... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

Member's Christmas Party 1999 . ... All of the Christmas pictures were taken by Larry Heltzer (Doc) and Joe Forster. ... Somehow I got cut out of the picture, I'll have to talk to the photographer (Joe). ... This time with Kim Balliett and her husband Ron. Kim was elected club Vice President. ... John Boggs is in between everyone feeding his face (but then again, we all were!) Barrie McConnell, Dave Hartsel's arm and Kim and Ginny are in the back. ... Barrie, Dave Hartsel, and John. ...

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) . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelShortcutMgr Class Reference . ... voidљ . ... loadShortcuts (const QString &filePath, bool overload=false) . ... addGuiAction (const QString &actionId, bool temporary, const QString &text, const QString &primaryKey, const QString &altKey, const QString &groupId, bool checkable=true, bool autoRepeat=false, bool global=false) . ... if true, if a shortcut in the file already exists, replace its keys with the ones in the file. void StelShortcutMgr::loadShortcuts . ...

... How can two stars create such a strange and intricate structure? ... Elliptical Galaxy M87 . ... Named for Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960), The Gum Nebula is so large and close it is actually hard to see. ... The Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ... Crumbling Comet . ... Moving rapidly through planet Earth's night sky, Fragment C of crumbling comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 passed almost directly in front of M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 on May 8. ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... An Intermediate Polar Binary System . ... Explanation: How can two stars create such a strange and intricate structure? Most stars are members of multiple-star systems . ... Only a handful of stars, however, are members of an intermediate polar , a system featuring a white dwarf star with a magnetic field that significantly pushes out the inner accretion disk , only allowing material to fall down its magnetic poles. ... Intermediate polars are a type of cataclysmic variable star system. ...

. To see a Russian version of this page, click here . (Professor, Director of SAI. Graduated from the Moscow State University (MSU) in 1964, Ph.D. 1967, MSU, Dr. of Science 1975, MSU) . A member of IAU and EAS, IAU committees No 42, 27. Fields of interest: Stellar astrophysics, close binary systems, inverse problems in astrophysics. Send your mail to: cher@sai.msu.su .

... Some striking examples include a shot of a tram in the morning , or another view of the Vasco da Gama bridge , and many others.. ... In the picture below, we are looking North towards Lisboa (Lisbon). ... Below is a distant view of this bridge from the millenary St. George's Castle. ... From the same Elevator, looking North, we see the Rossio square. ... Going westwards about 7 km, you see Padrao dos Descobrimentos, built in 1943 for trhe celebrations of the 800 years of Portuguese independence. ...

... Classes . ... casa . casa::DynLib . ... Class to handle loadig of dynamic libraries. ... DynLib (const std::string &library, const std::string &prefix=std::string(), const std::string &funcName=std::string(), bool closeOnDestruction= True ) . ... DynLib (const std::string &library, Bool closeOnDestruction, const std::string &prefix="lib", const std::string &suffix=".so") . ... If closeOnDestruction=True , the dynamic library is closed on destruction of the DynLib object. casa::DynLib::DynLib . ...