ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

... The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy . ... What causes the structure in Comet Lovejoy's tail? Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), which is currently at naked-eye brightness and near its brightest, has been showing an exquisitely detailed ion tail. ... Approaching Asteroid Ceres . ... Comet Lovejoy s Tail . ... Sweeping north in planet Earth's sky, Comet Lovejoy's greenish coma and blue tinted ion tail stretched across this field of stars in the constellation Taurus on January 13. ... Super Planet Crash . ...

Left: An image in the near infrared (1.65 ЮМm) around RY Tauri, using a special mode of the Subaru HiCIAO coronagraph, the polarized intensity image. This type of observation is preferred for faint emissions associated with scattered light around planet-forming disks, as there is less light from the much brighter star. ... A white ellipse shows the position of the midplane of the disk, which is observed at millimeter wavelengths. ... Right: Schematic view of the observed infrared light. ...

Type of Galaxies. taken from the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies. These galaxies display no bright blue stars like those in the spiral arms of Sb, Sc, Irr, SBb, and SBc galaxies. ... The smooth texture of the photographic image. ... SBa - Galaxies possesss a characteristic bar that is prominent and smooth in texture with no trace of resolution into knots or stars. ... SBb - These galaxies have a well defined bar structure which is smooth in texture with no hint of resolution into stars. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... NGC 6357's inner star forming region glows with the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. Image credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. ... Located around 8000 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius , NGC 6357 (sometimes called the Lobster Nebula ) is a typical stellar nursery, filled with vast clouds of gas and tendrils of dark dust. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... northern O and early B stars whose spectra could be obtained with the parameters required to look for variability at the using the CEGS echelle spectrograph, maintained at the coude focus of the 1-m Northern Caucasus Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) telescope (Musaev 1996). The list of the program stars includes 29 obiects. When choosing appropriate dates of observations, the program stars can be observed for almost the entire night. ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

We present the results of our observations of the white-light corona in polarized light performed at Criciuma eclipse, Brazil. During the observation of 3.11.94 we have made five couple of pictures of the solar corona in polarization light. ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M., Starkova L., Ershov A., Matsuura O .: ... Molodensky M., Starkova L., Koutchmy S., Ershov A .: ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I . ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I. Koutvitsky V. and Ershov A . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

XMM ­Newton CCF Release Note XMM ­ CCF ­REL­ 280 2­D PSF parameterization A. M. Read R. Saxton March 28, 2012 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed Change in CAL HB XRT1 XPSF 0014. CCF 2000­01­01 ELLBETA PARAMS YES XRT2 XPSF 0014. CCF 2000­01­01 ELLBETA PARAMS YES XRT3 XPSF 0014. CCF 2000­01­01 ELLBETA PARAMS YES 2 Change The elliptical beta, 2­D ... The spokes start at a radius, RD1=10''. ... XMM­Newton CCF Release XMM­CCF­REL­280 Page: 8 ...

Observational data on solar activity is a basement for investigation of processes that take place on the Sun and interplanetary space, with data of long-term observations being of special importance. ... Subsection "Sunspot groups" is the catalogue of all sunspot groups that were observed in the given year. ... For every day of observation of the group the area of the group, the area of the largest spot (both areas - in millionths of solar hemisphere) and number of spots in the group are presented. ...

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Scientific Program October 20, Monday Scientific Session at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 32, a 09:00 Registration Chairman : W. Baan 09:30 K. Kellermann: Brightness Temperature Limits of Compact Radio Sources (25+5) 10:00 N. Kardashev: Some Critical Experiments with RadioAstron (25+5) 10:30 D. Jauncey: Inter-Stellar Scintillation and Micro-Arcsecond Structure in Flat-Spectrum Radio Sources (25+5) 11:00 Y.Y. Kovalev : ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

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 | ...

... Solar Corona - Basic Level of Heliosphere. ... Solar Wind, Its Characteristics by Observation on the Terrestrial Orbit. ... Shock Waves in Heliosphere - General Physical Aspect and Features of Propagation of Solar Wind in Medium. ... Solar Cosmic Rays - Morphology, Origin, Energy Spectrum, Manifestrations in Outskirts of the Earth. ... Comets as Natural Heliosphere Probes. ... Dinamics of Heliosphere Dust - Light Pressure, Sublimation, Crashing, Sweeping by Solar Wind, Falling on Planetary Bodies. ...

Analysis of Observations of Earth Impact Object 2008 TC3 . ... Central (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory of RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia Abstract: . On-line astrometric and photometric observations of asteroid 2008 TC3 , discovered 19 hours before its impact on Earth [1], were carried out with the mirror astrograph ZA-320 пњ at Pulkovo observatory at night of 7 th October, 2009. ... Results of analysis of the of 837 observations taken at 26 observatories worldwide are presented. ...