Geographos . Geographos is classified as an Earth-crossing asteroid because its orbit can evolve to intersect Earth's orbit. ... The asteroids probably include several hundred objects larger than Geographos, thousands larger than half a mile across, and a few hundred thousand that are larger than a football field. ... Researchers obtained radar images of the asteroid on August 30, 1994, when the asteroid was 7.2 million kilometers (4.5 million miles) from Earth. ... Asteroids Vesta Mathilde . ...

... Water Found in Space Rock . ... The meteorite fall was seen by several boys, and was being carefully scrutinized by NASA scientists within 72 hours. HCG 87: A Small Group of Galaxies . ... The Universe Evolves . ... It's only Planet Earth, of course ... as seen on the Water Vapor Channel. ... Eclipse Over The Mountain . ... Crossing the edge of Earth's shadow the moon was only partially eclipsed - but the spectacle could be seen by observers located across the Earth's night side. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . ... In July 2012, CRTS noticed that this object had started to brighten again. ... Then in September of 2012 it got brigher again. ... Cornell University The Unprecedented Third Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a Supernova . ... UIS Henry Barber Research Observatory 2009ip page . ... 2009/08/26.11 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ... Stan Howerton . ... Stan Howerton Light curve . ...

... While the three NICMOS cameras are no longer at a common focus, under many circumstances it is desirable to obtain data simultaneously in multiple cameras. ... From the ground, the infrared background is affected by telluric absorption and emission which limits the depth of astronomical imaging. ... Now, the dominant sources of background radiation will be the zodiacal light at short wavelengths and the thermal background emission from the telescope at long wavelengths. ...

... 2015 February 18 . Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres . ... Explanation: What are those bright spots on asteroid Ceres? ... Sharper new images taken last week and released yesterday indicate, as expected, that most of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is dark and heavily cratered like our Moon and the planet Mercury . ... The enigmatic spots were first noticed on Texas -sized Ceres a few weeks ago during Dawn's approach. ... About APOD | ...

... In the spring of 1997 we were lucky enough to be treated to the dramatic spectacle of comet Hale-Bopp slowly making its way across the night skies. ... Although much is now known about them, they remain one of the most mysterious yet beautiful members of the solar system. ... Most bodies in the solar system move around the Sun in nearly circular orbits in the plane of the solar system. ... A common fallacy is that the tail of a comet trails behind the nucleus as it journeys through the solar system....

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

This service is intended as an aid to visually observing close-approaching asteroids. ... By clicking on the column headers for "Object Name", "Maximum Brightness", and "Maximum Angular Speed", you can sort the list by those fields. ... When This is the predicted time when the asteroid will be closest to the Earth. ... This field shows red if an asteroid comes as close as the moon. ... PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) This does NOT mean that this is going to hit the Earth. ...

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... SpaceX Dragon attached to space station in spaceflight first . ... The SpaceX Dragon is seen berthed to the International Space Station's Harmony module. ... The International Space Station's Expedition 31 crew grappled and attached SpaceX's Dragon capsule to the space station Friday, May 25. ... The Dragon capsule lifted off May 22 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...

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 | ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... A different approach is done via the setting withctisrcpos =Y: all event energy corrections do not use the actual RAWY coordinate but the corresponding RAWY location of the source ( SRCPOS ) as determined by the task epframes (either automatically or via setting withsrccoords =Y). ... The task epchain may be used with the setting ccds =4 withctisrcpos =Y to process only the CCD 4 where usually the bright source is located that causes the Out-of-Time events. ...

... You can "attach" arbitrary string-pointer pairs to a GtkObject instance, in effect adding a new data member. ... GtkWidget* button = gtk_button_new(); GtkWidget* label = gtk_label_new(_("Foo")); gtk_object_set_data(GTK_OBJECT(button), "my_label_key", label); . ... void gtk_object_set_data (GtkObject* object , const gchar* key , gpointer data ); . void gtk_object_set_data_full (GtkObject* object , const gchar* key , gpointer data , GtkDestroyNotify destroy ); . ... Object Finalization . ...

... Classes . ... casa::SDFITSHandler . ... SDFITSHandler ( MeasurementSet &ms, Vector < Bool > &handledCols, const Record &row) . ... attach ( MeasurementSet &ms, Vector < Bool > &handledCols, const Record &row) . ... initAll ( MeasurementSet &ms, Vector < Bool > &handledCols, const Record &row) . ... initRow ( Vector < Bool > &handledCols, const Vector < String > &colNames, const Record &row) . ... requiredTableDesc ( Vector < Bool > &handledCols, Vector < String > &colNames, const Record &row) . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

June 11-13, 2007 S.P.Korolev RSC Energia – MCC-M, . ... On June 10, 2007 the International Space Station (ISS) received another manned vehicle. In addition to Soyuz TMA-10 crew rescue vehicle attached to the station, the US Space Shuttle Atlantis mated to the ISS. ... The onboard crew conducted video imagery of the vehicle external surface. The crew commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (test-cosmonaut, S.P. Korolev RSC Energia) conducted photo imagery of several phases of this process. ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

Организаторы: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Лаборатория Понселе) , Михаил Цфасман (CNRS, Лаборатория Понселе, ИППИ РАН) , Алексей Зыкин (Лаборатория Понселе, ГУ ВШЭ) . О конференции . Общая информация . ... Практическая информация . ... Using Miyawaki-Ikeda lifting and Rankin-Selberg method I explicitly compute critical values for spinor and standard L-functions attached to Siegel cusp form of genus three and weight twelve. Страница Лаборатории Понселе . ...