... Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy . ... Early morning risers around the world have enjoyed the sight of bright planets in this week's predawn skies - further enhanced by the celestial spectacle of the waning crescent Moon. ... Leo A: Nearby Dwarf Irregular Galaxy . ... What are those bright objects in the morning sky? Early morning dog walkers, among many others across our world's Northern Hemisphere, have likely noticed tremendously bright Venus hanging in the eastern sky just before sunrise. ...

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PREDICTING A FINE DISPLAY OF LEONID METEORS . Armagh Observatory, 8 November 1999: . According to calculations by Armagh Observatory astronomer Dr David Asher, the Leonid meteor shower is expected to reach a peak during the early hours of 18th November, with a rate of more than 1000 shooting stars per hour for up to an hour or two either side of 02:00 am. These meteors are produced by dust grains given off by comet Tempel-Tuttle as it orbits the Sun once every 33 years. ...

... 2004 November 14 . Leonids Above Torre de la Guaita . ... Explanation: The 1999 Leonids Meteor Shower came to an impressive crescendo. Observers in Europe observed a sharp peak in the number of meteors visible around 0210 UTC during the early morning hours of November 18. ... Visible are at least five Leonids meteors streaking high above the Torre de la Guaita, an observation tower used during the 12th century in Girona, Spain . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

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The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . ... Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor. Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a homemade telescope. He originally thought he saw three stars near Jupiter, strung out in a line through the planet. ... Galileo's Observations of Jupiter's Moons . ... Jupiter . ...

The Australia Telescope Compact Array ( ATCA ) is a radio interferometer consisting of six 22-m antennae aligned along a 6-km-long, east-west track. ... The ATCA Upgrade , which is part of the Major National Research Facility ( MNRF ) program, will allow astronomers to observe at even higher frequencies, around 22 GHz (12 mm) and 90 GHz (3.5 mm). ... The ATCA Upgrade will open a number of new opportunities; these are set out below. ... The ATCA Upgrade involves the following projects: . ...

Describes how funtools can be integrated into the ds9 Analysis menu. SAOImage/DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application used by astronomers around the world. DS9 can display standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, but also has support for displaying raw array files, shared memory files, and data files automatically retrieved via FTP and HTTP. ... It can be manually loaded into DS9 from the Load Analysis Commands ... option of the Analysis menu. ...

Physics of Solar corona, physics of aurorae, Solar-Terrestrial connections, lithosphere-ionosphere connections. Practical Astrophysics . General Astrophysics . ... N.I.Dzubenko. Heating of the upper atmosphere during auroral and auroral . ... N.I.Dzubenko, V.M.Ivchenko, G.P.Milinevsky. ... N.I.Dzubenko, A.P.Zhilinsky, I.A.Zhulin et. al. ... solar activity cycle by photometric data. ... Kyiv, 1994. 240p. N.I.Dzubenko. The response of aurora to sharp variations of the state of . ...

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! ...

... The aostatus display is an X application and can be run from most any sun or linux box at the ao. The destination X server needs to have TrueType fonts installed. ... Linux displays need to configure themselves for TrueType fonts. ... The sun fonts come already installed. ... All that is needed is the following xset command: xset fp+ /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType Then to run aostatus on the openindows display: /home/aoui/display/solaris/aostatus . ... Here is a screenshot of aostatus. ...

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... How to display images in IRAF using the display task. ... The most general IRAF task for displaying image data is the display task, the best choice for a first look at HST imaging data. ... Display the image with the IRAF display task, using the syntax appropriate for the file format (Chapter 2 explains how to specify GEIS groups and FITS extensions): tv> display fname.c0h [2] 1 (GEIS group 2) . ... If you want to display an image with high dynamic range, you may prefer to use logarithmic scaling. ...

... Many large telescopes will be available on Earth with which to observe the phenomena associated with the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter in visible, infrared, and radio wavelengths. ... The impact site of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. ... Better knowledge of the effects of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter may allow scientists to predict more accurately just how serious could be the results of future impacts of various-sized bodies on Earth. ... 87,500,000,000 . ... 320,000...

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Solar Eruptive Event of 4 November 2001 observed with the SPIRIT Telescope on Board the CORONAS-F Satellite . ... Based on the data of the SPIRIT telescope on board the CORONAS-F satellite in three EUV channels 175, 284, 304 , we have analyzed large-scale manifestations of the post-eruptive so-lar activity followed one of the most considerable and geoeffective coronal mass ejection (CME) in the 23rd cycle which occurred on 4 November 2001. ... Posteruptive arcade on the CORONAS-F/SPIRIT movies at . ...