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... 1b. Pole Star . ... Two bright constellations occupy opposite sides of the pole star--the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia . ... The Big Dipper consists of 7 bright stars, forming a dipper, a small pot with a long handle. ... It shows the 7 stars of the Big Dipper and Polaris, the north star. ... Ursa Minor , the "Small Bear" or "Little Dipper" is a constellation somewhat resembling the Big Dipper, and Polaris is the last star in its tail. ... Questions from Users: About the stars of the Big Dipper . ...

... 78Mingaliev+ J/A+A/370/78 RATAN-600 NCP bright radio sources (Mingaliev+, 2001) ================================================================================ Observations of the bright radio sources in the North Celestial Pole region at the RATAN-600 radio telescope. ... The flux densities of 171 sources in the Declination range +75deg +88deg are presented; typical flux density errors are 5-10 percent including calibration errors. ... Flux density at 2.3GHz 48- 52 F5.3 Jy e_S2.3GHz ? ...

... Telescopes . ... But regardless of where you observe from or whether or not you have a telescope, exploring the many aspects of astronomy can be an exciting hobby. It can be an activity shared with thousands of other amateurs all over the world. ... Or it might be pursued more actively by joining a local astronomy club like the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston and learning by direct association with other amateurs. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Mike Carr and Jim Gunn prepare the camera, fitting lift fixtures and accomplishing delivery inspections. ... Jim and Mike rotate the camera (on its cart) and remove the cover to inspect the underside. ... Jim and Mike hold a small hands-on workshop on preparing the camera for transport with Dan Long, Jon Davis, and Jon Brinkmann. ... Back at the 3.5m enclosure, Mike, Jim, and French rotate the camera into position for lifting. ...

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... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... galaxies . stars . ... Bright new supernova blows up in the Cigar Galaxy (M82) . ... Before and after photos of the galaxy M82 showing the appearance of a brand new 11.7 magnitude supernova. ... The new supernova lies in M82, a starburst galaxy located within the constellation Ursa Major. ... M82 is a bright, striking edge-on spiral galaxy bright enough to see in binoculars. ...

ADC CATALOG HOLDINGS SHORT TITLE LIST March 29, 2002 (adapted from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/key) Category 1: Astrometric and Positional Data - March 29, 2002 1090 Positions of 502 Stars in Pleiades Region (Eichhorn+ 1970) 1107A Washington Cat Visual Double Stars 1984.0 (Worley, Douglass 1984) 1131A SAO Star ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... Meta Index / Home Page Further enhancements may be necessary in the light of in-flight experience, eg. location of the source within the camera field-of-view, to avoid CCD boundaries) . the nearest-neighbour distance threshold may need to be a function of source brightness, to alleviate problems with multiple detection of bright sources (this depends on the performance of the source detection software) . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2005-08-16 ...

... Астрософт (Модератор: tlgleonid ) > . UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement для Cartes du Ciel . ... Астрософт . ... Cartes du Ciel - Sky Charts . ... 08 Август 2008, 14:04:19 ? Также готов каталог I/294 The UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement (Urban+, 2004), являющийся северным дополнением к каталогу I/289 The UCAC2 Catalogue(Zacharias+ 2003). ... Ответ #1 : 08 Август 2008, 14:41:20 ? ... Самая слабая звезда в каталоге UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement - это 2UCA 50406212 Vmag: 15.19 в Малой Медведице. ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

WEEK BEFORE EASTER I courted a bonnie girl full many's the day And hated all people who against her did say But now she's rewarded me well for my pain For she's gone to get tied to another The week before Easter , the moon bright and clear And the sun it shone brightly and keen blew the air I went out to the forest to gather fine flowers but the forest would give me no roses The roses are red, And I answer them back with a tear in my eye "How many dark ships sail the forest?" ...

... ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Nonstellar objects Description: NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). ... The order of the new catalog is strictly by right ascension, the NGC and IC objects being merged into one machine-readable file. ... The book also contains a table of right ascensions for NGC and IC objects. ...

The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

... Using a simple 2-D Gaussian Point Spread Function (PSF) on a constant (flat) sky background, I derive a theoretical photometric and astrometric performance model for analytical and digital PSF-fitting stellar photometry. ... The photometric performance is maximized when either the effective background area or the effective-background-level measurement error is minimized. ... An important, but frequently ignored, noise source is the uncertainty of the measurement of the effective background level ( )...

... 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 ...

... Astronomy news . ... Double Engine Fuels Star's Remarkable Nebula . ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). ... Interactions in this double system, surrounded by a dusty disc, may be the engine fuelling the star s remarkable nebula. The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. ...

The sky inhabitants - the constellations. ... The constellations of Zodiac. The constellations of Zodiac are very popular. ... They were counted from the point of vernal equinox. ... As a result all the Zodiac row of constellations as if displaced in the two positions the count traditionally begings from the constellation where the point of a vernal equinox is. ... That is why the Sun comes to each Zodiac sign two - five weeks before the time when it comes to the constellation of the same name. ...