... 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. ...

... Classical nova V2362 Cyg (N Cyg 2006, 21:11:32.34, +44:48:03.9, 2000 [position in ATel 928 is incorrect!] ) undergoes gradual increase of its brightness since middle of August, 2006 from the level of V = 11.9. ... Full width of Halpha line is 5900 km/s, and that one of Hbeta is 5300 km/s. We identified the strongest emission features as CIII+NIII blend centered on 4652A, [OIII]+NII blend on 5010A, NII+[NII] blend on 5708A, NaI+OI blend on 5920A. Absence of HeI lines at 6678 and 7065A is surprising. ...

... 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. ...

... People . Posts tagged ?October? ... Posted by vlk . ... Tags: 2008 , Newton , October , XMM . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... General comments . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... vlk on Everybody needs crampons . ... Alfred Inselberg on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... nestor on People . hlee on Do people use Fortran? ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Планета Земля и Луна . ... Космическая защита . Луна . Фотографии . ... Строение Луны . ... Страница: Начало одиссеи , Экспедиции , Море Кризисов , "Аполлон-8" , "Аполлон-9" , "Аполлон-10" , "Аполлон - 11" , E-8 "Луноход" , Испытания Л-1 , Луноход - 1,2 , КА "Луна 1-24" , КА "Луна-9" , Луна от КА СССР ; . Луна - наш космический спутник . ... Снимки Луны от аппаратов серии Луна и Зонд (СССР) . Фотографии космических аппаратов серии "Луна" (также Луноходы) и "Зонд" - СССР . ... Зонд 3 . ...

... Главная страница / Кометы и астероиды / "Нас не догонишь". Комета 217P/LINEAR, M42, M43, Бегущий Человек и пролетающие спутники. ... M42 , M43 , БегущийЧеловек , 217P/LINEAR . ... Комета C/2009 R1 (McNaught) . ... Все права на размещенные в галерее фотографии принадлежат их авторам. ... Киевский клуб любителей астрономии "Астрополис" . Движок галереи: 4images 1.7 ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...

... Events . ... An Evening with Astronauts . Clay Center Observatory . ... Event submitted by Bob Phinney . ... Free public event – Lecture / Book Signing . ... The Clay Center Observatory hosts Astronauts Jerry Carr and Dan Burbank (who considers himself an amateur astronomer) for an educational evening program followed by a book signing and autographs. ... The Clay Center Observatory, 20 Newton St. Brookline, across from Larz Anderson Park. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Sunday , October 6, 2013 Standard quasar-like AGN Standard AGN have: · · · · · Luminous accretion disk (with X-ray corona) Bright line emission (ionised by disk) Dusty obscuring torus (emits in IR/sub-mm) Orientation-dependent observed properties Sometimes, extended radio jets Sunday , October 6, 2013 Another class of AGN Other AGN , exemplified by weak radio ... Sunday, October 6, 2013 Summary · · · · · · Not all AGN follow the "standard" accretion disk picture. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

Organisers: Philippe Lebacque (Laboratoire de Math matiques de Besan on ) , Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institute for Information Transmission Problems) , Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, State University Higher School of Economics, IITP) . ... The conference will take place at the Independent University, 11 Bolshoi Vlassievsky pereulok, 119002 Moscow. ... The coffe breakes will be organized in the rooms of the Poncelet French-Russian laboratory. ... Poncelet Laboratory web page . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description . ... This can be set by the user via the parameter device . The default value of device is /XS (Xserver), but alternative outputs (depending on what drivers have been installed with PGPLOT) can be used, for example /XW for x-windows, /GIF, /JPEG, /PS for Postscript, and /CPS for Colour Postscript. ... Either a colour-coded image or a contour map image can be produced, depending on the value of imagestyle . ... Note that 0 is not a valid colour map index. ...

... 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]. ...

... 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. ...

... Registration form . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the all-Russian scientific conference "Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2005" which will be held 3-7 October 2005 in St. Petersburg. ... Batrakov Yu.V. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS . ... Finkelstein A.M. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ...

... About INTEGRAL . INTEGRAL is a European (ESA) Gamma-Ray Observatory Satellite Mission for the study of cosmic gamma-ray sources in the keV to MeV energy range. ... The PROTON launcher injected the satellite into a transfer orbit and INTEGRAL's own propulsion system brought the satellite into its 72 hours eccentric operational orbit with an apogee of 153600 km and an inclination of 52.5 degrees. More details on ESA website dedicated to INTEGRAL mission. 2016 IKI RAN ...