Mysterious Pluto and Charon . ... In addition to direct imaging by the Hubble Space Telescope , careful tracking of brightness changes that occur as each object eclipses the other have allowed astronomers to build up the above black white surface maps . These maps depict the face of Pluto (left) that always faces Charon, and the face of Charon that always faces away from Pluto . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... They worked out that first magnitude was on average 100 times brighter than the 6th magnitude star. ... This formed an equation of apparent magnitude Mv which is: Mv = -2.5 log f + constant were f is the flux of that star f = ( counts/ exposure) The images that we worked on were taken by the Polar Bear Telescope. ... One of these being that it will be combined with standard stars, which will be used to identify the area of stars and to also help identify other stars within the image. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 July 26 . Lingering Lunar Eclipse . Credit Copyright: Noel Munford (Palmerston North Astronomical Society, New Zealand) . Explanation: As the Moon passed almost directly through the center of Earth's shadow on July 16th, sky gazers in the Pacific hemisphere were graced by a lingering lunar eclipse . ... About APOD | ...

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... For more distant stars we must use other techniques. ... Hence if we see a distant galaxy and can pick out any cepheids lying within it, we can calculate its distance. ... Here then is another method to gauge the size of the Universe and there are yet more. volume at high enough temperature a nuclear fusion reaction sweeps across the white dwarf's surface and eventually we will see a spectacularly bright new star (hence nova) in our skies. ... Why is this relevant to the size of the Universe? ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 ( ChASeM33 ): The X-ray Point Source Population of M33 M. Sasaki (CfA), B. Williams (University of Washington), P. Plucinsky (CfA), W. Pietsch (MPE), T. J. Gaetz (CfA), K. S. Long (STScI ... University), F. Haberl (MPE), T. G. Pannuti (Morehead State University), P. Ghavamian (JHU), L. Bianchi (JHU), A. Tolea (JHU), and the ChASeM33 team With most of the 1.4 Ms of Chandra ACIS ... Fig. ... We interpret this as an eclipse of the X-ray source. ...

... Up: Software Applications . ... Written in ANSI C, eclipse is a library offering numerous services related to astronomical image processing : FITS data access, various image and cube loading methods, binary image handling and filtering (including convolution and morphological filters), 2-D cross-correlation, connected components, cube and image arithmetic, dead pixel detection and correction, object detection, data extraction, flat-fielding with robust fit, ...

... 13, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation, e-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru; 2 Research Institute Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea 334413, Ukraine, e-mail: prok@crao.crimea.ua Summary: We propose a combined method of astronomical investigations of small or distant planets incorporating registration of a set of integral spectra of an object and their frequency analysis. ... An application of the method is shown on example of asteroid 21 Lutetia. ... 6] Busarev V. V. (2002), Solar Sys. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

Natural Satellites Service. ... Mutual occultations and eclipses . of the major satellites of Uranus . ... We present the ephemerides and circumstances of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the major Uranian satellites in 2006-2010. ... In 2006-2010 about 190 mutual occultations and eclipses will occur. ... The ephemerides of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the major satellites of Uranus in 2006-2010 are presented in four tables according to four periods of visibility of Uranus. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

New GCVS Version (GCVS5) FileName Explanations ----------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe This file GCVS5 The ... ------------------------------------------------------ 1- 2 I2 --- Constell [1/88]Constellation numeric code 3- 6 I4 --- Number Star number within the constellation 7 A1 --- Component *Component identification 9- 18 A10 --- GCVS * Variable ... Field is non-blank if magMin is a magnitude or amplitude given in a system other than that indicated by magCode. ...

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! ...

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... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Пуховая куртка с минималистичным дизайном, изготовлена из денима трех цветов, в черном и сером вариантах с ваксовым покрытием. eclipse будет выглядеть премиально как в городе, так и не склоне, т.к. куртка оборудована вентиляциями и съемной юбкой. ... Цвет: Синий . Virus . ... Размер: 52 . ... Материал: Хлопковый сатин . Состав: 100% хлопок . Размер: Двуспальное (евро) . Размер пододеяльника: 200х220 см . Тип застежки пододеяльника: Пуговицы . Тип застежки наволочек: Прорезь . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS08 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Monitoring long-term orbital period variations and transient events in bright Cataclysmic Variables PI: Paula Szkody OBSERVER(S): Zhibin Dai UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: COLLABORATORS: Zhibin Dai CONTACT INFORMATION: Zhibin Dai E-mail: zhibin_dai@ynao.ac.cn off: (86) 871-67339079 Res: Cell: (86) 18988418816 TIME REQUESTED: Priority order time moon phase 1. May 2 - 8 dark 2. May 30 - June 5 dark 3. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Американская компания Eclipse Aviation весной начинает строительство завода по выпуску сверхлегких самолетов Eclipse 500 в особой экономической зоне "Заволжье" в Ульяновской области, пишет газета "Ведомости". ... К 2011 году завод выйдет на полную мощность - 800 самолетов в год. ... Eclipse 500, первый самолет компании Eclipse, был введен в эксплуатацию в 2006 году. ... В "Заволжье" построят завод по выпуску сверхлегких самолетов Eclipse 500 . ...