Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... To locate it, look along the imaginary line between the two end stars on the leading edge of the PloughтАЩs blade (Merak and Dubhe) and Polaris (the North Star), the galaxy M82 (also known as the Cigar Galaxy) along with its companion M81, lies just off this line about a third of the way between the Plough and Polaris. €а€аAs usual, the supernova is far brighter than its home galaxy, appearing as an extra star. ...

This month's Geminid meteor shower is expected to peak around the late evening of Tuesday 13th/early hours of Wednesday 14th. The shower is usually one of the best of the annual meteor showers, with many relatively bright, slow- to medium-speed fireballs. ... These meteors are believed to originate from the near-Earth asteroid, Phaethon, discovered by a NASA satellite in 1983. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John McFarland at the Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DG. ...

... Can one galaxy hide behind another? ... NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Hot blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster. ... Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared . ... Even so, NGC 7027 is 14,000 times larger than the Earth-Sun distance. ... Starbirth in NGC 1808 . ... The center of galaxy NGC 1808 is bursting with new stars, but why? Being a barred spiral galaxy makes NGC 1808 somewhat similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. ...

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. ...

... 2005 July 1 . Ring Around Fomalhaut . ... Explanation: Fomalhaut ( sounds like "foam-a-lot") is a bright, young, star, a mere 25 light-year trip from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation Piscis Austrinus . Earlier infrared observations identified a torus of cold material surrounding the nearby star but the panels above detail the sharpest ever visible light-image of Fomalhaut's dusty debris ring, recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope's ACS camera . ... About APOD | ...

... 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 | ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

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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... 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. ...

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! ...

... Constellations are star patterns on the sky ? ... Every star or galaxy we see can then be located on one of the 88 constellations into which we have divided the sky (coincidentally, the same number as there are keys on the piano.) Each of the 88 regions takes its name from the best-known star group or picture in that region, so the constellation Orion is the sector of the sky that includes the easily recognized star-pattern of Orion the Hunter. ... The Sky Challenger Star Wheels kit ? ...

Supernova 2011iy in NGC 4984 . This page is devoted to information on 2011iy in NGC 4984 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . ... This supernova is in the Constellation Virgo . ... 2011/12/09.856 . ... 2011/12/10.5332 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . 2011/12/10.541 . ... 2011/12/10.785 . ... 2011/12/11.513 . 12.6 . ... 2011/12/20.873 . ... 2011/12/21.542 . ... JM Llapasset . ... 2012/01/04.524 . ...

... NICMOS Data Handbook > Chapter 5: Data Analysis > 5.4 PSF Subtraction . ... PSF subtraction for NICMOS data can be very effective, especially for images from cameras 1 and 2, thanks to a few important features of this instrument: . ... The factors are: focus variations due to OTA breathing, cold mask irregular motion (?wiggling?) on an orbital time scale, PSF color dependence. ... Table 5.5: Effect of focus variation, cold mask wiggling, and PSF color dependence on PSF subtraction. effect of: . ...

... This talk focuses on exploring the connection between Ly absorbers and galaxies. The theorist view of gas in the low z universe is based on the filamentary structures that are evident in simulations based on the CDM paradigm. ... The observer's view of gas in the low-z universe is based on the Ly absorbers which have column densities as low as 10 cm , while galaxies are at column densities of 10 cm . ... The absorber has N cm . ... Can examine LSS defined by gas-rich galaxies around absorbers. ...

... Oh, indeed I intend my life for to mend And to build a house down on the moor, brave boys And to build a house down on the moor. ... In the middle of the night when the moon do shine bright, There's a number of work to be done, brave boys, There's a number of work to be done. Then I'll roam all around in another man's ground, And I'll take a fat sheep for my own. Oh, I'll end his life by the aid of my knife And then I will carry him home, brave boys, And then I will carry him home. ...

... The delightful images from the All Around Us slipcase are now in this fun, interactive format. By lifting the big, sturdy flaps, young readers will learn new words and concepts through Eric Carle's bright, beautiful images and simple phrases. A perfect companion title for Eric Carle's ABC and Opposites. Артикул: 1470_1114 Цвет: зеленый Состав: 50% вискоза, 45% полиэстер, 5% эластан Описание: стильный брючный комбинезон зеленого цвета без рукавов. ... Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . ...

... 1b. Pole Star . ... Two bright constellations occupy opposite sides of the pole star--the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia . ... The Big Dipper consists of 7 bright stars, forming a dipper, a small pot with a long handle. ... It shows the 7 stars of the Big Dipper and Polaris, the north star. ... Ursa Minor , the "Small Bear" or "Little Dipper" is a constellation somewhat resembling the Big Dipper, and Polaris is the last star in its tail. ... Questions from Users: About the stars of the Big Dipper . ...

This view from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope shows a close-up of the sky around a very unusual green object called J224024.1тИТ092748 (J2240). It is a bright example of a new class of objects that have been nicknamed green bean galaxies. Green beans are entire galaxies that are glowing under the intense radiation from the region around a central black hole. J2240 lies in the constellation Aquarius the Water Bearer, and its light has taken about 3.7 billion years to reach Earth. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...