... Comet Hale-Bopp is living up to its expectations. ... The Great Comet of 1997 is now brighter than the Great Comet of 1996 ever was. ... What happened to Jupiter's Great Red Spot? ... Jupiter's thick atmosphere is striped by wind-driven cloud bands that remain fixed in latitude - dark colored bands are known as belts while light colored bands are zones. ... Both writer/editors of APOD are impressed by how bright Comet Hale-Bopp has become, and how easily visible it is. ... 1995 1996 . ...

19th of February 2015 . Celebrating the life of Jim Caswell . Tribute by Tim Bedding (School of Physics, University of Sydney) . ... Mine was Caswell, Kesteven, Bedding Turtle (1989) . ... Caswell et al. ... The radio source G357.7-0.1 has commonly been regarded as a galactic supernova remnant; alternative interpretations have concentrated on the pronounced brightness gradient along its major axis. ... Link: Short biography of James (Jim) Caswell who died Jan 14, 2015 . ... today * ATNF | ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Fall 1999 . ... Dave Hartsel talking with my wife, Sarah . John Boggs is enjoying a nice look through Max's 4" . ... Mike Grilley (me) Talking with our illustrious President, John Boggs. I took this picture of my wife, Sarah, opening up the observatory. (she doesn't know it's here, Shhhhh) . ... In June of 1999 Dave Hartsel, my wife Sarah and I went to Apollo 99. ... My wife Sarah and Dave at Apollo '99 . Sarah at Apollo '99 . Dave at Apollo '99 . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 July 28 . A Daytime Fireball in 1944 . ... Explanation: While stationed in central Africa in December 1944, Norman Appleton witnessed a meteor so bright he remembered it his entire life. ... Several days ago, on July 23 at 6:19 pm EDT , a daytime fireball visible from the northeast United States was reported by many personal accounts . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has captured this unusual view of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away. ... While bringing to light a rich background of stars and galaxies, the telescope's infrared vision also reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are mostly obscured in visible images of the Helix. €а Credit: . ...

"Too Pieces" - Upstairs At Eric's - Yaz Write me a letter a face in the hall Hiding from someone afraid of the fall And she's waiting for someone to take her back to where she came from And she'll wait alone for hours she won't mind because there's someone In a story she remembers she remembers in the letter And the tears locked up inside her make her heart break open wider Shuts her eyes and takes the picture from the wall By Vince Clarke (c) 1982 Published by Sonet Records

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Some striking examples include a shot of a tram in the morning , or another view of the Vasco da Gama bridge , and many others.. ... In the picture below, we are looking North towards Lisboa (Lisbon). ... Below is a distant view of this bridge from the millenary St. George's Castle. ... From the same Elevator, looking North, we see the Rossio square. ... Going westwards about 7 km, you see Padrao dos Descobrimentos, built in 1943 for trhe celebrations of the 800 years of Portuguese independence. ...

... Some people have asked why Venus appears in "different places" in these photos. ... Dave Wallace . ... It was taken from Brookline, NH using my Celestron 5" SCT through a Tutill Solar Skreen filter using Fuji Superia Reala color print film. ... Marblehead Middle School Fifth Grade Students viewed the 2004 Transit of Venus from Riverhead Beach on Marblehead Harbor when the Sun broke through the clouds at about 6:45 a.m. Eyepiece projection with my 8" Meade SCT and Televue 32mm Plossl worked well. ...

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... By admin January 28, 2011 Posted in: Human Exploration . Challenger sets off on its tragic mission (image credit: NASA) . ... Your email address will not be published. ... Email * . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ... Email Address * . ...

. To see a Russian version of this page, click here . (Professor, Director of SAI. Graduated from the Moscow State University (MSU) in 1964, Ph.D. 1967, MSU, Dr. of Science 1975, MSU) . A member of IAU and EAS, IAU committees No 42, 27. Fields of interest: Stellar astrophysics, close binary systems, inverse problems in astrophysics. Send your mail to: cher@sai.msu.su .

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

... Our hometown rag (the Boston Globe ) runs an occasional series of photo collections that highlight news stories called The Big Picture. ... I talked about this automatized computer vision problem without a training set and with no rules of learning, to a friend and the advice was ?don?t go further. ... to a computer program some images can be defined as boring and some as interesting, so there may be a way to be able to search for interesting data in the vast amount of images. 10-13-2008, 8:30 pm . ...