Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This activity is believed to be promoting the unusually high rate of star formation seen in M82. ... Radio image of M82 made with the MERLIN and VLA telescopes. Insets show MERLIN images from April 25th and May 3rd 2009 demonstrating the sudden appearance of the mystery object.€а All images are at a frequency of 5 GHz. ... Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 . ...

Quasars . Hubble Space Telescope's image of a quasar and a few spaces above it a near by star. The fuzzy object on the top is a galaxy. All objects are billions of light years away from each other. ... Scientists beleive that Quasars are located in galaxies that have black holes! They believe that the black holes provide the Quasar with its intense energy and light. Image of a quasar at the center of a galaxy. ... Therefore the density of Quasars was higher in the past. ...

The Status popup displays useful information about the state of sets, regions, and graphs. ... When the number of sets is less than 30, this button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that are not shown in the display. ... Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display. ... Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the scrolled window will select the set to copy from. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

... Home Education Classes AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February - March 2016 . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ...

... Marcus G. F. Kirsch XMM-Newton EPIC Page 2 CAL campaign 2007 The EPIC consortium together with the XMM-SOC will start a major (cross) calibration campaign in order to try to resolve pending calibration issues and to bring the EPIC calibration to the next higher level of quality. set of objectives local MOS and pn cal meetings be-weekly telecons Marcus G. F. Kirsch XMM-Newton EPIC Page 3 objectives · ... Marcus G. F. Kirsch XMM-Newton EPIC Page 9 ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Quasar Class Reference . ... Quasar (const QVariantMap &map) . ... Get a QVariantMap which describes the Quasar . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getAngularSize (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... Russian Robotic Net MASTER of Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered the Most Powerfull Object in the Universe . ... Using the 40-cm (16-inch) f/2.5 reflectors equipped with 16-Mpix CCD cameras they have found the brightening of the poorly studied flat spectrum radio quasar CGRaBS J0809+5341 = FIRST J080941.7+534125 with the known redshift z=2.133. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... History of MAO . ... БЂ“ 2013. ... Zakhozhay O. and Vorobyov E.I. The signatures of disk fragmentation in spectral energy distributions // Proceedings of the conference Hot Planets and Cool Stars, Garching, November 12-16, 2012. ... Zakhozhay O.V., Vorobyov E.I. Spectral energy distributions of fragmenting protostellar disks // Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets Proceedings IAU Symposium No....

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

... Telescope . ... Low and medium resolution imaging spectrometer TFOSC (TUBITAK Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera) was build at Copenhagen University Observatory, and is similar in its layout to DFOSC at Danish 1.54-m, ALFOSC at NOT and to other instruments of this serie. ... CCD camera --- 2K x 2K Firechild, 30.72 x 30.72 mm. The field of view --- 13.3' x 13.3'. Filters --- Bessel (UBVRI), SDSS (u'g'r'i'z'), narrow-band filters. ... crossdispersion . ... 12.0 . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... The main publications are: the Minor Planet Circulars, containing astrometric observations, orbits, ephemerides, new numberings and namings of asteroids and comets; the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars, supplying information on unusual minor planets (including NEOs) and new discoveries. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov . ... Plenty of information on all NEAs, including their observations at numerous world observatories. http://spaceguard.iasf-roma.inaf.it/ . ...

... 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. ...

Cosmodrome Baikonur at 17 hours: 22 minutes: 04 seconds Moscow Time witnessed launch of space transport cargo vehicle "Progress M-MRM2". Launch objective is to further deploy the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS RS). ... The station onboard systems operate in normal modes by telemetry data and reports of the crew of the ISS 21/22 Main Expedition. ... Different cargoes (850 kg) to serve the needs to the ISS crew are delivered into orbit in the space vehicle compartments. ...