ATNF Annual Report 2000 (submitted) . ... One of the first products is the HIPASS {\it Bright Galaxy Catalogue}, which is a catalogue of the 1000 apparently brightest HI galaxies in the southern hemisphere. ... In Figure 1 we show the spatial distribution of the brightest HIPASS galaxies. ... Figure 4 shows the velocity distribution of the 1000 brightest HIPASS galaxies (orange) compared to the 1000 brightest optical galaxies (selected from the Lyon/Meudon Extragalactic Database using blue magnitude). ...

... 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. ...

... From Terry Moseley: "A very bright fireball was seen widely over Ireland, and even as far away as Liverpool, at about 00.30 on Sunday morning, 4 April. John McConnell saw it from Maghaberry, Co Antrim, and a woman saw it from her home in Newry, Co Down. The Liverpool observer reports that the fireball appeared at 30 - 40 degrees altitude in the western sky at 00:33 UT on 2009 April 05. ... I saw it) early Sunday morning at 00:32 BST. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Bright Star Regulus near the Leo 1 Dwarf Galaxy . ... Credit: Russell Croman Explanation: The star on the upper left is so bright it is sometimes hard to notice the galaxy on the lower right. Both the star, Regulus , and the galaxy, Leo I , can be found within one degree of each other toward the constellation of Leo. ... Regulus is located about 75 light years away, in contrast to Leo 1 which is located about 800,000 light years away. ... Streams of Stars in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies . ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... This gives us another handle on how distant the stars are. ... Stars differ not only in distance, but also in apparent brightness. ... Ranking stars by brightness . ... The brightness of the star decreases as the square of the distance. ... At what distance would a 100-watt light bulb have the same brightness as the brighter stars? ... So if the distance of the 100-watt light bulb was 5 kilometers, the distance of the brighter stars would be 10,000,000,000,000 kilometers, or about a light-year. ...

The CHIANTI database consists of 4 primary ASCII files for each ion in the database. contains the energy levels in cm^(-1) It includes both experimental data and theoretical values of the levels energies. ... It is this energy value which is used to compute the wavelengths of transitions involving level 16 given in the .wgfa file. %produced as part of the Arcetri/Cambridge/NRL 'CHIANTI' atomic data base collaboration % % P.R.Young Feb 99 . ...

... 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....

... Развивающая игрушка Лягушка Bright Starts привлечет ребенка красочным видом, подарит новые ощущения и вскоре станет любимой игрушкой, приятной и веселой. ... Цвет: розовый . ... Цвет: Коричневый . ... Цвет: натуральный . ... Кружка имеет силиконовую крышку оранжевого цвета с прорезью для питья. ... Цвет: синий . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... The ROSAT Bright Survey: II. Catalogue of all high-galactic latitude RASS sources with PSPC countrate CR > 0.2 s -1 . ... 1S We present a summary of an identification program of the more than 2000 X-ray sources detected during the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (Voges et al. 1999) at high galactic latitude, |b| > 30degr , with countrate above 0.2 s -1 . This program, termed the ROSAT Bright Survey RBS, is to more than 99.5% complete. ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... Астрософт (Модератор: tlgleonid ) > . UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement для Cartes du Ciel . ... Астрософт . ... Cartes du Ciel - Sky Charts . ... 08 Август 2008, 14:04:19 ? Также готов каталог I/294 The UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement (Urban+, 2004), являющийся северным дополнением к каталогу I/289 The UCAC2 Catalogue(Zacharias+ 2003). ... Ответ #1 : 08 Август 2008, 14:41:20 ? ... Самая слабая звезда в каталоге UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement - это 2UCA 50406212 Vmag: 15.19 в Малой Медведице. ...

THE THERMAL RADIATION OF THE LUNAR SURFACE IN THE IR RANGE OF THE SPECTRUM (10-12 µm). ... 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 -0.20 -0.40 -0.60 -0.80 -0.80 -0.60 -0.40 -0.20 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 Fig.1 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 -0.20 -0.40 -0.60 -0.80 -0.80 -0.60 -0.40 -0.20 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 Fig.2 0.60 0.40 0.20 -0.00 -0.20 -0.40 -0.60 -0.60 -0.40 -0.20 -0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 Fig.3 Indicatrix of the thermal radiation of the Moon (10.5-12.5 µ). ...

... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

November 2006 Astronotes 1 Candles in the Dark Image Credit: Wikipedia.org By Colin Johnston, Science Communicator Since the mid-ninteenth century astronomers have used the principle of parallax to measure the distance to other stars. ... How then can we tell, for example, that M31, the galaxy in Andromeda, is 2.2 million light years away? It would be straight-forward to tell how far away a star was if it was exactly the same brightness as our own Sun. ...

... These reports are submitted for engineering work accomplished during bright time and maintenance shutdowns. ... 010531: May 2001 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 020102: January 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . 020202: February 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 030101: January 2003 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 040101: January 2004 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 050101: January 2005 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ...

Born in the UK, and following degrees at the Univerities of Bristol and Sussex, Martin Elvis got his PhD under Prof. Ken Pounds at the University of Leicester (UK) in 1978 for work with the Ariel V satellite. Ariel V was only the 2nd satellite to be devoted to X-ray astronomy. ... His PhD thesis demonstrated that powerful X-ray emission was a normal feature of Active Galactic Nuclei (or "AGN"). AGN X-ray emission has been a lively area of research ever since. ...