Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... What causes the center of this barred spiral galaxy to light up brighter than almost anything in the universe? ... NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Hot Blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster. ... In the central part of the Lagoon Nebula lies the above pictured Hourglass Nebula. ... Welcome to Planet Earth . ... The nebula cataloged as NGC 604 is a giant star forming region, 1500 light years across, in the nearby spiral galaxy, M33. ...

... Like the night sky on the Earth, the martian sky hosts a plethora of astronomical phenomena occurring around the clock in a neverending space opera played out for the benefit of robotic and future human observers alike. ... Moons . Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos . ... Under the same conditions, Deimos would be as bright as -5, somewhat brighter than the planet Venus appears in Earth's sky. ... The moons are also eclipsed by Mars itself (a situation analogous to lunar eclipses at the Earth). ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | ... Common Name: SGR 1900+14 . ... Description: bright SGR located well outside shell of remnant . ... Exposure uf . ... Exposure uf Exposure time of unfiltered event file . Exposure f Exposure time of filtered event file . not clear if SGR and remnant are associated . ... Event 2 FITS File . ... Pileup model used to correct spectrum but index probably uncertain. see fit detail page for more about the fit. see chandra spectrum page for region used. ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... Classes . ... Constellation Class Reference . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . Get observer-centered equatorial coordinate at the current equinox The frame has it's Z axis at the planet's current rotation axis At time 2000-01-01 this frame is almost the same as J2000, but ONLY if the observer is on earth. ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... Get observer-centered hour angle + declination (at current equinox) It is the geometric position, i.e. More.. ...

... Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b, the diminutive star (right of center) is ten times less massive than the Sun and 60,000 times fainter. ... The image file is on oposite.stsci.edu in the directory /pubinfo/gif: PR# GIF File Caption text Object STScI-PRC94-54 Gl623b.gif G1623b.txt Dwarf Star Gliese 623b The photo release text is in the directory /pubinfo/press-releases: PR# PR text STScI-PRC94-54 PR-54.txt Another directory, /pubinfo/latest, contains all of the files relevant to the latest releases. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... Bright MASTER OT105123.02+672528.3 discovery at Optical/X-ray/radio source position ATel3845, ATel3849 ATel3889 . ... All news ...

Natural Satellites Service. ... Apparent Encounters . of the Tycho-2 Catalogue stars and the main natural planetary satellites . ... Suggestions . ... Here we present the precalculated circumstances of the apparent encounters of the stars of the Tycho-2 Catalogue with the main satellites of Saturn (S1-S8) for the period from November 2004 to February 2010, and with the Galilean satellites of Jupiter for the period from November 2004 to October 2010. ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

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! ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

ATMoB Awards Program - Messier Marathon Worksheet Observer: Date: Instrument(s) Used: Location: Messier Observing Catalog/Worksheet Observing Order 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Messier Number M 77 M 74 M 33 M 31 M 32 M110 M 52 M103 M 76 M 34 M 45 M 79 M 42 M 43 M 78 M1 M 35 M 37 M 36 M 38 M 41 M 93 M 47 M 46 M 50 ...

1) Find the variable star and the comparison stars marked in the map. 2) Seeing the the variable star, try to imagine its location in the brightness interval between the reference stars. 3) Looking at the specially prepared scale, try to reproduce the location of variable in the brightness scale from memory. ... The grades of arbitrary scale are marked relative to brightness intervals between the reference stars. ...

Full-Text Search . ... arXiv.org . astro-ph . ... SAI VO . Search sort results by Date Relevance . Use logical operators AND , OR , NOT and round brackets to construct complex queries. Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . Normalized to: Bright, J. 1 article(s) in total . 4 co-authors. Median position in authors list is 5,0 . Co-author(s): . ... Astronet | SAI MSU . ...

ADC CATALOG HOLDINGS SHORT TITLE LIST March 29, 2002 (adapted from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/key) Category 1: Astrometric and Positional Data - March 29, 2002 1090 Positions of 502 Stars in Pleiades Region (Eichhorn+ 1970) 1107A Washington Cat Visual Double Stars 1984.0 (Worley, Douglass 1984) 1131A SAO Star ...