The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . ... Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor. Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a homemade telescope. He originally thought he saw three stars near Jupiter, strung out in a line through the planet. ... Galileo's Observations of Jupiter's Moons . ... Jupiter . ...

... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... As noted earlier , Aristarchus of Samos proposed that the Earth revolved around the Sun, but the idea was rejected by later Greek astronomers, in particular by Hipparchus. ... For a discussion of the discovery of the solar system which includes a "moving picture" illustrating retrograde motion, click here . ... The full story of the discovery of the solar system--of Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho and Kepler--is long and would take this discussion too far afield. ...

Visual Discovery of SN 1996X in NGC 5061. ... It was not until the IAU Circular was issued that we found out there had been an independent amateur photographic discovery of this supernova by Kesao Takamizawa of Japan. ... Earlier in the week, 660 galaxies had been observed during two nights we had use of the 40 inch telescope at Siding Spring. ... The supernova in NGC 5061 was first seen with the smaller telescope about 10pm local time on Friday, April 12 (April 12.5 UT). ...

Next: Early searches at other Up: The discovery of pulsars Previous: The Nature letter of . ... Gold (1968) [ 12 ], Pacini (1968) [ 28 ] . White dwarfs no longer viable . Vela pulsar (P=89ms) discovered [ 17 ] . Crab pulsar (P=33ms) [ 33 ] . Vibration of neutron stars no longer viable . slow down of Crab pulsar observed [ 32 ] . Age of Crab pulsar age of Crab nebula . Crab pulsar and nebula . ...

... The two astrometry modes of the FGS are POSITION mode and TRANSFER mode. An FGS in POSITION mode acquires an object in FineLock and tracks it for an extended period of time. An FGS in TRANSFER mode acquires an object and scans the IFOV back and forth along a 45њ diagonal path in detector space to sample the interference pattern fully enough to construct an S-curve. POSITION mode observing with the FGS can determine the parallax, proper motion, and/or reflex motion of a given object. ...

... Home Observing Charles Dana Discovery Center, Central Park . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Charles Dana Discovery Center . ... 6:30тАУ8:00 p.m. The Charles Dana Discovery Center is just inside Central Park, near 110th Street between Lenox and Fifth avenues ( map ). ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... 67Lawrence+ Of the 3118 sources in the Arecibo 611 MHz survey, 2911 have been observed using the NRAO 300 ft transit telescope at 6 cm. ... 4 Mean 1950 RA (see col.3.) ... 6 Mean 1950 Decl. (see col.3.). if A appears in col.1, the Arecibo dec. is listed. 7 Dec error in arc seconds (see col.3.) ... 16 Number of observations, in the form abc, where a is the number of observations averaged in RA, b is the number of observations averaged Dec, c is the number of observations averaged in flux. ...

EURONEAR - recovery, follow-up and discovery of NEAs and MBAs using large field 1-2 m telescopes . ... Using these data, we present the incidental survey work which includes 558 known MBAs and 628 unknown moving objects mostly consistent with MBAs from which 58 objects became official discoveries. ... Based on three evaluation methods, most of our unknown objects are consistent with MBAs, while up to 16 unknown objects could represent NEO candidates and four represent our best NEO candidates. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... The procedure simply observes ON your source for x minutes and then takes a `blank sky' observation OFF your source for the same amount of time and tracking the same azimuth and zenith angle range. ... Typically, observing times are kept to within 5 minutes (with 5 minutes as the most efficient, and therefore default, choice). ... If your scans are for 5 minutes or less, your wait time should be set to 1 minute (the default setting). ... A 5 minute ON/OFF + 10s CAL takes 11.3 minutes. ...

... October 10, 1604 a new star unknown before appeared in Snakebearer constellation. ... Mostly Kepler saw farther than Galilei , understanding that planets were influenced by the Sun. ... The most of all wonders is that I opened four new planets and observed their own movement and the movement according each other and according the other stars. These new planets are mooving around the other great star as well as Venus, Mercury, and perhaps the other known planets are moving around the Sun". ...

... On the base of laboratory simulations (on rotating shallow water) of the formation of spiral arms in galactic gaseous disks, the existence of giant anticyclones in them was predicted. Numerical simulations shown that the vortex structures arise on a linear stage of spiral arms formation simultaneously with the latter. ... Thus second giants structu