... NGC 281 (Sharpless 184) is a bustling cradle of star formation about 10,000 light years away. ... The central stars are being formed from the surrounding gas, which emits a large amount of hydrogen alpha (Ha) light after being excited by stellar radiation. ... The dark areas overlaying the brighter ones in the middle of the image are dense clouds of gas known as Bok Globules. ... 4) Image registration . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Distance measurement is key to producing first "complete description" of a black hole . ... For the first time, astronomers have produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration of mass so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravitational pull. ... That movement, the scientists said, is too slow for the black hole to have been produced by a supernova explosion. ...

Astronomical Data Center . ... You can access the files described here in three ways: . ... Use CDS' VizieR Service at ADC to explore the data files. ... Get the data files via anonymous FTP. ... 1981) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1a Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1b -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Site . Weather . Roof Status . ... Average Max. ... 0.0 . ... In 2004, the roof was operated manually, while in 2005 through 2007, it was operated automatically by computer, but was not closed by weather sensors. ... The "Closed" column includes those nights outside the Monsoon season when the Observatory was closed due to weather (the usual cause), equipment failures, or vacation by the Winer staff in 2004 through 2006. ...

Below is a list of additional documentation pages that apply to the Apache web server development project. ... Description of Apache's Application Programming Interface. ... Reading Client Input in Apache 1.2 . Describes differences between Apache 1.1 and 1.2 in how modules read information from the client. ... Notes about Apache's compatibility with the NCSA server. ... Performance Notes (BSD 4.4) . Some notes about ways to improve/optimize Apache performance on BSD 4.4 systems. ...

... As the total phase of July 11's solar eclipse came to an end, sunlight streaming past the edge of the Moon's silhouette created the fleeting appearance of a glistening diamond ring in the sky. ... Frederic Church (1826-1900), American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, painted what he saw in nature. ... Lightning Over Athens . ... Dark River Wide Field . ... A Dark River of dust seems to run from our Galactic Center, then pool into a starfield containing photogenic sky wonders. ... July ....

J E N A M - 2000 Moscow . ... We are pleased to confirm that the JENAM-2000 meeting will take place in Moscow, Russia, in May 29 - June 3, 2000. ... Registration form . ... You can submit it through the Web-page (highly desirable) URL: http//www.inasan.rssi.ru/INASAN/JENAM . ... Please, visit JENAM-2000 Web-pages http://www.inasan.rssi.ru/INASAN/JENAM , http://www.sai.msu.su/jenam , http://www.aip.fr/eas/meetings.htm for news and additional details about JENAM and associated events planning. ...

We present a catalogue of galaxies for which spatially resolved data on their internal kinematics have been published; there is no apriori restriction regarding their morphological type. The catalogue lists the references to the articles where the data are published, as well as a coded description of these data: observed emission (E) or absorption (A) data, optical (O) or radio (R) data, velocity (V) or velocity dispersion (D), radial profile (1) or 2D field (2). ...