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... 2008 November 28 . Probably a Planet for Beta Pic . ... Now, infrared observations from European Southern Observatory telescopes incorporated in this composite offer a detection of a source in the clear zone that is most likely a giant planet orbiting Beta Pic . ... Confirmation that the new source is a planet will come if future observations can demonstrate that the source moves in an orbit around the star. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

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... Probably a Planet for Beta Pic . ... Explanation: A mere 50 light-years away, young star Beta Pictoris became one of the most important stars in the sky in the early 1980s. Satellite and ground-based telescopic observations revealed the presence of a surrounding outer, dusty, debris disk and an inner clear zone about the size of our solar system -- strong evidence for the formation of planets . ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet . ... A Giant Planet for Beta Pic . ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

Next: Source Detections Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Diffuse Model . Because of the low photon detection rate and the extent of the PSF, statistical techniques are required to analyze EGRET data. Maximum likelihood (Mattox et al. 1995a) is used to estimate point source flux densities, source locations, and background model parameters. ... is the Poisson probability of observing counts in pixel ij when the number of counts predicted by the model is . ...

... Prepare an observing catalog for PALFA run: log in to fusion00 (as self, in group palfa) source ~palfa/python_env makeobs-new.py --MJDStart STARTMJD Read DOCS: mysql_python_scripts.txt for instructions. ... Click on "ALFA", "disable quick tsys", "choose receiver", and "dismiss" Click "Receiver IF/LO control", "New & Improved IF/LO setup" (blue), "Apply this setup", and "dismiss" "Pointing Control", default is psr.cat, click on the test pulsar (e.g. B0540+23, B1933+16), ` click on "point". ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... Home The Club AAA Membership . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . ... 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 . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... April . ... April, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... Canadian Astronomy Data Center, DAO/NRC . SkyCat is a tool that combines image visualization with access to astronomical catalogs and data archives. SkyCat uses a standardized URL syntax to access a large number of data sources on the net. ... More information on SkyCat can be found at the SkyCat Web site. The ESO SkyCat Tool includes the following features: . ... PostScript color printing of the display (image + graphics), . ... overlay catalog sources on an image, . ...

The objective of this course is to help you to understand some fundamental basic concepts behind the Java technology. The audience is assumed to have little or no prior exposure to Java and Object-Oriented programming. ... The topics will help you to understand how to use Java to create, access, and support Java applications and applets. ... Introduce object-oriented programming concepts and how they apply to Java programming. ... Extending A Class (Inheritance) . ... Hello World Applet . ...

... It is sort of frightening to think how much of our astronomy education materials are actually developed this way...they are not considered part of our primary job responsibilities! ... The microprobes will impact and penetrate the surface of Mars in December 1999. ... The Women Of NASA" . ... Mount Wilson Summer Program For Undergraduates . The Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy (CUREA) announces the Mount Wilson Summer Program for Undergraduates, 16?29 June 1999. ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... When the source-detection algorithms has run omdetect will compute raw count-rates for each detected source. For point-sources (ie those sources having widths consistent with those of the point-spread function) the count-rates are obtained by aperture photometry. For binned and unbinned images the aperture is 6 and 12 pixels, respectively. ... Extrapolate (if necessary) the source count-rate to the 12 unbinned pixel aperture, using the point-spread function for the filter. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Having been launched at 11:15 Moscow time from Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Dnepr LV (a converted SS-18 ICBM) successfully injected 5 RapidEye spacecraft into orbit. ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras, speaking on behalf of the Company, extended his congratulations on the successful launch to the launch customers, namely British SSTL, Canadian MDA and German RapidEye AG. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ... Launch Sites . ...