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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... August . ... Posted on December 1, 2011 | No Comments St Patrick?s Academy in Dungannon is hosting a fantastic public event for stargazers this Saturday evening. This local school has its own observatory and astronomy club for the students [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on November 17, 2011 | ... Posted on October 10, 2011 | ... Posted on September 29, 2011 | ... Posted on August 18, 2011 | ... Posted on June 21, 2011 | ...

... 2000 October 16 . Dust and Gas Surrounding Star R Coronae Australis . ... The dust is so thick on the upper left of the above photograph that little light from background stars comes through. Thinner dust near the stars reflects light from R Coronae Australis (upper right) and neighbor TY Coronae Australis , giving their surroundings a flowing appearance. ... The unusual structure above the center is a Herbig-Haro object, a knot of gas ejected from the star that has impacted surrounding gas. ...

... Triton: Neptune's Largest Moon . ... One hundred and fifty three years ago, on October 10th, 1846, William Lassell was observing the newly discovered planet Neptune. ... The Frothy Milky Way . ... Astronomers have discovered that looking at dust along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy is a bit like looking into a frothy glass of beer. The dust between stars in our galaxy appears.. ... Polaris: The North Star . ... First, Polaris is the nearest bright star to the north spin axis of the Earth. ...

... Why are we here? Thur 22 October 2009, Armagh . ... Her talk is entitled "Observing with a 100-metre virtual telescope, the VLTI". It's on WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER, at 7.30 p.m., in the Bell Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Queen's University, Belfast. ... Everyone is welcome; particularly ladies - come along and see what women are doing at the leading edge of astronomical research: astronomy is not just a topic for men! ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... In the nuclear area of the galaxy within the ring, the nucleus appears elongated, and a fainter 3rd star-like component is discernable. ... The 'yellowy' halo about the off-centre nucleus of the ring galaxy is likely composed of redder stars, while the color-neutral nucleus doesn't appear distinctly different in color than either of the ring 'impactor' candidates at bottom center and top right of the picture. ... If so then why are the bright regions within the ring apparently color neutral? ...

... Universe At Your Fingertips Activities TOC . ... Why do we have stereotypes about what an astronomer looks like? ... A reading list on 20th century astronomers and their work is included in the Resources Bibliographies section of the Universe at Your Fingertips. ... Be sure the students do the activity before the astronomer comes. ... After the visit, give students an opportunity to talk about how the astronomer was similar or different from the mental picture they had before the visit. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

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... click image to view discuss) . ... Pictures taken by Bernie Volz using Nikon D5100 with Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED lens. Submitted by Bernie Volz on 11/23/2014 13:45:01 . ... The submillimeter array (left) and Japan's Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea . Note that a portion of James Clerk Maxwell Telescope shows to the left. ... Mauna Kea Observatory - 5 telescopes . ... NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Chandra X-Ray Observatory CXC 1. ... BI CCD CTI Correction for ACIS Paul Plucinsky, Dan Dewey, & Joseph DePasquale 1 Paul Plucinsky EPIC Cal October 2006 Chandra X-Ray Observatory Gratuitous Pretty Pictures of E0102 S3 Summed Data ~100 ks CXC RGS Spectrum (Pollock 2006) Objective: develop a spectral model which can be used by RGS, HETG, EPIC & ACIS, etc. Paul Plucinsky 2 EPIC Cal October 2006 Chandra X-Ray Observatory What's New Since the Iceland 2006 Meeting? ...