... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

nearneighbor - A Nearest neighbor gridding algorithm nearneighbor [ xyzfile ( s ) ] -G out _ grdfile -I x _ inc [ m|c ][/ y _ inc [ m|c ]] -N sectors -R west / east / south / north [ r ] -S search _ radius [ m|c|k|K ] [ -E empty ] [ -F ] [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -L flag ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] nearneighbor reads arbitrarily located (x,y,z[,w]) triples [quadruplets] from standard ... Default is quadrant search, i.e., sectors = 4]. ... H Input file(s) has Header record(s). ...

... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers a stunning unprecedented close-up view of a turbulent firestorm of starbirth along a nearly edge-on dust disk girdling Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth. A ground-based telescopic view (upper left insert) shows that the dust lane girdles the entire elliptical galaxy. This lane has long been considered the dust remnant of a smaller spiral galaxy that merged with the large elliptical galaxy. ...

Next: Column label: MOONE Up: MOUNTING= 'FORK' Previous: Column label: DEC . The values in this column are the corresponding hour angles of the eastern ``observation'' limits, in decimal degrees. ... Most telescopes read out hours and minutes instead; these should be acceptable inputs to the table-making program, which should do the conversion. ... In some cases, hour angles east of the meridian are read as negative values; in other cases, values will lie between and ( and ). ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... This coming July 4, the Deep Impact spaceship will reach its target - Comet Tempel 1 -- and release an impactor over five times the mass of a person toward its surface. ... Similar in size and grand design to our own Milky Way, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 lies about 100 million light-years away toward the constellation Leo. ... Stars, Galaxies, and Comet Tempel 1 . ... The dark band of dust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in optical light actually glows brightly in infrared light. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Output Files / Classification of the patterns / Single events and recognizable . A bad pixel is defined as a pixel which is excluded from telemetry; an edge pixel is a `virtual pixel' just outside the sensitive area, in particular a pixel at the edge of the CCD. b . ... Edges: e e e e e . ... Any single event which is located at 'b' will be considered as invalid ('B' is the position of the bad pixel), as will be any recognizable pattern with the maximum amplitude at 'b'. ...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

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... The spatially resolved structure near the hydrogen emission H line was found in the spectrum taken with the BTA/SCORPIO in June, 2013. ... The fragment of the Nova V1494 Aql spectrum is shown in Fig.1. ... The Nova V1494 Aql has passed the stage of the supersoft X-ray source (SSS) in the period between 218 and 516 days after the visible light maximum (Schwarz et al., ... The spectrum of Nova V1494 Aql taken on 2013 June 9 with BTA/SCORPIO . ... The vertical lines are the lines of night sky emission....

... 2009 April 19 . The View Near a Black Hole . ... Explanation: In the center of a swirling whirlpool of hot gas is likely a beast that has never been seen directly: a black hole . ... The gas surrounding GRO J1655-40, for example, has been found to display an unusual flickering at a rate of 450 times a second. Given a previous mass estimate for the central object of seven times the mass of our Sun , the rate of the fast flickering can be explained by a black hole that is rotating very rapidly. ...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 28 . ... Radio: Shell, brightest to the S. Optical: Filaments correspond well to the radio shell, brightest in SE. X-ray: Brightest to NW, with point source near centre. Point sources: Central, variable X-ray source, and nearby pulsar. ... Molonglo at 408 MHz (3') and Parkes 64-m at 5 GHz (4'). ADS . ... ASCA observations of compact X-ray source. ... X-ray variability of central source. ... ATCA at 1.4 GHz (50''), including H I absorption to central source. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to Guesthouse . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video fades back and forth between views of the stellar nursery Monoceros R2 in visible and infrared light. The visible-light view was created from digitised photographs through red and blue filters forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS) and the new infrared view comes from the VISTA telescope at Paranal. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... The colors indicate the relative motions of galaxies with accurately measured distances, with shades of green and blue indicating motions toward us and shades of yellow to red indicating motions away from us. Our nearest neighbors have only small relative motions (represented by yellows and greens), as seen best in the exploded view of the right panel. We, along with all these nearest neighbors, are moving together toward the lower right corner of the figures. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Investigation of stability of NEAs orbital resonance motions by numerical methods L. E. Bykova Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia The problem of orbital stability of resonance Near­Earth asteroids (NEAs) is considered. Most of NEAs have multiple close approaches to the inner ma­ jor planets. ... The technique of the investigation of NEAs orbital stability has been devel­ oped by author on the basis of the construction of possible motion domains (R) of asteroids. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...