Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... I took some quick images of the Moon just by putting an Ipod Touch to the eyepiece of the telescope. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... Image credit: Colin Johnston & Julie Thompson/Armagh Planetarium) . ... I am looking forward to sharing the sky with our visitors when our monthly Open Nights return in October (date to be confirmed). ...

... Vela Supernova Remnant in Visible Light . ... 13.02.2007 . ... About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode , creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history . The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium , driving a shock wave that is still visible today. ... Publications with keywords: Vela - supernova remnant . Publications with words: Vela - supernova remnant . ...

... 2007 February 13 . Vela Supernova Remnant in Visible Light . Credit: Digitized Sky Survey , ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator . ... About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode , creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history . ... Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar , a star as dense as nuclear matter that completely rotates more than ten times in a single second. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil La com†иte Hartley 2 visible †а lтАЩЉУil nu ! ... Profitez des conditions id†йales de ce week-end pour observer la com†иte Hartley 2. ... Elle n'a pas encore d†йploy†й de queue ( voir quelques clich†йs de la com†иte sur Ciel & Espace Photos ). ...

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. Composite image of 3 filters, in visible and infrared light, of the I Zw 18 region. Gas sorrounding the two stellar cores is clearly visible. In the upper right corner, you can also see the blue dwarf I Zw 18 C. Credit: Polychronys Papaderos (CAUP)/GУЖran У?stlin (Oskar Klein Center, U. Stockholm)

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... After much effort I was rewarded with what must have been the tail striations of this comet. ... The Lindsay Centennial Symposium and Public Lecture: Friday 26th January, Rotunda Theatre, St. Patrick's Trian, Armagh To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the former director of the Armagh Observatory and founder of the Armagh Planetarium, Dr Eric Mervyn Lindsay, a meeting will take place in the Rotunda Theatre, St. Patrick's Trian, English St, Armagh, from approximately 09:30 to 17:30. ...

... Powerful radio galaxy PKS 2356-61 . This is a combined radio/optical image of the powerful radio galaxy PKS 2356-61 featured on our outreach pages. The radio emission - measure with the Australia Telecope Compact Array (ATCA) - is shown in red, superimposed on the optical image of the field (blue). The galaxy itself is an elliptical, visible in the centre of the image at a redshift of z = 0.1. Image credit: Koekemoer, Schilizzi, Bicknell Ekers . ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearlтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. Description: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are on the left and the Milky Way from Crux through Centaurus are on the right. ... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. ...

... In this optical CCD frame, taken at Lick Observatory, the dark spots are clearly visible. In fact, these should now be visible through a 4-inch telescope with good image scale and atmospheric conditions. ... HST comparison of Violet and Ultraviolet Images of Dark Holes . ... The contrast is best in the longest wavelength image as Jupiter is fairly dark there due to upper atmospheric absorption by methane. ... True Color IR image (jpeg format) . ... I will post some of those images here. ...

... Users . ... Connections (constellation) . ... The graph below represents the connections between users tweeting about the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society . ... Number of accounts: ; Number of links: . ... The circles represent Twitter accounts; the color is coded based on the number of followers of each account using the scale given at the top of the graph (it's also included in the mouse-over text for each account), although I don't have this information for all users. ...

LEADER INSTRUCTIONS Constellation Detective by Erica Howson An Activity for the Whole Family from Project ASTROTM © Copyright 2001, Project ASTRO, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Ave., ... Constellation Detective is a quick station activity for practice in locating a constellation in a map of very dark skies. ... Materials Included 3 Constellation Detective Masters (can be photocopied) 3 Constellation Detective Answer Key Setting Up the Activity 1. ...

On the left in the above image is the April 2000 STIS 50ccd image of GRB 000301C, on the right February 2001 50ccd image. The field of view in each case is approximately 3."5 from East to West (left to right). ... The OT of GRB 000301C is clearly visible in the south-east corner of the image of the April 2000 image. ... The field of GRB 000301c was reobserved by the Hubble Space Telescope using the STIS camera in open (50CCD) mode on the 25 Feb 2001, or nearly one year after outburst. ...

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... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...

... Deux constellations lumineuses sont sym triques de l' toile polaire : la Grande Casserole et Cassiop e. Avec la rotation de la sph re c leste (qui semble tourner), ces constellations suivent galement des cercles autour du p le. ... Elle montre les 7 toiles de la Grande Ourse et de l' toile polaire, l' toile du nord. ... Ursa Minor , la "petite ourse" ou "petite casserole" est une constellation ressemblant l g rement la grande casserole, l' toile polaire tant la derni re toile de sa queue. ...

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