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. ...

... Ignacio Ugarte Urra's PhD thesis topic is the investigation of coronal bright points. In his first paper (in collaboration with Gerry Doyle and Maria Madjarska) he investigated the formation, evolution and decay of a coronal bright point via a spectroscopic analysis of its transition region counterpart and the evolution of the underlying magnetic bipole during 3 days of almost continuous observations. ... In general the bright point has a radiance 4 times higher than that of the network. ...

... The Crown of the Sun . ... During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere or corona is an awesome and inspirational sight. ... A Total Solar Eclipse over Turkey . ... The above digital mosaic caught the Moon in several stages as it moved between the Earth and the Sun. Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... In fact, from its vantage point 150 million kilometers sunward of planet Earth, SOHO's cameras can always monitor the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Final Data Release of zCOSMOS-bright Redshift Survey . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... This final release of zCOSMOS-bright includes 20689 1-d spectra. The survey was split into two parts: the first, zCOSMOS-bright, which is the subject of this release, aimed to produce a redshift survey of about 20000 I -band selected galaxies at redshift z<1.2. ...

... To be read in conjunction with Section 4.11 of the WFPC2 Instrument Handbook , -Version 4.0. ... 1 The second study found evidence that CTE loss for faint stars has increased with time (Whitmore, 1998). The primary observational consequence of CTE loss is that a point source at the top of the chip appears to be fainter than if observed at the bottom of the chip, due to the loss of electrons as the star is read out down the chip (see Figure 1 ). ... Last updated: 06/16/98 10:38:00 . ...

ART SCHOOL - Paul Weller Anything that you wanna do, anyplace that you wanna go Don't need permission for everything that you want Any taste that you feel is right Wear any clothes just as long as they're bright Say what you want, ' cos this is a new art school Do what you want if it takes your mind Better do it now, ' cos you won't have time And never worry if people laugh at you The fools only laugh ' ...

... You try to stop him to ask questions but you have no chance. He's talking faster and faster and going through stars one after another. ... But there is no answer. ... On top it says "Chez Stella -- Serving the Stars for 15 Billion Years." ... It contains three carefully drawn graphs labeled "Evolution of the Sun," "Evolution of a 25 Solar Mass Star," and "Temperature Changes in Six Stars." ... P.S. Should any other questions occur to you, remember you are always welcome at Chez Stella. ...

Some astronomers ignore low-mass stars because they aren t very bright. However, stars with initial masses between about 0.8 Msun and 8 Msun (AGB stars) play an important role as the main site of the slow neutron capture (s-)process, which produces roughly half of the elements heavier than iron. ... From this work, we will see have a better understanding of AGB nucleosynthesis, the chemical evolution of globular clusters, and the properties of helium-rich stars. ...

... 2006 April 6 . Unusual Bright Soil on Mars . Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA . Explanation: What is this bright soil on Mars? Several times while rolling across Mars, the treads of the robotic rover Spirit have serendipitously uncovered unusually bright soil. ... The physics and chemistry instruments on Spirit have determined the soil, shown above , contains a high content of salts including iron-bearing sulfates . ... About APOD | ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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... Finally, millimetre interferometry over long baselines, longer than a few hundred metres, is not possible except in the very best conditions, specifically a very dry atmosphere well below freezing at high altitude, otherwise atmos-pheric phase fluctuations are so large that they make observing impossible. I thought gloomily about these maxims as I drove from Sydney to Narrabri for a Compact Array observation at 3 mm wavelength on 3 km baselines and saw cloudy skies. ... It's just not right. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . December . ... Would anyone turn down a good firework show in December? ... The Geminids meteor shower should then emerge in all its glory in the east in the constellation GeminiтАЩs patch of sky on the evening of the 13 th and early morning of the 14 th of December, with the last shooting stars visible up until the 18 th December and approximately one meteor per hour on display at that stage. ...

CATS home ] [ Back to CATS list ] [ ftp ] . ... 407Gregg+ The FIRST radio survey provides a new resource for constructing a large quasar sample. ... We report here on the results of the pilot phase for a FIRST Bright Quasar Survey (FBQS). Based on matching the radio catalog from the initial 300 deg^2 of FIRST coverage with the optical catalog from the Automated Plate Machine (APM) digitization of Palomar Sky Survey plates, we have defined a sample of 219 quasar candidates brighter than E = 17.50. ...

... NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission studies the shape, brightness, size and distance of distant galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history, giving scientists a wealth of data to help us better understand the origins of the universe. ... This image is a blend of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's M33 image and another taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ... Spitzer, for example, can detect mid-infrared radiation from dust that has absorbed young stars' ultraviolet light. ...

... Here are some tips on how to get the best guiding out of our current system. ... NA2 Guider Tips . ... Optical double stars, late-type galaxies, and bipolar PNs may pose a problem for guiding, as will objects where you desire to observe a position away from the bright center (e.g., SNs near bright galaxies). ... Field Star is good if your object is too faint or asymmetrical for Boresight guiding, or if you need the slit to be off-center. ... Use Field Star guiding almost always. ...

Images and text 2003 Paul Valleli . While up at Stellafane for pre-convention preparations, I spent some early morning times, experimenting with different videography setups on the 13" F/10 Schupmann at the McGregor Observatory. ... Mars was too bright and would have required neutral density filters. ... Next time, I will try 12mm and 9mm projections. ... I aquired about ten thousand frames by 3AM, at which time a breeze picked up and the seeing went to Hellas! ... 2003 Paul Valleli . ...

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 . ...

... STScI-PR98-15 HUBBLE REVEALS DETAILS OF A NEWLY BORN PLANETARY NEBULA Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ballooning shroud of gas cast off by a dying star flicking on its stellar light bulb. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the unveiling of the Stingray nebula (Hen-1357), the youngest known planetary nebula. ... A fast wind - material propelled outward from the hot central star -- compresses the gas and pushes the gas bubble outward. ...