... Seven Leonids Over Wise Observatory . ... Observers there reported a peak rate for the 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower of about 600 meteors per hour. ... Goodness, Gracious, Green Balls Of Fire!", might have been an appropriate theme song title for the 1998 Leonid meteor shower. Many observers, like astrophotographer Steve Dunn watching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, reported that a lot of the characteristically bright Leonid meteors had a greenish tint. ... Leonids 1998: A Safe Meteor Storm . ...

... Dr. Detlef Koschny . ... 28 November 2001 . After an eventful trip to the other side of the world, ESA's intrepid scientists have returned with a treasure trove of data about the 2001 Leonid meteor shower. ... Koschny: We were rather nervous because the night of the predicted maximum was cloudy -- the first cloudy night we had in Australia -- but, fortunately, the clouds went away and we had three hours of beautiful Leonids. ... Leonids meteor page and navigate to "Leonids01" . ...

... 2002 February 4 . Comet LINEAR (WM1) Shines in the South . ... Explanation: A new comet has brightened unexpectedly and is currently visible to unaided observers of southern skies. Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) is now reported by some observers to be at third magnitude , making it brighter -- although more diffuse -- than most visible stars. ... Pictured above is the center of Comet LINEAR (WM1) taken the morning of February 1 from 300 km north of Sydney, Australia . ... About APOD | ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

Date when RFI was seen(dd/mmm/yyyy): . Time in Ast when RFI was seen: . Observer's Name: . Observer's Email_Id: . ... Receiver Name: . RFI characteristics(if you need help go to http://www.naic.edu/~rfiuser) . ... No Yes Unknown . ... Contacts . Have you made any contacts? No Yes . ... Name of the person contacted: . Organization of contact : . ... You may enter additional handwritten notes below. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Observing Run Progress Reporting Improvements . ... Science Users Information . Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... ESO has recently expanded and improved the user experience in obtaining information about, and data from, Service and Visitor Mode runs on the Run Progress Pages. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

Saturation is the primary concern when observing bright targets. The analog-to-digital converter will run out of bit codes at ~28,000 e - pixel -1 in the ATD-GAIN=7 (default) setting, and at ~53,000 e - pixel -1 in the ATD-GAIN=15 setting. ... Hence ATD-GAIN=15 is recommended for targets approaching 28,000 e - pixel -1 . ... For example, stars as bright as V~4.4 can be observed without saturation in F502N using the PC at ATD-GAIN=15 with a 0.11s exposure time. ...

Supernova 2001fc in UGC 11683 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2001fc in UGC 11683 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. ... Icon created from Tim Puckett's discovery image. Web pages dedicated to this SN. AUDE has a 2001fc page in French [ Translate ] . ... 2001/10/27.1 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

... Search . ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects . ... Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. ... The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper belt objects' surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Observation Report From Coyle 07/19/03 . ... Post Message | ... Observation report from Coyle 07/19/03 . ... The background became jet black with the bright ring just floating there in the middle. ... It looked more like a ball. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... These reports are submitted for engineering work accomplished during bright time and maintenance shutdowns. ... 010531: May 2001 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 020102: January 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . 020202: February 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 030101: January 2003 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 040101: January 2004 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 050101: January 2005 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ...

XMM-Newton SAS Scientific Validation and Data . ... the level of accuracy associated with those products The outcome of the SAS science validation for each test dataset is summarized in a report, available along with the dataset. ... The Scientific Validation Report v2.1(.ps.gz) is available for the SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation Preliminary Report . The Preliminary Report (.ps.gz) is still available for SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation SAS v6.0 Scientific Validation . ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

... 88, Jan. 1983, p. 1-15. l. A survey of extragalactic radio sources made using driven declination scans is reported covering an area of about 0.07 sr to a limiting flux density of 35 mJy. The fast-scan survey was carried out at a galactic latitude greater than 17 deg with the NRAO 91-m telescope operating at 4.755 GHz, and the 480 sources detected were reobserved at 1.4 GHz with the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center 305-m telescope at Arecibo. ...

... In August 2009, amateur and professional astronomers reported that the bright star Epsilon Aurigae had begun to lose brightness for the first time in 27 years. ... Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up to monitor the eclipse and have announced that this critical phase ended around New Year s Day 2010. ... Even during the eclipse, the star is so bright that sensitive equipment in professional observatories can have trouble monitoring its brightness in the optical wavelengths. ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...