... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature Work in groups of 2-4. ... Due 1999 April 15 In this laboratory exercise, you will use the radio telescope on the roof of Science B to measure the intensity of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). ... The output of the telescope when pointing at the sky will then be 2 Tsys = Trec + Tsky : The temperature of the sky can in principle arise from two sources, radiation from the atmosphere and radiation from outer space (the CMBR). ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Stellar cinders . Born-again stars . ... Heavyweight Stars . ... What will happen inside the Sun and why? ... These are questions about "stellar evolution", the history of stars as they are transformed by nuclear processes deep inside. ... Most of what we know about stellar evolution comes from computer models of stars. ... We learn about the evolution of high-mass stars from HR diagrams of young galactic open clusters, and the evolution of low-mass metal-poor stars from old globular clusters. ...

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. ...

The following images of the icy surface of Ganymede, the Solar System's largest moon, were made by the Galileo spacecraft during its ongoing mission to explore Jupiter and the Jovian system. ... This image was taken when Galileo was 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles) away from Ganymede; north is to the top of the picture, and sunlight illuminates the surface from the lower left nearly overhead (77 degrees above the horizon). ... The image was taken June 27 at a range of 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles). ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The Iron Sun . ... The ultraviolet light emitted by eleven times ionized iron at temperatures over 2 million degrees Farenheit was used to record the above picture of the Sun on May 16. ... Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Leo I . ... Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies dominated by our Milky Way Galaxy and M31. ... Comet Hyakutake and a Solar Flare . ... During the closest approach to the Sun of Comet Hyakutake on May 1, SOHO photographed the comet. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

... Data . ... In general, Dolphin finds good agreement with the Whitmore, Heyer, and Casertano results, and the longer baseline and more extensive data set used by Dolphin result in less scatter in the residuals. ... In these case the Dolphin corrections are larger than the Whitmore et al. corrections. ... Figure 1 shows the ratio of counts from a 14 second exposure of Omega Cen in August, 2000 to the counts in a 100 second exposure, vs. the Y position on the chip (WF2 in this case with gain=15). ...

... The HH flow associated with young stellar object HL Tau has an exciting history and even until now the origin of some its features is not clear yet. ... Knotty structures of Herbig-Haro jets are common phenomena and knowing the origin of such structures is essential for understanding the processes of jet formation. ... In the flow detected compact knots with high (-150 km/s) and bow shape structures in front of those, with low radial velocities (-50 km/s). ...

... (degrees) b2 galactic latitude (degrees) sgl supergalactic longitude (degrees) sgb supergalactic latitude (degrees) pgc PGC name *** alphabetical ** ident1 1st name (NGC,IC,UGC,ESO...) *** alphabetical ** pa position angle (N- E) in degrees typ morphological type (e.g. 'E','Sab','SBa','SO') *** alphabetical ** ring 'R' for Ring galaxies, otherwise ' ' (blank) *** alphabetical ** multiple 'M' for multiple galaxies, otherwise ' ' (blank) *** ...

HIPASS Name RA, DEC(J2000) l, b NED ID peak rms mom0 vsys w50 w20 vLG MHI Ref. ... Col(1,2) = HIPASS name (HIPASS Jhhmm-dd; A,B,C if needed) . Col(3,4) = HIPASS center position in RA, DEC (J2000) . ... NGC6822 0.490 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . DDO210 0.880 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC0055 1.480 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ... ESO594-G004 1.060 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . IC5152 1.590 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . WLM 0.925 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC3109 1.250 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . SextansA 1.440 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ...

14 PIN UNKNOWN CONNECTOR . Available at location J12 on the Apple Macintosh Classic logic board? ... 12 volts . ... Ground . ... Apple Tech Info Library 6532: Macintosh Classic, Internal Power Connector Pinouts at Apple TIL homepage . ...

. Please standby and you will be automatically connected to the new location of the unframed Supernova page. Or, click on the link above. If you have questions or problems, please email me at David Bishop dbishop@vhdl.org . Last modified: Mon Aug 27 12:40:15 EDT 2001

The form on this Web page allows specifying a celestial position for which the full 4x4 degree NVSS FITS image is desired. ... Other services of the NVSS survey include: . ... NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS or jpeg file) server . direct ftp to NVSS 4x4 deg. FITS image and documentation server . NVSS source catalog and software ftp server - but please note that you will need to schedule an overnight job for a quiet time slot to download the 150Mb CATALOG.FIT file to avoid timeouts etc. ...

Venus under the clouds. ... Venus is the second from the Sun and the nearest to the Earth planet of solar system. ... As for Venus, it has the densest atmosphere, the smallest rotation around the axis and the least eccentricity of the orbit Venus is the only planet whose own rotation is opposite it’s rotation around the Sun. ... The radiolocation survey of Venus by the soviet station "Venera - 15" and "Venera - 16" brought out in 1984 in the planets satellite`s orbit shoued the tarces of long walls. ...

... If some entries are missing, which might turn out later, add them in a way that the library remains downward compatible. (13aug97) XAW3D 3D widget library 1.3 . ... ASCII Art library 1.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , aa.dll for XFree86, aa.dll.noX for non-X environments) . ... MPEG library 1.2.1 (by Hung-Chi Chu , DLL only ) . PNG library 1.0.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib , DLL only ) . TIFF library 3.4beta037 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib and jpeg , DLL only ) . ... Xpm 3.4k (by Hung-Chi Chu ) . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > zCOSMOS Advanced Data Products Available via Phase 3 . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... The zCOSMOS-bright advanced data products are now available via the Science Data Products query form of the ESO Archive . ... The zCOSMOS data were migrated to be compliant to the ESO standard and ingested in the ESO Science Archive Facility via the Phase 3 infrastructure. ...

Up: Sky Surveys . ... The object catalogue and compressed pixel data are stored online and are accessible via the WWW. ... small area (up to 15arcmin) pixel images with attached object catalogue, . ... The primary data format is FITS for both images and binary tables of object catalogues, which enables porting of the data into established software packages. ... In this way, it is possible to browse the data by clicking on objects in the image display or the catalogue list to highlight them in both. ...