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... Home Observing Charles Dana Discovery Center, Central Park . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Charles Dana Discovery Center . ... 6:30тАУ8:00 p.m. The Charles Dana Discovery Center is just inside Central Park, near 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth avenues ( map ). ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . ... Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor. Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a homemade telescope. He originally thought he saw three stars near Jupiter, strung out in a line through the planet. ... Galileo's Observations of Jupiter's Moons . ... Jupiter . ...

... Southern . ... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Using a robust method to identify Pre-Main Sequence (PMS) stars through their photometric excess in the Hн± band, we have recently studied the star formation history in several star burst clusters in the Galaxy, Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... A galaxy is born: This artist's impression shows a young galaxy, about two billion years after the Big Bang, accreting material from the surrounding hydrogen and helium gas and forming many young stars. ... Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have observed another process which helped primordial galaxies grow. ...

... A wordlwide network of amateur and professional astronomers record and time the mutual eclipses and occultations of the Galilean satellites as accurately as possible. ... Already, the acceleration of Io is evident in the data and continued monitoring through this coming season will help pin down the acceleration of the other three satellites. ... From Dr Apostolos Christou, Armagh Observatory: . ... If you want to know the observing times from your location get it by filling in this form . ...

Visual Discovery of SN 1996bk in NGC 5308. ... Of course we are pleased when we make a discovery, but visually observing galaxies is our real pleasure; supernovae may be the "rational" motive to look at a galaxy. ... Back to science.. ... Some 30,000 observations in four years on a programme of 600 to 800 galaxies (priority is given to the northern ones) have produced two official supernovae, one in 1995 and this one. ... We would like to thank the amateurs directly involved in confirming 1996bk. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/2012/SCCSV/Slide1.jpg" width="860px"> . ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... N eptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25 1989. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... Neptune's winds blew the Great Dark Spot westward at 300 meters/second (700 mph). ... L ike Uranus and Jupiter, Neptune's rings are very dark but their composition is unknown. ... Neptune's Ring System . ... Uranus .. ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...

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T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

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... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

... The March 3rd total lunar eclipse was widely viewed by denizens of planet Earth. But only a day before, well placed observers could also watch a lunar occultation of Saturn as the planet passed behind the nearly Full Moon. ... This was just the experience of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached and flew by Jupiter earlier this year. ... A red Moon rose over Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA on March 3rd, immersed in Earth's shadow near the total phase of a lunar eclipse. ...

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