... NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula . ... Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was an exploding star and record the colorful expanding cloud as the Veil Nebula. ... The stars of NGC 2244 formed from the surrounding gas only four million years ago and emit light and wind that define the nebula's appearance today . ... Unusual Giant Galaxy NGC 1316 . ...

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... August was noteworthy by having the least number of hours of bright sunshine for at least 128 years, that is, since sunshine records began at the Observatory in 1880. ... The month was also exceptionally wet, with rainfall totaling 151.4mm (5.96 inches), nearly twice the average figure (around 81 mm) for August and the seventh wettest August at Armagh since rainfall records began at the Observatory in 1838. In order to find a wetter August we have to go back 52 years, to August 1956. ...

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... 2000 August 22 . NGC 2244: A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula . ... Explanation: In the heart of the Rosette Nebula lies a bright open cluster of stars that lights up the nebula. The stars of NGC 2244 formed from the surrounding gas only four million years ago and emit light and wind that define the nebula's appearance today. High energy light from the bright young stars of NGC 2244 ionizes the surrounding hydrogen gas clouds to create the red emission nebula appearance. ... About APOD | ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Posted on March 14, 2012 | 23 Comments How big is the largest known star? ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on November 10, 2011 | ... 2 Comments Once planets orbiting other stars were unknown as they could not be directly observed. ... 5 Comments Once exoplanets, worlds orbiting other stars, were the stuff of science fiction but now we know of literally hundreds of real alien planets circling other stars. ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Over the years of its successful business operations , ISC Kosmotras has performed 22 Dnepr orbital flights with a total of 128 payloads inserted into their orbits. ... Below is the list of payloads lofted into their target orbits on Dnepr launch missions put together by ISC Kosmotras: . ... MEGSAT-1 (Italy) . ... LATINSAT-A, -B (USA) . ...

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Main Sections LabIR main page . ... On January 23, 1998 the space probe NEAR was on its way to its closest approach to Earth. ... However, we were able to record a series of images of the space probe shortly before the sunglint event, and we have assembled them into a movie. At the TIRGO observatory, an observation of the space probe NEAR was organized for the night of January 22-23, 1998. ... We show here a preliminary movie (MPEG format, 412kb) made from 74 frames, each lasting 5 seconds. ...

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These images have been selected from those recorded with the telescopes at Mt. ... This is the full 25 arcminute field of view of the CDK700 with its Apogee U16 camera. ... Jupiter on November 1, 2011, at 07:06 UT was recorded with the CDK125 Shared Skies Live telescope and an AVT Prosilica GX-3300 video camera. ... The first quarter moon on August 17, 2010 at 02:20 UT was recorded through thin cirrus with the CDK125 Shared Skies Live telescope at Moore Observatory. ...

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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. ...

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• Astronomy HyperText Book: Interstellar Medium
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... From left to right, the columns list the machine acronym, the present access of the machines to outside users, the operating mode, total bandwidth (MHz), number of frequency channels, bandwidth per channel (kHz), shortest sampling interval (us), number of bits recorded per sample, number of polarizations recorded and the data storage method. ... Disk . ... Timing . ... Baseband . ... Data sampling: 4-bit in search mode, 6-bit in timing mode . ... Mode(s) of operation: baseband recording and timing ....

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... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...

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... Lunar Orbiter 5 was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... Accurate data were acquired from all other experiments throughout the mission. ... A detailed description of the experiment, a bibliography, and indexes of all the available Lunar Orbiter 1 through 5 photos are contained in the report 'Lunar Orbiter Photographic Data,' NSSDC 69-05, June 1969. ...

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... From the data taken during Cycle 1, surface brightness profiles have been obtained for 13 globular clusters in M31 (Fusi Pecci et al. 1993), leading also to the detection of a central cusp in a candidate post-core-collapse cluster (Bendinelli et al. ... Surface brightness profiles obtained with VISTA. ... PSF 512 512, data matrix smaller and smaller (256 256, 128 128, 64 64), sky = 0, RMG (Fig. 3b): the derived profiles remain unaffected a part from the reduction in radial extension. ...

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... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

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ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

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• http://www.atmob.org/about/observing/awards/files/globular_cluster_instructions_2011-02-01.pdf
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... 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. ...

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... The evolution of magnetic fields in OB-type stars from the study of open clusters of different ages . ... Wade G. A. The MiMeS Project: Magnetism in Massive Stars . ... Polosukhina N., Shavrina T., Drake N., Kudryavtsev D. Smirnova M. New results of the spectral observations of CPstars in the Li I 6708? spectral region with BTA telescope of SAO RAS . ... Magnetic Stars-2010 . ... List of participants . List of reports . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

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... Current APO Weather . ... Search Site . ... Information for New Users . ... Technical Staff pages . Night Logs and Mailing Lists (maintained by APO) . ... Technical Documents and Database Search . ... Observer's Documentation and Procedures . ... Problem Reporting and APO Technical Documents Database Search . ... APO Drawing/Document Management Procedures . ... APO Technical Documents Database Search . Home Astrophysical Research Consortium . ... Mail Lists (maintained by APO) . ...

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GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

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... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Weekend Visits to the ALMA OSF . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ALMA . ... Star Clusters . ... 2016 . 2015 . 2014 . ... Stars@ESO . ... Although HD 97300 is in the spotlight for now, the very dust that makes it so hard to miss heralds the birth of additional, potentially scene-stealing, future stars. eso1604 тАФ Science Release . ... 31 March 2016 тАФ ann16021 . ... 29 March 2016 тАФ ann16020 . ... 29 March 2016 тАФ ann16019 . ...

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• The Pencil Nebula, a strangely shaped leftover from a vast explosion | ESO
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

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