... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 December 15 . A Fading Moonset Over Hong Kong . ... Explanation: Do stars appear dimmer when nearer the horizon? ... The image was taken in the evening about three weeks ago over Hong Kong , China . ... New Mirror: APOD now available in Romanian from Romania . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>8541) - www.sai.msu.su/ )

• APOD: December 12, 1996 - The Milky Way Through the Summer Triangle
• APOD: 2012 December 16 - MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula
• APOD: 2009 December 20 - Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma

... December 13, 1997 . The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies . Each of these galaxies house billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals , while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>9454) - www.arcetri.astro.it/ )

• APOD: December 18, 1999 - Irregular Galaxy Sextans A
• APOD: December 30, 1998 - Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe
• APOD: December 29, 1997 - The Milky Way in Infrared

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>358) - www.badastronomy.com/ )

• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Info

... Earth in True Color . ... 5.03.2002 . ... Credit: Reto Stockli ( IACETH ), MODIS , GSFC , NASA Explanation: Here are the true colors of planet Earth . Blue oceans dominate our world, while areas of green forest , brown mountains , tan desert , and white ice are also prominent. Oceans appear blue not only because water itself is blue but also because seawater frequently scatters light from a blue sky . ... Publications with keywords: Earth - NASA . Publications with words: Earth - NASA . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>167461) - www.astronet.ru/ )

• XWare > APOD

... EXPN DNO D A T E UT TIME FQ SOURCE CORR-Telescopes VT734 355-MO Dec 21 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT735 356-TU Dec 22 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT736 358-TH Dec 24 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT737 359-FR Dec 25 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT738 360-SA Dec 26 09:00-20:00 C 0528+134 Mitk-UD KA SH W018c 364-WE Dec 30 06:00-15:00 L 0552+398 Socr-VLBA W071n 6-WE Jan 06 10:00-17:00 L J0745+10 Mitk-AT HO MP UD SH KA W059e 7-TH ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>18477) - www.atnf.csiro.au/ )

• ATNF Media Release - December 1, 1998

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>15963) - www.stsci.edu/ )

• Further Information
• Coordinated Parallel Containers
• Making HST Pictures: Illustrations

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>653) - www.astronomy.net/ )

• Education Discussion Forum - Hosted by The Astronomy Net

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>3) - www.astronomer.ru/ )

... 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) ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>2783) - www.naic.edu/ )

• What is HISA?
• I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region
• Backends Available with CIMA

This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... As Indiana University astronomer John Salzer well knows, not all of them are easy to classify, and a few even appear to be relics from a bygone age. ... But at the same time, Johannes Kepler made a fundamental contribution to astronomy. ... A Messenger to Mercury , Paul Deans . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>1483) - www.astrosociety.org/ )

• ASP: Articles on Education from Mercury Magazine
• ASP: A Flag for Mars
• ASP: Indiana Jones and the Astronomers of Yore

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>29409) - www.eso.org/ )

• ESO - ESO-Enews #25: December 2012
• ESO - Newsletter December 2015
• iau_wglib_news IAU Commission 5, Working Group on Libraries

Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties . ... If necessary, data have been determined for the different crystallographic axes. ... In the following we give some examples of the data and their possible applications. Table: Summary of data measured in the Jena laboratory, which are currently available from the JPDOC. compound . ... amorph. ... Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties root 2003-03-06 ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>282) - www.astro.spbu.ru/ )

• Database of Optical Constants -- Level: welcome
• Database of Optical Properties

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>314) - zebu.uoregon.edu/ )

• Digital Stellar Spectra

. To you, the user, it appears as though there is only one type of file in UNIX - the file which is used to hold your information. In fact, the UNIX filesystem contains several types of file. Ordinary files . Directories . Special files . Pipes .

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>290) - comet.sai.msu.ru/ )

• rtftohtml Users Guide - 4 Special Processing
• Description of different types of shell
• Welcome to Astronomical Circular

... warning . ... For instance, if the PROPOSAL information record is missing the user can add a fake one to the SOSF without this having any effect on the data reduction. corrective action: Continue. ... For a certain exposure in the ODF one of the parameters was not found in the housekeeping data. ... The task has encountered a situation where the same CCD appears to be in more than one data mode. ... The task expected to find one and only one ODF component matching a certain instrument/data mode pair...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>9448) - xmm.vilspa.esa.es/ )

• Using tasks

Last Updated: December 9, 1992 This README file can be found on the FTP site (cs.uwp.edu) in the directory /pub/music/lyrics/g/gibson.debbie or /pub/music/lists/btl/lyrics along with all of the below named files. The album files contain lyrics for the entire album, as they appear in the CD booklet. out.of.the.blue electric.youth anything.is.possible The lyric files for each individual song contains the 'sing along' version which should accurately represent what is actually sung on the album. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>3004) - crydee.sai.msu.ru/ )

• XFree86/OS2 Available Ported Software - Libraries
• Dynamic HTML in Communicator
• COMPLEX DATA ANALYSIS

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>4965) - www.astronomy.com/ )

• Searching for the best black hole recipe | Astronomy.com
• Can you explain Mercury's retrograde motion? Do other planets appear to do this
• What can astronomers tell us about the different colors on the surface of

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... Armagh Observatory, 18th December 2008: Astronomers throughout the island of Ireland are marking the shortest day of the year, on 21st December, with a special live web-cast of the iconic moment when the rays of the rising sun shine directly into the 5,000 year-old burial chamber at Newgrange, County Meath. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>2875) - star.arm.ac.uk/ )

• Geminid Meteors
• Terry Mosely's Bulletins
• International Year of Astronomy in Ireland | Astronomy 2009

... Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... This document describes the terms that are used to describe each Apache configuration directive . ... Configuration files . ... This indicates where in the server's configuration files the directive is legal. ... A directive marked as being valid in this context may be used inside <Directory> , <Location> , <Files> , and <Proxy> containers in the server configuration files, subject to the restrictions outlined in Configuration Sections .htaccess ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>2140) - www.sao.ru/ )

• ASCII source files
• Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs) - Apache HTTP Server
• mod_cern_meta - Apache HTTP Server

... Stars . ... If you werenтАЩt lucky enough to see a meteor in the skies during the previous two months, December will not disappoint. ... Also try locating the constellation of Orion which is easy to find in the south western part of the sky and contains some of the skies best features while waiting for your eyes to adjust. ... Hanging proudly from OrionтАЩs belt is his sword, but for those with a telescope you will be able to see the Orion nebula, a stellar nursery where young stars are being born. ...

Еще в разделе: (Показать все результаты (>2817) - www.armaghplanet.com/ )

• Leonid meteors 2011 | Astronotes
• Astronotes | Armagh Planetarium's astronomy news from across the Universe -
• Seven Amazing Astronomical Gifts for Christmas | Astronotes