... Cluster and Starforming Region Westerlund 2 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , the Hubble Heritage Team . ... The cluster's dense concentration of luminous, massive stars is about 10 light-years across . Strong winds and radiation from those massive young stars have sculpted and shaped the region's gas and dust, into starforming pillars that point back to the central cluster. ... April . ... April 2015 . ... NGC 3293: A Bright Young Star Cluster . ... Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752 . ...

... August 29, 1996 . M17: The Majestic Swan Nebula . ... Explanation: What unusual eggs have been laid by this majestic swan ? The star forming region above, known as Swan Nebula , is the home of hot red-glowing gas , dark lanes of dust , bright young stars and -- what are those? Of the few stars visible in the Swan Nebula , several have quite unusual colors and are hypothesized to be very young stars still shrouded by gas from the cloud that formed them . ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

... Treatment of Pixel Artifacts Several tools in Photoshop are particularly useful for fixing undesirable pixels in a digital or scanned image : Clone Stamp tool (also available in The GIMP and older versions of Photoshop ) · copies pixels from a preselected sample region · allows for varying brush size, hardness and opacity Healing Brush tool (Introduced in Photoshop 7.0) · copies pixels from a preselected sample ... These layers may be copied to other images for similar results. ...

... 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 | ...

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 . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Square Kilometre Array overview . ... ATNF Technical Memos . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Research areas . ... International relations . ... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Grechnikov Fedor Vasilevich . ... Grechnikov F.V. , Gorshkov Yu.S. , Erisov Ya.A. Bending Process Simulation of a Flat Workpiece with Various Cross-Sectional Mechanical Properties with PAM-STAMP 2G // 4th International Conference for Young Scientists High Technology: Research and Applications, HTRA 2015, 21 April -24 April 2015, Tomsk, , 2016, P. 133-136 . ... 2015. ... F.V. Grechnikov . ...

... 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 . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Instrument Pipelines . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 05 Oct 2015 . ... New data products resulting from the VST Public Survey ATLAS are now available via the dedicated Phase3 query interface at the Science Archive Facility . ... Published: 31 Aug 2015 ....

... 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. ...

SAS home . ... List of SAS threads . This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract a light curve of a point-like source for all the X-ray cameras, and to start a simple analysis tool. ... If the following files are available: a) RGS event list; b) RGS source list, just a single evselect command allows a user to create a light curve, corresponding to the extraction regions in the spatial and order images. set up your SAS environment (following the SAS start-up thread ) . ...

... The barycentric corrections computed in 8.7.1 are applied to the event times in a time-sorted QPOE file. ... output files: rp90_out.qp ti apply_bary input qpoe file name: rp90_sti.qp[ time =(1606720.0:1612809.8)] # see Note 1 2 input correction table filename: rp110590_cor.tab output qpoe file name: rp90_out event definition: medium SCC- UTC conversion table is calibrated to SCC 110883482.0000 first qpoe gti time = J.D. 2448062.97604379, SCC 1606720.00000000 last qpoe gti ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . Dept. for Space Plasma Physics . Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . Department for Atmospheric Optics . ... Kinematics&Physics.. ... 2016,MNRAS, Vol.455 ,is.1,p.357-369. ... 2016,MNRAS, Vol.456 ,is.1,p.181-191. ... 2016,ApJ, Vol.816 ,is.1,p.3. ... Applied Optics . ... Solar Physics . ... All Pages . ... N1-12 . ... microfish . ... Applied Spectroscopy (microfishes) . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

. PAGE IN RUSSIAN . Form of the application (Excel file). Personal data questionnaire and the order of their presenting . Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad . Updated 18.04.2007. Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci., Institute avenue 15, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia. URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/2007/ . e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru . fax: + 7-(496-52)-49-701 .