... How can two stars create such a strange and intricate structure? ... Elliptical Galaxy M87 . ... Named for Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960), The Gum Nebula is so large and close it is actually hard to see. ... The Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ... Crumbling Comet . ... Moving rapidly through planet Earth's night sky, Fragment C of crumbling comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 passed almost directly in front of M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 on May 8. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... TelescopeClient Class Reference abstract . ... getEnglishName (void) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getJ2000EquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const =0 . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getSideralPosGeometric (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Subject: Nova, Lecture, IAA @Castle Espie, Dunsink, Sir P.M. Date: 19 March 2007 00:10:49 GMT Hi all, б  1. ... BAA Tribute to Sir Patrick Moore: On April 24, the BBC's Sky At Night programme and Sir Patrick Moore (a BAA member for more than 70 years) celebrate 50 years of continual broadcasting: the world's longest running television programme with the same presenter. б б  Many astronomers, amateur and professional alike, have been inspired by Patrick and the ...

... Classes . ... casa . casa::LELConvert< T, F > . ... Class to convert a LEL node from one numerical type to another. ... LELConvert (const CountedPtr < LELInterface < F > > &expr) . ... Destructor does nothing. virtual void . ... This LEL letter class is derived from LELInterface . ... template<class T , class F > . ... virtual String casa::LELConvert < T, F >::className . ... virtual void casa::LELConvert < T, F >::eval . ... virtual LELScalar <T> casa::LELConvert < T, F >::getScalar . ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... 172, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII, eds. D. M. Mehringer, R. L. Plante, & D. A. Roberts (San Francisco: ASP), 407 . ... To facilitate data retrieval, we have created U-DARES, a user-friendly program that lets one look directly at the data in the USNO-A catalog, either as a graphical sky map, a plot, or a simple text table. ... To help PC users solve the problem of data retrieval, we have created the USNO-A Catalog Data Retrieval Software, or U-DARES. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... November . ... By admin September 26, 2012 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . Comet ISON is revealed.( ... Comet ISON.'s orbit and position on 25 September 2012.( ... The comet€а will reach its closest point to the Sun, perihelion in late November 2013.Then it is expected to whizz around the Sun a mere 1.1 million km above its surface making Comet ISON one of that class of comets called€а Sungrazers. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members . ... Science Users Information . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO astronomers often are working on scientific programmes and data sets that are suited for PhD theses. This page gives an overview over what is currently offered by Faculty astronomers. ... Thesis topic . ...

... Russian Aviation and Space Agency liaison Sergei Ripkin, during the crew's welcome home ceremony May 27 f rom a change in crew to a new ride home, Expedition 6 members ­ International Space Station Commander Kenneth Bowersox, ISS Science Officer Donald Pettit and Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin ­ were "all about teamwork and flexibility," said ISS Program Manager Bill Gerstenmaier. ... Bowersox later said that Pettit was "born to be a Space Station Science Officer." ...

... In this issue, we'll take a look at the Moon in our sky--its phases and some ways in which students can enjoy (and learn from) its ever-changing appearance. ... The Moon is the only thing in the sky (other than the Sun) that doesn't look like just a pinpoint of light or an indistinct fuzzy patch as seen with the unaided eye. ... The Moon's Orbit The Moon orbits around the Earth, taking about a month to go all the way around our planet. ... So 12 degrees is about 24 times the Moon's width on the sky....

Scientists Discover Surface Features on Titan . ... Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and his team took the images with the Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ...

... Classes . ... Dust :: ThinShell . ... ThinShell (double *energy, double *lum, double R , size_t n) . ThinShell (std::valarray< double > & energies , std::valarray< double > & speclum , double R ) . ... std::valarray< double > . energies . Array of energies at which the luminosity is known. std::valarray< double > . ... energy , . ... Energy array should be in units of Joules. ... References energies , and speclum . ... More precisely this is energy per unit volume per unit energy interval. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

i've been looking so long at these pictures of you that i almost believe that they're real i've been living so long with these pictures of you i almost believe that these pictures are all I can feel remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as the sky fell in holding you close how i always held close in your fear ...

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... Classes . ... coordConv::PVTCoord Class Reference . ... PVTCoord ( Coord const &coord, Eigen::Vector3d const &vel, double tai) . PVTCoord ( Coord const &coord0, Coord const &coord1, double tai, double deltaT) . PVTCoord ( PVT const &equatPVT, PVT const &polarPVT, PVT const &distPVT= PVT ()) . PVTCoord ( PVT const &equatPVT, PVT const &polarPVT, PVT const &distPVT, double equatPM, double polarPM, double radVel) . ... Definition at line 13 of file pvtCoord.h . ...

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

... Jupiter, Saturn and their moons. ... Massive stars use up their fuel much faster - in some cases less than 100 million years. ... Based on how evolution took place on Earth, why is it unlikely that life would exist around massive stars? ... 3.0 Observing - clusters and galaxies Open clusters are formed when a large cloud of galactic gas (up to dozens of light years across) condenses to form dozens or hundreds of stars at once. ... To use the model stand nea the Earth post and look towards the sun. ...

. Astronomers have discovered dozens of planets that orbit around a single member of a wide stellar duo. Although the second star in this view would look like a bright star, this simulation shows a twin-star sunset. NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... About ISSP . RAS members working in ISSP . ... Vladislav B.Timofeev, Member of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Vitaly V. Kveder, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences . Igor V.Kukushkin, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences . Mikhail I. Karpov, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences . Vladimir A. Borodin, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences . V.D.Kulakovskii, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences . ...