... Alex Gagliano presenting his AAS Poster . ... Earlier this month, Alex Gagliano presented a poster at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Orlando, Florida. ... Alex is a third year student at Virginia Tech University in the USA, and this was Alex's first AAS meeting. ... Alex received many questions and inquiries about his poster, visible on the background. Overall, his first AAS presentation was very well received. Well done Alex! ... today * ATNF | ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

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Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Old Faithful Meets Hale-Bopp . ... On May 11th the fading comet was photographed behind the famous " Old Faithful " water geyser of Yellowstone National Park , Wyoming, USA, Planet Earth. Perhaps more familiar to Earth Dwellers than the dark geysers on Neptune 's moon Triton , the gas geysers on Jupiter 's moon Io , and the dirty water geysers hypothesized on Jupiter's moon Europa , Earth 's Old Faithful is also reliable - every 60-80 minutes it gushes a plume of water and steam high into the air. ...

... On May 11th the fading comet was photographed behind the famous "Old Faithful" water geyser of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, Planet Earth. ... Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways . ... Saturn's rings are actually very thin. ... Newborn stars lie at the heart of the Orion Nebula, hidden from view by the dust and gas of the giant Orion Molecular Cloud number 1 (OMC-1). ... Bound For Mars . ... Shells in the Egg Nebula . ... The Egg Nebula is taking a beating. ... The First Explorer . ... January ....

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... 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....

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP in the News . July 21, 2009 . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) will present its 2009 annual meeting September 12-16 in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel, 1 Old Bayshore Highway in Millbrae, California. The theme of the 2009 gathering will be "Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future." ... education | ... Copyright 2001-2012 Astronomical Society of the Pacific ...

... 2009 Total Solar Eclipse to China Meeting . ... Saturday, Oct 27, 2007 at 7:00 PM . ... This is a meeting for those signed up or on the waiting list for the ATMoB 2009 Total Solar Eclipes Trip to China. Joel Harris will be here to present an overview of the trip and answer any questions you have. ... See the 2009 Total Solar Eclipse page for more details on the trip. ... 2017 Total Solar Eclipse . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Neptune . ... Triton . Neptune 291k gif . Full Disk Neptune 93k gif ; 29k jpg . ... New Dark spot 25k jpg ; 113k gif ; caption ; press release . ... Another thin Crescent of Neptune 166k gif . ... low resolution shot of Neptune, possibly showing great black spot 210k gif . ... Parting view of Neptune and moon Triton 59k gif ; 17k gif ; 23k jpg . ... Small Dark Spot 190k gif ; 133k jpg . Small Dark Spot 55k gif ; 23k jpg . ... The Great Dark Spot 423k gif ; 153k gif ; 97k jpg . ...

My wife and I went to Mohican State Park the weekend just before our first anniversary (April 7th). That Saturday, we went hiking and took some pictures. It was a good hike, with some difficult parts. my wife holding the camera . a crevice with a tiny waterfall, that opens up into a big valley . the tiny creek flowing into the crevice . more crevice . ... my wife taking a (non-digital) picture . another tiny waterfall flowing over a wide cliff . ... the lake by our lodge . ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 6 . ... Attendees: JSY, MF, ADR, XS, CAH, DMAW, EBS . ... With reference to error budgets . ... Selection of layouts and error budgets to present at CoDR . ... Dog-leg Transmissive . ... Zoom Transmissive . ... ADR: Refine selected layouts . ... Space to overhang table . ... ADR: Tolerancing of direct transmissive layout under table bending . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet6) ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

... American Astronomical Society . AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet . ... NASA Astrophysics Data System: Abstract Service . ... Astronomy Astrophysics: Preprints Abstracts . ... Local archive of IAU Circulars. ... Germany, list of all Astronomical Institutes . ... Poland, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory . Russia, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Russia, Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences . ... USA, Astronomy and Space Science Group at GMU . ...

... Press Releases . ... Press & Web Coverage . ... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. Click here to hear more and here to see who plays this music . Some links from press coverage and other websites referencing IYA2009-Ireland. Click here to to see more press cuttings. ... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...