... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... Site . ... The Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science , also known as ASRAS, is Rochester's astronomy club. ... ASRAS Members enjoy all aspects of astronomy, including: тАв astrophotography and astro-imaging . ... тАв Monthly meetings that include presentations by guest speakers or members on topics ranging from elementary to advanced. тАв Access to our dark sky observing site, the Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy, . ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Полезное для астрономии . Supernovae: and How to Observe Them (Astronomers' Observing Guides) . ... Поиск . ... Созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Созвездия южного неба (поиск и описание) .. Осенние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Летние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Околополюсные созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Весенние созвездия (поиск и описание).. Зимние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. ...

... The space VLBI mission RadioAstron, led by the Astro Space Center (ASC) of Lebedev Physical Institute, . ... execution of a balanced scientific program for the Mission. The scientific program of the RadioAstron will consist of three major parts: the Early Science Program (ESP), . Key Science Program (KSP), and General Observing Time (GOT) projects. ... The KSP . ... a long-lasting scientific impact of the Mission. ... The RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 1 and Final Notes ; . ...

... Use of This Manual . ... Spectral-Line Observing at Arecibo (3.25 Mbyte) + Spectral line Appendices (0.56 Mbyte) ( HTML page ) . ... Data Analysis . ... Continuum Observing at Arecibo (0.36 Mbyte) + Continuum Appendices (0.31 Mbyte) . ... Pulsar Observations at Arecibo (4.03 Mbyte) + Pulsar Appendices (0.70 Mbyte) ( HTML page ) . ... VLBI Observing at Arecibo (0.36 Mbyte) + VLBI Appendices (0.35 Mbyte) . ... Introduction to Computing at Arecibo (0.33 Mbyte) + Computing Appendices (0.32 Mbyte) . ...

... Taken from the NASA/JPL information summary "Our Solar System at a Glance". ... Ancient astronomers observed points of light that appeared to move among the stars. They called these objects planets, meaning wanderers, and named them after Roman deities -- Jupiter , king of the gods; Mars , the god of war; Mercury , messenger of the gods; Venus , the god of love and beauty, and Saturn , father of Jupiter and god of agriculture. ... Space History Rocket History . ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... X-rays are made up of photons that are emitted from stars, or quasars, or supernovae, the sun, or simply: anything that is undergoing a change either in size or temperature or giving out heat. ... in an X-ray binary star system, in which one normal star's orbit is crossed by a neutron star, when the neutron star by means of gravitational pull takes matter from the normal star X-rays form. ... Artists conception of a normal star (HDE 226868) and a black hole taking matter from the normal star. ...

Cosmology, Religion & Kansas . ... Cosmology is the study of the origin, current state, and future of our Universe. ... My cosmology tutorial is an attempt to summarize these discoveries. ... These measurements of very small CMB temperature fluctuations over 1% of the sky with a beam size 40 times smaller than COBE's 7 o beam confirm earlier work by a group at Penn & Princeton and data from BOOMERanG's test flight, but provide 3 to 4 times more accuracy. ... Ned Wright's Home Page . ...

... Other Planned Activities Include Solar Observing Astrophotography Presentations and CCD Demo's Field Trip to AAAP Observatory at Jenny Jump Workshop: Learning to Use Your New Telescope Plus Swimming (life guards provided), Fishing, Volleyball, Basketball, Hiking, Game room Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 per person ($45 after June 9) Bunkhouse -- $45.00 per ...

Andromeda Nebula. In the XVIII century the great English astronomer William Gershel included this galaxy into the observed stars congestions. ... What is this nebula interested for? It is a great spiral galaxy 1,5 times more than our galaxy - The Milky Way. The Milky Way and Andromeda Nebula are the greatest objects of the local group of galaxies. ... Andromeda Nebula is not the nearest galaxy to ours but its structure looks like the structure of our Galaxy. ...

... The Stellar Oscillations Network Group (SONG) seeks to study p-mode (acoustic) oscillations in solar type stars. ... The observation of many solar-like stars will also help us to understand how solar p-modes are excited and damped. ... Naively, the two or three orders of magnitude improvement over this provided by the normal 1 second time resolution of the KPNO CCD cameras should be quite sufficient for such a detection. ... Figure: Non-cadenced data-a free-running observing sequence. ...

... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph areтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . ... Title: Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage . Description: Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... A significant fraction of the Astrophysics Group is involved in work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, both experimental and theoretical. We are currently operating the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager , an arcminute-scale survey telescope, and developing analysis techniques for the Planck satellite. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...

... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

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... Currently, there is very little information on comets which are active beyond the orbit of Jupiter. ... Previous observations conducted by our team with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope showed that some of these comets have extended tails dissimilar to the tails of comets forming at close heliocentric distances. ... We for the first time measured the linear polarization of scattered emission for the two distant comets C/2010 S1 (LINEAR) and C/2010 R1 (LINEAR) at heliocentric distances of 5.9-7.0 au. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Making a Case for METI . ... Many leaders of the modern SETI community oppose the deliberate transmission of messages from Earth to the stars in attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). ... Like Arecibo, our transmissions include scientific information. ... METI is not scientific . ... So, to increase the likelihood of effective communication across interstellar space, we include in our METI transmissions non-scientific messages: text, audio, video, art, music, etc. ...