... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

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... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

Next: Miscellaneous Up: The Individual Approach Previous: Deconvolution, Restoration and Self-Calibration . When you are satisfied with the deconvolution, restoration and self-calibration of all the individual images, task linmos can be used to combine them in a linear mosaic. ... Normally the expected rms noise in the image is determined from the images themselves (image item rms ). ... LINMOS . ... Use wildcards to select all images. out=lmc.mos . The output linearly mosaiced image. rms . ...

EURO­ASIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY R o u n d G r o u p lang lang uage uage Obs XX XX International Astronomy Olympiad , , 15 ­ 23. X. 2015 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia English Code of participant Draw number . ... 10.1. ... Recently, astronomers have discovered a new open cluster. ... Draw configuration of the «stars». Answer 10.2. ... One of astronomers recognized familiar constellation in the outlines of the cluster. Write the standard threeletter designation of that constellation. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Next: Input and Output Up: CCD Reductions Previous: Basic Reduction Steps . Clearly, the most vital part of the CCD package is the combining of multiple exposures of calibration or science frames into a master frame. Therefore, before the actual processing is done, the calibration frames should be created first. The command that takes care of combining the calibration frame in the CCD package is COMBINE/CCD . ... Combining Methods . Combining Bias Frames . Combining Dark Frames . ...

... 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. ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

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