A Nova In Aquila . ... Credit Copyright: Till Credner Explanation: On December 1st , experienced observers patroling the night sky with binoculars noticed what seemed to be a new star in the constellation of Aquila (The Eagle) . It wasn't really a new star though. ... This "new star" appears to be a classical nova . Classical novae are thought to be interacting binary star systems in which one of the pair is a dense, hot white dwarf. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... December 15, 1999 . A Nova In Aquila . ... Explanation: On December 1st , experienced observers patroling the night sky with binoculars noticed what seemed to be a new star in the constellation of Aquila (The Eagle) . It wasn't really a new star though. ... This "new star" appears to be a classical nova . Classical novae are thought to be interacting binary star systems in which one of the pair is a dense, hot white dwarf. ... About APOD > . ...

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... In order for FOS to have observed a target, that target must, naturally, have been located in the instrument aperture. ... An FOS Onboard target acquisition: Used either a Binary Acquisition (ACQ/BINARY), a Peakup or Peakdown (ACQ/PEAK), an interactive acquisition (INT ACQ), an early FOS Image (ACQ) or a firmware acquisitions (ACQ/FIRMWARE). ... The overwhelming majority of FOS target acquisitions used the onboard acquisition modes ACQ/BINARY and ACQ/PEAK. ... High wavelength accuracy. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit–їs . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d–їcrypt–їes pour vous . ... Accueil –А observer : V–їnus, Spica et des –їtoiles filantes . ... Surveillez aussi les –їtoiles filantes . Lorsque le ciel devient sombre, il se peut que quelques m–їt–їores z–Rbrent le ciel, car c'est actuellement le pic d'activit–ї de l'essaim d'–їtoiles filantes des Aurigides . ... 08/08/2013 - Les Nuits des –їtoiles 2013 : cвАЩest parti ! ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... meteors impacting the Earth's upper . ... The Armagh Observatory is opening its doors on Monday 13th December for an evening of meteor observing to capture the Geminid meteor shower. ... They may be seen at any time during the period 7-17 December, appearing to come from a point in the sky known as the radiant, located near the two bright stars called the "twins", Castor and Pollux, in the constellation of Gemini. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS01 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW), Doug Branton (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Undetermined Pre-MAP students ... In addition, since typical white dwarfs are roughly Earth-sized, the transit of an Earth-sized planet can cause changes in brightness on the order of several tens of percent for durations on the order of one minute (Agol 2011). ...

... J. Brand, M. Felli, R. Cesaroni, C. Codella, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, F. Massi, L. Moscadelli, R. Nesti, L. Olmi, F. Palagi, F. Palla, D. Panella, R. Valdettaro . 2007, IAU Symposium 242, p. 223 . ... 2007, ApJ, in press . ... Murphy, G. C., Lery, T., O'Sullivan, S., Spicer, D., Bacciotti, F., Rosen, A. 2007, A , in press . ... Rubini, F., Lorusso, S., Del Zanna, L., Bacciotti, F. 2007, A , in press . ... Coffey, D., Bacciotti, F., Ray, T.P., Eisloeffel, J., Woitas, J. 2007, ApJ, in press . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . December . ... Would anyone turn down a good firework show in December? ... The Geminids meteor shower should then emerge in all its glory in the east in the constellation GeminiтАЩs patch of sky on the evening of the 13 th and early morning of the 14 th of December, with the last shooting stars visible up until the 18 th December and approximately one meteor per hour on display at that stage. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... Microstep (pattern) - a pattern of exposures at positions each shifted by a very small movement (<3 arcsec) from the reference position. ... A microstep pattern can be contained within each position of a jitter pattern. Jitter (pattern) - a pattern of exposures at positions each shifted by a small movement (<30 arcsec) from the reference position. ... Making a tile: Ysteps ; . ... Resulting Exposure time map for a filled tile of 6 pawprints (no jittering). ...

... An OBJECT column gives the name of the object observed (usually a star name). ... In critical cases, it is common practice to measure sky on two or more positions around a target object, and these positions must be identified. ... A general treatment of this problem requires a column called OBJECT, bearing the usual name of the object (as in the star tables); a column labelled STARSKY, to distinguish between star+sky, star alone, or sky alone; and additional columns to identify the sky position. ...

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... Click on an object in the solar system or choose from the list at left to learn more . The Arecibo Observatory planetary radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth objects. ... The Solar System Studies group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). ...

... Science Users Information Future Facilities and Development E-ELT jump to navigation jump to content . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... In December 2012 ESO Council fully approved the E-ELT Programme ( more , more , even more , still more ). ... In December 2014 ESO Council approved the construction of the E-ELT in two phases, and authorised spending on Phase 1 . ... 15 Jan 2012] Announcement of the E-ELT Workshop "Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation" , 25 February 01 March 2013 . ...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 18.06.2013 . ... J142023.5-485540. ... MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 относится к редкому подклассу . ... Астронома ATel #5144: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5144 . ... The brightest MASTER's dwarf nova discovered in Argentina! ... astronomical object - dwarf nova MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 in Lupus . ... record (12.6m) belonged to the dwarf nova in Perseus MASTER . ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...