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... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... How fast must an object be travelling so the sound I perceive as it directly passes me will drop in pitch exactly one octave? ... When an object is moving past another object, any sound emitted by the first object is changed in pitch due to the relative motion. ... wl(emitted)" is the wavelength of sound emitted by the object at rest, "wl(heard)" is the wavelength you hear from the object, "v" is the velocity of the object, and "c" is the speed of sound. ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Real Time Follow-up of Transient Objects From PESSTO . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... The Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects ( PESSTO ) provides high-quality, time series optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of optical transients covering a broad range of luminosity, host metallicity and explosion mechanisms. ...

... Although nobody really knows what conditions are like on this close-in planet orbiting variable red dwarf star Gliese 876, the above artistic illustration gives one impression. The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies . ... Here is one of the largest objects that anyone will ever see on the sky. Each of these fuzzy blobs is a galaxy, together making up the Perseus Cluster, one of the closest clusters of galaxies. The cluster is seen through a foreground of faint stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this pen object POV file . ... The cap and pen are separate objects; put together in their default orientation, the pen is "closed". ... The "clip" of the cap is rounded on the inside, and tapers to a point, and also tapers away from the pen, just like the real object. ... The cap is 0.18 units in diameter, the little ridge is 0.197 units in diameter, and the clip extends up to 0.26 units above the central axis. ...

... Phase Diversity Imaging: Real Time Correction of the Atmosphere and Telescope . Dr. Robert A. Gonsalves . ... Join us this month for what promises to be an engaging talk by Dr. Robert A. Gonsalves, “Phase Diversity Imaging: Real Time Correction of the Atmosphere and Telescope.” Phase diversity imaging uses multiple images of an object to combat the deleterious effect of the changes in the atmosphere and telescope. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... This version of the GHRS Instrument Handbook has had significant rewriting, mostly to incorporate information about the proposal writing software called RPS2 . ... We anticipate that Cycle 6 will be the last for the GHRS. ... Because Cycle 6 is short for both the GHRS and FOS, it is STScI's intention to schedule spectroscopic observations early in Cycle 6 to the greatest extent possible so that as many FOS and GHRS programs may be completed as is possible. ... Cycle 6 and the End of the GHRS . ...

EXPLANATION OF DANA'S FIBER TESTS ON THE 12M TELESCOPE.. ... But we know full well that this is not directly possible- the delay in the optical fiber carrying this signal will change both with temperature and to some degree with fiber bending as the telescope tracks objects or moves from one object to another. ... So we would like to identify at least one pair of single mode fibers in our bundle, whose delay changes due to antenna tracking etc are pretty well matched. ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

Subject of Astronomy. ... Celestial Sphere. ... Spherical Frames of Reference: Horisontal and Equatorial Coordinates, Ecliptical System. ... Transformation of Celestial Coordinates. ... Change of Object Coordinates as a Result of Diurnal Rotation of Celestial Sphere. Phenomenons, Which Lead to Celestial Coordinates Change. ... Motion of Equator, Ecliptic, and Their Poles. ... Diurnal Solar Motion on Different Latitudes. ... Time Equation. ... Apparent Motions and Configuration of Planets. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on October 30, 2014 | 5 Comments Humans have been exploring mysterious lands and faraway civilizations for hundreds of years ever since they had the ability and knowledge to do so.€а A curiosity and a desire to [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on May 28, 2014 | ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ...

Summer Triangle . Articles | ... As dusk deepens into night in early June, look a bit north of east, not real high in the sky, for a sparkling blue-white star, whose name is Vega . ... Since the stars rise some four minutes earlier with each passing day, expect the stars of the Summer Triangle to light up the twilight dusk around middle to late June -- a sure harbinger of the change of seasons, of spring giving way to summer. ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ...

Y ou don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. ... Refer to Sky Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever. ... Jupiter . ... Mars . ... For $200 you can get a far better optical instrument than Galileo or Newton had. ... Date . ... William Herschel . ... O f course, the solar system has more than just planets and moons. ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

This page gives the name and meaning of the various parameters which can be queried in HyperLeda through SQL requests . ... real . ... actual error on t . ... log 10 of apparent major axis diameter d25 at 25 mag.arcsec -2 (d25 in 0.1') . ... actual error on logd25 . ... Apparent maximum rotation velocity of gas . ... log 10 of apparent corrected diameter (dc in 0.1') . ... total apparent corrected B-magnitude . ... total apparent corrected U-B color . ... Questions: leda@univ-lyon1.fr ...

Comets necessarily obey the same physical laws as every other object. ... If one considers only two bodies -- either the Sun and a planet, or the Sun and a comet -- the smaller body appears to follow an elliptical path or orbit about the Sun, which is at one focus of the ellipse. ... Another quantity that is conserved is called angular momentum. ... Comets simply are bodies which in general have more angular momentum per unit mass than do planets and therefore move in more elongated orbits. ...

Next: The BeppoSAX Low-Energy Concentrator Spectrometer Archive at the Space Science Department of ESA . Up: Archiving . ... The Integrated Data Archive System . ... This paper shows aspects of the development of a prototype application to test the feasibility of near real time distribution of Telemetry Packets to the different instrument control centers. ... The FIRST ground segment will be based on the object oriented FIRST Integrated Network and Data Archive System - FINDAS. ...