... In the Arms of M83 . Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive , ESA , NASA ; Processing and additional imaging - Robert Gendler . Explanation: Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra . This cosmic close-up, a mosaic based on data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, traces dark dust and young, blue star clusters along prominent spiral arms that lend M83 its nickname, The Southern Pinwheel. ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

. Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications. Light Curves of New Variable Stars Discovered on Scans of Moscow Collection Plates, Field 66 Oph (MDV). MDV catalog - CDS access. Moscow plate collection (Sternberg Astronomical Institute), S.Yu. Shugarov's interactive page. Send questions and comments to N. Samus and S. Antipin .

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

. of Lomonosov Moscow State University, . Russia . GCVS Research Group . Catalogues of Variable Stars . Future Prospects of Variable-Star Catalogues . B.V. Kukarkin Centenary Conference: Variable Stars, the Galactic Halo and Galaxy formation (VS-Halo) . What's new . Recent publications . Digitization of Moscow Plate Archive . The "Peremennye Zvezdy" (Variable Stars) journal . Send questions and comments to Olga Durlevich .

... Астрономические данные в Сети - где искать и как пользоваться? Сайты с астрономической библиографией . ... Каталоги и базы данных в Сети. ... Говоря о каталогах, всегда вспоминают в первую очередь базу данных в Страсбурге http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Cats.html Является стандартом де-факто и де-юре - все таблицы и каталоги по указанию МАС со всего мира стекаются именно сюда. ... Есть система визуализации данных Aladin и объектно-поисковая система (вот к ней-то доступ и ограничен - в смысле платный.. ...

Shades of Deep Purple (USA: Tetragrammaton 1968 ; Europe: EMI Parlaphone 1968 ; Japan: Polydor 1968) (CD) . Deep Purple's debut album, recorded very hastily. ... Tracks: . ... Wring That Neck (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) . ... All tracks written by Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice . ... Painted Horse (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Child in Time (Live, 690924) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Bonus tracks on Japanese CD: Lazy (edited) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ...