... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... 2011 May 2 . Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Voyager 1 . ... Explanation: It is a hurricane twice the size of the Earth. ... It is Jupiter's Great Red Spot , the largest swirling storm system in the Solar System. Like most astronomical phenomena, the Great Red Spot was neither predicted nor immediately understood after its discovery. Still today, details of how and why the Great Red Spot changes its shape, size, and color remain mysterious . ... About APOD | ...

The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . ... Probably the most significent contribution that Galileo Galilei made to science was the discovery of the four satellites around Jupiter that are now named in his honor. Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a homemade telescope. He originally thought he saw three stars near Jupiter, strung out in a line through the planet. ... Galileo's Observations of Jupiter's Moons . ... Jupiter . ...

... A brief discussion of the potential and problems of the Astronomy Thesaurus and UDC classification system took place. ... The introduction to the thesaurus explains its use and construction in detail (Shobbrook & Shobbrook 1993a). ... Discussion ensued about the use or rather non-use of the thesaurus by the editors of the core astronomy journals. ... A sprinkling of hands was raised in answer to the question of who uses UDC and those people were invited to form a separate discussion group. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Henry Draper, a doctor by trade, was a prominent American amateur scientist and an early pioneer of astronomical photography. ... Aside from the star catalog bearing his name, Henry Draper is best known for obtaining the first photograph of an astronomical nebula, recording the Great Nebula of Orion on the night of September 30, 1880. ... Draper, Henry", by Charles A. Whitney, 1971, in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography , ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie (New York: Scribner), v. 4, p. 178 . ...

... In the colophon, written for the book prior to starting work on the electronic proceedings, I mentioned that the reason for producing the book from a single gigantic LaTeX file was the hope that it would simplify the production of the electronic version. ... I renamed contributions to the first author's last name and first initial (or two initials in the case of hyphenated first names) followed by .html , the convention established for the previous electronic proceedings. ...

... Credit: Greg Bacon ( STScI ), NASA Explanation: The last decade saw the profound discovery of many worlds beyond our solar system, but none analogs of our home planet Earth . Exploiting precise observational techniques, astronomers inferred the presence of well over two dozen extrasolar planets , most nearly as massive as gas giant Jupiter or more, in close orbits around sun-like stars. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - planet - Saturn - planetary system . ... Crescent Saturn . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Armagh Observatory is presenting two free public lectures, guided tours of the Observatory Grounds and Astropark, and an exhibition and tour of the historic main building as its contribution to Armagh City and DistrictтАЩs Saint PatrickтАЩs Day festivities on Saturday, 17th March 2012. ... No booking is necessary to join the guided tour "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth" or the Observatory tour and exhibition. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Radio emission from Jupiter was first serendipitiously discovered at decametric wavelengths by Franklin and Burke in 1955. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... December . ... By admin February 15, 2011 Posted in: Planets . Eris with its small moon Dysomnia are portrayed in this artist's impression which also includes Arcturus, Antares and the Zodiacal Light around the Sun. ... On August 24 2006, it happened: Pluto the ninth planet in our Solar System, was relegated, demoted, downgraded, basically was no longer classed as a planet. ... Posted December 4, 2013 at 11:47 AM . ...

... Mars in 3D! . Robert Naeye, Editor in Chief, Sky and Telescope . ... Join Sky Telescope Editor in Chief Robert Naeye as he presents many dozens of the latest and best images of Mars in spectacular 3-dimensions. ... ATMoB member Robert Naeye is Editor in Chief of Sky Telescope, the world’s most respected and influential popular astronomy magazine. ... He returned to Sky Telescope in June 2008 to serve as Editor in Chief. ... Mar . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Observing . ... space flight . ... space physics . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Buy and sell astronomy gear April 9 . ... April 2015: The Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary . ... April s special issue of Astronomy magazine is devoted to the most important astronomical instrument ever the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Also in the April 2015 Astronomy . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

... Posts tagged ?symposium? Nov 6th, 2008| 06:00 am | ... See http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/leavitt/ for details. Update 10/03] For a nice introduction to the story of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, listen to this Perimeter Institute talk by George Johnson: http://pirsa.org/06050003/ . ... Tags: 2008 , cepheid , CfA , Henrietta Leavitt , Henrietta Swan Leavitt , history , November , period-luminosity , symposium . ... 1 Comment . ... Entries RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... STFC announces бе119 million contribution to The Square Kilometre Array . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of these is the Square Kilometre Array telescope . ... STFC has as well announced today a contribution of бе165 million to theб European Spallation Source and бе25 millionб to participate in the M3 Space Mission (PLATO).б  Speaking ahead of an event at Jodrell Bank Observatory Science Minister David Willetts announced the funding for the two projects. ...

... A discussion of retrograde motion of planets helps the students understand the logic underlying the ideas of both Ptolemy and Copernicus. ... This lesson plan supplements: "The Discovery of the Solar System," section #9c: on disk Ssolsys.htm , on the web . ... Learn about the system proposed by Copernicus, and the way it explained retrograde motion: all planets moved in circles around the Sun, but the ones closer to the Sun always moved faster. ... Did this predict correct planetary motions? ...

Amalthea . Jupiter V . Amalthea [am-al-THEE-uh] is one of Jupiter's smaller moons. ... It was also the first moon of Jupiter to be discovered since Galileo's discovery of the four Galilean Moons in 1610. Amalthea is extremely irregular, having dimensions of about 270x165x150 kilometers in diameter. ... Discovered by . ... Topographic Map of Amalthea . ... As with all maps, it is the cartographer's interpretation; not all features are necessarily certain given the limited data available. ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading center of stellar magnetism study. ... Our observatory every 3-5 years holds an International Conference "Magnetic Stars" during past 30 years. ... The conference proceedings were published in book "Stellar Magnetism", Editors-in-chief Yu.V. Glagolevskij and I.I. Romanyuk (Saint Petersburg, Nauka, 1992), 270 pages. ... Conferences . History . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #3: March 2007 . ... The Call for Proposals for observations at the ESO telescopes during Period 80 (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) has been released. ... The full Call for Proposals and the ESOFORM electronic submission package can be obtained at http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/index.html . ... For more information see http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/meetings/agnii2007/ . ...