The Australia Telescope Compact Array ( ATCA ) is a radio interferometer consisting of six 22-m antennae aligned along a 6-km-long, east-west track. ... The ATCA Upgrade , which is part of the Major National Research Facility ( MNRF ) program, will allow astronomers to observe at even higher frequencies, around 22 GHz (12 mm) and 90 GHz (3.5 mm). ... The ATCA Upgrade will open a number of new opportunities; these are set out below. ... The ATCA Upgrade involves the following projects: . ...

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Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... The Russian TESIS/ CORONAS-PHOTON Solar Observatory, which has been working in orbit since January 30th, 2009, has photographed one of the most important events in the build up to the upcoming solar cycle - the formation of our star's new southern belt of activity. The first magnetic fields of the new cycle in the southern hemisphere appeared on the Sun's surface on May 23-24th. ... The belt of activity is one of the primary concepts, characterizing the solar cycle. ...

... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

... A similar level of effort is anticipated for HDF-S. We are maintaining a `clearinghouse' for supporting and follow-up observations of the HDF-S. Test observations of the HDF-S field were obtained in October, 1997. ... Simultaneous, parallel observations were made with the three HST instruments STIS, WFPC2 and NICMOS of separate, neighboring fields. ... Additional flanking field observations were made surrounding the deep STIS, WFPC2 and NICMOS fields. ... The red field is the main HDF-S WFPC2 field....

... Over the course of a week two secondary students James Hadnett and Liam Fields observed NEAs using one of two 2-Metre telescopes courtesy of the Faulkes Telescope Project which are positioned in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. This was made possible with the aid of Las Cumbres Observatory who, with their Global Telescope Network, give educational establishments the chance to observe with a high grade telescope. ... Comet C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) observed on 2013 July 1st. ... 2013 July 5th . ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... By admin March 6, 2013 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Comet PANSTARRS reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun on 10 March, after this it will start to move away from the Sun and to be visible in the twilight sky to observers in the northern hemisphere. ... It was a very faint and delicate white ?feather? against a deep golden sky.€а It took quite some effort to find even with binoculars and I could not see it at all without them. ...

... Among the newly observed objects, we discovered the galaxies UGC 2172 and NGC 3239 in the stage of a vigorous burst of star formation. ... A detailed presentation of the results is contained in the papers: Karachentsev et al. 2013, AJ, 145, 101; Karachentsev and Kaisina 2013, AJ, 146, 46; Kaisin and Karachentsev 2013, Astrophysical Bulletin, 68, 381. ... Karachentsev et al. ... An image of the interacting galaxy NGC 3239, which is a double (or a triple) system of merging dwarf galaxies . ...

We report here on those proposed UIT targets that, in fact, were successfully acquired. Where possible we provide an optical CCD image of the target or the field. ... A1 centered at 2500 angstroms with a width of 1200 angstroms . B5 centered at 1615 angstroms with a width of 150 angstroms . ... The exposure was 1174 seconds through B5. M31 southern field was imaged for 1045 seconds through the B5 filter. ... NGC 1291 a nearby elliptical galaxy was imaged for 505 seconds through B5. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why do the constellations and the Moon appear upside down from the Southern Hemisphere? ... From the Southern Hemisphere, any object or constellation that lies near the celestial equator (the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern halves of the sky) would appear both upside down and reversed left to right compared to a northern perspective. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

... The Southern Sky in Warm Hydrogen . ... Although spectacular emission nebula s glow brightly in this type of red light ( H-alpha ), a diffuse amount of warm hydrogen is spread throughout our Galaxy and its glow nicely indicates not only where darker hydrogen and other gasses may be located, but also the sometimes- complex history of interstellar gas . ... Publications with keywords: SHASSA - Milky Way - H-alpha . Publications with words: SHASSA - Milky Way - H-alpha . ...

... Many of these radi HII regions lie beyond the range of optical detection, at distances exceeding several kpc; they thus provide a comprehensive coverage of the southern HII regions in the Galaxy over the longitude range 210 to 360^o and consistute a vital data base for the study of galactic structure. ... C Caswell (1972) . ... In column 16, "V", or a specific nebula name, denotes the presence of a visible optical counterpart, and "A" indicates the absence of an optical counterpart. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Let it be a time for you to become aware of the Sun's motion in our skies. ... They observed, as we do today, the motion of the Sun from a point high in the summer sky to a point low in the winter sky. ... The Chumash, Native Americans who inhabited what is now California, relied on their high chief and his assistants to pull the Sun back to Earth at the time of the winter solstice. ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

The CHIANTI database consists of 4 primary ASCII files for each ion in the database. contains the energy levels in cm^(-1) It includes both experimental data and theoretical values of the levels energies. References: %Observed energy levels (2): Feldman, U., Curdt, W., Landi, E., Wilhelm, K., 2000, ApJ, 544, 508 %Observed energy levels (3,4,5): Sandlin, G.D., Bruekner, G.E., Scherrer, V.E., Tousey, R., 1976, ApJ, 205, L47 %Observed energy levels (6 to 15): Fuhr, J.R., et al., ...

The Hubble orbiting telescope. The Earth's atmosphere, while transparent to visible light, absorbs most "electromagnetic radiations" which belong to the same family as light: parts of the infra-red (IR) and all of the ultra-violet (UV), X-rays and gamma rays. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...