... April 26, 1999 . USNO-A2.0 Catalog: A Digital Sky . Credit: PMM Team , USNO Flagstaff Station . Explanation: Here lie 526,230,881 of the brightest stars known. The US Naval Observatory has deployed their monster Precision Measuring Machine to digitize photographic plates covering the whole sky and creating the above map . Yellow corresponds to 150,000 stars per square degree, while dark blue corresponds to only 500 stars per square degree . ... About APOD > . ...

... USNO A2.0 Catalog: A Digital Sky . ... Credit: PMM Team , USNO Flagstaff Station Explanation: Here lie 526,230,881 of the brightest stars known. ... Yellow corresponds to 150,000 stars per square degree, while dark blue corresponds to only 500 stars per square degree . For comparison, the Full Moon takes up about 1/4 of a square degree.) ... Dark dust lanes are evident there by the great number of stars they obscure. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 2000 April 24 . Reflection Nebula M78 . ... Explanation: An eerie blue glow and ominous columns of dark dust highlight M78, a bright reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion . The dust not only absorbs light, but also reflects the light of several bright blue stars that formed recently in the nebula. ... M78 belongs to the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex that contains the Great Nebula in Orion and the Horsehead Nebula . ... About APOD | ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 1, 2010 | ... Before the modern era of technological astronomy, to know anything [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments In, say 1975, there was only one kind of ?stuff? in the Universe, matter made of protons and neutrons. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . Magazines . Mercury Magazine . ... Order Mercury Issues . Mercury Advertising Rates . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Contents and Select Excerpts . ... March/April 2004 . Mercury is a bi-monthly membership magazine. ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . March Sky Map | April Sky Map | ...

Our publications in 2004 year Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Grebel, Eva K.; Pustilnik, Simon A.; Pramskij, Alexander G.; Kniazeva, Tamara F.; Prada, Francisco; Harbeck, Daniel . ... 704-727 (02/2004) . Kniazev, A. Y.; Grebel, E. K.; Pramskij, A. G.; Pustilnik, S. A. American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #80.06 (05/2004) . Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Pramskij, A.; Izotov, Y.; Foltz, C.; Brosch, N.; Martin, J.-M.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.419, p.469-484 (05/2004) . ... 419.. ...

Amy Kimball . Publications . Radio Catalog . ... High Radio Frequency Sample of Bright Planetary Nebulae in the Southern Hemisphere Detected in the AT20G Survey (2015) MNRAS , 451, 3228 . ... Active Galactic Nucleus and Starburst Radio Emission from Optically Selected Quasi-Stellar Objects (2013) ApJ , 768, 37 . ... Kimball et al. ... A Closer View of the Radio-FIR Correlation: Disentangling the Contributions of Star Formation and Active Galactic Nucleus Activity (2010) ApJ , 24, 779 . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... A comparison of the computed and experimental relations F max ( H), as well as comparison of drift scans of point sources across different horizontal cross-sections of the BP with the corresponding computed cross-sections were made. ... The drift scans of the point source 3С84 (H=87 o ) at the wavelength 7.6 cm across the horizontal cross-sections of the BP (black lines) and the computed horizontal cross-sections of the BP corresponding to them (red lines). ...