... Armagh Observatory, 24th March 2009: The International Space Station ( ISS ) has recently become the second brightest object in the night sky тАФ even brighter than the planet Venus, and second only to the Moon. Evenings will provide the chance of a spectacular view, if the sky is clear, as for the next few days the orbit of the ISS around the Earth repeatedly takes it over Ireland. ... At its best, it is now the second brightest object in the night sky. ...

... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

... IC443's Neutron Star . ... Using x-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory along with radio data from the Very Large Array, a team of researchers has discovered evidence for a new example of one of the most bizarre objects known to modern astrophysics -- a neutron star. ... Despite illuminated clouds and bright light from a nearly full moon (lower left), this.. ... The Omega Nebula is a massive, complex cloud of dust and gas from which new stars are continually forming. ...

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... 2000 December 14 . International Space Station Trail . ... Despite illuminated clouds and bright light from a nearly full moon (lower left), this 5 minute time exposure easily captures the Space Station's trail as it arcs through early evening skies above Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA on December 9 . ... Astrophotographer Doug Murray and colleague report that both Shuttle and Space Station were visible separately and on close inspection of this image they do produce distinct, parallel arcs. ...

Text of these problems is available also in other languages : . ... What can one see in the Moon's sky more often - the Sun or the Earth? ... There are about of 250 millions of stars in the elliptical galaxy M32 (a satellite of Andromeda galaxy). ... The masses of Capella's components. ... You are proposed to estimate the masses of Capella's components, using our observational data. ... A galaxy's mass. ... Estimate the mass of FGC 1908 and compare it to the mass of our galaxy. ...

... 173Wall Peacock We catalogue the brightest extragalactic radio sources at 2.7 GHz. ... These data were originally presented in Wall and Peacock, MNRAS, 216, 173. The values in parenthesis include (units, datatype, example). 1 iauname Name of source in IAU convention (char7, example: '0320-37') . ... 3 ra_1950 rad Right ascension of source in radians (B1950) (real, example: 0.876068) . ... 9 alpha Spectral index of source between 2.7 and 5 GHz (real, example: 0.52) . ... Longair, 1975 . ...

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. ...

The aim of this assignment is to teach you how to carry out a very common programming task: reading in a bunch of data from a text file, doing something with it then writing the results out again. ... The goal of the assignment is to write a computer program which will select this sample for you. You will pick the micro-quasars to observe from a rather large catalogue, which can be found here: The catalogue is an ASCII (text) file - you can inspect it with a normal text editor. ...

... Subject: G.08 How are stars named? Can I name/buy one? ... The Supernova of 1987 (Supernova 1987A), one of the major astronomical events of this century, was identified with the star named SK -69 202 in the very specialized catalog, the _Deep Objective Prism Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud_, published by the Warner and Swasey Observatory. These procedures and catalogs accepted by the International Astronomical Union are the only means by which stars receive long-lasting names. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | Student list | ... Email discussion lists . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Virtual Radio Interferometer . ... This message : [ Message body ] [ More options ( top , bottom ) ] . ... Next message : Ray.Norris_at_email.protected: "Virtual Observatory Exploder" . Previous message : Ray.Norris_at_email.protected: "FW: Majordomo results: RE: who" . ...

... The International Conference "Mode Conversion, Coherent Structures and Turbulence" will be held in the Space Research Institute of RAS during the period from 23 up to 25 November 2009. ... The conference MSS-09 is the sequel of international conference MSS-04 which was held in the Space Research Institute of RAS during the period from 23 up to 25 November 2004. ... Please inform the Organizing Committee (MSS-OC) if you need the visas support and the hotel reservation. ...

Next: *timsort* Up: Timing Analysis Previous: Summary of tasks in . ... Events will be time ordered in the output file. xt> timsort xdata$snr psr ``c 503 513 24'' none A light curve is then generated and plotted so we can inspect the gross properties of the sample (the sequence of good-data intervals and gaps) and any source variability. xt> ltcurv psr none psr 500 xt> ltcplot psr_ltc Finding this sample satisfactory, we search for periodicity with a fast Fourier transform. ...

astronomy . Astro Courses . ... IYA 2009 . ... Armagh Planetarium is proud to be associated with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) . IYA 2009 is a global year of events celebrating all things associated with the absorbing science that is astronomy. ... IYA 2009 Autumn/Winter events . ... Here at Armagh Planetarium one of our most important objectives is to promote formal and informal science education and there will be activities celebrating IYA 2009 throughout the year. ...

... ebadpixupdate (ebadpixupdate-1.10) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... Standard run (get bad pixels from the CCF) over all CCDs: ebadpixupdate eventset=P0123700101PNS003PIEVLI0000.FIT . ... Take additional bad pixels from another event list and the CCF, for CCDs 2 and 3: ebadpixupdate eventset=P0123700101M2S002MIEVLI0000.FIT ccds='2 3' \ badpixtables='P0111090301M2S002MIEVLI0000.FIT:BADPIX02 \ P0111090301M2S002MIEVLI0000.FIT:BADPIX03' . ...

... Определение высот полярных сияний по базисным снимкам Тикси. ... Береговой эфект в высотах полярных сияний. ... Результаты определения высот полярных сияний в б.Тикси в 1964г. Геомагнетизм . ... Проблемы космической физики (ПКФ), ?5, 1970 . ... ПКФ, ?15, 1980 . Вспышки блеска комет и солнечная корпускулярная активность. ... 1980 . Корпускулярноактивные области Солнца и вспышки блеска комет. ... Вспышки блеска комет. ... О гало льдистых тел, как возможном источнике вспышек блеска комет. ...

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Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

. Ordinate X (Date) . - . relative time of recent update of Web Site / relative time of recent update of a group of Web Sites. Ordinate Y (Size) . - . may be the quantity of letters, pages, outside links, pictures, binaries, error links, or given keywords in the HTML pages of Web Site / a group of Web Sites. Ordinate Z . - . item of list. Brightness (in one-color worlds) . - . the quantity of links to the outside in the HTML pages of Web Site.