... Welcome to the Boneyard. ... AA17666-11 sites several supernova mistakes from this period. 1998di (= KL Dra), IAUC 6982 discovered 1998/08/02 by Mike Schwartz . Found in MCG +10-27-12 NED01 at R.A. = 19h24m38s.19, Decl. ... Located 0".6 east and 3".8 north of the nucleus of MCG +10-27-12 NED01 ( Discovery image ( local mirror )) ( VSnet 98di web page ) . Mag 16.8, Type CV NOTE: This has now been confirmed to be not a supernova, but a cataclysmic variable (dwarf nova) of the CR Boo class. ...

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 . ...

Total number of pointings to be observed in survey : 2670 Number of unique pointings observed so far: 2350 Number of unique ptgs on processed tapes : 0 Number of pointings on dud tapes : 88 Number of processed pointings on dud tapes : 0 Number of non- survey pointings found : 29211 Number of short or test survey pointings ...

... 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. ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

Pan . ... Pan, the innermost known satellite, was found from photographs taken by Voyager during its encounter with Saturn. ... Pan is located 133,583 kilometers from the center of Saturn and is within the Encke Gap of Saturn's A-ring. ... Orbital period (days) . ... This image shows the small moolet Pan located within the Saturn's Encke gap. ... Pan Within Encke Gap . ... Showalter, Mark R., "Visual detection of 1981S13, Saturn's eighteenth satellite, and its role in the Encke gap," Nature , Vol. ...

Pan . ... Pan, the innermost known satellite, was found from photographs taken by Voyager during its encounter with Saturn. ... Pan is located 133,583 kilometers from the center of Saturn and is within the Encke Gap of Saturn's A-ring. ... Orbital period (days) . ... This image shows the small moolet Pan located within the Saturn's Encke gap. ... Pan Within Encke Gap . ... Showalter, Mark R., "Visual detection of 1981S13, Saturn's eighteenth satellite, and its role in the Encke gap," Nature , Vol. ...

... Discovery of 47-s pulsations in the X-ray source 1RXS J225352.8+624354 / arXiv:1305.3439 , May 2013 . ... Optical spectroscopy of X-ray source IGR J22534+6243 / Atel # 4248 . ... Search for counterparts of newly discovered INTEGRAL/IBIS sources / Atel # 4166 . New INTEGRAL Galactic Plane Survey in SkyView / blog . Likely X-ray counterparts of newly discovered INTEGRAL/IBIS sources / Atel # 4165 . AGN in the INTEGRAL/IBIS 9-year Galactic hard X-ray survey / Atel # 4151 . ...

... 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. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... Landscape Class Reference abstract . ... More... #include < Landscape.hpp > . ... Landscape (float _radius=2.f) . ... load (const QSettings &landscapeIni, const QString &landscapeId)=0 . ... setBrightness (const float b) . ... floatљ . ... const QStringљ . getTexturePath (const QString &basename, const QString &landscapeId) . ... const floatљ . ... Definition at line 42 of file Landscape.hpp . ... const QString Landscape::getTexturePath . ...

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 . ...

... 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...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

... 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 . ...

The ALFA Pulsar Survey has discovered and confirmed 38 new pulsars to date. ... This program, developed by Duncan Lorimer and David Champion, searches for new pulsars in real time. ... The P-ALFA consortium plans to reduce all the data using its full frequency and time resolution, a far more computer-intensive job. ... From the confirmation and timing observations made to date, it is clear that this millisecond pulsar (MSP) is in a binary system with an orbital period of several hundred days. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... A Scorched World: too distant to image, Kepler-10b is depicted here by a NASA artist (Image credit: NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry) . The Kepler satellite looks for planets passing between their parent star and Earth. ... Placed beside our homeworld, Kepler-10b would be about 40% wider than Earth. ... Possibly only occasional jagged islands of metal and rock break the monotony of its glowing lava oceans. ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Distance: 5kpc( heavily absorbed, distance unknown) . ... Description: strong X-ray PSR/PWN,radio shell . ... Radio . ... Radio Images Page . ... Exposure uf . ... Exposure uf Exposure time of unfiltered event file . Exposure f Exposure time of filtered event file . ... Event 2 FITS File . ... AUX file . ... see fit detail page for more about the fit. see chandra spectrum page for region used. ... Radio Images . ... 2.0" . ...

... 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. ...

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... coordConv::FK5CoordSys Class Reference . ... FK5CoordSys (double date=2000.0) . ... clone (double date) const . ... taiFromDate (double date) const . ... CoordSys (std::string const &name, double date, DateTypeEnum dateType, bool isMean , bool canConvert ) . ... convertFrom (double &toDir, double &scaleChange, CoordSys const &fromCoordSys, Coord const &fromCoord, double fromDir, Site const &site, double tai=0) const . ... virtual coordConv::FK5CoordSys::~FK5CoordSys . ...

... J5: Radio and Radar Studies of the Solar System. ... Analogously, the key idea of the USSR (United Solar System Radar) concept would be the thousandfold increase in sensitivity over existing radar astronomy facilities, and besides, only the tenfold increase in transmitting power and collecting areas of transmitting and receiving antennas is necessary for this purpose. ... So, let us try to imagine the scientific impact, which would provide this United Solar System Radar. ... 3)  Asteroid's moons; . ...