M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

To see the manner in which position of planets and their coordinates vary with time click on icons with arrows Right or Left in menu bar. ... The current moment of time and object coordinates are therewith displayed. ... Clicking on icons with symbols of sun or crescent leads to appearance of images of the Sun or the Moon in that point of the sky which correspond to their coordinates in current moment unless it lies within not displayed region; see below). ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

... 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 . ...

... 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 . ...

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 . ...

Motif and X-Windows . ... Making a window active is called giving it input focus . ... Click the left mouse button anywhere in a window. ... To have the focus follow your mouse, you need to change the input focus method using the Window Manager; this is described on page 111 . ... The menu allows you to customize many window features. ... You would change the input focus method by selecting the "Workspace" item under the Options menu from the Window Manager's Workspace menu. ... Input Focus . ...

Next: To produce a region Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: General usage. ... Menu items are chosen by clicking any mouse button (cf. ... save current cursor as an include region (counts within region will be included in subsequent calculations) . ... When another image is displayed, the earlier one can be compared with it by pressing its respective mouse button with cursor in the main display window. ... Table 1: Detailed list of menu options . ... color . ... enter/leave region sub-menu . ...

... Field size . Object name . ... Map size . ... Field size: the approximate size of the map in the Y direction. ... Galaxies: . ... Galaxies, which size exceeds some value depending on the field and map sizes, are displayed with their real positional angles and sizes by 25m isophote. ... In the "tools" fields there are links to the several famous AVO (Astrophysical Virtual Observatory) resources: NED and Simbad databases and DSS2 (Palomar Digitized Sky Survey) images of the corresponding sky area. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

... Duchamp | ... Top | Duchamp is a solution to this problem of three-dimensional source finding. ... A list of the detections and their properties, as well as the input parameters that were used. [text file] . ... It can be downloaded in source format, in a gzipped tar archive. ... Changes from the previous version can be seen here (this file is included in the tar archive), while the archive files and documentation from the previous release versions are here , if you are really interested. ...

... A Hidden object is used for passing name/value pairs when a form submits. ... JavaScript 1.0 . JavaScript 1.1: added type property The HTML INPUT tag, with "hidden" as the value of the TYPE attribute. ... Property . ... The form contains a "Display hidden value" button that the user can click to display the value of the Hidden object in an Alert dialog box. ... P><INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Display hidden value" NAME="button2" . ... Form name:<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="h1" VALUE="Beluga"> . ...

... The previous example, Chapter 12, "Expanding Colored Squares Example," illustrates how to expand and contract the clipping region of a layer without changing the wrapping width of the layer. This example illustrates how to capture mouse events so that the user can make a layer's wrapping width wider or narrower by dragging the mouse. ... how to capture mouse events for a layer . how to change the wrapping width of a layer by using the load() function . ... Capturing Events for the Layer . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

The Status popup displays useful information about the state of sets, regions, and graphs. ... When the number of sets is less than 30, this button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that are not shown in the display. ... Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display. ... Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the scrolled window will select the set to copy from. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... LabelMgr Class Reference . ... intљ . labelObject (const QString &text, const QString &objectName, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999", const QString &side="E", double labelDistance=-1.0, const QString &style="TextOnly") . ... labelScreen (const QString &text, int x, int y, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999") . ... setLabelText (int id, const QString &newText) . ... virtual voidљ . ...

... There are number of features that can be set by the user in the Sparkle Dialog box. ... The Sparkle plug-in computes the luminosity (level of whiteness) of each pixel in the image (the user can see this when the progress window labeled Generating luminosity array... is displayed). ... The threshold value is currently a slider/text field pair which have a precision of .0001. ... Like the Threshold value, the Flare Intensity has both a slider and a text input field for specifying its value. ...

... The Spectrum Extraction window is activated by clicking on the button in the Main window and contains options for fitting the sky and extracting spectra. ... The window provides two buttons and for an interactive definition of the limits of the sky and the object. Clicking one of the these buttons activates a cursor in the display window. ... The name of the resulting sky file is defined in the text field Sky (image or constant): which includes the default value sky . ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...