . ... vsnet-alert 5035 ] SN 2000cr in NGC 5395 . ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...

... Анк а дня . ... Пояснение: Кратер Кабеус, находящийся примерно в ста километрах от Южного полюса Луны, был выбран целью для двух космических аппаратов миссии LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft космический аппарат для наблюдения и зондирования лунных кратеров), которые должны завтра упасть на Луну. ... Первым, в 11:30 по Всемирному времени, упадет разгонный блок Центавр. ... Через четыре минуты после первого падения, сам аппарат LCROSS также врежется в кратер Кабеус. ...

... Ce qui est admirable, ce n'est pas que le champ des Гїtoiles soit si vaste, c'est que l'homme l'ait mesurГї" , Гїcrivait Anatole France. ... La question reprend souvent l'image du moyen mnГїmotechnique le plus marquant, utilisГї par les vulgarisateurs pour parler de la profondeur des gouffres cosmiques : est-il vrai que nombre d'Гїtoiles visibles dans le ciel sont dГїjГ mortes ? ... La nuit risque d'Г?tre trop courte pour dГїrouler le fil d'Ariane des distances dans l'Univers ! ...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...

... Several frames taken and best selected saturn _0p15s_g_205d.fits TARGET = ' Saturn ' / target EXPTIME = 0.15 / exposure time ( seconds ) FILTER = ' (1) g (400-530) ' / filter DATE-OBS = ' 2010-03-31T04 :31:09' / date of observation (UT) saturn _0p15s_g_crop_205d.fits TARGET = ' Saturn ' / target EXPTIME = 0.15 / exposure time ( seconds ) FILTER = ' (1) g (400-530) ' / ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-ca