... This was shown in dramatic fashion by the COsmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite which produced this premier view of the central region of our own Milky Way Galaxy in infrared light in1990. ... Comet Hale-Bopp is living up to its expectations. ... The Great Comet of 1997 is now brighter than the Great Comet of 1996 ever was. ... What happened to Jupiter's Great Red Spot? ... Both writer/editors of APOD are impressed by how bright Comet Hale-Bopp has become, and how easily visible it is. ...

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... 2001 February 23 . M55: Color Magnitude Diagram . ... Explanation: This color "picture" of globular star cluster M55 may not look like any star cluster you've ever seen. ... In the picture, a Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD), M55's individual stars are represented as dots whose color indicates relative temperature, red (cool) to blue (hot). ... M55's stars were formed at the same time and at first were all located along the main sequence by mass, lower mass stars at the lower right. ... About APOD | ...

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SAOtng can associate names with region markers in order to aid users in remembering the significance of the region. ... By default, marker regions that you create in SAOtng are defined to be either "source" regions or "background" regions and are colored green and red, respectively. ... This type name is controlled by the "Set Type (and Color)" option in the marker menu (activated using the right mouse button within a region). ... Colors can be associated with names for regions. ...

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... Home Education Classes AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February ? March 2016 . ... Classes . ... AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February - March 2016 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ March 2016 . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

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T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . View of the planets Uranus, Venus and Mars in the early evening western sky after sunset, as seen from Armagh at 7.00pm on 1 March 2015. ... Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks provide a rare opportunity to observe the planets Venus, Mars and Uranus in the western evening sky after sunset, and the bright planet Jupiter rising high in the East about the same time. ...

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... Surface Brightness of Background Light . Home . ... Data . ... WFPC2 Home . ... Instrument Home . WFPC2 History . ... LRF Data . ... Data Analysis Home . ... Instrument Handbook . Data Handbook . ... Input the surface brightness in magnitudes per square arcsecond. ... Galaxy U-B and B-V colors are drawn from Longo and deVaucouleurs 1983 for representative objects;V-R and R-I are estimated from WFPC2 Handbook Table 6.1. ... AB_xxxxx are AB magnitudes at the standard WFPC2 filter bands. ...

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... a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... During magnetic storms, the glow may move southwards, and on occasion it can be seen in much of the US. ... A similar phenomenon is also seen in southern polar regions. ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ... The green light of the aurora puzzled scientists for many years, since it fit no known...

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. Please standby and you will be automatically connected to the new location of the unframed Supernova page. Or, click on the link above. If you have questions or problems, please email me at David Bishop dbishop@vhdl.org . Last modified: Mon Aug 27 12:40:15 EDT 2001

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... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

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... Values have been scaled arbitrarily. High ratios are shown in blue, corresponding to blue colors, and low ratios are shown in red, corresponding to red colors. ... Noise combined with background subtraction difficulties in the lower left quadrant of the WISP1 data (see Fig. \ref{Fig:wisp_snr_mskd}) make colors in this area very unreliable. ... The values shown here are typically a factor of ~3 less than those calculated for the Schmidt data, shown in Figure \ref{Fig:bj_alpha}. ...

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... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS MOS-2 pixels. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 The defect seem to be most quick CCDs 1, 2 XMM EPIC MOS MOS-1 pixels. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS New Defects in rev. 108 flare. XMM EPIC MOS Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 New Defects in rev. 169 flare. ... Paul Bennie pbe@star.le.ac.uk Friday, 16 February 2001 XMM EPIC MOS ...

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... The nearby Circinus Galaxy . by B Koribalski (CASS) . The Circinus Galaxy was discovered relatively recently as it hides behind the bright stellar disk of the Milky Way. The color composite image shows the cold neutral hydrogen gas in blue , warm dust in red , and stars in green . It highlights the disk and inner spiral arms of the Circinus Galaxy; its hydrogen envelope extends well beyond the image shown here. ... today * ATNF | ...

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... Sun images . ... Active areas . February : 2016 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

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... This gives us another handle on how distant the stars are. ... Stars differ not only in distance, but also in apparent brightness. ... Ranking stars by brightness . ... The brightness of the star decreases as the square of the distance. ... At what distance would a 100-watt light bulb have the same brightness as the brighter stars? ... So if the distance of the 100-watt light bulb was 5 kilometers, the distance of the brighter stars would be 10,000,000,000,000 kilometers, or about a light-year. ...

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