Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1998 . Bright Leonids . ... Explanation: Rich in bright and awesome fireballs , the Leonid Meteor Shower came early this year. In fact, judging from meteor watcher reports the peak came nearly 15 hours earlier than the best predictions . ... About APOD > . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 November 8 . October Skylights . ... Explanation: With brilliant Venus above the western horizon at sunset and Jupiter and Saturn high in the east by early evening, November's night sky is filled with bright planets. October's sky featured bright planets as well and, triggered by the active Sun, some lovely auroral displays . ...

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... 19.11.1998 . ... Credit: Olivier Staiger Explanation: Rich in bright and awesome fireballs , the Leonid Meteor Shower came early this year. ... Observers on the Canary Islands were probably close to an ideal viewing location and recorded a maximum of effectively about 200 to 250 meteors per hour near dawn on November 17 - way below the peak rate during the 1966 Leonid meteor storm display . ... November . ... Publications with keywords: Leonids - fireball - meteor shower . ... 1998 Leonid Fireball ....

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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. ...

... Main . ... Pulsar Emission Mechanisms . ... Distinguished Visitor . PPTA algorithm development . ... Flux variations of PPTA pulsars . Carolyn Raithel (Carleton College) . ... Pulsar Wind Nebluae . ... Nov 1, 2010 - Jan 31, 2011 . ... June 23 - Aug 9, 2010 . ... Dec 8 - 17, 2009 . ... Dec 13 - 23, 2006 . ... Dec 3, 2006 - Jan 5, 2007 . ... Aug 10 - Dec 7, 2006 . ... June 29, 2006 - June 15, 2007 . ... May 15 - June 26, 2006 . ... Dec 31, 2005 - Feb 1, 2006 . ... Group . ... Pulsar Groups . ...

... 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) ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS03 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Two students from the University of Washington's Pre-MAP (Doug Branton + One unknown student) COLLABORATORS: Doug Branton (UW/Pre-MAP) CONTACT INFORMATION: bmmorris@uw.edu, 631-860-5116 TIME REQUESTED: Weeks ...

Тема : Хвостатые гостьи V (информация для наблюдения комет) .. Показать сообщение отдельно . ... Хвостатые гостьи .. ... после того, как ISON приплыл мимо нас, земля находится на орбитальной траектории, которая пройдет через след частицы кометы (тот, который ISON оставил позади, когда это приближалось к солнцу и это случайно встретит или вокруг 12 января - 15, 2014 . ... лучшее время наблюдения 22:00 LDT (Northern hemisphere 45њ North) .. - радиант расположен вблизи Al'dzhabkhakh (30-Eta Leonis, ? ...

Comet 17P/Holmes increased in brightness over a half of million times on 2007 October 24 ( APOD 2007 October 26 ). On November 1 it was still in peak of its brightness, when I pointed at it the 25-cm telescope of my home observatory located in the Nizhnyj Arkhys, Community of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Karachai-Cherkesia, Russia. Figure 1. Comet 17P/Holmes identified in the frame of SAO 1-m Zeiss all-sky TV camera on 2007 November 1. ... Comet is a green nonstellar object. ...

The X International Astronomy Olympiad has been held in Beijing (China) on October 25 - November 2, 2005. ... China Beijing . ... Like at VII and VIII IAOs the host team (team of Beijing city) took part in the Olympiad as the 16 th team. ... The 10 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Beijing on October 25 - November 2, 2005. ... J.Zhu (Beijing, X IAO-2005 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

... Three ` flavours'of binning and discard: · Discard 9 rows , readout 1 row, cut 10:1, resolution 1.75ms · Discard 90 rows , bin 10 rows , cut 10:1, resolution 2.76ms · Discard 95 rows , bin 5 rows , cut 20:1, resolution 2.76ms · Compared with normal timing : · 100 rows and readout, no cut, resolution 1.75ms Bin · Tested on XMM on Crab during rev 333 - 3 October 2001 Crab - rev 333 - Bright timing ... Counting mode and FIFO full errors. ... Crab - rev 333 - Bright timing mode ...

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This figure shows, on the left, images of Encke on three successive days from November 6 to November 8; on the right, images of ISON are shown for three successive days from November 9 to November 11. ... Green circles indicate some of the brighter cataloged background stars in each image; yellow marks bracket the comets. The background stars are fixed in each image from top to bottom, so the motion of the comet relative to the stars is clear in each case. ...

... The target list of 127 NLTT stars was selected using preliminary colour-magnitude selection criteria, which result in the inclusion of stars up to 30-40 parsecs from the Sun. Of the 127 targets, 28 are known late-type dwarfs and 29 have suspect 2MASS magnitudes (bright star diffraction spikes, unresolved companions etc.) ... Figure B2.1: Calibrating relations for computing spectral type from VO and TiO5 indices. ... Figure B2.3: Abundance calibration for M dwarfs. ... NStars proper motions index . ...

November 1-4, 1993 . ... On Nov 2 (b), strong evolution of the chain takes place during the LDE/CME event occurred in AR 7613 (see Figure 2 for details): new chain fragments are developed from the regions 1 and 2 eastward and westward respectively. (d)-(e) - Comparing the Nobeyama radio heliograms with the Yohkoh/SXT images, one can see that during three days the long-living chain between sources 1 and 2 coincides with a sharp SE boundary of the large coronal hole. ...

... This is a preliminary summary of the event on November 24, 1996, considered during the INTERBALL Workshop in Kiljavanranta, Finland, February 1998. ... Pronounced plasma sheet thinning (Bz decrease) . ... Particle burst observed inside the Polar Cap and in tail lobes . A short burst of particles detected by the Auroral Probe particle detectors during the Polar Cap crossing at 21:45 UT, almost simultaneously with the Tail Probe detectors registration of the particle burst inside the North Lobe. ...