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... Gallery . ... Wide Field Survey Images . Miscellaneous Wide Field Images . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: Large Magellenic Cloud . Description: NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... Large Magellenic Cloud NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... space physics . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The Large Hadron Collider produces first physics results . ... After 20 years in the making, the first physics results have come out of the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC). ... Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments An image from the European Southern Observatory, reveals two galaxies, NGC 3169 and NGC 3166, meeting in intergalactic space. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment NGC 2841 is a rather beautiful flocculent spiral galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... Posted on October 28, 2010 | ...

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... IC1396 . IC1396 - The "Elephant Trunk" Nebula . ... There is a bright central star cluster, also designated IC1396, which will interfere with your ability to see the faint nebulosity while visually observing this area with a rich-field telescope. ... 9/12/2006 through 10/21/2006 . ... Ha: 7 hours of 30 minute subs . OIII: 14 hours of 30 minute subs . SII: 9 hours of 30 minute subs ...totalling 30 hours . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Астронет | ... Сириус, Солнце, Луна и Южный Крест . ... Авторы и права: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Пояснение: Слева направо представлены башни Yepun ( ye-poon ; Сириус ), Antu ( an-too ; Солнце ), Kueyen ( qua-yen ; Луна ) и Melipal ( me-li-pal ; Южный Крест ), изображенные на фоне ночного заката в Паранальской обсерватории на севере Чили. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: Moon - Sun - VLT - Sirius - Southern Cross - Солнце - Сириус - ESO - telescope . ... От Северного до Южного Креста . ...

... Initial Setup Tasks . ... Setup v490d.1cm-icrf: NIF=4 . ... IFP#1-LO 22000 - 22016 MHz USB RCP . ... IFP#1-HI 22016 - 22032 MHz USB RCP . ... IFP#2-LO 22500 - 22516 MHz USB LCP . ... IFP#1-LO 22211 - 22227 MHz USB RCP . ... IFP#1-HI 22227 - 22243 MHz USB RCP . ... IFP#2-LO 22211 - 22227 MHz USB LCP . ... IFP#2-HI 22227 - 22243 MHz USB LCP . ... For both Hobart and Ceduna the LOs should be set to 706 MHz (IFP#1) and 206 MHz (IFP#2) for the 4 x 16 MHz setup and 495 MHz for