Trail encounter . ... Expected meteor rates . ... The Leonids are the debris of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. ... The Earth's passage right through the centre of trails is associated with the most spectacular meteor displays (studies show that, as well as how close to the centre of the trail you are, the strength of the display also depends on how far along a trail's length you are). ... The encounter with the 1932 trail will lead to enhanced meteor activity: a nice outburst, but below storm level. ...

... Sun images . ... Active areas . November : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 omregion November 22, 2004 Abstract Calculates evselect region les for an OM source 1 Instruments/Modes Instrument Mode OM FAST 2 Use pipeline processing yes interactive analysis yes 3 Description This task takes an OM OSW source list and a source number and produces evselect region les for the source and its associated background. ... Intermediate source region le for use by evselect 2. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

... Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun . ... Credit Copyright: SOHO Consortium , EIT , ESA , NASA Explanation: Why has the Sun been so quiet recently? ... Our Sun has shown few active regions -- that house even fewer associated sunspots -- for over a year now, and such a period of relative calm is quite unusual. ... A few days ago, however, a bona-fide active region -- complete with sunspots --appeared and continues to rotate across the Sun's face. ... A Filament Across the Sun . ...

... 2011 November 7 . Star Forming Region S106 . ... Explanation: Massive star IRS 4 is beginning to spread its wings. Born only about 100,000 years ago, material streaming out from this newborn star has formed the nebula dubbed Sharpless 2-106 Nebula (S106), pictured above. ... S106 gas near IRS 4 acts as an emission nebula as it emits light after being ionized , while dust far from IRS 4 reflects light from the central star and so acts as a reflection nebula . ... About APOD | ...

... Field-aligned currents (FAC, also called the Birkeland currents) are essential to the linkage between the solar wind - magnetosphere system and the ionosphere . The main large scale FAC systems are the Region 1 and 2 currents. ... Expands to lower latitudes with increasing activity (see also the auroral ovals ) . ... TCV currents . ... Yamamoto, T., S. Inoue, N. Nishitani, M. Ozaki, and C.-I. Meng, A theory for generation of the paired region 1 and region 2 field-aligned currents, J. Geophys. ...

... 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.. ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

Describes how spatial region boundaries are handled. The golden rule for spatial region filtering was first enunciated by Leon VanSpeybroeck in 1986: . ... With this in mind, the rules for determining whether a boundary image pixel or table row are assigned to a region are defined below. For image filtering, pixels whose center is inside the boundary are included. ... That is, an row is inside the boundary without regard to its integerized pixel value. ...

... A typical density of energetic ions is 1 per cubic cm., and the ions are matched by electrons, generally of lower energy. ... This region is almost empty of plasma--typical density 0.01 ion/cubic cm., the "best vacuum" in the Earth's vicinity--but it contains a relatively strong magnetic field which, since it fills a large volume, can store appreciable magnet