... 2001 September 12 . Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn . ... Explanation: An unusual triangle of light will be particularly bright near the eastern horizon before sunrise during the next two months for observers in Earth's northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn , this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light , light reflected from interplanetary dust particles . ... Zodiacal light is also bright for people in Earth's northern hemisphere in March and April just after sunset. ...

... Explanation: An unusual triangle of light will be particularly bright near the eastern horizon before sunrise during the next two months for observers in Earth's northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn , this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light , light reflected from interplanetary dust particles . ... Zodiacal light is also bright for people in Earth's northern hemisphere in March and April just after sunset. ... Publications with keywords: zodiacal light - Solar System . ...

... August 7, 1998 . M65 Without Moth . ... Explanation: Messier 65 ( M65 ) is a bright spiral galaxy of stars only 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo . ... The faint blue smudges along the spiral arms of M65 are large clusters of bright, newly formed stars within the distant galaxy while the bright individual stars are foreground objects in our own Milky Way galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

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... Stars . ... Straight away the three stars in his belt will grab your attention, followed by the glittering white star Rigel in his left foot and the bright orangish star Betelgeuse in his right shoulder (assuming Orion is standing facing us and not with his back to us). ... Orion Belt?s with the stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. ... In short, Orion was a big, loud giant of a man and indeed a mighty hunter, he also inherited some aquatic superpowers from his father who was the sea god Neptune. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

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Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

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... It sustains all life on Earth and it can be very harmful to stay out in it for too long. To study the Sun, astronomers have built special telescopes to safely view it. ... We call these stars solar twins . ... Studying these rare solar twins allows astronomers to see what our star used to be like, and what it will be like in the future. Not very far from Earth (compared to the huge vastness of space) astronomers have just discovered the oldest solar twin ever! ...

Old subtables of the extended ``HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog'' . ... Koribalski, Staveley-Smith, Kilborn, + HIPASS/ZOA teams 2004, AJ 128, 16 . The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: HI Properties . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: The HI Mass Function . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: Newly Cataloged Galaxies . ... To download the gzipped ps-file click here . ... The Brightest Galaxies from HIPASS . Presented is the distribution of the 700 brightest HIPASS galaxies. ...

Kholtygin A., Brown J., Fabrika S., Surkov A. Magnetic field connected fast line profile variability in spectra of bright O supergiants . ... Conference, held in the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian AS, August 27-31, 2003, Eds.: Yu. ... Results of a study of fast line profile variability ( lpv ) in spectra of selected bright O-stars are reported. ... In the context of testing the MCWS model a program of searching for weak magnetic fields in bright O and early B stars is outlined. ...

... In August 2009, amateur and professional astronomers reported that the bright star Epsilon Aurigae had begun to lose brightness for the first time in 27 years. ... Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up to monitor the eclipse and have announced that this critical phase ended around New Year s Day 2010. ... Even during the eclipse, the star is so bright that sensitive equipment in professional observatories can have trouble monitoring its brightness in the optical wavelengths. ...

... Classical nova V2362 Cyg (N Cyg 2006, 21:11:32.34, +44:48:03.9, 2000 [position in ATel 928 is incorrect!] ) undergoes gradual increase of its brightness since middle of August, 2006 from the level of V = 11.9. ... Full width of Halpha line is 5900 km/s, and that one of Hbeta is 5300 km/s. We identified the strongest emission features as CIII+NIII blend centered on 4652A, [OIII]+NII blend on 5010A, NII+[NII] blend on 5708A, NaI+OI blend on 5920A. Absence of HeI lines at 6678 and 7065A is surprising. ...

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The 11 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (November 2015) : . ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2015 may participate in the APAO-2015 (that is a student may participate in the 20 th IAO or in the 11 th APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). ... National representation quota at APAO-2015 is (up to) 8 students and 2 team leaders (the same number is at the Asian Physics Olympiad): not more than 4 participants for the group Alpha, not more than 4 participants for the group Beta. ...

... the dark tail just above the actual trap, which can be treated with wfixup or fixpix , . cases where real objects cross the bad column, such as the object just above 2-637 in Figure 5 , . ... The standard technique for removing the effects of traps (i.e., "bad columns") is to use the . ... c1h images. ... Note that trap 2-637 from Figure 1 and Figure 5 appears to be the only trap which leaks a small amount of charge in an "upstream" direction, thus we chose a more typical trap for this example.) ...