Here we have an images of Comet C/1998 U5 (LINEAR) passing NGC 7080 showing SN 1998ey on Dec.12 only a week after Ron Arbour discovered the SN. Jack was unaware that it was over the galaxy let alone that it showed the SN! . Image by Jack Schmidling . For more informat on comets, check the Comet chasing . Back to 1998ey . Back to 1998 Supernovae . Back to Bright Supernovae David Bishop Last modified: Wed Jul 18 12:47:37 EDT 2001

... Credit: SOHO Consortium , LASCO , ESA , NASA SOHO Explanation: Right now, Comet Bradfield is passing the Sun. The above image, the latest taken in the direction of the Sun by the SOHO LASCO instrument, shows the comet and its dust tail as the elongated white streak. ... Careful sky gazers can see Comet Bradfield with the unaided eye near the Sun, although NASA 's sun-orbiting SOHO satellite has the best view. ... Publications with keywords: comet - Sun . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . ...

... March 25, 1996 . Comet Hyakutake Passes the Earth . ... McCollough's MPEG Movie of Comet Hyakutake taken March 23 . ... Today Comet Hyakutake makes its closest approach to the Earth . As the comet moves into the inner Solar System , it will pass the Earth at about 40 times the distance of our Moon . ... Asteroids - usually less massive than comets - frequently whiz by inside the Moon 's orbit, with four doing so far in this decade . ... Comet Hyakutake Finder Chart . ... About APOD | ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

do mod_pw (must be run from LRP account) . ... SU 0nnnn01 PC: xxxx cycle: 5 orb: 6 st.stat: scheduling in SPSS: Y cw_stat: S orient: Y type: GO/WFI pws.stat: planned S: Y proc_err: N lrp _state: ready LRP : 97073A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- QSP order_num: ( NONE ) week_id: ( NONE ) exe_time: ( NONE ) USC 1996.001:00:00:00 1997.054:00:00:00 M:c C:17-Feb-1997 N:FGS23GS Comment : Visit was unschedulable or had no FGS23 GSs when ...

... You are here: start ТЛ lbaops ТЛ tidnotes ТЛ fileprep . ... VLBI Schedule . ... Observer's Wiki . ... lbaops:tidnotes:fileprep . Tidbinbilla schedule file preparation . ... SNAP file modifications . ... Dowload the .skd and .sum files for the experiment from the pub/people/vlbi directory of the FTP site ftp.atnf.csiro.au and put them in pcfs40:~/sched_prep. ... The SNAP file needs quite a bit of modification. ... lbaops/tidnotes/fileprep.txt ТЗ Last modified: 2015/12/18 16:39 (external edit) . ...

... June 28, 1998 . Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass . ... Explanation: In 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp became much brighter than any surrounding stars. ... Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed last March above Val Parola Pass in the Dolomite mountains surrounding Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy. Comet Hale-Bopp 's blue ion tail was created when fast moving particles from the solar wind strike ions expelled from the comet's nucleus. ... About APOD > . ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... 18sep08: bias for 3a/3b changed. Look at p2030 data (polA,polB summed) . 21sep08: bias for all beams changed. ... The wapps in 3 level mode take 100 MHz bw with 64usec sampling and 256 lags. alfa is centred at 1440 Mhz with the 100 Mhz 1390-1490 filter int. The total power was computed and then averaged to .1 seconds. ... Beam 6b is dead and p2030 is adding polA + polB. ... The a2010 data taken on 21sep08 was analyzed to check the stability of all the beams after the bias changes in alfa. ...

Meteors are more than just pretty lights in the sky. Since the majority of meteor-producing meteoroids originate from comets, they contain invaluable information about these objects not otherwise obtainable. ... One such possibility is the planet Mars. ... Taking into account the slower average speed of incoming material at the heliocentric distance of Mars from the Sun, a meteoroid of the same mass entering the martian atmosphere at 30km/sec would produce a meteor +0.5 mag fainter than at Earth. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

ChangeLog for omsource ====================== Version 1.9.5 - 2004-01-27 (CB) -------------------------------- Ammended code so that the logger list is cleared when delete list button clicked. (fixes SPR 3230). Version 1.9.4 - 2004-01-22 (CB) -------------------------------- Modified observation information display dialogue to show dates as a MJD. (fixes SPR 3226). ... Gui improved. ... Version 1.1.8 - 2002-12-05 (CB) -------------------- Fixed some minor bugs. ... Improved user interface. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... NEW: see the Leonids LIVE! ... I have added a list of live webcasts that will let people all over the Earth see what the shower is doing from the points which may get the predicted max from the meteors. ... A dark site is best, but Leonids are known for fast bright meteors, so even a bright sky is not so bad. ... Here is a list of web sites that will be broadcasting the Leonids live over the web. ... Leonids Live! ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. Eight years after the passage of Comet Halley in early 1986, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have succeeded in obtaining an image of this famous object at a distance of no less than 2,820 million km from the Sun. ... The image shows the 6 x 15 km avocado-shaped nucleus as an extremely faint point of light without any surrounding dust cloud. ... This observation was made with the ESO 3.58 metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

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... Submitted by Al Takeda on 06/05/2011 17:59:41 . ... These images show M51 last month and after the supernova exploded. ... Both images were taken at the ATMoB Clubhouse in Westford, MA. ... 11 images x 240 seconds subframe, Total= 44 minutes, TMB 92, f/5.5 plus field flattener, Unmodified Canon 20D DSLR, ISO 800. ... TMB 92, f/5.5 plus field flattener, Unmodified Canon 20D DSLR, ISO 800, Processing by Images Plus 2.80 and Photoshop. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...