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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Posted on May 31, 2011 | 324 Comments Comet Elenin is coming!WeтАЩre doomed!That is if you believe everything you see on the internet.Comet EleninтАЩs approach has been all but ignored by the mainstream media, and into this vacuum [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... No Comments What can you see in the March 2011 night sky? ... 9 Comments To observers on Earth, the great bull of Taurus has a fiery red eye. ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

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... 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....

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... GRO J165540: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole . ... In the center of a swirling whirlpool of hot gas is likely a beast that has never been seen directly: a black hole. ... Big Beautiful Saturn . ... As a present to APOD readers, digital imager Mattias Malmer offers a very high resolution view of big beautiful Saturn. ... Titan Disguised . ... In the next few days, the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn will release a probe that will descend toward Saturn's largest moon in mid-January. ...

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... Posts tagged ?CLT? Dec 3rd, 2008| 12:31 am | Posted by hlee . Almost two year long scrutinizing some publications by astronomers gave me enough impression that astronomers live in the Gaussian world. ... Continue reading ?Borel Cantelli Lemma for the Gaussian World? ... Category: arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Jargon , News , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | ... Sep 10th, 2008| 10:15 am | ... Continue reading ?Why Gaussianity?? ... 2008? ... Category: arXiv | ...

... ESO Science Newsletter September 2014 . 22 Sep 2014 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... All data are publicly available through the MUSE SV webpage . ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 19тАУ22 January 2015 . ... Upcoming ESO or ESO-Related Workshops . ... You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the ESO Science Newsletter. ...

You don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. You can see much of it from your own back yard. ... If you enjoyed The Nine Planets , go outside and take a look at what you just read about. ... Touring the Universe through Binoculars . ... Refer to Sky & Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever: . ... William Herschel . ...

... a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... During magnetic storms, the glow may move southwards, and on occasion it can be seen in much of the US. ... A similar phenomenon is also seen in southern polar regions. ... 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. ... The green light of the aurora puzzled scientists for many years, since it fit no known...

... 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. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

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Lessons Learned By One Old Timer Authors: Peter Bealo and Charlie McDonald Project Astro-Boston and the Amateur T elescope Makers of Boston I've been an amateur astronomer for over 25 years now, having been bitten by the bug the first time I viewed Saturn at a public star party. By the time I was 15 I too had begun participating in public star parties with my local astronomy club. ... If its a multi-class star party, involve the PTA from the start, they can help with refreshments, etc. ...

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... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

Marc White . ... Turbulent entrainment processes may play an important role in the outflows from young stellar objects at all stages of their evolution. In particular, lateral entrainment of ambient material by high-velocity, well-collimated protostellar jets may be the cause of the multiple emission-line velocity components observed in the microjet-scale outflows driven by classical T Tauri stars. ... University of Amsterdam; STARPLAN, Copenhagen, Jul 2013 . ... E marc.white@anu.edu.au . ...