... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... GAMMA RAY BURSTS . with guest Dr. Dale Frail from National Radio Astronomy Observatory . ... Gamma-Ray Bursts . A Collection of Resources to Get Behind the Headlines . Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & ASP) . ... This is a fine introduction to violent events in the universe by a noted astronomer, with a good section on gamma-ray bursts. ... On the Swift mission and what it is teaching astronomers about gamma-ray bursts. ... http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/bursts.html . ...

Optical Observatories . ... National Optical Astronomy Observatories . ... Adam Mickiewicz University - Astronomical Observatory . ... Astronomical Institute and National Observatory of Athens . ... Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory - Scientific research here comprises radio and extragalactic astronomy, solar radio emission, active galactic nuclei, interstellar matter, galaxies, cosmology, variable stars and comets. ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory Home Page . ...

... supernova images . Supernova Search and . ... How to report a supernova discovery . ... General Supernova information When you are looking for information on the latest Supernovae, the first place to look (Besides the Bright Supernovae page ) is the Recent IAU Circulars page, Recent CBET Circulars and IAU 's List of Recent Supernovae and List of All Supernovae , as well as the Headlines page web page. ... Arcturus Observatory SN images . ... Joseph Brimacombe's supernova images New 2009/12/17 . ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

... These images were provided to Winer Observatory by Mike Shade of Sonoita Hills Observatory as an example of the outstanding work done by local Sonoita amateur astronomers. ... All images on this page were taken with a 6-inch Astro-Physics aprochromatic refractor at Sonoita Hills Observatory using an SBIG ST-7 camera. ... Object: Galaxy Messier 100 . ... Date: March 2001 . ... All images on this page were taken with an f/5 Newtonian reflector at Sonoita Hills Observatory using an SBIG ST-7 camera. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr?йes ?а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut?й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit?й. Accueil Mati?иre noire : une observation d?йfie les astronomes . ... A la une . ... En effet, selon les mod?иles th?йoriques, les concentrations de mati?иre noire sont les lieux o?? naissent les galaxies. ... Une mati?иre noire au comportement ordinaire ? ... Etat du ciel . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

... A correlation between metal abundance and orbital elements (the eccentricity and angular momentum) has been found for three semples of disk stars of our Galaxy with abundance derived from detailed analysis. The correlation indicates that metal abundance in the Galaxy kept increasing after the birth of old disk stars and that the Galaxy kept collapsing during the formation of its disk subsystems. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Photography | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... This listing's details have proven difficult to confirm. See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . You will find 35mm slides, 8x10 and 16x20 astronomy images for sale here. ... Listed Since July 15, 1998 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... 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 . ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

... 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. ...