1. Amateur Astronomers Association of New York ? Amateur Astronomers Association
... 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. ...
2. Astronomy Magazine - Interactive Star Charts, Planets, Meteors, Comets,
... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...
3. See giant planet Jupiter tonight | Astronotes
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...
4. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...
5. Why this is interesting: reasons for which astronomers get very excited around
... 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 . ...
6. Jupiter s Impact Scar
... Jupiter s Impact Scar . ... Credit: Anthony Wesley Explanation: In July of 1994 pieces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with planet Jupiter. The explosive impacts sent plumes of debris high into the Jovian atmosphere creating dark markings or scars , visible for a time against the cloud bands. ... NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility images from Mauna Kea, Hawaii later confirmed the likely impact site's dark scar and plume of particles in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. ... July . ... July 2009 . ...
7. ASP: Guest Observer
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. ...
8. Radio Observations of Jupiter
... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Radio emission from Jupiter was first serendipitiously discovered at decametric wavelengths by Franklin and Burke in 1955. ...
9. APOD: 2009 July 23 - Jupiter's Impact Scar
... 2009 July 23 . Jupiter's New Impact Scar . ... The explosive impacts sent plumes of debris high into the Jovian atmosphere creating dark markings or scars , visible for a time against the cloud bands. ... Jupiter's south pole is at the top in this July 19 discovery image, with Jupiter rotating from right to left. ... NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility images from Mauna Kea, Hawaii later confirmed the likely impact site's dark scar and plume of particles in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. ...
10. Accuracy of World positional CCD observations of the numbered minor planets
... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...
11. Table of Contents
Table of Contents . ... Image and Animation Index . Solar System Introduction . ... Educator's Guide to Convection . ... Chronology of Sun Exploration . ... Chronology of Mercury Exploration . ... Chronology of Venus Exploration . ... Mars . Mars Introduction . ... Selected Images from Mars Pathfinder . ... Chronology of Mars Exploration . ... Mars Image Browser . ... Galileo Spacecraft Press Releases and Information . ... Comets . ... Chronology of Comet Space Exploration . ... Introduction . ...
12. http://www.atmob.org/library/member/brewster/whittierprrev1.pdf
For more information contact: Brewster LaMacchia 781 937 6300 x312 6th Grade at J. G. Whittier Middle School Looking Up at Night! ... The "Star Party," as these events are called in astronomical circles, was organized by amateur astronomer Brewster LaMacchia and 6th grade teacher Robert Estes. They are both part of Project Astro, a national project that links astronomers with educators and students in the fourth through ninth grades. ... 2 Whittier Middle School Star Party ...
13. Table of Contents
Table of Contents . ... Solar System Introduction . ... Educator's Guide to Convection . Educator's Guide to Eclipses . Educator's Guide to Sunspots . ... Chronology of Sun Exploration . ... Chronology of Mercury Exploration . ... Venusian Impact Craters . ... Chronology of Venus Exploration . ... Educator's Guide to Impact Craters . ... Educator's Guide to Moon Phases . Mars . ... Chronology of Mars Exploration . ... Comets . ... Chronology of Comet Space Exploration . ... Introduction . ...
14. ESO - Thesis Topic: Studies of Planet Formation by Imaging and Spectroscopy of
... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Studies of Planet Formation by Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanets and Circumstellar Disks . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... Statistical studies on exoplanet populations (combining Direct Imaging results with the Transit and Radial Velocity planet yield). ... Statistical studies of circumstellar disk populations to measure dust dispersal rates and their connection to planet formation. ...
15. activities
The following activities are included in the Universe at Your Fingertips guide. ... Clicking on each activity will take you to a "reviews" page where you can post a review, or read reviews posted by others who have used the activity. ... Activity Online . ... MOON AND PHASES . ... Observing Phases and Features . ... Modeling Moon Phases . ... SUN AND SEASONS . ... Observing the Sun Safely . ... Observing Where the Sun Sets . ... Making Pictures of Motion . ... Morning Star and Evening Star . ...
16. http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/doc-archive/flyers/JWST-GiantPlanets.pdf
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers unprecedented observing opportunities in the near- and mid-infrared for the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ... Obser vations of the Giant Planets J. N o r w o o d ( N M S U ), J. M o s e s (S SI), L . ... Jupiter S a t ur n Uranus Neptune Ephemeral phenomena are fairly common in the atmospheres of the giant planets. ... Uranus/ Neptune spectra are from Spitzer/ IRS cour tesy of G. Or ton. ...
17. American Association of Amateur Astronomers, AstroGuide Listing
The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Internet Astronomy Club . ... Web Site . ... This is one site where you get every thing you need to know on astronomy. Besides, this site also puts up observation reports from amateurs, whoever who cared to submit. ... Astronomy Club . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...
18. Siding Spring Survey
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 . ...
19. smalltelae
The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...
20. Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton
... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...