A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

... A revised machine-readable source list for the Rees 38-MHz survey. ... 233R ============================================================================ We present a revised machine-readable source list for the Rees 38-MHz (or '8C') survey with improved positions and no redundancy. The Rees 38-MHz survey covers an area of about 1 sr north of declination +60 degrees. The angular resolution is 4.5 x 4.5cosec(dec) arcmin**2 and the limiting flux density over much of the survey area is about 1 Jy. ...

... To avoid extensive numerical calculations in the statistical simulations, we treat the continuous evolution of each binary component as a sequence of a finite number of basic evolutionary states (for example, main sequence, red (super)giant, helium (Wolf-Rayet) star,     hot WD), in which stellar parameters significantly differ from each other. ... Figure 2: Schematic representation of the typical evolutionary track of a massive binary system with normal and compact star stages indicated. ...

... Home Articles Comet Hyakutake: The Great ?Earthgrazing? Comet of 1996 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . ... Comet Hyakutake: The Great "Earthgrazing" Comet of 1996 . A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...

Nickolai Copernic: "making the Sun stop, pushing the Earth". ... The aim of Copernic's investigations is improving the calculating schemes. ... In heliocentric system appeared an opportunity of calculating real proportions of Solar system using the radius of the Earth's orbits as an astronomical unit. Copernic's book "About Rotation of Celestial Bodies" contains a discription of astronomical devices as well as a new more exact catalogue of stable stars. ...

... Since the fast mode window is necessarily small, the source PSF fills much of the window (clearly evident for bright sources). ... As such, the source and background extraction apertures may be truncated by the window. ... While often there will be only one object in the image, one should check for spurious detections which could affect the analysis of the target source and also for missed sources or prominent objects in the window, which may contaminate the target. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... Comments: 4 pages, 1 figures, appears in "Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants" (ASP Conference Proceedings), eds P. O. Slane and B. M. Gaensler, 200 . Дается короткий обзор наблюдений остатков сверхновых на спутнике ROSAT. ... astro-ph/0208498 . ... Открытие разрешенного остатка сверхновой в M31 с борта Chandra (The Discovery of a Spatially-Resolved Supernova Remnant in M31 with Chandra) . ... Нейтронные звезды в остатках сверхновых и снаружи (Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants and Beyond) . ...

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To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... Submitted by Joseph Kristl on 01/22/2007 11:11:43 . ... 16:54:59 local 1/100 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400, fl = 400 mm . While Venus appeared somewhat brighter, it was much higher and thus in a considerably darker sky (and not through thin clouds). My impression at the time was that the comet was brighter than Venus (using calibrated eyeballs.. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

Next: ZGSC (Compressed GSC) and XSKYMAP . ... This is a preliminary report on an investigation of the quality and properties of plates digitized during creation of the Guide Star Catalog (GSC). The results will be vital for reclassifying GSC objects. ... Many objects are measured on more than one plate, and thus have multiple catalog entries. ... Among the shortcomings of the GSC are: biased magnitudes and incorrect classifications for certain objects, presence of artifact objects. ...

... 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 . ...

... Since moonshine is really reflected sunlight, the full Moon is on the average slightly brighter in mid-winter, when Earth is closest to the Sun. In addition, the distance of the full Moon also varies, due to the ellipticity ("eccentricity") of the Moon's orbit. On 22 December, 1999, the two effects combined to produce the brightest full Moon of the century. ... This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22nd, commonly called the first day of winter. ...

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