... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

Several tiny moons have been discovered recently, most from ground based imagery! With these discoveries, Uranus joins the jovian planets in having a number of small moons in irregular orbits. ... Two new moons of Uranus , provisionally known as Uranus XVI (S/1997 U 1) and Uranus XVII (S/1997 U 2), have been discovered. ... Caliban was discovered by Brett Gladman , Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200 inch Hale telescope ; the first images were taken 1997 Sept 6 and 7. ...

... The reference column of a star table contains the primary identification for the star. ... Standard IAU names should be used. Proper names are acceptable for bright stars, as are Bayer and Lacaille letters and Flamsteed numbers used with the constellation abbreviation. HR numbers can be used for bright stars. ... Stars lacking HD numbers should be named by BD or other DM number. ... However, full names should be used in the star tables, to avoid ambiguity. ...

Have you ever heard the name of a star or constellation and wondered what it meant? ... I've compiled a table of commonly known star names and their definitions in the Western tradition, grouped by constellation. ... Following each constellation entry are any named stars found therein (in order from brightest to faintest), listing the Bayer (Greek letter) or other common designation, the star name, and English translation. ... Some other sites with star name information: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

... GPI Data Pipeline 1.0 documentation . GPI Data Pipeline Developer?s Guide . Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. Pipeline Code Internal Organization . ... Function Call Hierarchy when Running Recipes . ... The GPI data pipeline is implemented in object-oriented fashion using IDL classes. ... For detailed documentation on the functions and variables internal to the following, please see the comments in the source code directly. ... The main object class of the pipeline! ...

... Previous: Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS . ... Astronomers can use the ADS to maintain their publication lists; a simple http link can bring a current bibliography at any time. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abs_connect?author=hazen,m. &aut_syn=YES&nr_to_return=all . ... To have a complete bibliography via ADS one needs but to add the missing articles into ADS. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... A fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in astronomical datasets ? ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

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... Classes . ... Nebula Class Reference . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getCloseViewFov (const StelCore *core=NULL) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

... EPHFILE is used to specify the location of the JPL ephemeris file. This is only needed if SCHED is being asked to calculate the position of one or more objects using the ephemeris. ... For example, if SCHED is defined to mean /users/cwalker/sched , the base area under which all sched stuff is kept (substitute your local directory), then one can specify the ephemeris file with EPHFILE = $SCHED/catalogs/newfile.eph , if that were where it is (it isn't!). ... Usage: Only one value used, the last. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

... Content Model: %text, but no nested anchors . The anchor <A> element is used to define the start and/or destination of a hypertext link. In previous versions of HTML it provided the only means for defining destination anchors within documents, but you can now use any ID attribute as a destination anchor so that links can now be made to divisions, paragraphs and most other elements. ... CLASS . ... This attribute is used to define a named anchor for use as the destination of hypertext links. ...

... Documentation for the Python objects defined by the project is divided into separate pages for each package, module, and class. The API documentation also includes two pages containing information about the project as a whole: a trees page, and an index page. ... A description of the package. ... A summary of the classes defined by the package. ... The module contents frame contains a list of every submodule, class, type, exception, function, and variable defined by a module or package. ...

... Style Sheets in Communicator . Using Cascading Style Sheets to Define Styles . ... Inheritance of Styles . Defining Style Sheets with the <STYLE> Tag . Defining Style Sheets in External Files . Defining Classes of Styles . ... Combining Style Sheets . ... Setting Border Widths, Color, and Style . ... Comments in Style Sheets . ... Style Sheet Properties . Font Properties . ... Font Style . Text Properties . ... Style Sheets Ink Home Page . Overview of the Style Sheet . ...

... Most objects in the Dal Model have a name, and an owner (usually referred to as the parent). ... The colon character is used to separate the names of datasets, blocks and columns, but the % character is used before an attribute name. e.g. "set:tab:col%att" is the fully qualified name of the column-attribute with name "att", whose parent column has name "col", whose parent table has name "tab", whose parent dataset has name "set". ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2016 > AGN: what's in a name . ... Science Users Information . Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Different bands employ different methods to identify these sources but, most importantly, provide different windows on AGN physics. ... 1. the different types of AGN selected in the various bands . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Markup Master Index . Text formatting rules | ... To internal pages and more . ... Text . ... This page contains the most frequently used wiki markup, briefly. ... See Links . ... page name]] . ... link text]] (to refer to an anchor in another page) . ... See Page directives , Comment markup , Page variables . ... See Include other pages , Page text variables . ... See Page variables , Page text variables , Page lists . ... name:description:) sets a page text variable . ...