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 . ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 2002. Current Novae can be found on the main page . Nova NGC 2403 2002 , ATEL 1638 , discovered 2002/12/30.124 by K. Hornoch . Found in NGC 2403 at R.A. = 07h37m38s.36, Decl. ... Nova M31 2002 6 , IAUC 7970 discovered 2002/08/04.13 by K. Hornoch . ... Nova M31 2002 5 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/22.5 by LOTOSS . ... Nova M31 2002 4 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/20.5 by LOTOSS ; Observatory G. Colombo . ...

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... Reference Data for Calibration and Tools . ... If you would like to receive an e-mail every time a new COS reference file is delivered and the database is updated, you can subscribe to the cos_reffiles_upd mailing list. ... Burst Parameters Table . ... The high voltage reference table gives the times when the FUV high voltage was changed More... hv . ... The walk corection reference table gives parameters for correcting the pixel coordinates XCORR and YCORR of FUV TIME-TAG data More... walk . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... There is also an edge-on view of the asteroid belt here . This video was created by Scott Manley. ... View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980. ... Notice how the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit. ... At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. ... An edge-on view of the asteroids . ... Other asteroid and comet animations by Scott Manley . ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... This supernova was discovered on April 6, 1998 on spectra obtained with 6m telescope of Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS (Kniazev et al. ... BVRI and H images were taken with the 1.52m EOCA telescope at Calar Alto on April 24, 1998. ... The available spectra for the SN, from April 6 and 19 taken with the 6m SAO Russian telescope and from May 26 with the NOT are shown in Figure 2. ... The spectra are typical of a type II supernova. ...

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. ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

... Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun , and the second largest in the solar system . Saturn's most distinctive feature is its ring system . ... Saturn has an internal magnetic field with a dipole aligned with the rotation axis (Ness et al., ... The solar wind and Saturn's rings and satellites supply the particles that are trapped in the radiation belts. ... Between the inner and outer satellites orbits Titan, Saturn's largest moon (larger than the planet Mercury ). ... Res., ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... StelLocation Class Reference . Store the informations for a location on a planet. More... #include < StelLocation.hpp > . QStringљ . ... Output the location as a string ready to be stored in the user_location file. ... createFromLine (const QString &line) . ... Definition at line 26 of file StelLocation.hpp . ... line . ... Output the location as a string ready to be stored in the user_location file. int StelLocation::altitude . ...

... PUL VLBI Analysis Center . ... Pulkovo EOP and Reference Systems Analysis Center (PERSAC) is located at the Pulkovo Observatory . ... Processing of VLBI , GPS, and optical observations aimed at analysis of the Earth rotation, station displacement, and celestial reference system. ... Celestial Pole Offset (CPO) and Free Core Nutation (FCN) . Four daily updated CPO and FCN series (models) are provided. ... File fcn1.dat contains the ZM1 FCN model with variable amplitude and phase. ...

... Virtual Observatory related tools use a new standard for data transfer called the VOTable format. ... We describe a streaming interface that can bridge the VOTable format, through a user friendly graphical interface, with the FITS and ASCII formats, which are commonly used by astronomers. ... This is a tool for converting ASCII or FITS files to VOTable format. ... A number of useful data processing, browsing and visualization tools are available to deal with data in the VOTable format. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... 10, N 30 (2010) . ... NOMAD-1 1127-0027360 . ... The variability of NOMAD-1 1127-0027360 was discovered on frames obtained during observations of the gamma-ray burst GRB100901a with telescopes of the MASTER robotic net (Lipunov et al. 2010) (Tunka Valley; Kourovka astronomical observatory; Kislovodsk solar station) on September 1 - 2, 2010. ... Additional observations of the object were carried out at Kourovka astronomical observatory on September 2 - 4, 2010. ...

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... Observing . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... Tail discovered on long-known asteroid . ... ASTEROIDS . ... Sheppard and Trujillo discovered an unexpected tail on 62412, an object which had been known as a typical asteroid for over a decade. ... In the past, asteroids were thought to be mostly unchanging objects, but an improved ability to observe them has allowed scientists to discover tails and comas, which are the thin envelopes of an atmosphere that surrounds a comet s nucleus...

... Classes . ... FittingProxy::FitType . ... Definition at line 116 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 145 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 147 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 139 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 137 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 141 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 151 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 143 of file FittingProxy.h . ... Definition at line 172 of file FittingProxy.h ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...