... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 October 15 . Black Sun and Inverted Starfield . ... In the above image, a detailed solar view was captured originally in a very specific color of red light, then rendered in black and white, and then color inverted. Once complete, the resulting image was added to a starfield, then also color inverted. ... About APOD | ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... In the above image, a detailed solar view was captured originally in a very specific color of red light, then rendered in black and white, and then color inverted. The Hubble Extreme Deep Field . ... Spiky stars and spooky shapes abound in this deep cosmic skyscape. ... That's about 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. ... Gathered within a region about 1.5 light-years in radius, they dominate the core of the dense Orion Nebula Star Cluster. ...

... ESO Science Newsletter October 2015 . 08 Oct 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... A detailed report on the outcome of the ALMA Early Science Cycle 3 Proposal Review Process is available . ... Read more . ... 17 Sep 2015: . ... Science Operations 2015: Science Data Management . ... You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the ESO Science Newsletter. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... What I See . ... Follow Ups | Post Message | ... I have observed the Double Cluster, the BeeHive cluster and other open and various Globular Clusters. My main problem with my 114mm reflector is in its inabliity to bring deep sky objects. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... MRO Support Facility . Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Current telescope status . ... Scientific support of facilities . ... Agenda (v. 22/10/2008) . ... Meetings . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... October 21, 1997 This Hubble Space Telescope image provides a detailed look at a brilliant "fireworks show" at the center of a collision between two galaxies. ... A ground-based telescopic view of the Antennae galaxies (known formally as NGC 4038/4039) - so named because a pair of long tails of luminous matter, formed by the gravitational tidal forces of their encounter, resembles an insect's antennae. The galaxies are located 63 million light-years away in the southern constellation Corvus. ...

... Things to see in the morning skies, from Terry Moseley, IAA : . ISS IN MORNINGS: The International Space Station is making a series of morning passes at the moment - see www.heavens-above.com Look out for it when it passes close to.. BRILLIANT MORNING STAR VENUS: Venus is still the brightest object in the morning sky. ... Photo: Four planets photographed by Paul Evans on 8 October 2009, from Larne . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Even the most modest telescope reveals the beauty of Saturn's rings. ... For details on observing the rings, see "Running Rings Around a Planet," Mercury , September/October 1996, p. 9.] Eerie rings. ... From Earth, we can see the three main rings. ... Conveniently for observers on Earth, the rings are tipped by Saturn's 27-degree tilt. ... When the twin Voyager spacecraft flew by Saturn in the early 1980s, they discovered that the main rings consist of hundreds of ringlets (see photo below). ...

... Главная страница / Кометы и астероиды / "Нас не догонишь". Комета 217P/LINEAR, M42, M43, Бегущий Человек и пролетающие спутники. ... M42 , M43 , БегущийЧеловек , 217P/LINEAR . ... Комета C/2009 R1 (McNaught) . ... Все права на размещенные в галерее фотографии принадлежат их авторам. ... Киевский клуб любителей астрономии "Астрополис" . Движок галереи: 4images 1.7 ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Tech Meet 12 . ... Page History | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Return to Tech Meet 12 ( Edit ) . ... October 28, 2010, at 05:31 PM by jsy1001 - . ... The upper diagram shows the FLC software tasks and dataflows as presented at the CoDR. The lower diagram includes changes discussed at this meeting, some of which are for our component and integrated tests. ... ISS Data Collector probably not suitable as LocalDataCollector and unlikely to be ready in time . ...

... I rewrote my unit testing code to get the pixmap from python and am debugging the unit tests. ... My new plan is to compare the results from the current version of drizzlepac to my new version. ... I spent the morning solving a link problem with the old version of drizzlepac linking with the unit tests. ... Naturally it did not match the result I got from the new drizzlepac code. ... I did a comparison of the old regression tests to the results from the new code. ... Archive for 2014 . ...

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 . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... As the sun sets in the west each evening, Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, is rising in the east in the constellation of Aries, where it is visible throughout the night setting just before sunrise. ... On 28 October the Earth comes between the Sun and Jupiter, in opposition, meaning as the Sun sets in the sky Jupiter will rise. ... Also this month rising into the sky in the early hours of the morning is Mars the Red planet....

Next: The Details Up: USING THE AO-CONTROL GUI Previous: USING THE AO-CONTROL GUI . The data-taking computer is located in the control room in Building 1. ... If you do not have a directory, ask your FoT (Friend of the Telescope) to have a project area made for you. ... Enter your name and proposal i.d. and click ``Line'' . Choose the receiver/IFLO set-up you wish to use . ... Next: The Details Up: USING THE AO-CONTROL GUI Previous: USING THE AO-CONTROL GUI koneil@naic.edu ...

Планета Земля и Луна . ... Космическая защита . Луна . Фотографии . ... Строение Луны . ... Страница: Начало одиссеи , Экспедиции , Море Кризисов , "Аполлон-8" , "Аполлон-9" , "Аполлон-10" , "Аполлон - 11" , E-8 "Луноход" , Испытания Л-1 , Луноход - 1,2 , КА "Луна 1-24" , КА "Луна-9" , Луна от КА СССР ; . Луна - наш космический спутник . ... Снимки Луны от аппаратов серии Луна и Зонд (СССР) . Фотографии космических аппаратов серии "Луна" (также Луноходы) и "Зонд" - СССР . ... Зонд 3 . ...

Organisers: Philippe Lebacque (Laboratoire de Math matiques de Besan on ) , Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institute for Information Transmission Problems) , Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, State University Higher School of Economics, IITP) . ... The conference will take place at the Independent University, 11 Bolshoi Vlassievsky pereulok, 119002 Moscow. ... The coffe breakes will be organized in the rooms of the Poncelet French-Russian laboratory. ... Poncelet Laboratory web page . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

Next: TCC logs Up: The Plan Previous: Focus sweep data . We have the Astrologs and the Murmur logs for every night of the run except for the night of 08 October 1999. ... The focus- <MJD> .par files were alos looked at to compare the commanded focus position with the MIG data. This effort was seriously hampered due to the fact that the focus- <MJD> .par files do not contain time stamps. The focus- <MJD> .par files do have run numbers and frame numbers written with the focus values. ...