Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... The ringed planet will be quite bright, but unlike Jupiter it will not be the brightest point of light in the sky, this accolade will return to Sirius which is the brightest star in our night sky in the constellation of Canis Major. ... Seven days later on February 18, the Moon will be in its full Moon phase. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the February Night Sky | ... Astronotes . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2007 February 19 . Nova Over Iran . ... Explanation: A bright new nova is being studied by astronomers. The officially dubbed Nova Scorpii 2007 has become so bright in recent days that it is now visible to the unaided eye. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 9, 1999 . A Supernova Star-Field . Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: Bright stars don't last forever. ... The above picture is a composite of recent images taken over several years. The explosion originated from a bright massive star that ran out of nuclear fuel . ... About APOD > . ...

... Gliding through the sky on Wednesday evening, February 20th, a first quarter Moon seemed to run over bright planet Saturn as viewed from much of North America. ... Comet Ikeya Zhang . ... Comet Ikeya-Zhang is presently heading north in planet Earth's sky, framed by stars of the constellation Cetus. ... On another Valentine's Day (February 14, 1990), cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back to make this first ever family portrait of our Solar System. ... February...

... Users . Connections (constellation) . ... Data Collection and Analysis . AAS 221 . ... The graph below represents the connections between users tweeting about the 221st meeting of the American Astronmical Society . ... The circles represent Twitter accounts; the color is coded based on the number of followers of each account using the scale given at the top of the graph (it's also included in the mouse-over text for each node), although I don't have this information for all users. ...

... Ignacio Ugarte Urra's PhD thesis topic is the investigation of coronal bright points. In his first paper (in collaboration with Gerry Doyle and Maria Madjarska) he investigated the formation, evolution and decay of a coronal bright point via a spectroscopic analysis of its transition region counterpart and the evolution of the underlying magnetic bipole during 3 days of almost continuous observations. ... In general the bright point has a radiance 4 times higher than that of the network. ...

... Home Education Classes AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February ? March 2016 . ... Classes . ... AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February - March 2016 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ March 2016 . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

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. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... Discussion Forums . ... Brightest Northern Hemisphere Galaxy . Forum List | ... Post Message | ... In which constellation would I find the brightest galaxy in the northern hemisphere? ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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 . ...

... Hubble Detects Faster-Than-Light Motion in Galaxy M87 . ... Click on image for larger version. (100kB GIF) Sequence of Hubble images showing apparent motion at six times the speed of light in the galaxy M87. ... The slanting lines track the moving features, and the speeds are given in units of the velocity of light ``c." The images were made between 1994 and 1998 with the Faint Object Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. ... PHOTO CREDIT: John Biretta, Space Telescope Science Institute. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... It s because some sunlight bounced off the Earth and dimly lit the side of the Moon that is facing away from the Sun. ... Recently, astronomers used earthshine to help in the search for aliens. Signs of life can be found in the quantities of particular gases in a planet s atmosphere, such as oxygen, ozone, methane and carbon dioxide. And astronomers can work out what gases are in a planet s atmosphere by studying the light that bounces off them their planetshine . ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

... Welcome to George Heald :) . CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dr George Heald who joins the Astro Group as another CSIRO Science Leader, specialising in Low Frequency Radio Astronomy. Based in the CASS Perth office, George will work with a selection of postdocs and students, and a number of new staff that will form a Perth-based Astrophysics group for CSIRO. ... Photo credit: Charlotte Sobey (CASS) . ... today * ATNF | ...

... 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) ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... What to expect from Comet PANSTARRS in February . ... So, if you live far enough south, to find Comet PANSTARRS in the morning sky February 1, look 1.5ТА southeast of the brighter of the two suns that make up the double star Arkab, also known as the Beta (ЮВ) star in the constellation Sagittarius the Archer . ... So, stay tuned to Astronomy.com for Comet PANSTARRS updates. ...

... 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 . ...

XMM -Newton TTD Meeting Status of EPICs operations 7th of February 2001 StИphane Rives XMM 1 Status of EPICs operations - Introduction 1) Current situation since last TTD meeting (October 2000) 2) Recent implementations applicable after next database release (7th of February) 3) Foreseen tasks and improvements VILSPA : 31st January 2001 XMM 2 Status of EPICs operations - Part 1 1) Slew exposures 2) Bright Pixel Tables 3) ... VILSPA : 31st January 2001 · · · · XMM 21 ...