... Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. ... McNaught Now Brightest Comet in Decades . ... The most optimistic predictions have Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) shortly becoming one of the brightest comets of the past century. ... This common question frequently precedes the rediscovery of one of the most commonly recognized configurations of stars on the northern sky: the Big Dipper. ...

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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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) on 2012 August 9th. ... A new comet, called C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS), is expected to become visible for a few weeks from approximately 10th March in the western sky after sunset. The comet has come from the Oort cloud, which comprises a vast swarm of comets surrounding the solar system and extending more than halfway to the nearest star, that is more than two light years from the Sun. ...

... 2000 August 18 . X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies . ... CXC , SAO , NASA . Explanation: A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory . ... The exploding stars litter the scene with bubbles of shocked hot gas and collapsed stellar cores . ... Tomorrow's picture: X-ray Sky . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... To locate it, look along the imaginary line between the two end stars on the leading edge of the PloughтАЩs blade (Merak and Dubhe) and Polaris (the North Star), the galaxy M82 (also known as the Cigar Galaxy) along with its companion M81, lies just off this line about a third of the way between the Plough and Polaris. €а€аAs usual, the supernova is far brighter than its home galaxy, appearing as an extra star. ...

... The (very) slow rotation of magnetic Ap stars. ... Magnetic stars in young clusters and associations. ... Magnetic fields in low-mass stars from high-resolution infrared spectroscopy. ... Magnetic field measurements of late B-type starss. ... Measurement of magnetic field of FK Com. ... Magnetic field of white dwarfs. ... The magnetic star evolution project (teleconference). ... Conference-2014 . Program . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of RAS . ...

Kholtygin A., Brown J., Fabrika S., Surkov A. Magnetic field connected fast line profile variability in spectra of bright O supergiants . ... Conference, held in the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian AS, August 27-31, 2003, Eds.: Yu. ... Results of a study of fast line profile variability ( lpv ) in spectra of selected bright O-stars are reported. ... In the context of testing the MCWS model a program of searching for weak magnetic fields in bright O and early B stars is outlined. ...

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... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... Total solar eclipse 2008 live from Novosibirsk On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse was being visible in Russia. ... The solar eclipse in Novosibirsk started at 9h41m UT and finished at 11h45m UT. ... Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS eclipse expedition team made 3 channels live Web-cast of the eclipse from Novosibirsk in collaboration with . ... Total phase . ... It's preferably to install on computer VLC media player free program for Web-cast live receiving. ...

... Using a simple 2-D Gaussian Point Spread Function (PSF) on a constant (flat) sky background, I derive a theoretical photometric and astrometric performance model for analytical and digital PSF-fitting stellar photometry. ... The photometric performance is maximized when either the effective background area or the effective-background-level measurement error is minimized. ... An important, but frequently ignored, noise source is the uncertainty of the measurement of the effective background level ( )...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 . GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)? (http://eros NULL .usgs NULL .gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info) . ... You are currently browsing the Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии blog archives for August, 2012. ... Наши публикации . ... Публикации за 2010 . Публикации за 2011 . ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . ...

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OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

... A bright flare-up of emission (>1000 Jy) was found in OH-maser source during tests of 18cm receiver in observations with Kalyazin 64-m radio telescope (August 2004). ... Appendix (The list of used acronyms) ASC Cold Plate DC Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Instutute cooled LNAs and antenna feed hermetic device container (part of payload ); it contains Formatter, Rb oscillators, synthesizer, control unit and is placed under dish DM Device Module = DC + H-maser EGSE ...

... Первый полет выполнил в 1912 году. 20-21 июня 1926 года на борту воздушного шара Гельвеция (Helvetia) поднялся на высоту 4 500 метров. К маю 1931 года выполнил уже 12 полетов. 27 мая 1931 года вместе с Паулем Кипфером совершил первый в мире полет в стратосферу на высоту 15 781 метров на стратостате FNRS-1 (первый полет этого стратостата). 18 августа 1932 года вместе с Максом Козинсом совершил полет в стратосферу на высоту 16 201 метров на стратостате FNRS-1 (второй полет этого стратостата). ...

THE 7-TH G. GAMOW'S ODESSA ASTRONOMICAL SUMMER SCHOOL «Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Radioastronomy, Cosmology and Astrobiology» (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka,7-12 August, 2007) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Tuesday, August 7 ­ 5.11, ­ 5.45, ­ 20.20 , ­ 20.55 THE DAY OF ARRIVAL 8.00-22.00. ... OPENING SUMMER SCHOOL MEMORIAL: Lection 1 10.00-10.20. ... LUNCH AND SEA COAST WALK AFTERNOON LECTURE: Cosmology: Lection 6 15.00-15.45. ... HOT COFFEE AND COLD WATER BREAK AFTERNOON SESSION: Cosmology: 17.00-17.20. ...

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