... Emission and Reflection in NGC 6559 . ... Credit: Robert Gendler Explanation: Bright gas and dark dust permeate the space between stars in a nebula known as NGC 6559 . ... Small dust particles reflect blue starlight efficiently and so creates the blue reflection nebulosity seen near two of the bright stars. ... Publications with keywords: reflection nebula - emission nebula - NGC 6559 . Publications with words: reflection nebula - emission nebula - NGC 6559 . ... Emission Nebula IC 1396 . ...

... 2001 October 23 . Emission and Reflection in NGC 6559 . ... Explanation: Bright gas and dark dust permeate the space between stars in a nebula known as NGC 6559 . ... As energetic light from neighboring stars ionizes interstellar hydrogen , protons and electrons recombine to emit light of very specific colors , including the red hue observed. Small dust particles reflect blue starlight efficiently and so creates the blue reflection nebulosity seen near two of the bright stars. ... About APOD | ...

... October 9, 1997 . Hale-Bopp and the North American Nebula . ... Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp 's recent encounter with the inner Solar System allowed many breath-taking pictures. Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on March 8th in the constellation of Cygnus . ... The North American Nebula is about 1500 light years away, much farther than the comet, which was about 8 light minutes away. ... About APOD > . ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

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 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

... 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) ...

... 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....

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Bright-Lights, Big-City, Overcast Survival Guide . ... The total number of cloudy and partly cloudy days per year is, on average, 294. ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our bi-monthly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 6 issues a year. home | ...

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. ...

Program Number . ... Esther M. Hu, University of Hawaii . Near Infrared Observations of a Sample of z~6.5-6.7 Galaxies . Abstract . ... Panchromatic WFC3 survey of galaxies at intermediate z: Early Release Science program for Wide Field Camera 3. ... HST/ACS images of part of the GOODS field . ... The present program will build on these observations by using Wide-Field Camera 3 to obtain ultraviolet and near-infrared imaging, and grism spectroscopy, covering ~30% of the GOODS (South) field. ...

... MNRAS, 327, 46-54 (2001). ... MNRAS, 326, 805-820 (2001). ... 139-140 (2001). ... MNRAS, 326, 358-374 (2001). ... FREIRE, P.C., CAMILO, F., LORIMER, D.R., LYNE, A.G., MANCHESTER, R.N. & D'AMICO, N. "Timing the millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae". MNRAS, 326, 901-915 (2001). ... TAKAHASHI, M., SHIBATA, S., TORII, K., SAITO, Y., KAWAI, N., HIRAYAMA, M., DOTANI, T., GUNJI, S., SAKURAI, H., STAIRS, I. & MANCHESTER, R.N. "Pulsed X-ray emission from the fastest millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21 with ASCA". ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... October . ... Posted on October 1, 2010 | 4 Comments What is light? ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 28, 2010 | 1 Comment Who am I? I?m Colin Johnston, Armagh Planetarium?s Science Education Director. ... No Comments Armagh Planetarium is the oldest functioning planetarium in the UK. ... Copyright Armagh Planetarium 2014 All Rights Reserved. ...

... Meade Series 4000 Nebular Filters incorporate the very latest in interference coatings technology. ... Technical Basis of the Meade Broadband Nebular Filter: As shown in the transmission graph below, the Meade Broadband Nebular Filter strongly rejects the light of sodium- and mercury-vapor lights as well as natural airglow and auroral emissions. ... Meade Series 4000 Narrowband Nebular Filters . ... Meade Series 4000 Oxygen-III Nebular Filters . ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters . ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe . Articles | ... Learning about the universe, or the study of astronomy, can be fun for the individual or for the whole family. ... Learning a few simple terms will help you with this fascinating study. ... You will use a telescope or binoculars for your observation of the sky at night. ... Celestial Terms . ... Meteor or a shooting star – the light caused when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

The pupil mirror array for NIFS was successfully manufactured in early October 2001 by Labor fuer Mikrozerspanung (LFM) of the University of Bremen. The monolithic array of 29 toroidal mirrors are diamond machined in an aluminum bar. ... White light interferometric image of the central element of the pupil mirror array. Pupil mirror array. Pupil mirror array in it storage container. ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

... 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). ...