... In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang. ... Cambridge 2010, ISBN: 978-0521180665, Paperback $28.99 . ... Finding the Big Bang . ... As a prelude the book traces the evolution of some of the notions of modern cosmology from the late Middle Ages up to the final acceptance of the concept of galaxies in 1925. ...
... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Why are the traffic lights Red, Amber and Green ? Why not blue or purple ? ... You are right that red is most easily seen through a fog, and I think this is why stop lights are red. ... This means that in a fog, a blue light might be completely invisible to you because all the blue light has been scattered away, while a red light more easily penetrates the fog. ... This is why the oceans are blue; they absorb red light so that only the blue part gets out. ...
This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1998S in NGC 3877 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. On this page you will find a list of images of Supernova 1998S in NGC 3877 . ... VSnet now has a SN1998S web page with observations and light curve. Perpignan Observatoire 's 1998S web page . ...
... DIS Slit Inventory . ... DIS Gratings: Blaze angle and wavelength (Russet is this info obsolete?? DIS III Slits - photos: March 5, 2002 . ... DIS Red - Low, Blue - Low, not DIS Low resolution gratings) and the wavelength centers you wish. ... dis mask slit dis expose red=1 time=30 If it's there, put in the gratings; I'll assume that you want the low-resolution set, with the blue set to have 4400A at the centre of the chip, and 7700A in the red (both reasonable numbers): . ... dis camera red prep . ...
VISTA Data Flow System : Overview Jim Emersona , Mike Irwinb, Jim Lewisb, Simo n Hodgkinb, Dafydd Evansb, Peter Bunclarkb, Richard McMahonb, Nigel Hamblyc ... Astronomy, School of Physics, Universit y of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK d Nat ional e- Science Centre, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK e UK Astronomy Techno logy Centre, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh ... The system name adopted was the VISTA Data Flow System (VDFS). ...
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... 000, 000--000 (0000) Printed 1 August 1994 Surface photometry of low surface brightness galaxies W.J.G. de Blok, 1 J.M. van der Hulst, 1 G.D. Bothun, 2 1 Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA Received date; accepted date ABSTRACT Low Surface Brightness ( LSB ) galaxies are In this paper we present broadband photometry of a sample of 21 late type LSB galaxies. ... 1992). ...
Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...
The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context Proceedings IAU Symposium No. ... The presence of exponential bulges and anti-truncated disks has been noticed in many lenticular galaxies. ... Among our findings in unbarred spiral galaxies, only one galaxy, NGC 5533, has a LSB outer disk (Sil'chenko et al. ... In the frame of this model, the Exponential bulges and antitruncated disks 5 inner disk must be more bright and compact than the usual large-scale stellar disks of spiral galaxies are. ...
STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... 1 January 2002 This Month's Meeting.. ... In this talk, Dr. Kwok will summarize our modern understanding of planetary nebulae and show how research on planetary nebulae has impacted other fields ranging from the mapping of dark matter to new insights into the origin of life. ... Tom Calderwood- Fun at the New Year's Eve Party.. ...
Shades of Deep Purple (USA: Tetragrammaton 1968 ; Europe: EMI Parlaphone 1968 ; Japan: Polydor 1968) (CD) . Deep Purple's debut album, recorded very hastily. ... Tracks: . ... Wring That Neck (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) . ... All tracks written by Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice . ... Painted Horse (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Child in Time (Live, 690924) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Bonus tracks on Japanese CD: Lazy (edited) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ...
Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York December 2009 Volume 57 Number 12, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE tational repulsion." ... The Moon is a fingernail crescent the morning of December 14 and shouldn't interfere with the Geminids, one of the year's most reliable meteor showers. ... Decembers Constellations. ... The group of sunspots spanned approximately one-eighth of the width of the solar disk. ... The Moon occulted parts of the Pleaides star cluster on the night of November 3-4. ...
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