Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Flaming Star Nebula from CFHT . ... Rippling dust and gas lanes give the Flaming Star Nebula its name. ... The bright star.. ... Inside the Eagle Nebula . ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. ... The telescope mirror, about the size of the Hubble Space Telescope mirror, is protected by a red covering. ... An Unusually Smooth Surface on Saturns Telesto . ...

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... 2016 March 14 . Dark Nebulas across Taurus . ... Explanation: Sometimes even the dark dust of interstellar space has a serene beauty. ... Several bright stars are visible with their blue light seen reflecting off the brown dust. Other stars appear unusually red as their light barely peaks through a column of dark dust, with red the color that remains after the blue is scattered away. Yet other stars are behind dust pillars so thick they are not visible here. ... About APOD | ...

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• APOD: 2009 March 12 - Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359) and Planetary Nebula
• APOD: 2000 November 7 - The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant
• APOD: 2003 April 20 - The Gum Nebula Supernova Remnant

... 2000 April 24 . Reflection Nebula M78 . ... Explanation: An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78, a bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion . The dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula. ... M78 belongs to the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex that contains the Great Nebula in Orion and the Horsehead Nebula . ... About APOD | ...

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• APOD: November 12, 1996 - Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14
• APOD: July 13, 1999 - The Flame Nebula in Infrared
• APOD: September 5, 1998 - The Pulsar Powered Crab

... Stars . ... Straight away the three stars in his belt will grab your attention, followed by the glittering white star Rigel in his left foot and the bright orangish star Betelgeuse in his right shoulder (assuming Orion is standing facing us and not with his back to us). ... Orion Belt?s with the stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. ... In short, Orion was a big, loud giant of a man and indeed a mighty hunter, he also inherited some aquatic superpowers from his father who was the sea god Neptune. ...

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• Astronotes | Armagh Planetarium's astronomy news from across the Universe -
• A Spectacular View of the Lagoon Nebula | Astronotes
• March Sky Wonders | Astronotes

... Stars come in different colours and sizes. This new picture shows the famous Red Giant star called Betelgeuse (you say the name as Beetle-Juice ). ... In the photo, the fuzzy red, blue, and purple cloud around the star is the nebula. Since the nebula isn t as bright as Betelgeuse, astronomers have to block some of the star s light to be able to photograph it. ... Our Sun will eventually become a Red Giant star like Betelgeuse but not for another 5,000,000,000 years! ...

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• http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1320/kids/
• http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1521/kids/
• The Flames of Betelgeuse | ESO

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

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• The Pleiades
• M42 Color Images
• Figures for Scattering Paper

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad TV
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Images and text 2003 Paul Valleli . While up at Stellafane for pre-convention preparations, I spent some early morning times, experimenting with different videography setups on the 13" F/10 Schupmann at the McGregor Observatory. ... Mars was too bright and would have required neutral density filters. ... Next time, I will try 12mm and 9mm projections. ... I aquired about ten thousand frames by 3AM, at which time a breeze picked up and the seeing went to Hellas! ... 2003 Paul Valleli . ...

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• Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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• Summer Triangle - an Astronomy Net Article
• Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - an Astronomy Net Article
• The Astronomy Shop - Cards - by Astronomy Net

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

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• Clearing the library. Note the different floor levels. There were at least 4
• C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
• Horsehead Nebula

Supernova 2006E in NGC 5338 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2006E in NGC 5338 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... We have a DSS Photometry reference image made by Odd Trondal. ... 2006/01/02.835 . ... Discovery, mirror . ... Joel Nicolas image . ... JM Llapasset image . ...

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• Supernova 2009I in NGC 1080
• Supernovae 2010jl in UGC 5189A
• Supernova 2006B in UGC 12538

Different types of satellite orbits have different uses: while the synchronous orbit is best for communication satellites, Lagrangian point orbits help monitor the solar wind before it reaches Earth. A low altitude polar orbit is widely used for monitoring the Earth because each day, as the Earth rotates below it, the entire surface is covered. ... A different choice was made for MAGSAT, orbited 1979-80 to survey the Earth's own magnetic field near its surface. ...

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• Close-up of the Aurora
• The Acceleration of the Aurora
• The Path of the Sun, the Ecliptic

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

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• The Faint Early Sun: Paradox, Problem, or Distraction?

... To make it easier to "read" this celestial calendar, they grouped the brighter stars into readily recognizable shapes, the constellations. ... From Star Maps , [AS 289] a constellation slide set, available from the ASP . Our modern constellation system comes to us from the ancient Greeks. ... The ancient Greek tradition was to name stars by their position within a constellation. ... And it explains why we have a system of Greek constellations with Latin names containing stars with Arabic names. ...

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• ASP: To Every Season There is a Reason
• ASP: Star Science in the Autumn Sky
• ASP: Monster Comet Promises Big Show

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . The Golden Earring, planetary nebula NGC 2867, and barred spiral galaxy NGC 3109 . ... Hubble observes a dwarf galaxy with a bright nebula . ... While it lacks the elegant spiral arms of many larger galaxies, NGC 2366 is home to a bright star-forming nebula and is close enough for astronomers to discern its individual stars. ...

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• The "flame" burns bright in new WISE image | Astronomy.com
• NASAт??s Hubble sees a horsehead of a different color | Astronomy.com
• Jupiter joins Venus in the early evening | Astronomy.com

... A comparison of the computed and experimental relations F max ( H), as well as comparison of drift scans of point sources across different horizontal cross-sections of the BP with the corresponding computed cross-sections were made. ... The drift scans of the point source 3С84 (H=87 o ) at the wavelength 7.6 cm across the horizontal cross-sections of the BP (black lines) and the computed horizontal cross-sections of the BP corresponding to them (red lines). ...

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• harak_e
• New spectra of Egg Nebula

... Like the night sky on the Earth, the martian sky hosts a plethora of astronomical phenomena occurring around the clock in a neverending space opera played out for the benefit of robotic and future human observers alike. ... Moons . Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos . ... Under the same conditions, Deimos would be as bright as -5, somewhat brighter than the planet Venus appears in Earth's sky. ... The moons are also eclipsed by Mars itself (a situation analogous to lunar eclipses at the Earth). ...

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• Armagh Observatory Geminid Meteors
• Armagh Observatory
• Terry Mosely's Bulletins

... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...

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• Polar Orbiting Satellites
• (S-7a) The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
• How Distant is the Moon?--lesson plan #15

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

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... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

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