Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

Images and text 2003 Paul Valleli . While up at Stellafane for pre-convention preparations, I spent some early morning times, experimenting with different videography setups on the 13" F/10 Schupmann at the McGregor Observatory. ... Mars was too bright and would have required neutral density filters. ... Next time, I will try 12mm and 9mm projections. ... I aquired about ten thousand frames by 3AM, at which time a breeze picked up and the seeing went to Hellas! ... 2003 Paul Valleli . ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

Альтернативный форум . ... Abramyan G.L. (@) - 10.01.2007 01:10 . Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET . ... Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Котофеич, 10.01.2007 13:55 . Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Анатолий Рыков, 10.01.2007 11:20 . ... Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L., 10.01.2007 01:10 . ...

... 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 . ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Comet Hyakutake - 1997 . ... Moreover, the motion of the comet is such that it will continue to approach the Earth with a speed of about 58 km/sec during the next weeks and will pass within 15 million kilometres of our planet in late March. ... By a straightforward extrapolation of the current brightness, it would appear that Comet Hyakutake will reach magnitude 1 on March 25, 1996, at the time of the closest approach to the Earth....

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... The two plots below illustrate two of the selection criteria: velocity width (limited by the channel width) and the HIPASS peak flux. Zoom-in on Figure 3a. The two plots below give some idea of the shape of the HI spectra. ... For Gaussian HI spectra the difference is slightly more, but for irrgeular galaxies, pairs and groups many different shapes are observed. ... Some trend towards detecting more narrow-width galaxies at higher velocities is visible. ...

Astronomers usually measure the flux of an object by collecting light with a telescope, sending it through a known filter, and then determining the power. ... But astronomers usually give their photometric results in terms of magnitudes. ... Astronomers define an absolute magnitude that is independent of the distance of a star and only depends on the intrinsic properties of the object: the absolute magnitude is the magnitude the star would have if it were 10 parsecs away from the Earth. ...

... 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. ...

The Solar spots - are the dark formations on the Sun's disk. ... The greatest observed spot is 100 thousand kilomiters. The spots are the places of the magnetic fields' getting out to the solar atmosphere. ... That's why they look so dark . ... The Solar convection zone is the layer with the thickness of 150 - 200 thousand kilomiters, situated under the photosphere; the substance of this layer being in convectional movement transformes the energy from inside the Sun's to its surface. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST . COAST Astronomical Results . Surface Imaging of Betelgeuse . ... Betelgeuse is a nearby red supergiant star, about 500 times larger than the Sun. ... Each image was taken through a different colour filter. From left to right, the images show how Betelgeuse appears in red (a wavelength of 700 nanometres), very near-infrared (905 nm), and near-infrared (1290 nm) light. To show this, we have coloured the images different shades of orange and red. 700 nm . ...

... It is found that the correlation coefficients between these two parameters calculated separately inside and outside the sunspot formation zone ±30 have cyclic variation and occur in anti-phase. This suggests different mechanisms of formation of the corona in the fields of small, medium, and large scales. ... The relationship between the coronal green line brightness (CGLB) and the magnetic field strength (MFS) has been investigated by constructing the corresponding synoptic maps for the 1977-2001. ...

... We continue multicolor photometric CCD UBVRI monitoring of the peculiar red nova V838 Mon using CCD photometer and SAO RAS 1-m reflector . ... To understand these changes, one should take into account that before the explosion in 2002, V838 Mon was a system containing two B3V type stars, and brighter companion exploded. ... In the season of 2007-2008, B3V companion was captured by expanding remnant, but its variable radiation leaked through the cloudy structure of the remnant's envelope. ... 2008) ....

... A star was observed at different zenith distances during one night at the Engelgardt's Astronomical Observatory in the program of atmospheric extinction study at blue. ... The determination of the star's brightness was performed with the method of photon counting. ... Variable star. ... The brightness of the variable star was measured occasionally during the other nights, and moments of maximal values of brightness (15.59m) were received on nights 2­5, the 2nd table. ... JD 2452805. ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2017 (in Russian) . Foreword . ... NAY) is the daily visual geocentrical equatorial ephemerides of brightest navigational stars ? the Sun, the Moon, four major planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) and of the 69 brightest stars, and the time of the rising and setting of the Sun and the Moon, the time of the beginning and the end of civil and navigational twilights, the azimuths of the upper limb of the Sun on rising and setting. ...

... 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. ...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... 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. ...