... 2006 September 8 . Messier 110 . ... Explanation: This very sharp telescopic vista features the last object in the modern version of Charles Messier's catalog of bright clusters and nebulae - Messier 110 . A dwarf elliptical galaxy, M110 ( aka NGC 205 ) is actually a bright satellite of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda , making M110 a fellow member of the local group of galaxies. Seen through a foreground of nearby stars, M110 is about 15,000 light-years across. ... About APOD | ...

The Mystery of the Fading Star . ... Since the 19th century, astronomers have studied the mystery star, eventually arguing that Epsilon Aur, centered in this telescopic skyview , was actually undergoing a long eclipse by a dark companion object. ... Continuing to collect evidence, Citizen Sky , a team of professional and amateur astronomers, is studying the current eclipse of Epsilon Aur, reporting that it began in August 2009 and by late December had reached its deepest point. ...

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... October 2, 1999 . Phi Persei: Double Star . ... Based on recent results , this artist's vision of the double star Phi Persei , 720 light years away, shows a bright, rapidly rotating massive star surrounded by a disk of gas. A small companion star orbits 100 million miles away. ... Ten million years ago the small companion was actually the most massive star in the system and because of its greater mass evolved into a giant star more quickly. ... About APOD > . ...

Definitions of Magnitudes and Surface Brightness 1 The magnitude system 1.1 Apparent magnitude Astronomers are stuck with the antiquated old system of magnitudes and so a clear explanation of what this system is and how it relates to more sensible units is important. ... 1.2 Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is a logarithmic luminosity scale. ... One usually goes by the round about process of referring to the absolute magnitude of the sun. ... Magnitudes and surface brightness 6/6 ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Starbursts are short-lived events, stars are forming so quickly that the reservoirs of interstellar gas from which stars are coalescing would be used up on a timescale much shorter than the age of the galaxy . ... Strong stellar winds from giant new stars in the starburst region combine with the blasts of supernovae to push a mighty flood of extremely hot gas, a ?superwind? from the galaxy thousands of light years into intergalactic space. ...

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. ...

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Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

COS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... STScI has developed a Bright Object Tool (BOT) to facilitate field checking prior to COS program implementation. ... The BOT is based on displays of the Digital Sky Survey (DSS) and on automated analysis of the field using data from two catalogs: the second Guide Star Catalog (GSC2) and the GALEX catalog. ... Should the tools available within the BOT be insufficient to clear a field object, its safety may be confirmed using the ETC . ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:43:56 EDT Subject: Deep Impact, Sunspots, Weird Planet, Shuttle Launch Hi all, 1. DEEP IMPACT: As you probably know, the Deep Impact impactor probe is due to smash into comet 9P / Tempel 1 at about 05.50 UT on 4 July. ... WEIRD NEW PLANET: On Thursday a group of astronomers announced finding perhaps the most bizarre extrasolar planet yet: an object with a core of heavy elements that may amount to 65 - 70 times the mass of Earth. ...

The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: HI Properties . ... These belong to 91 new sources for which no optical or infrared counterparts have previously been cataloged, an additional 51 galaxies for which no redshifts were previously known, and 16 galaxies for which the cataloged optical velocities disagree. ... J0001-15, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0035-25, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0105-06, ( ps eps , jpg ) J0221-20, ( ps eps , jpg ) . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: Newly Cataloged Galaxies . ...

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XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... A different approach is done via the setting withctisrcpos =Y: all event energy corrections do not use the actual RAWY coordinate but the corresponding RAWY location of the source ( SRCPOS ) as determined by the task epframes (either automatically or via setting withsrccoords =Y). ... The task epchain may be used with the setting ccds =4 withctisrcpos =Y to process only the CCD 4 where usually the bright source is located that causes the Out-of-Time events. ...

... My mother had a 'star named for me' with the International Star Registry (henceforth ISR) as a gift for this Christmas. ... On the back of the chart, a sticker described the precise location and visual magnitude of the star, taken from the Hubble Guide Star Catalog. The first thing I noticed, was the chart was Epoch 1950. ... The coordinates were also exactly those on the ISR sticker, so I now knew that even though the ISR chart was epoch 1950, the coordinates on the sticker were epoch 1983. ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... 78Mingaliev+ J/A+A/370/78 RATAN-600 NCP bright radio sources (Mingaliev+, 2001) ================================================================================ Observations of the bright radio sources in the North Celestial Pole region at the RATAN-600 radio telescope. ... The flux densities of 171 sources in the Declination range +75deg +88deg are presented; typical flux density errors are 5-10 percent including calibration errors. ... Flux density at 2.3GHz 48- 52 F5.3 Jy e_S2.3GHz ? ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

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? ...