Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The different colors of this planetary nebula are determined by small differences in its composition. This bipolar nebula will continue to shine brightly for only a few thousand more years, after which its central star will fade and become a white dwarf star. ... Publications with keywords: bipolar - planetary nebula - butterfly nebula . Publications with words: bipolar - planetary nebula - butterfly nebula . ... NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula . ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Lightcurve of HW Vir from images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory . The blue triangles show the difference between two stars whose brightness is constant. ... This shows the value of the Faulkes Telescopes in the follow-up observations of eclipsing binaries with the aim to detect and characterise additional circumbinary companions. ...

... When creating a mosaic from a set of individual frames, the correct background offset for each frame must be determined for proper matching. In this paper we describe a method for constructing a mosaic from a set of individual frames by applying a minimization technique. ... Typically these are frames with some known defect (see ? ... Determining which frames to exclude from the final mosaic is critical, since one bad frame can create background offset errors that propagate throughout the mosaic. ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...

... I. Mean Surface Brightnesses and Integral Color Indices for Bars Gusev A.S. ================================================================================ Abstract: UBVRIJHK surface brightnesses and color indices of bars of galaxies are determined using surface photometry data for 100 barred galaxies (table1.dat). ... J0 Mean surface J0 brightness 46 A1 --- CI- CI sign 47 -50 F1.2 magn/sq.arcsec. U-B)0 (U-B)0 color index 52 -55 F1.2 magn/sq.arcsec. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... Stars . ... Located 22 000 light-years away from the Sun, this is the closest region of this kind known in our galaxy. ... Look out at the sky tonight and you will see how stars vary in brightness. ... Although the vast majority of stars we see in the night sky are brighter than the Sun, actually small and dim M type stars called red dwarfs (stars physically smaller than our Sun are classed as dwarf stars) seem to be the most common stars in space, at least in our part of the Milky Way galaxy. ...

... Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antenna bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free All this machinery making modern music Can still be open-hearted. ... You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. ... SONG: Different Strings Who's come to slay the dragon, Come to watch him fall? ... Tide Pools When the ebbing tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline, It leaves a trail of tidal pools In a short-lived galaxy. ...

... We had a unique diagnostic tool for determining whether or not the secondary was fractured during the dark run in that we had 3 sets of focus sweep data for the imaging camera taken on the nights of 05 October 1999, 11 October 1999, and 14 October 1999. ... Figure: 05 October 1999, CCD g1 . ... Surface plot. ... Figure 32 plots the same data but for CCD g3. ... Figure: Comparison of normalised brighness for the out-of-focus doughnuts for the nights of 05, 11, and 14 October 1999 for CCD g1. ...

... The first task assumes the searching for chemical composition and sizes of particles which give the wavelength dependence of the extinction efficiencies close to the observed dependence of . Figure 7: Wavelength dependence of the extinction efficiency factors for homogeneous spherical particles of different sizes consisting of astronomical silicate and amorphous carbon. The dashed segment shows the approximate wavelength dependence of the mean galactic extinction curve at optical wavelengths. ...

Modeling of atmospheres of the brightest stars belonging to the Cyg OB2 association O LGA M A RY E VA , V. G . K L O C H K OVA , E.L. C H E N T S OV Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS; olga.maryeva@gmail.com We present the results of modeling of the spectrum of the brightest stars belonging to the Cyg OB2 association ­ Cyg OB2 #7 (O3If ) and Cyg OB2 #11 (O5Ifc). ... The lines in Cyg OB2 #7 spectrum are divided into three groups which can not be described with a single model. ...

... Posts tagged ?GRB? May 11th, 2008| 10:42 pm | Posted by hlee . ... Category: arXiv , MCMC , Uncertainty | ... Category: arXiv | ... Category: arXiv , Data Processing , Galaxies , gamma-ray , Objects , Uncertainty | ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

. Strictly speaking, UNIX is not one single operating system, it is a family of operating systems. Different computer manufacturers produce their own versions of UNIX. Although these are mostly similar, there are small differences which can cause problems. The most obvious examples are the layout of the file system and the exact format of certain commands. History of the UNIX operating system . Modern variants of UNIX .

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

... Лента абразивная FIT на тканевой основе для ленточных шлифовальных машин. ... 100 Г. MasticDent Hios Herbs- это синтезированная паста с витаминами А, Е и В5 и мастичным маслом, которые укрепляют десны и зубную эмаль. ... Шаг измерения секундомера 1/100, максимальное время измерения 24 часа. ... Внешний слой: 100% полиэстер, саржа деним или 100% полиэстер, оксфорд с принтом . Подкладка: 100% тафта из нейлона / 100% ворсованный полиэстер и плюшевый трикотаж / сетка из 100% полиэстера . ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York January 2010 Volume 58 Number 1, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE farther away from us than the Moon. ... As the year begins, the solar system's largest planet lies in the southwestern evening sky among the dim stars of Capricornus, setting four hours after the Sun. ... January 27 Mars closest to Earth. ... The planet-like object is at least 29 times as far from its star as the Earth is from the Sun, or about the distance between the Sun and Neptune. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... 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 . ...