... Search . ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects . ... Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. ... The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper belt objects' surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Modern amateur telescopes can be divided into three classes: . 1) The refractor is what most people think of when they hear the word "telescope". ... Refractor disadvantages: Some secondary color ("chromatic aberration") still visible in all but the best units, large aperture instruments can be massive, most expensive of the three designs (often by a large margin), "Guilt By Association" with horrible department store refractors. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Do you know why we have seasons on Earth? ... Even if you offer students the great activities developed by the Harvard researchers, or the great activities in ASP's teacher resource book, The Universe at Your Fingertips , your students still won't learn anything unless they work hard and think about their work. ... But none of these are worth a hoot unless they are also accompanied by hard work on students' part. ... The key to success in astronomy is the same as it is in everything else: hard work....

Astronomy Picture of the Day . SN 1006: Historys Brightest Supernova . ... 17.03.2003 . ... AURA , NOAO , NSF Explanation: Suddenly, in the year 1006 AD, a new star appeared in the sky. Over the course of just a few days, the rogue star became brighter than the planet Venus . ... It turns out SN 1006 likely achieved an apparent visual magnitude of -7.5, making it the brightest supernova on record. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... 1006 AD: Supernova in the Sky ...

... BURNING SKY - Paul Weller (Dear,) How are things in your little world, I hope they're going well and you are too. ... And we'll all bow down to the Burning Sky. Then we'll all be happy and we'll all be wise, and together we will live beneath the Burning Sky. THICK AS THIEVES - Paul Weller Times were so tough, but not as tough as they are now. ... But it wasn't enough - and now we've gone and spoiled everything - Now we're no longer as thick as thieves. ...

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 ...

... Aug 2nd, 2010| 05:21 pm | ... There is an ambitious project afoot to build a 3D map of a meteor stream during the Perseids on Aug 11-12. ... I would be especially interested in your comments on the statistical technique I propose to use in analyzing the data. ... Tags: Announcement , Aug 2010 , August , meteors , modeling , Perseids , spatial-temporal modeling . ... Posted by chasc . ... Tags: 2010 , Announcement , astronomical data , astrostatistics , Aug 2010 , August , Computational , workshop . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

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О Центре | ... Проекты | ... О Центре /Проекты /Our Life /Our town . ... Проекты 2005/06 . ... Our town . ... Zelenogorsk - my town Zelenogorsk is a town in Krasnoyarsk Region. ... My Zelenogorsk is the capital of Krasnoyarsk region. ... It is an industrial and very important town in Krasnoyarsk region, because many useful things are prodused here. ... Zelenogorsk Zelenogorsk is one of the towns in Krasnoyarsk region. ... About my town Zelenogorsk is a town is Krasnoyarsk region. ... Центр Образования ...

Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about scientists: . ... The marble platform at the bronze statue's feet is embedded with a map showing the positions of the planets, sun, moon and stars on the memorial's dedication date, 100 years after Einstein's birth in 1879. ... Kepler was one of the few vocal supporters of Galileo 's discoveries and the Copernican system of planets orbiting the Sun instead of the Earth . ... Index | ... About APOD | ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

... Yes, alligators do like to eat Canadians, yes we have them as pets in the back, here. ... Well, the two kids just got put in the back of the patrol jeep and another one just pulled up. ... Just how many police officers does it take to put some bikes into a jeep? ... Also, you shouldn't try to park on the upper deck when it is snowing-- the facilities guys `really feel bad when we hit' cars up there." ... I am really sick of it. ... Al just said that the stapler put his pages in the wrong order. ...

The wearing of the green: . Strangely enough, Irish people tend to wear everything except green, which is associated with too many national tragedies, including 1798, the Famine and the current Irish rugby team. ... Irish Dancing: . ... Gaelic games: . ... Time zones: . ... Ireland produces vast quantities of woollen knitwear and, under a US/Irish trade agreement, American visitors may not return to the States without a minimum of two sweaters, of which one at least must be predominantly green. ...

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The aim of Ulyanovsk International School-Seminar ( UISS-97 ) is twofold. First, to bring together cosmologists from different countries to discuss the most exciting theoretical problems of the Universe with Russian gravitational and cosmological groups. ... Program of UISS-97 . ... Location of UISS-97 . ... Scientific Secretary of the School-Seminar : . ... 432700, Ulyanovsk, Russia . ... President of Russian Gravitational Society, Professor V.N. Melnikov . ... RUSSIAN GRAVITATIONAL SOCIETY . ...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

... Atronomical schools, carried out in the Special astrophysical observatory , is one of ways to involve young people into scientific researches. Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including oastronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. Here are some recent schools: . 2010 - The XIII Autumn astronomical school in Nizhnij Arkhyz . ... 2014 - The XIV Autumn astronomical school in Nizhnij Arkhyz . ...

... In temperate latitudes, this is a good time to see halos formed by clouds of ice crystals high in the atmosphere where the temperature is always well down below -30 deg. ... The most prominent halos, however, appear quite close to the sun where it can be uncomfortably bright to look. ... In a sense, halos are like rainbows, glories and coronae in that they require the presence of a bright source of light, the Sun or the Moon, and water floating in the air. ...