This is a series of periodic postings by Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association . ... Go to latest bulletins . Another Bright Comet? ... Issued 2002 December 31st . ... Issued 2002 December 28th . ... Issued 2002 December 18th . ... Issued 2002 December 8th . ... Public Lecture, IIS etc . Issued 2002 December 2nd . ... Issued 2002 February 22nd . ... Issued 2002 February 17th . ... Issued 2002 February 13th . ... Issued 2002 February 11th . ... Issued 2002 February 10th . ...

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... 2006 December 19 . Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 . Credit: NASA , ESA and J. M. ApellАniz ( IAA , Spain). Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. ... Component stars would still remain near 100 solar masses, making them among the more massive stars currently on record. ... About APOD | ...

... 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., ...

... Anvil Cloud Over Sicily . ... Galaxy Cluster Lenses Farthest Known Galaxy . ... A Patch of Spherules on Mars . ... Some patches of Mars are full of mysterious tiny spherules. ... And just for a moment, they used Very Large Telescopes at the European Southern Observatory to appreciate the beauty of the nearby Universe. ... M64: The Sleeping Beauty Galaxy . ... The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may appear peaceful at first sight but it is actually tossing and turning. ... Announcing Comet C 2002 T7 LINEAR . ...

... 2.3 Establishing the Extragalactic Distance Scale . ... 2.3.2 The Second Rung: Distances to stellar clusters . ... 2.3.4 Distances to Local Group Galaxies . ... The Luminosity Function of Planetary Nebulae . ... 3.2.2 Clusters of Galaxies . ... 4.2 Evidence for Dark Matter as a Function of Scale Size . ... 4.3 Other Dark Matter Indicators for Galaxies . ... What is the nature of the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe as traced by the three-dimensional galaxy distribution? ...

... Commission 37: Star Clusters and Associations . Home Page . Commission 37 of the International Astronomical Union deals with all aspects of Globular Cluster, Open Cluster, and Stellar Associations research. With Commission 33 it forms Division VII of the IAU. Commission Structure . ... IAU Home Page . Open Clusters Database (maintained by J.-C. Mermilliod ) . Catalogue of Milky Way Globular Cluster Parameters (maintained by W. E. Harris ) . ...

I'm glad you're interested in collaborating on the ConcepTests for Astronomy WWW database project! ... Paul . ... a) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . b) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . c) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, high temperature . d) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity high temperature. ... Back to Paul Green's Peer Instruction page. ... Back to Paul Green's HomePage . ...

NGC 5986, a little-studied southern-hemisphere globular cluster, is remarkable in containing two very luminous A-F type stars, discovered by me in the 1970's. These objects are probably in their final evolution off the asymptotic giant branch. ... Determining the distance to NGC 5986 will help calibrate the absolute brightnesses of post-AGB A-F stars. ... NGC 5986: last updated 2001 December 20 . Mike Siegel and I have found a post-AGB star in the globular cluster M79 (NGC 1904). ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on July 3, 2012 | 17 Comments Mankind is responsible for numerous achievements in technology, arts and science.However, how much can this attributed solely to the human mind or is there another reason man has achieved such [ ] . ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Press Release Images . Individual Images . ... The right-hand image shows Hubble's close-up view of the galaxy's core, taken in December 1995 by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The bluish-purple clumps that form the ring are the clusters of infant stars. Two dark, wispy lanes of dust and a pair of blue spiral arms are just outside the star-forming ring. ... The gas is trapped inside the ring through the stars' gravitational attraction. ... Amazing Space | ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Travel to Vitacura Office . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO's new office and conference building in Garching тАФ in this picture тАФ has been designed to be in keeping with the original building. ... This extension, together with the new technical building, have a total area of 13 200 square metres, which more than doubles the total area of ESO Headquarters...

Next: PyFITS, a FITS Module for Python . ... Pirzkal, N. & Hook, R. N. 1999, in ASP Conf. ... Python is a powerful, object-oriented scripting language that is easy to extend, free, and available for most computer platforms. Python, together with its Numerical module, and with the pFitsio module that is being developed by one of the authors, provides an attractive alternative to other languages such as Perl, IDL, and the IRAF CL, which are already widely used by the community. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The next step up are true clusters, called open clusters . Open clusters (sometimes misleadingly called "galactic clusters") are groups of stars ranging in size from a few dozen stars up to tens of thousands. ... The youngest is about 1 or 2 million years old, while the oldest is about 6 or 7 billion years, making it just older than our own solar system. ... So by looking at the stars in the cluster we can tell pretty well how old they are. ...

APAO is a relatively new Olympiad which was founded in the spring 2005 as an international regional programme in line with the International Astronomy Olympiad. The 8 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (VIII APAO) took place in November-December 2012 in town of Cox's Bazar ( South-East part of Bangladesh ). The Olympiad organized by Bangladesh Astronomical Association . ... Theoretical round, problems 1-6, group a : English , Russian . ... For the best result in all the rounds . ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... The conference will be also partially hosted by the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkin 8, 119991, Moscow . The nearest metro stations are: Akademicheskaya (orange line) from which there is a 15-minute walk or Leninsky Prospekt (orange line) and Universitet (red line) from which one may take a tram No. 3 or 39 to the stop ?ulica Gubkina?. ... The location of the conference room at the building of the Steklov Institute will be announced later. ... Location of the Steklov Mathematical Institute . ...