... 2006 December 8 . NGC 2174: Emission Nebula in Orion . ... Explanation: A lesser known sight in the nebula-rich constellation Orion, NGC 2174 can be found with binoculars near the head of the celestial hunter . ... Covering an area larger than the full Moon on the sky, this stunning narrow band image adopts a typical color mapping of the atomic emission from NGC 2174. ... Placing your cursor on the image will reveal an alternative image of the nebula made through broad band filters . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... December 6, 1999 . M83: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy from VLT . ... Explanation: M83 is one of the closest and brightest spiral galaxies on the sky. Visible with binoculars in the constellation of Hydra , majestic spiral arms have prompted its nickname as the Southern Pinwheel. Although discovered 250 years ago, only in this century was it appreciated that M83 was not a gas cloud but a barred spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... About APOD > . ...

... Date : the picture was taken on December 14th 1998 . Location : Courroux / Ju (Switzerland) . Equipement : telescope Celestron Ultima 8 operating at F/D=6.3 camera CCD ST7 operating at high resolution autoguided mode . Exposures : 6 exposures of 10 minutes each . Pictures treatment : logarithmic . Software : Prism98 version 3.0 for acquisition and treatment of the pictures . ... 2822 Courroux . ... David Bishop Last modified: Wed Dec 16 13:55:05 EST 1998 ...

... At present, he is a Leading researcher at the Department of Non-Stationary Stars and Stellar Spectroscopy, heading the group of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars, and a Leading researcher at the Department of Variable Stars and Galactic Astronomy of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, heading the group of Variable Stars. ... P.P. Parenago, B.V. Kukarkin, P.N. Kholopov leaded the team of variable star catalogue compilers at Astronomical Council/INASAN and at Sternberg Institute through years....

... E.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S. Frolov, N.N . Kireeva, E.N. Pastukhova Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences and Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of ... the Moscow State University ================================================================================ The 74th Special Name-list of Variable Stars , A.V. Kazarovets, N.N . Samus , O.V. Durlevich, S.V. Antipin, M.S.,Frolov, ... 3323 Samus, N.N., IBVS, 1997, No. ...

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... The distance scales of the objects are matched both by comparing the first derivatives of the angular velocity determined separately from radial velocities and proper motions and by the statistical-parallax method. ... Good agreement between the inferred 0 and our calculations based on space velocities suggests that the Lindblad relation holds throughout the entire sample volume. ... Brandt and Blitz (1993) published the distances and radial velocities for a total of 206 H II-regions. ... Astron. ...