... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . The Geminid meteor shower is the last, and one of the best, major meteor showers of the year. ... Shower meteors appear to come from a point in the sky known as the radiant. ... The number of meteors that may potentially be observed during the maximum of the shower on the evening of the 13/14 December, and from a clear, dark site with no light pollution and little moonlight, can range up to as many as 100 or more per hour. ...

... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > My data shows an extended, bright feature - what can this be? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... You might also want to check http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/PublicSurveys/useful_links/OmegaCAM_images.html where we provide a collection of example OmegaCAM images, illustrating some special data features. ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

Examples of pipeline processing . ... This page presents examples of "on the fly" processing of FITS astronomical data available on the WEB using the HyperLeda pipeline tools. ... In many cases, raw data are archived and a consisten description of the file (FITS header) allows to process them on the fly. ... This first command makes a "pre-view" display of the image. o=fa:L93111HP1/00147&z=vg . ... The result of a pipeline processing is a FITS file that you can read as a normal disk file. ...

... Display (spectra, total power). ... Using the data archive. ... entering cmds, editing cmd lines, input from files, batch, run. constants, variables,arrays, structures, operators, procedures, functions. programming in idl . ... A user would call arch_gettbl() to input the table (or a subset of it). corfindpat() can create subsets of the table. arch_getdata() or arch_getonoff() can be used to read in the spectra. ... input the data (spectra) for a subset of the archive table: arch_getdata () . ...

... To run the <LAYER> version of the example, select: flower.htm . ... However, if the page had several layers with absolute positions, and you wanted to place another layer in a relative position to one of the existing layers, you could use inline JavaScript to calculate the value for LEFT or TOP . ... In this example, there is really no need to use inline JavaScript to position the last flower layer, since you could just let the TOP value default to its natural value, as in the other flower layers. ...

... Data . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... This section highlights some typical FOC image characteristics. ... Occulting fingers located near the aperture entrance if the image size is greater than 512 x 512 pixels or if the FUV prism is in the beam. Reseau marks etched onto the faceplate of the detector to aid in geometric correction ( Figure 4.4 ). ... A faint diagonal parallel striping pattern called pattern noise . ... Figure 4.5: FOC 512 x 512 Image Showing Faint "Thumbprint" Pattern or "Fringes" . ...

vps is a perl script which provides a terminal-based interactive view of all process, in a tree-structured format. ... The basic display is separated into a top area, where the process tree is displayed. and a bottom three lines, where additional details on the currently selected process is displayed. ... The bottom area of the selected process shows on the first line the current processes' command and arguments. ... Move cursor down one line . ... Move cursor up one line . ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

Many entry fields permit sexagesimal entry (h:m:s.s or :':"). ... Sexagesimal entry is flexible in that you can specify one to three fields, as you desire. ... Position entry widgets assume that a single field is decimal hours or degrees (h.h or . ... You may specify one to three fields: . ... Note: sexagesimal offsets and durations are entered in the same fashion, but a single field is decimal arc-seconds or seconds ('.' or s.s) and two fields are (arc) minutes and seconds (':"." or m:s.s). ...

... public class ParticleAnalyzer . ... static int . ... Add particles to ROI Manager. protected boolean . ... Clear ImageJ console before starting. static int . ... protected static int . ... Do not measure particles touching edge of image. protected boolean . ... Flood fill to ignore interior holes. protected static int . ... Display image containing binary masks of measured particles. static int . ... Field Detail public static final int SHOW_RESULTS . ... protected static final int NOTHING . ...

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

A bright supernova, 1998S, has been found on March 3 by Chinese astronomers at Beijing Observatory. 1998S is located in NGC 3877 an UMa galaxy at R.A. = 11h46m06s, Decl. = +47o29'.0. ... Recent magnitude estimates show the star at around magn 12. ... It covers a field of 35'x35' and shows stars down to magnitude 15 and is mainly based on the GSC and USNO catalogues. ... Below follows a list of field and sequence stars located within ~20' from SN 1998S in NGC 3877: . ... TI (b-r)=+0.5 . ...

SN 1999aa - A Third Supernova Discovery . Just 9 weeks after the discovery of SN 1998ey a suspect was found 1" east and 28" north from the centre of NGC 2595 on Feb.11.0166 U.T.. ... Further inspection of 6 images of NGC 2595 taken during Feb. and March 1998 showed no object at the position of the suspect. ... Beijing Astronomical Observatory recorded SN 1999aa on Feb. 11.6 and 12.6 UT, the first obervation being only 14 hours after the discovery. ... Back to Supernova 1999aa in NGC 2595 . ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Abell 2597 s Cosmic Cavities . ... Typical of large galaxy clusters billions of light-years away, Abell 2597 features hundreds of galaxies embedded in a cloud of multimillion degree gas which glows in x-rays. ... This unusual display of an auroral corona occurred on Earth three days after an unusual solar event -- the fifth most powerful explosion yet recorded on the Sun. An X14-class solar flare on April 15 sent a tremendous Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) into the Solar System. ... June 2003 . ...

... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearlтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. Description: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are on the left and the Milky Way from Crux through Centaurus are on the right. ... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... S.A. Balashev, D.A. Varshalovich, A.V. Ivanchik, V.V. Klimenko , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... D.P. Barsukov, A.I. Tsygan , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... A.I. Kopylov, F.G. Kopylova , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... F.G. Kopylova, A.I. Kopylov , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... Conference poster . ... Slide shows and posters . ...

Thought-Provoking Imagery Shows Sun's Place in the Galaxy . ... SOHO - Explosive Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun . SOHO-6 Comet at 2-6 solar radii from the Sun . ... The remarkable images come from SOHO's visible-light coronagraph, LASCO, which is able to mask the intense rays from the Sun's surface in order to reveal the much fainter glow of the solar atmosphere, or corona. ... SOHO is ideally placed to report and even anticipate their origins in the Sun's atmosphere. ... The Sun . ...