. Caspian Sea region, . October 2, 2009 . White Sea region, . October 10, 2009 . Kama river region, . October 26, 2009 . Crimea, October 26, 2009 . The western part of Balkan, . April 8, 2010 . Ice conditions near . the New Land, April 8, 2010 .

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. ...

... April 4, 1996 . The Keyhole Nebula Near Eta Carinae . Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin . Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board . ... Designated NGC 3324, the Keyhole Nebula is a smaller region superposed on the bright Eta Carina Nebula . The Eta Carina Nebula is the largest nebula in angular extent on the sky, larger than the famous Orion Nebula , but its southerly location makes it less familiar to Northern Hemisphere skywatchers. ... About APOD | ...

... Calderas And Cliffs Near Io's South Pole . ... Combining high resolution black and white images from that flyby with color data recorded last summer has resulted in this dramatic view of a region near the volcanic moon's south pole. ... The three ominous black spots, each about 6-12 miles across, are volcanic craters or calderas covered with recent dark lava. ... Publications with keywords: Io - south pole - caldera - volcano . Publications with words: Io - south pole - caldera - volcano . ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . April : 2016 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for April 09, 2016 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for April 09, 2016 00:31 UT . ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

... We present a new cooled grating near infra-red spectrometer designed to acquire spectra at the TIRGO telescope in the 0.9-2.5 micron region with a resolving power of 1000, equiped with a Rockwell NICMOS 3 detector. keywords: Infrared Spectroscopy :: NICMOS 3 :: TIRGO . The LonGSp (Longslit Gornergrat Spectrometer) project is part of the work that the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri is doing in order to build a new generation of instruments for the IR telescope of Gornergrat (TIRGO). ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... 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 . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... Soyuz TMA spacecraft being a modification of Soyuz spacecraft for operation in the frame of the ISS Project were developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia staff in cooperation with the subcontractors of the Russian rocket and space industry, and have been flying since November 2002. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, V.V.Tsibliev, Head of RGNII of Yu. ... www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss10/res.html , . ...

October 30-31, 1992 . ... Modified images of the October 30-31, 1992 event. (a) - This NRH image is adapted to show a very bright loop-like source over AR 7321 near the SW-limb identified with the X1.7 soft X-ray LDE event peaked on 30d at 17:30 UT (see the GOES-7 soft X-ray plot also at the upper right corner). ... Here and hereafter, the white features are radio filaments. (c) - This modified NRH image shows some large scale microwave blob chains and structures. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... April . ... April, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... 2006 . ... Comparison of total ozone distribution in the high latitudes of both hemispheres SCAR XXIX Open Science Conference, 2006, 12-14 July, Hobart, Australia - Abstract Volume. ... Analyses of spectra, stability and eigenmode transverse small-scale oscillations in the inner Earth magnetosphere. 6th Open Conference of Space Projects Evpatoriya, September 2006, Abstracts . ... Ps6 pulsations in the Earth magnetosphere. 5th Open Conference of Space Projects Evpatoriya, September 2005, Abstracts . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

... A total of 462 were detected, about half of these for the first time. ... Ojects not Detected ----------------------------------------- l b BRMS mK Notes ----------------------------------------- 6.490 + 0.084 5.1 W28 SNR 6.648 + 0.084 4.2 W28 SNR 8.989 +35.502 3.5 S33 B 11.531 +36.350 3.1 S36 A 13.456 + 0.156 3.5 SNR 16.732 + 0.079 3.5 SNR 19.961 - 0.175 3.5 SNR 21.347 - 0.628 3.8 Extragalactic 25.253 - 0.150 5.7 Extragalactic 25.520 0.215 5.2 28.600 - 0.126 4.0 SNR+HII+? ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

... VOLKOV, SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH . ... SOYUZ TMA-M COMMANDER . ... INSTRUCTOR-test-cosmonaut OF yU.a. gagarin cosmonaut training center, russia . ... From September 2001 February 2003 Volkov completed training as a Soyuz commander and ISS pilot of the ISS 7 backup crew. ... From May 2006 to April 2008 Volkov trained as an ISS 17 prime crew commander and Soyuz TMA commander. From December 2009 he has been training as a Soyuz TMA-M commander and ISS flight engineer in the ISS-25/26 backup crew. ...

. 24th of October 2015 . Last of the wildflowers in bloom in the Mid West . by Mark Leach (CASS) . This photo, taken earlier in October, shows the last of the flowers blooming on the roadside near ASKAP Antenna 22 at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. These beautiful purple flowers are Ptilotus exaltatus, known as Mulla Mulla, and carpet the region in spring and early summer. RSS feed generated by Page2RSS . | archive | about | today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | Mopra | VLBI | ASKAP | .