... 2014 September 5 . A Sagittarius Starscape . ... Explanation: This rich starscape spans nearly 7 degrees on the sky, toward the Sagittarius spiral arm and the center of our Milky Way galaxy. ... With wingspans of 100 light-years or so, they shine with the telltale reddish glow of hydrogen atoms from over 5,000 light-years away. Colorful open star cluster M25 near the upper left edge of the scene is closer, a mere 2,000 light-years distant and about 20 light-years across. ... About APOD | ...

... Orion's Horsehead Nebula . ... Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board Explanation: The black indentation to the red emission nebula seen just to the right of center of the above photograph is one of the most famous features in any nebulae on the sky. ... The horse head feature is dark because it is really a dense dust cloud which lies in front of the bright nebula and blocks the light. ... Publications with keywords: Orion - Horsehead Nebula . Publications with words: Orion - Horsehead Nebula . ...

... September 5, 1998 . The Pulsar Powered Crab . Credit: J. Hester and P. Scowen ( ASU ), NASA . ... Using a stunning series of visible light images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) , astronomers have discovered spectacular pulsar powered motions within the Crab nebula. Highlights of this HST Crab "movie" show wisps of material moving away from the pulsar at half the speed of light, a scintillating halo, and an intense knot of emission dancing, sprite-like, above the pulsar's pole. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... September 2012 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . Stars . ... By admin September 12, 2011 Posted in: September . ... In this area of the sky there are a few little constellations that are worth a mention, Between Altair and the bright star, Albireo, at the head of Cygnus, lies(or flies) Sagitta, the Arrow, the third smallest constellation in the sky, which was well known to the ancient Greeks. ... One of the most amazing naked eye sights in the night sky is the Milky Way. ...

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... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > My data shows an extended, bright feature - what can this be? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... You might also want to check http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/PublicSurveys/useful_links/OmegaCAM_images.html where we provide a collection of example OmegaCAM images, illustrating some special data features. ...

... The Stars at your Fingertips - a UNAWE Astronomy Workshop: Tuesday 15 September 2009 . ... A major exhibition collated by Deirdre Kelleghan will launch at Birr Castle, County Offaly. ... The exhibition opens on 18 September at 6pm. ... Dr Carolina Odman - International Program Manager for UNAWE ie Universe Awareness for Young Children will formally open the exhibition and give a talk on the work of UNAWE. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Deep Sky Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? September 14, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... September/October 1997 . ... Instructors fret that no textbook is quite right, authors and publishers get shot down when they try to innovate, students count the days 'til they can sell back their unfriendly tomes. ... Astronomers have begun to rethink graduate education, and none too soon. ...

... Problem 5. ... See figure 1 for the light curve of these narrow Nitrogen lines. ... Figure out the behaviour of each parcel of gas, and then add them all up to find the light curve. 5.4 (3pts) Using expression from problem 5.2, derive the expression for the time after SN explosion date, when the first light from the ionised ring reaches Earth. Using the expression from problem 5.2, derive the expression for the time after SN explosion date when the maximum brightness of the ring occurs. ...

There is often dust associated with ionized regions. Compact HII regions usually have associated dust from a molecular cloud in which the massive star is being "born". ... For such stars the dust is not produced by the star, and a variety of dust features are observed. The planetary nebulae also usually have associated dust from the previous stage of evolution where they were either carbon stars or M-type giants. ... The feature near 11.5 microns in the IC 418 spectrum may be due to SiC dust. ...

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? ...

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Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

Next: Feature enhancement: filtering Up: No Title Previous: Commentary . A sharp contrast is seen between the `crowded' energy map of the modulated oscillations (individual minima and maxima of the signal identified by the Mexican hat wavelet) in section 13 and and the `smooth' presentation of the norm-Morlet transforms of the same data in section 15. ... construct an energy map based on individual events. smooth the map by merging the events that are `close enough' to each other. ...

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Next: Release of 02 July Up: Old Releases Previous: Version 6.0 - Released Contents . Add output of velocities for sources in the summary file. 2002aug29 RCW. ... RCW 24 Jan 2003. Adding Mark5 for VLBA RCW Jan 2003. Removed Mark2 RCW 6 Feb 2003. ... Put it back 14 Feb 2003. ... Also a messages.txt file has been added to the catalog with text messages that can be sent to the runlog by routine WRTMSG. ... 26 Feb 2003 RCW . ... Add more information about frequencies etc to the OMS file. ...

... 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) ...

... Archive for September 2009 . ... Posted by hlee . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon | ... A number of practical Bayesian data analysis books are available these days. ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...