... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 February 23 . An Etruscan Vase Moon Rising . ... Visible in particular was a curiously inverted image section pinched off near the horizon , an effect dubbed the Etruscan vase by the pioneering science fiction writer Jules Verne for its familiar shape. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... An Etruscan Vase Moon Rising . ... 23.02.2009 . ... Nothing, although from some locations, February's full moon, which occurred about two weeks ago, appeared strangely distorted as it rose. Visible in particular was a curiously inverted image section pinched off near the horizon , an effect dubbed the Etruscan vase by the pioneering science fiction writer Jules Verne for its familiar shape. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - atmosphere . Publications with words: Moon - atmosphere . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... MRO Support Facility . Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Current telescope status . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Scientific support of facilities . ... Astrophysics overview . ... Meetings . ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... Bionic eyes. If our eyes could see in different wavelength bands, this is what the Sun would look like. ... Visible light, crucial to photosynthesis, is a type of radiation. ... At the heart of this revolution is the recognition that light travels as a wave. ... Dreams of Fields . ... By the time the fields go from strong to weak and back to strong, the wave has moved a certain distance, known as the wavelength. ... Red light, blue light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio waves, x-rays ? ...

... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . ... ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. ... Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.) ... A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.) ... Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.) ... Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.) ...

... Data . AAS 221 . AAS 219 . ... The first thing to note is that Twitter does not guarantee to return all matching Tweets, whatever method is used (unless you have direct access to their "fire hose", which I don't). ... This should result in the same results as my REST-based search (method 2), since the volume of Tweets was probably not enough to cause this site to miss Tweets based on their collection strategy . ... A search for the tag #aas219 (case insensitive) using the Twitter REST API . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... In spring 1998, we finished our postgrad studing, ".. summer's almost gone" . ... Researcher at ASC. ... Researcher at SAI. ... PhD Dec 1998; Researcher at SAI, postdoc in US. E-mail: atim#sai.msu.ru . ... E-mail: gorshkov#sai.msu.ru . ... E-mail: andrew#sai.msu.ru . ... Phd Oct 1999; Assistant professor at Chicago. ... PhD Feb 1998; E-mail: polar#sai.msu.ru . ... E-mail: sunny#sai.msu.ru Researcher at SAI. ... People of our Great Group (Gr-Gr hereafter), e-mail me, what do you think about it. ...

Ice Volcanoes Reshape Europa's Chaotic Surface . Ice-spewing volcanoes and the grinding and tearing of tectonic plates have reshaped the chaotic surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa, images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveal. ... Although the images do not show currently active ice volcanoes or geysers, they do reveal flows of material on the surface that probably originated from them, said Galileo imaging team member Dr. Ronald Greeley of Arizona State University, Tempe. ... Europa . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

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... Cikota, S.; Cikota, A. (2010). ... A Study of the Effect of Galaxy Extinction on the Colors of Type Ia Supernovae" ApJ . ... January 4th-8th, 2009: Poster presentation: "A study of the effect of SINGS galaxy extinction on the colors of type Ia supernovae" at the 213th AAS Meeting in Long Beach, CA . ... January 9th-13th, 2011: Talk: "Some Results From a Study on the Effect of Host Galaxy Dust Extinction on the Colors of Type Ia Supernovae" at the 217th AAS Meeting in Seattle, WA . ...

... Using the DRAO Synthesis Telescope (Landecker et al. 2000), the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey ( CGPS ; Taylor et al. 2002) has captured a multitude of HISA features, the majority of which are invisible in prior surveys at lower resolution. ... Since the HISA gas temperature must be less than the background brightness temperature, all the H I shown in this poster has T ~ 100 K. Figure 1 provides panoramic views of the cold H I visible as HISA in the CGPS. ... GIFs: HISA + CO | HISA only | ...

... 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) . ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . February : 2009 . ... No sunspots and sunspot groups can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: February 10, 2009 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: 19 February 2008 20:48:32 GMT Subject: Lectures, Eclipse, Planetarium Event, Seminars, ASGI Hi all, EVENT AT ARMAGH: The Director of Armagh Observatory, Professor Mark Bailey, has asked me to publicise this event: 1. ... In a Total Lunar Eclipse the Full Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth and dims very considerably and changes colour, but usually remains faintly visible, lit by sunlight refracted through the Earth s atmosphere. ... Clear Skies Terry Moseley . ...

Our publications in 2001 year Kniazev, A. Y.; Engels, D.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Ugryumov, A. V.; Kniazeva, T. F.; Pramsky, A. G.; Brosch, N.; Hagen, H.-J.; Hopp, U.; Izotov, Y. I.; Lipovetsky, V. A.; Masegosa, J.; Marquez, I.; Martin, J.-M. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.366, p.771-787 (02/2001) . ... Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Lipovetsky, V.; Ugryumov, A. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ... N.; Soboleva, N. S.; Temirova, A. V. Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...