... Credit: STSci Digitized Sky Survey, Anglo-Australian Observatory Explanation: The closest star system to the Sun is the Alpha Centauri system . ... The bright stars Alpha Centauri A and B form a close binary as they are separated by only 23 times the Earth - Sun distance - slightly greater than the distance between Uranus and the Sun . ... Alpha Centauri A, also known as Rigil Kentaurus , is the brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus and is the fourth brightest star in the night sky. ...

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... 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. ...

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... 2003 March 23 . Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System . ... Explanation: The closest star system to the Sun is the Alpha Centauri system . ... The bright stars Alpha Centauri A and B form a close binary as they are separated by only 23 times the Earth- Sun distance - slightly greater than the distance between Uranus and the Sun . ... By an exciting coincidence, Alpha Centauri A is the same type of star as our Sun , causing many to speculate that it might contain planets that harbor life. ...

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... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... August 24, 2005 . ... That says Mars will be closer to the Earth on August 27th than it has in 5000 years, and it may be 2267 until it gets this big again? ... Mars won't be closest in August, it won't be as big as the full Moon, and it was actually closer back in 2003. ... It's a near-exact duplicate of an email sent around the internets back in 2003, August 2003 , to be exact, when Mars really did have a close apparition with the Earth. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

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... Extended Narrow-line Emission in the Bright Seyfert 1.5 Galaxy HE 2211-3903 Scharw chter, J. , Dopita, M.A., Zuther, J., Fischer, S., Komossa, S., Eckart, A. 2011, AJ, v. 142, Issue 2, August 2011, pp. ... The nearby QSO host I Zw 1: the stellar disk and adjacent objects Scharw chter, J. , Eckart, A., Pfalzner, S., Saviane, I., Zuther, J. 2007, A , v. 469, Issue 3, July III 2007, pp. ... Krips, M., Eckart, A., Neri, R., Zuther, J., Downes, D. Scharw chter, J. 2005, A , v. 439, Issue 1, pp. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11 June 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks will provide an interesting opportunity to observe the brightest planet, Venus, and the largest planet, Jupiter, as they move towards one another in the evening twilight. ... The image shows the sky view towards the West at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. ... Professor Mark E. Bailey, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG. ...

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MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

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... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #10: August 2008 . ... APEX . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 83 (1 April 2009 - 30 September 2009) has been released. ... The full Call for Proposals and the ESOFORM electronic submission package can be obtained at http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/index.html ....

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... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Launch of Dnepr LV carrying Sich-2 and BPA-2 (State Space Agency of Ukraine), Nigeriasat-2 and Nigeriasat-X (SSTL, Great Britain), RASAT (Space Research Technology Institute of Turkey (TUBITAK UZAY)), EDUSAT (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Aprizesat-5 and Aprizesat-6 (SpaceQuest, USA) payloads is scheduled for 17 August 2011, at 10:12:20 decreed Moscow time (7:12:20 UTC). ...

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... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

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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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Cameras, PwrMeter,and MultiMeter rfi August 27, 1999 5 FIGURE 3: Power meter birdie with door closed. Fri Aug 27 23:17:58 1999 phil Cameras, PwrMeter,and MultiMeter rfi August 27, 1999 4 FIGURE 2. ... Fri Aug 27 23:14:06 1999 phil Cameras, PwrMeter,and MultiMeter rfi August 27, 1999 3 FIGURE 1. 5aug99 doors open, turning various devices on/off. Thu Aug 26 18:04:22 1999 phil Cameras, PwrMeter,and MultiMeter rfi August 27, 1999 2 turned off and the integration continued for 6 more minutes. ...

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COS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Cosmic Origins SpectrographInstrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 10: Bright-Object Protection > 10.7 On-Orbit Protection Procedures . ... Should an overly bright object be observed with COS, on-board software will typically act to protect the instrument from damage. ... If the local rate limit is exceeded, the COS flight software closes the external shutter and all subsequent exposures until the next grating change or target acquisition are lost. ...

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... Additional training . ... TU-154 landed on Smyshlyaevka airfield for the first time of its history. ... This plane TU-154 should complete its aviation life as a training tool for students of Samara Aerospace University. ... Ruben Yesayan is the aircraft commander. ... But no one believes that this bright and brave man - Ruben Yesayan again will not sit at the wheel of Samara TU-154 his own favourite aircraft - as he admitted himself. Transportation of the plane on SSAU training airfield is ahead. ...

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The form on this Web page allows specifying a celestial position for which the full 4x4 degree NVSS FITS image is desired. ... Other services of the NVSS survey include: . ... NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS or jpeg file) server . direct ftp to NVSS 4x4 deg. FITS image and documentation server . NVSS source catalog and software ftp server - but please note that you will need to schedule an overnight job for a quiet time slot to download the 150Mb CATALOG.FIT file to avoid timeouts etc. ...

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... Meta Index / Home Page / Source Flagging Algorithms Any source either having a raw count-rate >= 80, or with quality flag bit 4 set (mod-8 pattern) is checked for "close" neighbours, which may be flagged. ... Check each source in the vicinity of the bright source . ... Compute the maximum distance for flagging the source from maxRad = max(exclusionradius, min(70.0, 35.0 * countTable(i) // 80.0) ) If the flagging is done by omdetect, the exclusion radius is determined from the algorithm at the end . ...

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... This Announcement contains detailed information on organizational items, scientific and cultural program of Odessa session GMIC-99. ... 8.00- 23.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa"(Arcadia region, GAGARIN plateau, 5). ... 8.00- 13.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa". 10.00-12.00 Program Committee session and press conference dedicated to GMIC-99 (Odessa Scientists' House). ... 9.00- 11.00 Plenary session. ... 13.00- 14.00 Lunch. ...

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