... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Patrick Corvan's association with the Armagh Observatory started over half a century ago when he became acquainted with the then Director, Dr Eric Mervyn Lindsay , during his second Observatory visit on the evening of 1953 April 21. Eric Lindsay, a keen populariser of astronomy, introduced Patrick to the Observatory's 10-inch Grubb refractor on that public Open Night. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... November . ... By admin September 26, 2012 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . Comet ISON is revealed.( ... Comet ISON.'s orbit and position on 25 September 2012.( ... The comet€а will reach its closest point to the Sun, perihelion in late November 2013.Then it is expected to whizz around the Sun a mere 1.1 million km above its surface making Comet ISON one of that class of comets called€а Sungrazers. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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 updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

... Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. Giant Dust Ring Discovered Around Saturn . ... What has created a large dust ring around Saturn? ... No one is sure. ... The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. ... The small white spot (enlarged in the insets) seen within the dark shadow of lunar crater walls is the initial flash created by the impact of a spent Centaur upper stage rocket. ...

Discover the cosmos! ... December 1, 1995 . 51 Pegasi: A New Planet Discovered . ... Humanity took one step closer to answering these questions in October 1995 when it was announced that the star 51 Pegasi harbors at least one planet. In the above picture of 51 Peg the planet is not visible - it can only be detected by noticing small changes in the star's motion. ... In the above picture the lines centered on 51 Peg are caused by the telescope itself and are not related to the star or planet. ...