... The unusual geometry of this stellar nebula creates somewhat of a mystery. At the nebula's center is a young binary star system that probably created the nebula, but how? ... M16: Dust and an Open Cluster . ... Comet Hale-Bopp Update . ... Will comet Hale-Bopp become the brightest comet of the Century in early 1997? ... It is an emission nebula surrounding a cluster of hot, young stars called the 30 Doradus super cluster. Aurora Astern . ... The aurora, also known.. ... A Total Solar Eclipse . ...

... 2014 October 8 . NGC 6823: Cloud Sculpting Star Cluster . ... Explanation: Star cluster NGC 6823 is slowly turning gas clouds into stars. ... Some outer parts of the cluster, visible in the featured image 's center as the stars and pillars of emission nebula NGC 6820 , contain even younger stars. ... Open star cluster NGC 6823 spans about 50 light years and lies about 6000 light years away toward the constellation of the Fox ( Vulpecula ). APOD Wall Calendar: Nebulas and Star Clusters . ...

... October 18, 1999 . NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 3603 is home to a massive star cluster, thick dust pillars, and a star about to explode . The central open cluster contains about 2000 bright stars, each of which is much brighter and more massive than our Sun . ... These stars are less massive than our Sun, demonstrating that great numbers of low-mass stars also form in active starburst regions . ... About APOD > . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

There will be a total lunar eclipse during the morning of Thursday 28th October. The Moon will enter the faint penumbral shadow cast by the Earth at 1.06 am, and the partial eclipse phase will begin at 2.14 am. ... However, during such an eclipse, the Moon usually remains visible because some sunlight passing through the Earth's atmosphere is refracted in the direction of the Moon. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John McFarland at the Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DG. ...

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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. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions for Cycle 20 > Chapter 3: Fixed and Generic Targets > 3.3 Target Category and Target Description [Description] . ... Each target must be assigned a single primary category from Table 3.2 , and at least one descriptive keyword , chosen from the appropriate Table 3.3 through Table 3.9 (see Table 3.2 for which table is appropriate for each category). ... Table 3.3: Descriptive Keywords for STAR and EXT-STAR . ... Table 3.6: Descriptive Keywords for CLUSTER OF GALAXIES...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... October 2007 . ... Use this software and your Meade telescope to observe all the objects from listed in Astronomy 's October 2007 issue. by Robert Reeves . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...

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. ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... The R , I photometric observations of SBS 0335-052W were obtained occasionally during the study of SBS 0335-052 with the 3.5m telescope in Calar Alto on 1991 October 6. ... Aperture photometry was performed on the standard star observations using MAGNITUDE/CIRCLE task with the same aperture for all stars. ... For photometry of extended objects, we used the package SURFPHOT as well as dedicated software for adaptive filtering developed at the Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam (Lorenz et al. ...

... 12 Oct 02 2006 1.9 Jan 26 2006 8 CB,CS,R=F. R=G, SMALL, TIGHT, BRIGHT NGC 1912 M38 17mmAT 2012 M.M . Open Cluster 8.0 II 2 r CL,B,VL,VRI,IF,STL$S Mar 16 2012 18 Mar 01 2011 12 Mar 08 2010 12 Dec 16 2009 12 Mar 20 2009 16 Mar 17 2007 1.9 17mmAT M.M . 2011 - MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES M.M . 2010 MANUAL SETTING CIRCLES 26mm 20mmUW MESSIER MARATHON - 2009 26mm ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 1, 2010 | ... Before the modern era of technological astronomy, to know anything [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments In, say 1975, there was only one kind of ?stuff? in the Universe, matter made of protons and neutrons. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The next step up are true clusters, called open clusters . Open clusters (sometimes misleadingly called "galactic clusters") are groups of stars ranging in size from a few dozen stars up to tens of thousands. ... The youngest is about 1 or 2 million years old, while the oldest is about 6 or 7 billion years, making it just older than our own solar system. ... So by looking at the stars in the cluster we can tell pretty well how old they are. ...