Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

JOURNиES - 2014 The binary asteroid 22 Kalliope: Linus orbit determination on the basis of speckle interferometric observations Sokova I.(1), Sokov E.(1), Roschina E.(1), Rastegaev D.(2), Gorshanov D.(1), Balega Yu.( 2), Dyachenko V.(2) (1) Pulkovo Observatory; (2) Special Astrophisical Observatory Binary asteroid 22 Kalliope 22 Kalliope - M-type asteroid from the Main asteroid belt discovered by J. R. Hind on November 16, 1852 in the Bishop' Observatory (UK). ...

09/1986: Visiting Astronomer, Sofia, Rogzen Observatory, Bulgaria . ... 04/1996: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center Poland . 02/1998: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland . 09/1998: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland, Paris-Meudon Observatory, France . 05/1999: Visiting Astronomer, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, China . 10/2000: Visiting Astronomer, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, China . ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" and the answers given to them. ... The ones included below are either of the sort that keeps coming up again and again--the danger of solar eruptions, the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, etc.-- or else the answers make a special point, going into extra details which might interest other users. ... Radiation Belts and Manned Space Flight . ... Capturing the Energy of the Solar Wind . ...

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 18.06.2013 . ... J142023.5-485540. ... MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 относится к редкому подклассу . ... Астронома ATel #5144: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5144 . ... The brightest MASTER's dwarf nova discovered in Argentina! ... astronomical object - dwarf nova MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 in Lupus . ... record (12.6m) belonged to the dwarf nova in Perseus MASTER . ...

... The SN 1998bv discovered on April 6, 1998 in the blue compact galaxy HS 1035+4758 is the second supernova observed in a low-mass galaxy with intense SF burst. ... According to its characteristic spectrum, SN 1998bv is a type II supernova with estimated peak absolute brightness M 16.3. The very slow fading of its brightness suggests that the SN was discovered at the Plateau phase, 20-30 days after the peak of the light curve. The most probable classification of SN 1998bv is regular SN II-P. 3. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

Dynamic Shack-Hartmann System RAPID V. G. Orlov, V. V. Voitsekhovich Instituto de AstronomМa, UNAM, MИxico CONACYT project E9507-1020P UNAM PAPIIT IN104910 Telescopes OAN OAN- SPM 2.1m telescope 1.5m telescope 0.84m telescope 2.1m telescope OAN-Tonanzintla 1m telescope Astronomical site SPM Observing statistics 1982-2002 (Tapia+ 2007 ) Photometric nights : 64.1% Spectroscopic ... Rapid - Dynamic Shack-Hartmann All modern telescopes demand installation of adaptive system. ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

Next: Endlessly Complicated World Up: No Title Previous: Tsiolkovskii's Paradox . ... Really, we have consisely expresed a materialistic, atheistic, scientific point of view and have discovered God, the scientifically supported God. ... Equally, we cannot admit an infinite complication of the world and its successful cognizability (i.e. the existence of a mind in an infinitely complicated world) without admission of Superintelligence -- the scientifically discovered God . ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Find The Perfect Gift For Your Favorite Astronomy Nut - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Magnification (Power) and Using Eyepieces - by Telescopes.com, September 2005 . ... Finding Himalia, the fifth brightest moon of Jupiter - by Rick Scott, October 2003 . ... This article explains. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Operating at a wavelength of 10 ?m, it produces a 135њx135њ image with a resolution of 0.9њ. ... The clouds move from the west-southwest. ... At the same time as the IR images, visible light images were taken with an Apple Computer QuickTake electronic camera. ... At 1540 MDT, the large central cloud is visible in both images. At 1544 MDT, a distinctive cloud is apparent near the center in the visible image and right of center in the IR. The performance of the SDSS cloud scanner is excellent. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Achievements . ... The theory of radiative transfer in inhomogeneous atmospheres was developed ( Yanovytskij E.G. ) . ... Calculations shown that the vertical movement of gas and aerosol in the atmosphere of giant planets with velocity w = (0.1-0.5) m/s determines the capacity of visible clouds and therefore affects their brightness characteristics (A. P. Vidmachenko). ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

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