... LINEAR s Tail and Two Nuclei . ... 31.05.2001 . ... Credit Copyright Gordon Garradd , Loomberah NSW Australia Explanation: Arcing toward southern skies in late March, this faint comet LINEAR - the one officially designated C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) - brightened unexpectedly. The outburst, apparently due to the fragmentation of its nucleus, delighted observers as the comet eventually increased to naked-eye brightness. ... Publications with keywords: comet - tail - nucleus . ... Tails of Comet Garradd . ...

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... Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none the less mystical, Earth's small Moon will begin a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... The dark, inner part of the Moon's shadow, the umbra, will strike the Earth first in Iran and trace a smooth curve across Afghanistan and Pakistan, down and through northern India. ... Please submit your completed report by Nov. 30, 1995 by email to 0002032694@mcimail.com or regular mail to John Isles, Attn: Guest Observer, 1016 Westfield Drive, Jackson, Mich. ...

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... 2002 February 4 . Comet LINEAR (WM1) Shines in the South . ... Explanation: A new comet has brightened unexpectedly and is currently visible to unaided observers of southern skies. Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) is now reported by some observers to be at third magnitude , making it brighter -- although more diffuse -- than most visible stars. ... Pictured above is the center of Comet LINEAR (WM1) taken the morning of February 1 from 300 km north of Sydney, Australia . ... About APOD | ...

Verkhoglyadova O.P., V.N. Ivchenko, K. Kudela, M. Slivka, V.N. Lutsenko, S.A. Romanov "Approach to identification of the tail plasma regimes using INTERBALL-1 data" // Czech. ... Yermolaev "Observation of vortical motions and compressional waves in the dawn low-latitude sheet" // Journal of Technical Physics, 1999, v.XL, No 1, p.325-328. ... Martiushov V. "A point explosion inside a cavity with power-law density distribution" // 6 th Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... By admin March 6, 2013 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Comet PANSTARRS reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun on 10 March, after this it will start to move away from the Sun and to be visible in the twilight sky to observers in the northern hemisphere. ... It was a very faint and delicate white ?feather? against a deep golden sky.€а It took quite some effort to find even with binoculars and I could not see it at all without them. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Observer Neptune au t†йlescope . ... Pour localiser Neptune, invisible †а l'ЉУil nu, un t†йlescope dot†й d'un syst†иme de pointage automatique est un atout. ...

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... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

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An APEX Low-redshift Legacy Survey for MOlecular Gas . ... Understanding the molecular gas content of galaxies is one of the most important areas of galaxy evolution. In order to study the molecular gas content of low mass nearby galaxies, we undertook `ALLSMOG', a large legacy survey at the 12m APEXб telescope . ... ALLSMOG' is an APEX large legacy programme designed to observe molecular gas (via the 12 CO(2-1) emission line) in a large sample of local, low mass (<10 10 M sun ) galaxies. ...

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Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... Last updated 10 October 2014 . ... Dr. Alasdair Dougal Mackey . ... Australian National University . ... 2004 - Ph.D., Institute of Astronomy and Trinity College, University of Cambridge . ... 2003-2006 - PPARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ... 2005 - Lecturer for Globular clusters and globular cluster systems (8 lectures), a course for first and second year Ph.D. б б б б б б б б б б б б б  students, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...

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... February 3, 1998 . A Magellanic Mural . ... Explanation: Two galaxies stand out to casual observers in Earth's Southern Hemisphere : the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). ... Recent observations of the LMC (on the left) have determined that it is on a nearly circular orbit around our Galaxy, and have even helped in the determination of the composition of dark matter in our Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

... Amado, P.J., Doyle, J.G., Byrne, P.B. , 2000, ``Photometric modelling of starspots - II. The FORTRAN code SPOTPIC'', MNRAS, 314, 489-497. ... Chrysostomou, A., Hobson, J., Davis, C.J., Smith, M.D. , Berndsen, A., 2000, ``High-resolution near-infrared observations of Herbig-Haro flows - I. H imaging and proper motions'', MNRAS, 314, 229-240. ... Davis, C.J., Smith, M.D. , Eisl?ffel, J., 2000, ``New, high-resolution, near-infrared observations of HH1'', MNRAS, 318, 747-752. ...