... 2005 February 7 . A Telescope Laser Creates an Artificial Star . ... Explanation: What do you get when you combine one of the world's most powerful telescopes with a powerful laser ? An artificial star. ... Therefore, astronomers have developed the ability to create an artificial star where they need it -- with a laser . ... Above, a laser beam shoots out of the Keck II 10-meter telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii in 2002, creating an artificial star. ... About APOD | ...

... April 12, 1999 . Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 . Credit: 2P2 Team , WFI , MPG/ESO 2.2-m Telescope , La Silla , ESO . Explanation: For such a close galaxy, NGC 4945 is easy to miss. NGC 4945 is a spiral galaxy in the Centaurus Group of galaxies, located only six times farther away than the prominent Andromeda Galaxy . ... Therefore galaxy-gazers searching the southern constellation of Centaurus need a telescope to see it. ... About APOD > . ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

My colleagues and I have recently completed a series of observations of SN1999an. ... The telescope is located at Martin Observatory in Blacksburg, VA, and is operated by the Physics Department of Virginia Tech. Our IAU Minor Planet Center Observatory Code is 841. ... Attached you will find a copy of one of our images (in .jpg format) with the supernova indicated. ... Virginia Tech Department of Physics . Back to Bright Supernovae . Back to Supernova 1999an . ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

... Астрономические данные в Сети - где искать и как пользоваться? ... Официальные астрономические учреждения России. ... Лучшие астрономические персональные страницы - AstroTop. ... Счетчик этой страницы неумолимо приближается уже к 100-тысячному посетителю! ... Приведу некоторые www-страницы астрономических учреждений России, которые могут послужить хорошей отправной точкой в поиске нужной Вам информации по астрономии. ... Недаром на данный ресурс есть ссылки со многих астрономических страниц России. ...

... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...