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... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. ... NGC 281: Cluster, Clouds, and Globules . ... Prominent features include a small open cluster of stars, a diffuse red-glowing emission nebula, large lanes of obscuring gas and dust, and dense knots of dust and gas in which stars may still be forming. ...

... HST . ... APT . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Documents . ... After you have brought up APT you will see a "Help" menu on the top menu bar. From here you can also bring up the documents that will help you to learn APT. Phase I: You can bring up Phase I Specific APT Training Materials to learn about using APT to submit your Phase I proposal. ... These are the same documents you will find on the HST Website. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 . ... COMETS | ... Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a close approach to Mars in October 2014. ... During the close Mars approach, the comet likely will achieve a total visual magnitude of 0 or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin October 1, 2010 Posted in: Stars . A sky of blazing stars (Image Credit: NASA/ESA) . Imagine that once the Sun sets, rather than a dark sky sprinkled with a few thousand dim stars, we had a sky blazing with ten thousand or so stars blazing brighter than Venus. ... Planets orbiting stars in the NGC 3603 Young Cluster would experience just such a sky. ...

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... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... This artistтАЩs impression shows an event in the early history of the Solar System that may explain how the unusual asteroid Lutetia came to now be located in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Lutetia is seen passing close to one of the very young rocky planets about four billion years ago and having its orbit drastically altered. ... Asteroid (21) Lutetia . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

... April 5, 1996 . The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of the fuzzy blobs in the above picture is a galaxy , together making up the Perseus Cluster, one of the closest clusters of galaxies . We view the cluster through the foreground of faint stars in our own Milky Way galaxy . ... Latest Comet Hyakutake images: APOD Hyakutake Archive , JPL , Fayetteville Observer-Times , NASA's Night of the Comet , ICSTARS , Jerry Lodriguss , ScienceWeb , Crni Vrh Obs. ... Archive | ... About APOD | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Book Store . ... My book has been getting a fair share of positive reviews , but it has now garnered a negative one. I should have expected it: it's from a mailing list about UFOs. ... Note added May 21, 2002 : It was brought to my attention by several people that in the article below, I say that amateur astronomers "never" report UFOs. ... My point remains: if amateurs watch the sky far more than laymen, then they should see far more UFOs. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Apr 13 2015 Scutum - The Shield IC 1287 31mmT5 Nebula R W/ OIII ,EF,EL, NEB DET AROUND BRTER *,SOME NEB SUSP FURTHER OUT, OIII HELPS,R=F Sep 05 2007 31 IC 1295 12mmT4 17mmT4 Planetary Neb 3b+2 MF,PL,OVAL,PATCHY,NO C*,SEVERAL F*'S IN NEB ,SOME CLOSE TO CENTER, OIII HELPS,DARK INNER HOLE,BREAK IN EDGES,PAIR=SAND2-374,R=F W/ OIII ,MB,ML,OVAL,PATHC,SHISB,PARCHY AREAS,FEW F*'S IN NEB ,R=E Aug 23 2009 31 Sep 05 ...

... A plot macro is a set of commands that you can execute together by invoking the name of the macro; in effect, it is a plot subroutine. ... You can make a macro in 4 ways: . ... The rule to remember if you do this is that the name of the macro must be the first thing on a line of the file, and should be followed by SM commands. ... Similarly, the right and left arrows advance the cursor one character right and left, respectively. within a line, keys will work just like the history editor . ...

MAKE ME AN ISLAND Different eyes, different size, different girls every day. Different names, different games took my breath clean away. But I'm changed, rearranged, I'm enlightened and how you have caught me, you have taught me and I'm different now. Take me and break me and close all your windows and doors. Shut me off, cut me off, make me an island, I'm yours. Take me away from the world, take me away from the girls. Take me and break me and make me an island, I'm yours. ...

... Facilities Reply to NSF-AST (May 10, 2005) . ... NSF-AST Senior Review Update (July 5, 2005) . ... NSF-AST Senior Review Report (Nov. ... The NSF-AST Senior Review (NSF web site) . NAIC Implementation of the NSF-AST Senior Review Recommendations (Nov. ... The Consequences of the NSF-AST Senior Review on the Arecibo Planetary Radar (Nov. ... Top 10 reasons to support the Arecibo Observatory (Dec. ... AAS Statement on the NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences Senior Review Report (Nov. ...

... The proper procedure to set up the wind baffle and enclosure to be powered by the emergency generator in the event that both commercial and site emergency generator power is lost. ... The enclosure should be open with telescope in an un-stowed position. ... Wind baffle (WB) control power switch ; Location : ?; ... Enclosure power switch box ; Location : ?; ... Change the WB manual pendent connector in WB control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed...

... Version 1.21.1 : - 2002-01-27 (CB) Fixed configuration file (SPR 2723). ... Code also tidied up. ... Version 1.8: 18 September 1998 Used correct syntax for parameter lists in .par file SPR 517: Version 1.7: 14 August 1998 parse call removed SPR 500 closed : removed cal from test/Makefile Version 1.6: 17 June 1998 SPR 441 closed : test harness now checks some values SPR 440 closed : .par file changed SPR 439 closed : file permissions changed Version 1.5: 21 May 1998...

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Participant 5 (P5) ================== Dr. V.P. Tishkovets - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA Dr. N.N. Kiselev - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA P.V. Litvinov - 26 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA S.A. Beletsky - 28 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA The head of the team, Dr. Tishkovets, and Mr. Litvinov made many investigations of light scattering by clusters of particles - analogues of interplanetary dust grains. ...