More about Handling Difficult Questions (and Difficult People) . ... Role-playing exercises can be an excellent way for you and your club members to share effective ways to interact with the public in difficult situations. ... Plan to allow 20 minutes for each scenario -- 5 minutes for the role-playing and 15 minutes for a discussion. ... Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Sadly C/ 2014 Q2 will probably not be as spectacular a sight as Comet C/ 2011 W3 (Lovejoy), visible near Earth?s horizon in this nighttime image from the International Space Station on 22 December 2011. ... The comet made its closest approach to Earth on 7€а January 2015, at a distance of 72 million km (45 million miles).€а In January the comet will race though the constellations Eridanus, Taurus, Aries and Triangulum. ...

List of Amateurs Discoverers of SNe. The following list shows amateurs who have discovered or co-discovered a supernova . ... For each discoverer we indicate the number of supernovae found, the number of co-discoveries (i.e., shared with other observers), the method used (V=visual, P=photographic and C=ccd), the first and last years of his discoveries and country of origin. ... DISCOVERER NAME . No.SNe . ... U.S.A. Evans . ... 1996-01 . ... Japan . ... Italy . ... 1994-98 . ... 2001 . ...

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... You are here: start €Ё lbaops €Ё lbanov2006 €Ё v189a . Trace: тАв v189a . VLBI Schedule . ... Observer's Wiki . ... lbaops:lbanov2006:v189a . ... Channel 1 . DAS #1 IFP#1-LO 1634 - 1650 MHz USB RCP . ... DAS #1 IFP#2-LO 1634 - 1650 MHz USB LCP . ... Ftp: ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/people/vlbi/v189/v189a . ... Tid only has LCP at 1.6 GHz and should set up to record 4 channels of LCP at 256 Mbps using the vsop profile on the DAS , matched to the 4 channel frequencies given in the table. ...

... M51 plus Supernova 2011dh . This image of the Whirlpool galaxy M51 and the supernova 2011dh was taken at the Clubhouse after the Friday evening "Introduction to Astronomy DVD class". ... The type IIP supernova was discovered on May 30-31 by Amedee Riou and credit given to Tom Reiland, Amedee Riou, Thomas Griga, and Stephane Lamotte Bailey. 16 images x 240-seconds subframe, Total= 1 hr. 4 minutes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Major news, from Terry Moseley: "Irish amateur astronomer Dave McDonald has just discovered an asteroid - the first one to be discovered in Ireland for 160 years! ... He said to me afterwards "Now I'll just have to discover one myself!" ... The only other asteroid ever discovered in Ireland was 9 Metis, by Andrew Graham at Markree Observatory in Co Sligo, on 25 April 1848. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... INSTRUMENT: SurveyCam FILTERS: Stromgren uvby, 2" square COMMENTS: remote observations are expected BRIEF SCIENCE JUSTIFICATION: Last decade numerous faint structures at the periphery of regular galaxies, as arcs, tails, or streams, have been discovered (see e.g. Martinez-Delgado et al., ... The broad-band photometry is used for observing the faint structures, but it does not allow to break the age-metallicity degeneracy efficiently. ... The standard Stromgren set is available at APO. ... 2014). ...

... Posts tagged ?effective area? ... highlighting some equation that is widely used in astrophysics or astrostatistics. ... Tags: ARF , effective area , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , LRF , point spread function , PSF , response matrix , RMF , source . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Alfred Inselberg on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

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This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gl in NGC 317B Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... Tom Boles image . ... 16.2 . ... VSNET Light curve (requires JAVA). ... Use this VSNet data query to see what information has been reported so far. ... Back to Bright Supernovae . ...

... NIST Atomic Spectra Database" Ver. 2.0, March 1999, NIST Physical Reference Data %theoretical energy levels: Landi E. Bhatia A.K., 2005, ADNDT, in press %comment: theoretical energies come from the 24-configuration calculation of Landi Bhatia %produced as part of the Arcetri/Cambridge/NRL 'CHIANTI' atomic data base collaboration % %E. Landi - Feb 2004 . ... contains the spline fits to the electron collision strengths scaled according to Burgess and Tully (1992). ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... The `position angle' used is in actuality an ` astronomical position angle' (see XMM-MOC-TN-0109-OAD and INT-SYS-FD-TN-0004-OAD). This angle is counted from the celestial north in the mathematically positive sense around the axis pointing from the object towards the observer (i.e. anticlockwise from the observer's point of view, looking towards the sky). ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-09 ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Astronomers discover quasars acting as gravitational lenses . Gravitational lensing candidates are invaluable for estimating the mass of a quasarт??s host galaxy. ... Astronomers using NASAт??s Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying and distorting images of galaxies aligned behind them. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Min . ... GSC 4329-01772 . ... min . ... Four observed maxima: HJD 2454460.5698, 2454497.2770, 2454499.3176, 2454533.3152. ... Four observed primary minima: HJD 2454460.4769, 2454506.3610, 2454510.3807, 2454533.3238. ... We observed one primary minimum, HJD 2454460.4247. ... We observed five primary minima, HJD 2454497.2280, 2454499.2192, 2454506.3782, 2454510.3548, 2454524.2739. ... We observed four primary minima, HJD 2454502.1929, 2454507.3100, 2454509.3562, 2454510.3763. ...

... Magnetic compass discovered in China . ... Richard Carrington in England observes a violent and rapid eruption near a sunspot; 17 hours later a large magnetic storm begins. ... The electrons hit near the magnetic poles, leading him to propose that the polar aurora is created by electron beams from the Sun. ... Syun-Ichi Akasofu (Japan-US) and Sydney Chapman revive and expand Birkeland's notion of a "polar magnetic storm", now named "magnetospheric substorm." ...