Astronomy Picture of the Day . Help Aldebaran Map the Moon . ... Tomorrow morning, our Moon will pass directly in front of Aldebaran, the brightest star in this picture and in entire constellation of Taurus. A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ... M81 in True Color . ... This is particularly evident in the above close-up of the LMC's edge, which appears about as large as the full moon. ... Mars Pathfinder's Landing Site . ... Where is Mars Pathfinder? ... The Small Cloud of Magellan . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 May 24 . Planets Over Easter Island . ... Explanation: It isn't every day that planets line up behind a stone giant. ... For another, it helps to be on Easter Island , where over 800 large stone statues exist. ... Pictured above, the Moon , Venus , and Mars can be seen behind Ahu Tahai , a famous Easter Island statue. ... About APOD | ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

The Nine Planets is best viewed on-line via a graphical WWW browser which displays the pictures in color and supports hypertext link traversal. ... To view the movies and hear the sounds, you'll need additional helper programs. ... I recommend that you use Netscape as your browser. Netscape can display gif and jpeg images directly without need of any additional helper apps. You do need additional helper apps for movies and sounds, however. ... Yahoo's Helper Applications .. ... Tech Help .. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

Welcome to the help page of the Arecibo Observatory Fourier Transform Machine (AOFTM) and its user interfaces, the OpenLook compliant <aoftm> data acquistion program, the quicklook data processing program <postproc> and publicly-available code that allows disk and magnetic tape data to be unpacked and piped to user programs. ... Other links document the history and development of the AOFTM, and describe the data format and available data unpacking software. ... HARDWARE DESCRIPTION . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

Two projects are depicted here: painting the secondary supports and installing the rollers under the telescope. Caption precedes pictures . Angie Prosapio, with the help of Bill Boroski, Terry Sager, Chuck Wilson, and Steve Bastian, installed the rollers under the telescope. ... Another successful installation! Steve from CVE struggles with the breeze (and a day of rain) to paint the support structure in time for reassembly. ...

... 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.. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... Microstep (pattern) - a pattern of exposures at positions each shifted by a very small movement (<3 arcsec) from the reference position. ... A microstep pattern can be contained within each position of a jitter pattern. Jitter (pattern) - a pattern of exposures at positions each shifted by a small movement (<30 arcsec) from the reference position. ... Making a tile: Ysteps ; . ... Resulting Exposure time map for a filled tile of 6 pawprints (no jittering). ...

... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... Asteroid DayУ?т??т??s Don Yeomans: Will asteroid 2013 TX68 strike Earth? ... Could the Chicxulub asteroid have helped to trigger the volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps 65 million years ago? ... RELATED TOPICS: ASTEROIDS . ... What we do know is that 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into modern-day Mexico near the tiny town of Chicxulub. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The aim is to provide a series of musical performance workshops culminating in two free performances in Saint PatrickтАЩs Church of Ireland Cathedral on 1st and 2nd May 2014, and to provide people of all ages with an opportunity to engage with the fact of the 1000-year anniversary of Brian BoruтАЩs death at the Battle of Clontarf on Good Friday, 23rd April 1014 and his subsequent burial at Armagh. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Stars ? Birth and Death . ... Stars - Birth and Death . MRAO Telescopes . ... Radio telescopes allow us to observe the very earliest and latest stages of a star?s life: these observations help us understand how the Sun, Earth and planets formed, and how they will die. ... In the picture on the right there are faint twin jets of molecular gas moving away from the young star; on the scale of this picture this star, marked by the white cross, is no larger than a pinhead. ...

STScI . ... Us . ... Initiatives Support . ... This site is to support the instrument teams as well as SMO, APT, and SSB in the help@stsci.edu workspace on footprints. ... Procedure for getting new team members into Footprints and to the Team Help Desk . Get new members to log into Footprints with their user name an AD password (They need to do this once before being put into Team Help Desks). ... Ask the STScI Help Desk Lead: Brian York or ask the Triage Help Desk Lead: Michael A. Wolfe . ...

... Posts tagged ?Big Picture? ... Our hometown rag (the Boston Globe ) runs an occasional series of photo collections that highlight news stories called The Big Picture. ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... Help pages are formatted and converted automatically to HTML for presentation in the GUI (or on the WWW), or to Postscript for hardcopy output. ... XHelp is a GUI browser for the IRAF help system which uses existing help facilities in IRAF to locate documents, but provides a familiar web-browser interface. ... Easy access to auxiliary help documents such as package ``system documents'' and task source code, . ... Extensions to LROFF to support HTML style document links within IRAF help pages. ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . ... Discussion Forums | ... Help with a telescope, tasco model 17T - akki-ryuu - August 3, 2010 - 21:22 UTC . ... Suggestions for light pollution fi;ters wanted - rompindonkey - October 25, 2005 - 19:13 UTC . ... Eyeglasses and eyepieces - scoutlion - January 2, 2005 - 07:45 UTC . re: eyepieces and eyeglasses - scoutlion - January 4, 2005 - 09:53 UTC . ... Utilize my 8i Nexstar to the fullest - slr0865 - November 20, 2003 - 23:22 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Астрофорум - астрономический портал ? ... Астрономическое оборудование и аксессуары (Модераторы: zlyden , Denk36 ) ? HELP!! NexImage . ... Сообщений: 99 . Рейтинг: +1/-0 . ... Не сталкивался ли кто с такой вот (см. прикрепленный JPEG) картинкой от Celestron NexImage? ... Записан . Сообщений: 580 . ... Ответ #1 : 23.09.2005 [16:01:12] ? ... Сообщений: 5 951 . ... Ответ #4 : 21.03.2006 [14:00:03] ? ... Ответ #8 : 29.09.2009 [13:48:19] ? ... Сообщений: 19 072 . Рейтинг: +378/-8 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...