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... A 212 Hour Exposure of Orion . ... It is a direction in space that is rich with impressive nebulas. ... The bright orange star just above the frame center is Betelgeuse , while the bright blue star on the lower right is Rigel . ... About those famous three stars that cross the belt of Orion the Hunter -- in this busy frame they can be hard to locate, but a discerning eye will find them just below and to the right of the image center. ... Publications with keywords: Orion - deep field . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 November 23 . A 212-Hour Exposure of Orion . ... It is a direction in space that is rich with impressive nebulas. ... After 212 hours of camera time and an additional year of processing, the featured 1400-exposure collage spanning over 40 times the angular diameter of the Moon emerged. ... About APOD | ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Image Comparisons . ... View shopping cart . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... This video compares a new view of the Helix Nebula acquired with the VISTA telescope in infrared light with the more familiar view in visible light from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory. The infrared vision of VISTA reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are mostly obscured in visible light images of the Helix. ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

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... STScI-PRC98-11A STARING INTO THE WINDS OF DESTRUCTION: HST/NICMOS IMAGES OF THE PLANETARY NEBULA NGC 7027 The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has captured a glimpse of a brief stage in the burnout of NGC 7027, a medium-mass star like our sun. ... The material settles into a wind of gas and dust blowing away from the dying star. ... During this phase, intense ultraviolet radiation from the central star lights up a region of gas surrounding it. ...

... Classes . ... Nebula Class Reference . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getCloseViewFov (const StelCore *core=NULL) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin March 5, 2013 Posted in: March , Monthly Sky Notes . ... It has been a hard object not to spot due to its intense brightness in the constellation of Taurus following the beautiful bright star Aldebaran across the sky, and although Jupiter has been mentioned a lot recently in the night sky Astronotes this month will provide a particularly exciting view of the solar system record breaker. ...

Figure 1: An averaged OH 1612-MHz spectral profile of V1018 Sco, from 36 separate epochs of observations at Parkes. ... V1018 Sco (IRAS 17317-3331, OH354.88-0.54) is a well known OH/IR star with strong infrared and radio maser emission. The OH 1612-MHz maser spectrum of V1018 Sco, shown in Figure 1, has a double-peaked profile that is characteristic of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars where the maser emission occurs from the outer regions of an expanding circumstellar envelope. ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

Image scaling renders maximum visible detail Full data range Black: -207 White: 16143 Automatically setting the smallest image value to be black and the highest value to white can force important areas of the image to be rendered invisible. ... Resulting combined image Combining separate exposures to produce a color image Separate filter images Grayscale [HeII] F469N [OIII] F502N H F656N [NII] F658N Colorized Resulting color composite Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Meade Series 4000 Nebular Filters incorporate the very latest in interference coatings technology. ... Technical Basis of the Meade Broadband Nebular Filter: As shown in the transmission graph below, the Meade Broadband Nebular Filter strongly rejects the light of sodium- and mercury-vapor lights as well as natural airglow and auroral emissions. ... Meade Series 4000 Narrowband Nebular Filters . ... Meade Series 4000 Oxygen-III Nebular Filters . ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters . ...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 1040 . ... Notes: This is the remnant of the SN of AD 1054. ... Optical: Strongly polarised filaments, diffuse synchrotron emission, with `jet' faintly visible. ... VLA at 1.4 GHz, radio detection of `jet'. ... Velusamy 1985, MNRAS, 212, 359. ... Aller & Reynolds 1985, ApJ, 293, L73. ... Comparison of VLA observations at 74 MHz, 327 MHz, 1.5 GHz and 5 GHz for spectral index studies. ... VLA at 5 GHz (1".4) and HST multi-epoch observation for proper motion studies. ...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... ARC 3.5m | Weather Closure Conditions . The enclosure will be closed by the Observing Specialist under the following conditions. ... This policy will be consulted whenever there are questions or disagreements concerning closure of the APO 3.5-meter telescope due to hazardous conditions or situations, at times when telescope operations are being overseen by an APO Observing Specialist. ... the on-duty Observing Specialist has full responsibility, and sole authority, to make this decision. ...