... Astrophysics Group . ... AMI Science . ... Observations of galaxy clusters are central to the AMI science programme. The AMI Small Array is used to observe already-known clusters with high-sensitivity and resolution, allowing us to extract detailed information about individual clusters and to build up statistics about the cluster population. ... Observing galaxy clusters at 15 GHz is tricky because of the contamination from foreground radio sources, which is where the Large Array comes in! ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Astrophysics overview . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Until recently such ground-based methods were limited to a distance of about 40 pc. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

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... Section M-7 describes the basic problem of trigonometry (drawing on the left): finding the distance to some far-away point C, given the directions at which C appears from the two ends of a measured baseline AB. ... That means that the angle ? ... 2? r covers an angle 360њ . ... Suppose you want to estimate the distance to some distant landmark--e.g. a building, tree or water tower. ... Alpha Centauri, the sun-like star nearest to our solar system, has a distance of 4.3 years and a parallax of 0.75"....

Next: Large Scale Clustering in the Universe - A Package of Codes . ... The discovery of a correlation between the light curve shape and intrinsic brightness has made Type Ia supernovae exceptionally accurate distance indicators out to cosmologically interesting redshifts. ... But supernovae are relatively rare events. ... Type Ia supernovae make excellent distance indicators, so these events at high redshift can be used to map out the history of the expanding Universe. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gi in NGC 3184 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... NGC 3184 is a fairly close Mag 10.3 galaxy, only about half as distant as the Virgo cluster. ... Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999gi page . Odd Trondal's 1999gi page . ... CfA image . ... 14.5 . ... Jean Marie Llapasset image . ... vsnet-alert 3805 ] SN 1999gi in NGC 3184 . vsnet-chat 2438 ] Host galaxy of SN1999gi . ...

... In 1930, Trumpler noticed that linear diameters (LD) of open clusters increase with distance (D) from the Sun. ... Since that time, the interstellar absorption has become one of the best studied factor in astrophysics, and we may hope that current OCL distance scales are free from this LD-D correlation. To verify if this is the case we have chosen several modern OCL distance scales and test them with the same clusters and the same angular diameters that Trumpler had used back in 1930. ...

... 2000: . According to the BTA observations, the redshift Z=0.7063+-0.0017 was measured for a distant galaxy possessing the 24 magnitude, in which there occurred an explosion of a massive star, followed by a gamma-ray burst catalogued as GRB991208. ... In collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute (USA), the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain). ... According to the Palomar Sky Survey, about 600 new nearby dwarf galaxies were discovered. ... Archive . ...

... IC5146 The Cocoon Nebula and it's Dusty Tail . The Cocoon Nebula is made up of the open cluster IC5146 The cluster is made up of mostly 12th magnitude stars and surrounded by nebulosity of mostly Hydrogen gas. Not photographed often, is the long dark nebule B168 that appears to trail this from nebula like a comet's tail. This long area of dust and dark matter obscures the star light emitting from stars further away . ... 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. ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Black Holes And RedShift . ... Perhaps black holes really are the reproductive means of the universe.Could the black hole of a Quasar red-shift the electromagnetic energy trying to escape it? ... Perhaps black holes treat electromagnetic energy the same way. ... No one really knows enough about Quasars and black holes to say for sure but ask yourself this: Why would all the Quasars in the universe be moving away from the Milky Way? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Galaxies 95 Optical morphology of distant RATAN-600 radio galaxies T. Pursimo1, K. Nilsson1, P. Teerikorpi1, A. Kopylov2, N. Soboleva3, Yu. ... Galaxies times were from 1200 to 2000 seconds depending on the brightness of the ob ject. ... We show some examples of di erent galaxy morphologies and galaxy environments of RC USS ob jects. ... 1999. ... The absolute magnitude is MR =,20.7, which suggests that the ob ject is slightly fainter than a typical FRI radio galaxy e.g. Colina & De Juan, 1995. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Telescope . ... Images . ... Optical pulsations of Crab pulsar (33 ms period). The optical image of Chandra Galactic ultra deep field (1.5-deg field). Mosaic, pseudocolors are from images in g',r',i' . Full screen (JPG, 0.3Mb) . ... The central part of Coma galaxy cluster. Full screen (JPG, 0.6Мб) . ... The optical image of distant galaxy cluster cl0230+1836 (z=0.80) from 400d X-ray cluster survey . ...

... AUTO SELECT TEXT "Introduction" "This tour is designed to give you an idea of" "the vast distances in space. ... Using current technology, it would take thousands of" "years to travel to our closest stellar neighbor, which is only 4.2 light years" "away. ... AUTO SELECT USER 05:16:41 45d59m53s "Step 3-A Star" "Capella is a bright binary" "star system that is 45 light years distant. ... AUTO SELECT USER 00:53:00 -72d50m "Step 5-Galaxy" "The Small Magellanic Cloud" "is 190,000 light years away from us...