... 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. ...

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 . ...

Proposal Identification No.: P2531 Date Received: 2009­Oct­01 11:50:25 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Pulsars Observation Category: Galactic Total Time Requested: 2.5 Hours Minimum Useful Time: 2.5 Proposal Title: A deep search for a pulsar in the supernova remnant G64.5+0.9 ABSTRACT: We request 2.5 hours to search for radio pulsations from the recently discovered shell supernova remnant G64.5+0.9 using the ALFA receiver. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 28.02.1996 . ... Credit: J. Schoemer ( NASM ) Explanation: Tremendous explosions near the center of our Galaxy were discovered just this past December and are being announced today by a paper in Nature and a press conference at NASA . Bursts like these have never been seen before, and so the exact cause is unknown and will likely be the source of astronomical speculations and observations for years to come. ... Publications with keywords: Galactic Center . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2005 December 5 . Fountains Discovered on Saturn's Enceladus . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Fountains of ice shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus. Clear discovery images of the fountains were made using observations from the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn . During a recent pass, Cassini was programmed to look back toward the Sun where Enceladus would appear as a thin crescent . ... About APOD | ...

B?rbel Koribalski (ATNF), Simon Johnston (RCfTA), . and Robina Otrupcek (ATNF) . ... Neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of the recently discovered Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (D = 24 kpc) have been obtained using the 22-m Mopra telescope. We derive upper limits on the HI mass in several positions in the galaxy's central region between 51 and 75 solar masses. Interpolating over the extent of the stellar distribution of the galaxy gives an upper limit of about 10e4 solar masses. ...

... X-ray: Non-thermal, limb-brightened to W, with central source. Point sources: Central X-ray source. Distance: Association with molecular clouds and X-ray observations imply 1.3 kpc. ... 1997, PASJ, 49, L7. ASCA of NW. ADS . ... 1999, ApJ, 525, 357. ASCA and other observations. ... ATCA at 1.4 GHz (46''?36''), and ASCA observations. ... ASCA observations. ... 2003, A&A, 400, 567. Chandra spectroscopy. ... Chandra, XMM and other X-ray observations of central source. ...

Analysis of Observations of Earth Impact Object 2008 TC3 . ... Central (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory of RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia Abstract: . On-line astrometric and photometric observations of asteroid 2008 TC3 , discovered 19 hours before its impact on Earth [1], were carried out with the mirror astrograph ZA-320 пњ at Pulkovo observatory at night of 7 th October, 2009. ... Results of analysis of the of 837 observations taken at 26 observatories worldwide are presented. ...

... Protoplanetary Disks and the Hunt for the Youngest Exoplanets . ... Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM . ... But associating the current exoplanet properties with their formation epoch can be problematic, since the formation process is intimately associated with the physical conditions associated with their birthplaces: the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

My research efforts have focused on three areas which are: . More than 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered around relatively nearby stars, primarily through the Doppler line shifts owing to the reflex motions of their host stars, and more recently through transits of some planets across the face of the host stars. ... Gravitational microlensing provides a novel technique to look for planets around lens stars, and this is the only technique currently capable of detecting Earth-mass planets. ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...

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. ...

2012 A Broadband Study of the Emission from the Composite Supernova Remnant MSH 11-62 (P. Slane et al.) ... 2012 Infrared imaging and polarimetric observations of the pulsar wind nebula in G21.5-0.9 (A. Zajczyk et al.) ... 2009 High-resolution X-ray Observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Associated with the Gamma-ray Source HESS J1640-465 (A. Lemiere, P. Slane, B.M. Gaensler, S.S. Murray) - ApJ, 706, 1269 . ... 1995 Soft X-Ray Emission From Selected Isolated Pulsars (P. Slane N. Lloyd) ApJ 452, L115 . ...

Armagh Observatory, 10 January 2003: A former resident of Armagh, Mr Terry Moseley, now President of the Irish Astronomical Association , was recently honoured by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) by having a minor planet named after him. The asteroid, the first to be discovered by David Asher, of the Armagh Observatory, was found at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, on Boxing Day 1994. A reception to mark the event will be held at the Armagh Observatory on Wednesday 15th January. ...

... Luminous blue variable (LBV) stars are the most massive stars with 40-120 solar masses, which are passing the short stage of evolution losing their hydrogen envelopes before exploding as Supernovae. These are extremely rare objects, only about a dozen of the most massive LBVs are known in the Galaxy. ... In the spectral observations of stars with infrared circular nebulae, found in the Spitzer survey (24 microns), a new LBV star in the Galaxy was discovered. It was named MN112. ...

... Several attempts to discover the FICN signal in VLBI nutation series made during last years failed. ... We investigated several VLBI CPO series by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. It has been shown that there are several periodic signals with close amplitude around the expected FICN period without any prevailing one that can be reliably associated with the FICN. ... DATA ANALYSIS We analyzed several CPO series obtained in IVS analysis centers by means of spectral and wavelet analysis. ...

... Master . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 20.06.2012 . ... 27 Apr 2012: GRB 120427A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13274 . ... 29 Mar 2012: MASTER OT 123412-632503 detection during Swift trigger 518853 ATel4007 . 26 Mar 2012: GRB 120323A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13116 . ... 29 Jan 2012: GRB 120129A: MASTER optical observations GCN12907 . 06 Jan 2012: GRB 120106A: MASTER Early OT marginally detection GCN12818, GCN12811 . ...

. This artist's conception portrays four extremely red galaxies that lie almost 13 billion light-years from Earth. Discovered using the Spitzer Space Telescope, these galaxies appear to be physically associated and may be interacting. One galaxy shows signs of an active galactic nucleus, shown here as twin jets streaming out from a central black hole. David A. Aguilar (CfA)