... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

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... Like the night sky on the Earth, the martian sky hosts a plethora of astronomical phenomena occurring around the clock in a neverending space opera played out for the benefit of robotic and future human observers alike. ... Moons . Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos . ... Under the same conditions, Deimos would be as bright as -5, somewhat brighter than the planet Venus appears in Earth's sky. ... The moons are also eclipsed by Mars itself (a situation analogous to lunar eclipses at the Earth). ...

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... A new comet has brightened unexpectedly and is currently visible to unaided observers of southern skies. ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... Deep inside Centaurus A, the closest active galaxy to Earth, lies ... another galaxy! ... The result, shown above, is the most complete sky map of the most common visible light emitted from the most abundant element in our Galaxy: hydrogen. ... Earth Rise . ...

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The following are some standard questions that observers have about their fixed target confirmation charts. ... Why doesn't my target appear to be centered on the cross hairs? ... How is proper motion handled? ... Target well centered . If your target is not perfectly centered in the cross hairs, see the questions below for why it may not be centered and how well centered it must be . ... So, targets to be acquired by STIS should appear well centered in the cross hairs on the confirmation chart. ...

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... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

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Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

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I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

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Next: Reducing the observations Up: PEPSYS general photometry Previous: Influencing the plan . ... If the telescope and instrumentation are unfamiliar to you, you may have trouble keeping to the schedule for the first night or two, so try to work with a previous observer on the equipment for a night or two of training before your observing run. If you fall behind, try to keep as many low-altitude observations of extinction stars as you can, and drop some circumzenithal ones if necessary. ...

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... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

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... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

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... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The follow up 21cm synthesis observations on the galaxies found by this survey are essential for a number of reasons. ...

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... ARC 3.5m | Weather Closure Conditions . The enclosure will be closed by the Observing Specialist under the following conditions. ... This policy will be consulted whenever there are questions or disagreements concerning closure of the APO 3.5-meter telescope due to hazardous conditions or situations, at times when telescope operations are being overseen by an APO Observing Specialist. ... the on-duty Observing Specialist has full responsibility, and sole authority, to make this decision. ...

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... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... Within the framework of a joint observational program (SAO RAS + Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA), Granada, Spain) on August 25 and 27, 2006, a variable optical object (optical transient) OT GRB 050824 was photometrically observed in SAO. ... An optical identification was made in SAO with a CCD photometer of the 1-meter telescope by data of a satellite observatory SWIFT and with the use of optical data of the inernational monitoring of GRBs. ...

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OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

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This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999ew in NGC 3677 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. The following is a list of images of this SN, in chronological order. ... Discovery image . ... Arno van Werven image . ... K. SzilАdi image . ... vsnet-alert 3708 ] SN 1999ew in NGC 3677 . ...

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... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

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Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

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MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

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