... A Young Supernova in the Nearby Pinwheel Galaxy . ... The supernova, dubbed PTF 11kly, was discovered by computer only two days ago as part of the Palomar Transit Factory (PTF) sky survey utilizing the wide angle 1.2-meter Samuel Oschwin Telescope in California. ... PTF 11kly occurred in the photogenic Pinwheel galaxy ( M101 ), which, being only about 21 million light years away, makes it one of the closest supernovas seen in decades. ... Publications with keywords: supernova - M 101 . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... 2003 August 19 . Mars Through a Small Telescope . ... Explanation: How does Mars appear through a small telescope? Viewed with the unaided eye or through a small telescope , possibly the most striking part of Mars' appearance is its red color. ... Visible through the small telescope are white polar caps of water and carbon-dioxide ice, light red areas rich in lightly colored craters, and dark red areas dominated by relatively smooth lowlands. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... To locate it, look along the imaginary line between the two end stars on the leading edge of the PloughтАЩs blade (Merak and Dubhe) and Polaris (the North Star), the galaxy M82 (also known as the Cigar Galaxy) along with its companion M81, lies just off this line about a third of the way between the Plough and Polaris. €а€аAs usual, the supernova is far brighter than its home galaxy, appearing as an extra star. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) on 2012 August 9th. Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. The Faulkes Telescope Project and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network kindly gave us the opportunity to use the Faulkes Telescope South in 2012 August. ... More astronomical projects with the Faulkes Telescopes . Last Revised: 2012 August 13th . ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... August 7, 1998 . M65 Without Moth . ... Explanation: Messier 65 ( M65 ) is a bright spiral galaxy of stars only 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo . ... The faint blue smudges along the spiral arms of M65 are large clusters of bright, newly formed stars within the distant galaxy while the bright individual stars are foreground objects in our own Milky Way galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

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The telescope configured for measurements of exoplanet transit light curves is seen from the north side in this May 2010 photo. Lower portions of the dome have been insulated to reduce daytime heating by radiation from the warm metal dome. ... The interior of the dome is seen soon after the encoder upgrade in February 2007. ... Karen Collins, a research astronomer specializing in exoplanets, helped with the telescope installation in August 2006. ... kielkopf at louisville dot edu . ...

... Here is an image a supernova in NGC4704. The image taken at 6.4.1998 at 21.08 UT, CCD ST-7, 840s. Track and Accumulate exposure (21x40s), no filter, dark and flat corrected, temp -20c, telescope used 152/2063 refractor. Image were taken at the center of our city, Jyvaskyla. ... Dark lines in image are error of track and accumulate process and even dark and flat field were corrected, there still remain some noise. ... Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies. ...

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These images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) show the nearby spiral galaxy M101 before and after the appearance of SN 2011fe (circled, right), which was discovered August 24, 2011. At a distance of 21 million light-years, it was the nearest type Ia supernova since 1986. ... Right: The supernova was so bright that most UVOT exposures were short, so this view includes imagery from August through November 2011 to better show the galaxy. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

. MASTER supernova search . 2006 02 08.96 UT . Klick for full image .

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