... P2864 Arecibo Observatory Date Received: 2013-Sep-03 16:15:21 William E. Gordon Telescope Observing Time Request COVER SHEET Section I - General Information Submitted for Sep 1 2013. ... We are requesting a total of 70 hours of observations at L-band over the course of one year, with an observation per day for the first ten days, then additional observations taken approximately once every other week there after. ... For these observations night-time is not needed. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Chapter 2: Proposal Submission Policies . 2.1 The Proposal Process: Phase I and Phase II . ... Chapter 3: Proposal Categories . ... 3.2.4 Calibration GO Proposals . ... 3.5 Joint HST-Chandra Observing Proposals . 3.6 Joint HST-Spitzer Observing Proposals . 3.7 Joint HST/XMM-Newton Observing Proposals . 3.8 Joint HST-NOAO Observing Proposals . 3.9 Joint HST-NRAO Observing Proposals . ... Chapter 4: Observation Types . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Up: Proposal Processing . ... ESO is prototyping a distributed ``Phase II'' system that will allow astronomers to prepare their observations at their home institutions, while maintaining a central repository for all observation data. ... ESO is developing a Phase II Proposal Preparation system (P2PP) to collect detailed scientific programme descriptions, in the form of observation blocks (OB). ... ESO's Phase II Proposal Preparation system is an integral part of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). ...

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... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... The Optical Counterparts to Galaxies in the Cen A Group Discovered by HIPASS . ... This group of galaxies was recently the subject of a separate and thorough optical survey (CУДtУ? et al. 1997), and thus presented an ideal comparison for us to test the survey performance. ... Six of the new members are previously uncatalogued galaxies, while four were catalogued but assumed not to be group members. ...

... Major news, from Terry Moseley: "Irish amateur astronomer Dave McDonald has just discovered an asteroid - the first one to be discovered in Ireland for 160 years! ... He said to me afterwards "Now I'll just have to discover one myself!" ... The only other asteroid ever discovered in Ireland was 9 Metis, by Andrew Graham at Markree Observatory in Co Sligo, on 25 April 1848. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Detected Supernovae . The search have produced till now the detections of 4 SNe. ... This result highlights the power of infrared monitoring in detecting Obscured SNe and indicates that optical surveys are probably missing a significant fraction of SNe, especially in obscured systems such as starburst galaxies. ... In Fig. we show the archival SOFI image of NGC3256 (left) and the first image obtained in 2001 (right) where SN2001db has been detected. ...

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 . ...

The Astrophysical Research Consortium Small Aperture Telescope (ARCSAT) is a 0.5-m (or 20") Classical Cassegrain telescope, formerly known as the SDSS Photometric Telescope (PT). ... Chief Telescope Engineer : Bill Ketzeback (bketzeba/apo.nmsu.edu) . Remote Operations Upgrade Project Manager : Joe Huehnerhoff (jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu) . ... SurveyCam PI : Dmitry Bizyaev (dmbiz/apo.nmsu.edu) . FlareCam PI : Joe Huehnerhoff ( jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu ) . ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... A Minor Planet's Night Out . ... Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are thousands of rocky bodies. ... In 1804 came Juno; in 1807, Vesta. ... Most minor planets, as asteroids are sometimes affectionately called, hum in elliptical orbits between Mars and Jupiter. ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 2007 March 4 . Triton: Neptune's Largest Moon . Credit: Voyager 2, NASA . Explanation: In October of 1846, William Lassell was observing the newly discovered planet Neptune . ... The above picture of Triton was taken in 1989 by the only spacecraft ever to pass Triton : Voyager 2. ... Ironically, Voyager 2 also confirmed the existence of complete thin rings around Neptune - but these would have been quite invisible to Lassell! ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

... 371Gregory Taylor . ... We persent a catalog of 1274 discrete sources detected during a 5 yr, 6 cm, radio-patrol survey of the galactic plane for variavle sources. ... Seventy-five percent of the sources are weaker than 75 mJy, and as a consequence reliable sources and 27 possible variables were detected, of which 64 % exhibited shirt-term variability. ... A comparison with previous centimeter variability studies suggests the possible existence of two distinnct variability components. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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). ...

... Triton: Neptune's Largest Moon . ... The Frothy Milky Way . ... Astronomers have discovered that looking at dust along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy is a bit like looking into a frothy glass of beer. The dust between stars in our galaxy appears.. ... Polaris: The North Star . ... Polaris is quite an unusual star. First, Polaris is the nearest bright star to the north spin axis of the Earth. Therefore, as the Earth turns, stars appear to rotate around Polaris, making it the North Star. ...