... 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. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 July 10 . M51: Cosmic Whirlpool . ... Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you'll likely find this stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula , the large galaxy with well defined spiral structure is also cataloged as NGC 5194. ...

... April 9, 1999 . WR 104: Pinwheel Star . ... Explanation: Like a cosmic lawn sprinkler, dust streaming from a rotating star system creates a pinwheel pattern in this false color infrared image . Astronomers discovered the surprising star dust scenario using a sophisticated interferometer and the 10 meter Keck I telescope to observe the bright Wolf-Rayet star WR 104. ... The problem is, their starlight would also be so intense that any dust flakes should be destroyed! ... About APOD > . ...

... It is notoriously difficult to identify weak cosmic ray events in long exposure observations. ... The method is to compare the probability distribution function (PDF) of cosmic ray events between an observation and a dark frame matched in exposure time. We illustrate the basic idea using dark exposures from a Tek 1024 1024 CCD with varying exposure lengths and read-out times. ... Figure: Histogram of cosmic ray events in a two hour dark frame. ... Original PostScript figure (78 kB) . ...

... WR 104: Pinwheel Star . ... Astronomers discovered the surprising star dust scenario using a sophisticated interferometer and the 10 meter Keck I telescope to observe the bright Wolf-Rayet star WR 104. ... As the binary system rotates , the spray of surviving dust particles appears to spiral outward. ... Publications with keywords: dust - Wolf-Rayet star - hot star - star - binary star . Publications with words: dust - Wolf-Rayet star - hot star - star - binary star . ...

... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Explore how our universe and all the objects it contains form and evolve in Cosmic Origins a must-have app brought to you by the editors of Astronomy , the world s best-selling astronomy magazine. ... Discover the basic galaxy types, how black holes affect the universe and how galaxies and their larger conglomerates т?? galaxy clusters т?? form and evolve through cosmic time. ...

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 . ...

... We present ultraviolet and optical spectra of the bright (V=16.5), high-redshift ( ) QSO HE1122 - 1649 (Reimers et al. 1995a,1995b). ... Keywords: absorption lines . ... The combined data are shown in Figure 1. ... The Ly profile reveals an absorbing subcomponent at in agreement with results from heavy element absorption lines detected in the high resolution optical data. ... Figure: Velocity profiles of heavy element absorption lines arising in the damped Ly system as seen in the optical data. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

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... Back to the Attic ; . Look at this picture, reproduced from one of the ESO Schmidt plates obtained for the red half of the joint ESO/SERC Atlas of the Southern Sky. The bright, round object is the planetary nebula PK274+3.1. The object to the right of it isтАж just some galactic stars. ... й The ESO Messenger (Editor: Richard West) . Copyright (c) 2013 eso.org/~hboffin . ... Design by Niall Boffin FreeCSSTemplates.org . ...

... We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that have at least one emission line with a full width at half-maximum larger than 1000 km s-1, luminosities brighter than Mi*=-23, and highly reliable redshifts. ... Based on observations obtained with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium. ...

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 . ...

Typing ESC U causes the Common Output Area to be overlaid by a Unix shell window or, if the Unix shell is already present, causes the window to be popped down. The shell used is /bin/csh . ... Behind the scenes' Hermes will remain active, but because all typing goes into the shell, user communication with Hermes is not possible. ... Typing CTRL-X E causes the user to be prompted for the name of a file to be edited by a text editor which will overlay the whole terminal screen. ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... The remote area was formed very early, at a time when the Universe was a fifth of its present age and the presence of the galaxy string defies existing models, which can not explain how a string this big could have formed so long ago. ... The simulations tell us that you cannot take the matter in the early Universe and line it up in strings this large," Dr Francis said. ... But in the early Universe, most galaxies had not yet formed, and most dark matter clouds will not yet contain a galaxy. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... Robert Naeye, Editor in Chief of Sky Telescope Magazine . ... NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), recently renamed FERMI Gamma Ray Space Telescope, is a powerful space observatory that will open a wide window on the universe. ... He was recently the Senior Science Writer in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...