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... April 20, 1998 . Name This Satellite . Credit: Phil Weisgerber ( TRW ), AXAF Team , NASA . Explanation: Can you name this satellite? In December, NASA's third Great Observatory is planned for launch. ... But after whom should the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) be named? If your submitted suggestion conforms with contest rules and is chosen, you will have named the most powerful X-ray satellite ever built, and may even win a prize. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 20.04.1998 . ... Credit: Phil Weisgerber ( TRW ), AXAF Team , NASA Explanation: Can you name this satellite? ... But after whom should the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) be named? If your submitted suggestion conforms with contest rules and is chosen, you will have named the most powerful X-ray satellite ever built, and may even win a prize. ... April . ... April 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: satellite . ... SIRTF: Name This Satellite . ...

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General Forum Message . Forums: . ... George Lutz Observatory . ... The G.H. Lutz observatory is named in honor of George H. Lutz who was involved in the early stages of design of the Ritchey Chretien telescope system which is widely used today. ... For purchasing a telescope you may visit The Astronomy Yellow Pages on-line. ... In 1999 became the managing director and resident astronomer for our observatory along with managing an on-line mall "Loron's Astronomy Mall" FAQ's GEORGE H. LUTZ (1.) ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Asteroid Itokawa imaged by the Hayabusa mission (Image credit: JAXA) . ... All I had to do is leave my name at a website (long gone now so I can?t link to it). My name is all over the Solar System. if you know where to look. ... The New Horizons probe will almost certainly outlive the Solar System, so the names on board will attain a curious semi-immortality. ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Earliest source: "[Observatory women computers], 1891." ... A group photo of computers at Harvard together with Mary Anna Palmer Draper, aka Mrs. Henry Draper. ... 1891 . General: The women depicted in this photograph analyized stellar photographs and computed data at the Harvard College Observatory. [link] 1891 . ...

... James Webb . ... The space-based observatory will be known as the James Webb Space Telescope, named after James E. Webb, NASA's second administrator. ... As a result, we're rewriting the textbooks today with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and, in 2010, the James Webb Telescope." ... The Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., manages the James Webb Space Telescope for the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. ...

Proposal Identification No.: R2184 Date Received: 2005­Oct­03 16:30:29 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Planetary Radar Observation Category: Solar System Total Time Requested: 18 Hours Proposal Title: Radar Imaging of Near­Earth Asteroids 2004 WG1 and 2001 SG276 ABSTRACT: We propose to obtain high­resolution (7­15m) imaging of near­Earth asteroids 2001 WG1 and 2001 SG276 in April of 2006. ... Maybe Part of the observing run. ...

... Gallery . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: CSO - Early 1960s . Description: NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... CSO - Early 1960s NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. Powered by Gallery 3.0.9 (Chartres) . ...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

San Francisco, March 22, 2007) -- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today that James Manning has been appointed to the position of Executive Director. ... The ASP Board and staff are totally delighted that Jim is joining us. With his long background in the planetarium world and informal science education, plus his great experience working with NASA, he is just the right person to take over the leadership of the ASP," said ASP President Dennis Schatz. ...

. Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia . Apparent Close Approaches of Near-Earth Asteroids to the Stars for April 2016 . By these observations it is possible to obtain the positions of asteroids with higher accuracy. This page includes the ephemerides of such phenomena for some observatories, namely: . Pulkovo . CrAO . Kourovskaya . Majdanak . Pulkovo Obs. Mountain Station . Mondy .

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2016 > AGN: what's in a name . ... Science Users Information . Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Different bands employ different methods to identify these sources but, most importantly, provide different windows on AGN physics. ... 1. the different types of AGN selected in the various bands . ...

09/1986: Visiting Astronomer, Sofia, Rogzen Observatory, Bulgaria . ... 04/1996: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center Poland . 02/1998: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland . 09/1998: Visiting Astronomer, N.Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland, Paris-Meudon Observatory, France . 05/1999: Visiting Astronomer, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, China . 10/2000: Visiting Astronomer, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, China . ...

... Previous: Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS . ... Astronomers can use the ADS to maintain their publication lists; a simple http link can bring a current bibliography at any time. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abs_connect?author=hazen,m. &aut_syn=YES&nr_to_return=all . ... To have a complete bibliography via ADS one needs but to add the missing articles into ADS. ...

Catalogue of designations . HyperLeda home | Documentation | Search by name | ... Search the designations of an object . This catalogue (table a101 in the database) presents the compilation of the designations of objects. ... A given object may have several names. ... The colon behing a galaxy designation means that this name is given to 2 (or more) objects. ... The pair keeps the name given in the catalogue and the 2 objects members of the pair have the same name + the colon. code . ...