... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How can the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) take pictures of objects light-years away but not get a good picture of Pluto? ... At its distance, it subtends a smaller angle on the sky than does a galaxy at a distance of billions of light-years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ...

... autoOutline (int startX, int startY) . ... 0 and the boundary points can be accessed in the public xpoints and ypoints fields. public void autoOutline (int startX, int startY, double lower, double upper) . 0 and the boundary points can be accessed in the public xpoints and ypoints fields. public void autoOutline (int startX, int startY, int lower, int upper) . This is a variation of legacy autoOutline that uses int threshold arguments. public void autoOutline (int startX, int startY) . ...

... High-resolution Near-infrared Study of the Deeply Embedded Young Stellar Object S140 IRS 3 . ... P22P We explore the structures immediately surrounding the high-mass young stellar object S140 IRS 3 within the L1204 molecular cloud. ... The S-shaped structure of this feature can be well reproduced by a model assuming a precessing outflow from IRS 3a. Furthermore, we find several elongated features pointing away from IRS 3 in a southern direction. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

Subject of Astronomy. ... Celestial Sphere. ... Spherical Frames of Reference: Horisontal and Equatorial Coordinates, Ecliptical System. ... Transformation of Celestial Coordinates. ... Change of Object Coordinates as a Result of Diurnal Rotation of Celestial Sphere. Phenomenons, Which Lead to Celestial Coordinates Change. ... Motion of Equator, Ecliptic, and Their Poles. ... Diurnal Solar Motion on Different Latitudes. ... Time Equation. ... Apparent Motions and Configuration of Planets. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

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... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

The steps in making a pointing model are listed below. ... While tracking the source rise to set, the tiedowns are pulled through a range of about 14 inches (taking 14 minutes) . ... We need a strong point source as sband because we want to measure the peak even when we are out of focus (so we can determine the best za location). ... Time: this takes about 80 hours (averaging 2 hours/source with wait time.. ... so 4 days 12 hours a day will probably work when you include the time for the source. ...

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Victor Chan forward this message to me regarding how to create PostScript Fills. ... In closing, I said that you could put any object you could draw in FreeHand into the fill, and that I'd show you how to do that. ... To get the PostScript code you need, draw the object you want for your custom fill in FreeHand, then export the file as an EPS. ... The actual objects you've drawn will be very near the end of the file, between the line "%%EndSetup" and befor e the line "%%Trailer." ...

Today's APOD | Title Search | Text Search | In the 1700s, Charles Messier created a list of bright and interesting sky objects. Those Messier objects that have appeared on APOD and are linked below. Many Messier objects have not appeared on APOD, however, and so submissions of good color pictures of them are welcomed. ... Archive | Index | Search | ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... Specific rights apply . A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

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 . ...

... Механизмы излучения космических объектов: классика и современность . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... radiative transfer theory, . ...

... Newton's Laws . ... If object A exerts a force F on object B, . then object B exerts an equal and opposite force ?F on object A" . ... There exists a whole set of situations where two equal and opposite forces act on the same object, canceling each other so that no acceleration (or even no motion) occurs. ... It is all in Newton's third law: as your legs propel your body towards the dock, they also apply to the boat an equal force in the opposite direction, which pushes it away from the dock. ...

... This is usually defined as the direction pointing toward the center of the primary body. ... NODE: The place where the plane of one orbit crosses the plane of another. ... ORBITAL PLANE: The flat surface that would result if every point on the orbit of a body was connected to the center of its primary. ... PENUMBRA: The edge of the primary body's shadow. ... PERIOD : The time required for one body to orbit the primary body. ... PROBE: A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. ...