M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... Credit: Shay Stephens Explanation: Is the Moon larger when near the horizon? No -- as shown above, the Moon appears to be very nearly the same size no matter its location on the sky. ... In the above time-lapse sequence taken near the end of 2001, the Moon was briefly re-imaged every 2.5 minutes, with the last exposure of longer duration to bring up a magnificent panorama of the city of Seattle . ... Publications with keywords: Moon - angular size . ... Apogee Moon, Perigee Moon . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... This chapter documents all the JavaScript objects, along with their methods and properties. ... Full entries for each object appear in alphabetical order; properties and functions not associated with any object appear in Chapter 2, "Top-Level Properties and Functions." ... Tables included in the description of each object summarize the object's methods and properties. Full entries for an object's methods and properties appear in alphabetical order after the object's entry. ...

... September 28, 1999 . Mystery Object Explained . ... The so-called mystery object appeared star-like but displayed colors unlike most stars or quasars . Further investigation has now revealed the object to be a Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasar , a relatively rare type of active center of a distant galaxy. Different atoms and molecules in the absorbing gas surrounding the BAL quasar 's center probably cause the unusual colors. ... About APOD > . ...

... The 209 candidates were selected from our first and second priority samples introduced in Paper IV. Of 169 first priority candidates, 141 objects appeared in our list as new ones. 28 objects were listed in the NED as galaxies or objects from various catalogs with known redshifts and some of them already had information on emission lines in earlier publications. ... The ``random selected sample'' was created to access the fraction of BCGs in the second priority list and contains 43 objects. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Accidental Astrophysics: The Devil's In the Magnitudes, Part II . ... The star second to the Sun in brilliance is Sirius. ... Recall the magnitude system, passed down to us through a hundred generations of sky watchers, as a means of quantifying stellar brightness ("Accidental Astrophysics," May/June, p. 9). ... Yes, it is a magnitude difference, but that difference is due to the distance between us and the star. ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... Deep Space Object Galaxy Near M13 . ... Can anyone tell me if there is a DSO (likely a galaxy) near M13? ... The reason it interests me is that I drew a sketch of M13 years and years ago while observing - and that object is one of the handful of 'stars' that I drew. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 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. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... we invite you to submit papers based on your plenary, review or contributed talks or posters presented at the conference "Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today" to its Proceedings to be published by Armenian Academy of Science in 2016. Please note that participants who prepare the regular papers for the special issue of JQSRT on radiative transfer, etc. are also invited to submit papers to the Proceedings. ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

Next: ZGSC (Compressed GSC) and XSKYMAP . ... This is a preliminary report on an investigation of the quality and properties of plates digitized during creation of the Guide Star Catalog (GSC). The results will be vital for reclassifying GSC objects. ... Many objects are measured on more than one plate, and thus have multiple catalog entries. ... Among the shortcomings of the GSC are: biased magnitudes and incorrect classifications for certain objects, presence of artifact objects. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Real Time Follow-up of Transient Objects From PESSTO . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... The Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects ( PESSTO ) provides high-quality, time series optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of optical transients covering a broad range of luminosity, host metallicity and explosion mechanisms. ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

... 2015: . Explanation of the Origin of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources . Using optical spectroscopy, we revealed the origin of unusual objects: ultraluminous X-ray sources in other galaxies, which radiate in the X-ray range thousands times stronger than the black holes in our Galaxy. ... Detection of Radio Transients and Variable Radio Sources using the Archive Data of the Cold Surveys . ... O.Zhelenkova ), E.Majorova, A.Temirova . ... E.Majorova, O.Zhelenkova. ... Archive . ...

... Since the reddening found for the stars in Table 13 was small, no reddening correction was attempted. ... These diamonds indicate the positions of very low mass, 3 Myr old, objects from the work of Burrows et al. ... This optical V versus R - I scheme is a very powerful method of detecting very low mass (VLM) objects. ... Because of this, young brown dwarfs are intrinsically no more difficult to observe in the optical than low mass stars at the age of Orionis. ...

... NED Home . ... Number of Essential Note) RA DEC Type km/s z Qual arcmin Refs Notes Phot Posn Vel/z Assoc Imag 8 30000 1.302000 .. 17 0 7 3 0 0 Retrieve 22 30000 1.469000 .. ... 51 6 14 2 0 0 Retrieve 131 30000 1.238000 .. ... 14 4 6 3 0 0 Retrieve 330 30000 1.760000 .. ... 15 2 6 3 0 0 Retrieve 552 30000 1.779000 .. ... 131 4 27 5 0 1 Retrieve 561 30000 1.500000 PHOT .. ... 143 5 36 5 0 0 Retrieve 572 30000 1.401000 .. ... 15 0 4 1 0 0 Retrieve 650 30000 1.760000 .. ... Back to NED Home ...

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...