... 295 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII, eds. H. E. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski, & R. N. Hook (San Francisco: ASP), 411 . ... Observations by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory are made in a coordinate frame that is essentially fixed. Most objects observed with Chandra, such as supernova remnants, quasars, or pulsars, are at infinity for all practical purposes and the observations produce sharp, focused images. ... Figure 2: Jupiter in ICRS and Object Centered coordinates . ... 2002). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Gift Center . ... Why do aurorae appear strongest within rings centered on Earth's poles instead of filled-in circles? ... RELATED TOPICS: AURORAE . The visible aurorae result from electrons that move along magnetic field lines from space into the upper atmosphere. ... Just make sure you're registered with the website. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

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The following are some standard questions that observers have about their fixed target confirmation charts. ... Why doesn't my target appear to be centered on the cross hairs? ... How is proper motion handled? ... Target well centered . If your target is not perfectly centered in the cross hairs, see the questions below for why it may not be centered and how well centered it must be . ... So, targets to be acquired by STIS should appear well centered in the cross hairs on the confirmation chart. ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

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... Artist?s conception of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, as seen from the Galileo spacecraft. At the time of the first impact, the comet fragments will be much farther apart than shown in this illustration. ... One orbit, computer May 18, 1993 by Syuichi Nakano, showed that the comet passed close to Jupiter in July 1992, and would pass within 45,000 kilometers of the center of Jupiter in July, 1994. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 move around Jupiter. ...

... The Cassini spacecraft, launched from Earth in 1997, has now swung past Jupiter and should arrive at Saturn in the year 2004. ... Nearly 400 years ago astronomer Johannes Kepler observed comet tails blown by a solar breeze and suggested that vessels might likewise navigate through space using appropriately fashioned sails. ... In the Center of the Lagoon Nebula . ... The center of the Lagoon Nebula is busy with the awesome spectacle of star formation. ... Will the Universe End in a Big Rip . ...

... НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . ... Кружок ?Олимпиады и математика? ... Московская математическая олимпиада . Заочный математический конкурс . ... Устные математические олимпиады . Олимпиады по программированию . Математический праздник . Математические регаты . ... Математические бои . Олимпиада по геометрии им. И.Ф.Шарыгина . ... Программа ?Math in Moscow? Научные конкурсы . Творческий конкурс . ... График олимпиад . ... XXVII Математический праздник . ...

... PmWiki / . ... PmWiki has two types of table markup; the markup described in this page is useful for creating tables with lots of small cells, while table directive markups help with larger scale tables. ... Bordered and borderless tables . ... At present there is no way to specify the color of individual rows or cells in this type of table (but see Cookbook:FormattingTables ). || border=1 align=center bgcolor=yellow ||!cell 1 ||! cell 2 ||! cell 3|| ||left-aligned || centered || right-aligned|| . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... One of the rarest but most interesting effects which can be observed with the Irkutsk IS radar is anomal high power signal registraion(coherent echo) due to strong magnetic storms. ... These signals are formed at E-layer heights in the presence of a strong electric field which causes particles to drift. ...

... Polar Magnetic Storms . ... Birkeland studied them in 1902-1903 using a network of four stations--in Norway and on Iceland, Spitzbergen (Svalbard), and Novaya Zemlya [ Birkeland, 1908, 1913; Bostr?m 1968]--and concluded that there existed a distinct type of magnetic storm, the "elementary polar magnetic storm" with a typical time scale of less than an hour, associated with the aurora and with electric currents which descended along auroral field lines and flowed horizontally along auroral arcs. ...

... Polar Magnetic Storms . ... Birkeland studied them in 1902-1903 using a network of four stations--in Norway and on Iceland, Spitzbergen (Svalbard), and Novaya Zemlya [ Birkeland, 1908, 1913; Bostr?m 1968]--and concluded that there existed a distinct type of magnetic storm, the "elementary polar magnetic storm" with a typical time scale of less than an hour, associated with the aurora and with electric currents which descended along auroral field lines and flowed horizontally along auroral arcs. ...

... Fields Observed . ... Data Archive . ... Complete Optical and X-ray data for all ChaMPlane fields are available through the DS9 VO interface . ... functionality of DS9 is available to manipulate the results in addition to those provided by the "Champlane tools" You can select images, compare . ... our region of interest has been selected by drawing a red square region on the image. at bottom left the high res optical image of that selected region, and on the right is the X-ray image. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . July 28th marks the 125th anniversary of the erection of the 10-inch Grubb refracting telescope at the Armagh Observatory. ... Dreyer used the telescope extensively over the next thirty years, especially while confirming some of the details of nebulae and star clusters for his venerable NGC catalogue, that is, A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, published in 1888 by the Royal Astronomical Society. ...

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RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...