... M24: A Sagittarius Starscape . ... Credit: Fred Calvert Adam Block , NOAO , AURA , NSF Explanation: Many vast star fields in the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy are rich in clouds of dust, and gas. ... Next huge filaments of dark interstellar dust run across the image and block the light from millions of more stars yet further across our Galaxy . ... A small bright grouping of stars near the image center is the open cluster M18 , while the long bright streak of stars just right of center is M24 . ...

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• APOD: 2002 September 18- A Sagittarius Starscape
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Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about emission nebulae: . ... Explanation: Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas mingle ominously with dark dust lanes in this close-up of IC 1396 , an active star forming region some 2,000 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. ... APOD: 2003 October 22 - The Heart and Soul Nebulas . ... The magnificent emission region, the Orion Nebula (aka M42), lies at the upper right of the picture. ... Index | ...

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• APOD: 2002 September 18- A Sagittarius Starscape
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• APOD: September 21, 1998 - NGC 281: Cluster, Clouds, and Globules

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. ...

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• Detailed view of the Prawn Nebula from ESO's VST | ESO

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk flooded with a torrent of ultraviolet light from hot gas trapped around a suspected massive black hole. ... This composite image of the core of the galaxy was constructed by combining a visible light image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), with a separate image taken in ultraviolet light with the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ... The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. ...

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• APOD: September 5, 1998 - The Pulsar Powered Crab
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... 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 . ...

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• Armagh Observatory

... The Large Magellanic Cloud is a Dwarf Irregular galaxy in orbit around our own Milky Way. It is a large object, several degrees in size, and easily visible to the unaided eye in Southern Hemisphere skies. The LMC is located in the constellation of Doradus at about 5h30m Right Ascension, -68 degrees Declination, and lies at a distance of roughly 50 kiloparsecs (160,000 light years) from Earth. ...

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• The Pleiades
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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... September . ... By admin August 31, 2012 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes , September . ... September is still a great time for gazing upon our home galaxy, the Milky Way and with the longer darker skies we may be able to see more clearly the celestial jewels hidden within it.€а Our first mission is to find the Milky Way galaxy and nicely it is running right over our heads at this time of the year. ...

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• stellar nursery | Astronotes
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• A Summer Night?s Stargazing | Astronotes

The image at left shows the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The rectangular box marks the region probed by NASAтАЩs Hubble Space Telescope (a blend of visible and ultraviolet light). ... The bright area near the center of the image is a grouping of stars nestled around the galaxy's black hole. The blue dots sprinkled throughout the image are ultra-blue stars whose population increases around the crowded hub. The square box shows a close-up view of an area around the core. ...

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... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

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... Tadpole Emission Nebula and the Flaming Star Nebula . The constellation of Auriga harbors the cluster NGC 1893 which contains the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410). ... The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, is the magenta/purplish area and is the reflection portion of this nebulous region. 5nm Narrowband filters; H-alpha: O-III: S-II - 60: 60: 40 minutes x 600-second sub frames, Total= 2-hours 40-minutes, binned 1x1. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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• ATMoB: Christmas Mystery

... Posts tagged ?light curves? ... If you find any problems of viewing the slog, please notify me. ... 2007? ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray...

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• The AstroStat Slog Blog Archive [ArXiv] 3rd Week, Nov. 2007
• A Quasar Primer
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... Image at four different wavelengths of the scattered light from the TW Hya protoplanetary disk. The images come from the Hubble Space Telescope Instruments (upper left) STIS--visible, (upper right) NICMOS--1.1 micron, (lower left) NICMOS--1.7 micron, and (lower right) NICMOS--2.2 micron. The images are scaled by the distance in the disk from the star squared to highlight a gap observed halfway out in the disk. ... Scattered Light Images of Young Circumstellar Disks . ...

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• GRB 000301C
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... Operating at a wavelength of 10 ?m, it produces a 135њx135њ image with a resolution of 0.9њ. ... The clouds move from the west-southwest. ... At the same time as the IR images, visible light images were taken with an Apple Computer QuickTake electronic camera. ... At 1540 MDT, the large central cloud is visible in both images. At 1544 MDT, a distinctive cloud is apparent near the center in the visible image and right of center in the IR. The performance of the SDSS cloud scanner is excellent. ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Lapping up the Milky Way . ... The Milky Way is an average-sized spiral galaxy, one of about 100 billion islands of stars in the universe. ... Thomas Wright in 1750 and Immanuel Kant in 1755 suggested that the band of light we see is a flattened disc of stars. ... This really depends on your location and sky conditions, but generally you'll see the Milky Way stretched as a band between the northeastern and southwestern horizons. ...

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• ASP: There's More to Light Than Meets the Eye
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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Q and BA
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You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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• Observation Report From Coyle 07/19/03 - an Astronomy Net Observation_reports
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• Yea Right - an Astronomy Net God Science Forum Message

... Three day radio-astronomical forecast of the proton activity of the Sun: The figure shows multiwave radio emission scans - graphs of the distribution of intensity I and circular polarization V across the solar disk, obtained at RATAN-600. ... According to this criterion, for a proton flare to arise, the flux of radio emission must be sufficiently high at short wavelengths (blue color scans) and should increase with time compared to the general intensity. ... More about the solar activity . ...

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• Detection of unique bright radio flare of X-ray binary
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• Galaxy sector, archive 2014

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. ...

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• The Galaxy Gallery Page 6: Comparative Morphology
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... How is it described Origins of polarized light How is it important to astrophysics How is it measured 3 Polarized waves: linear 4 Thursday , 30 September 2010 Polarized waves: linear 4 Thursday , 30 September 2010 ... at any angle 5 Thursday , 30 September 2010 or Circular - LCP, RCP Right 6 Thursday , 30 September 2010 or Circular - LCP, RCP Right 6 Thursday , 30 ... Sky light is polarized, maximally at 90 degrees to the sun. ...

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• Australia Telescope National Facility
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... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

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• UHTC Coatings: Ultra High Transmission Coatings, Special Coatings, Telescopes,
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