Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Posted on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment If you look towards the west just after sunset this February you will see a very bright star in the darkening sky. ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments It?s BBC Stargazing Live month, so even more of us will be looking skyward this January. ... Posted on December 5, 2011 | 4 Comments Which is the brightest star in the sky (apart from the Sun)? ... Posted on November 17, 2011 | ...

This is a list of all currently available observing modes in CIMA. Different modes are available depending on whether CIMA is run in pulsar or in spectral line mode. ... Note that the appearance of the windows refer to CIMA version 3.1 , which for most observing modes is slightly different than from CIMA version 2.3 and 3.0 and completely different from CIMA version 2.2. ... Non-ALFA . ... Pulsar cross calibration . ... Drift map . ... ALFA : indicates whether the observing mode works with ALFA . ...

... Observed: No No 5 6 7 10 11 15 19 20 23 32 33 34 35 37 39 43 Object NGC 329 NGC 383 NGC 439 NGC 1399 NGC 2289 NGC 2998 IC 696 PGC 35743 NGC 4065 NGC 5171 NGC 5280 IC 4349 NGC 5434 NGC 5714 PGC 52781 NGC 6472 16 Mag Alias/Notes 13.3 MCG -1-3-48 PGC 3467 13.4 UGC 689 MCG 5-3-53 CGCG 501-87 4ZW38 VV 193 ARP 331 PGC 3982 12.5 ESO 412-18 MCG -5-4-15 Glxy SA0Glxy SA0-: Glxy SA(r)0^ Glxy E Glxy E Glxy S0 Glxy E Glxy E3: Glxy SA(s)0^: Glxy SAB(s)b Glxy S0? ...

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... 8.12.2008 . ... Unnamed, the streak, actually a long molecular cloud , has become known as the Dark Doodad Nebula. ... Pictured above in a rich and colorful star-field , the Dark Doodad Nebula can be found sweeping across the image center. ... The Dark Doodad Nebula can be found with strong binoculars toward the southern constellation of the Fly ( Musca ). ... December 2008 . ... Publications with keywords: molecular cloud - dark nebula . Publications with words: molecular cloud - dark nebula . ...

... 2006 February 14 . Dust and Light in the Rosette Nebula . ... Explanation: What creates the cosmic dust sculptures in the Rosette Nebula? Noted for the common beauty of its overall shape , parts of the Rosette Nebula , also known as NGC 2244, show beauty even when viewed up close. Visible above are globules of dark dust and gas that are slowly being eroded away by the energetic light and winds by nearby massive stars. ... Happy Valentine's Day from the folks at APOD. ... About APOD | ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Nearly four centuries ago, Galileo's simple observations of Earth's planetary sibling, Venus, buoyed the proponents of a Copernican universe. ... The Italian astronomer had settled into a new house in Florence and had begun to observe Venus, which in November 1610 would have appeared as an evening star, bright in the western sky after dusk. ... From these two observations, Galileo inferred that Venus must orbit closer to the Sun than does Earth. ...

... 237S (SIMBAD/NED BibCode) ================================================================================ Keywords: Sun: UV radiation - atmospheric effects - Sun: atmosphere - lines: identification Description: An ultraviolet atlas of the solar spectrum with a spectral resolution of 15mA in the region 1948-2000A is presented. ... The wavelength atlas with a list of about 550 lines has been synthesized from data at center of the Sun ({mu}=1) and at {mu}=0.89, smoothed out over an area of 30 arcsec. ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... 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 . ...

... The commissioning of the FORS2 multi-mode astronomical instrument at KUEYEN , the second FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope, was successfully finished today. ... FORS2 is now ready to be handed over to the astronomers on April 1, 2000. ... Additional information about the VLT Data Flow System is available in ESO PR 10/99 . ... ESO Press Photo 05a/00 . Preview; JPEG: 400 x 452; 52k] . ... This is the caption to ESO PR Photos 05a-c/00 . ...

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... 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 . ... February 2008 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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... I was an active amateur from 1976-1983, observing meteors from 1978 on. ... I finally got back into the hobby in 1995, joining the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club in 1996 and then the ATMs of Boston and NHAS in 1997. ... Lew Gramer maintains two email lists related to amateur observing: http://www.visualdeepsky.org (devoted to observing logs of deep-sky objects from amateurs) and: http://www.meteorobs.org (devoted to amateur meteor observing) ...

... 2 participants in the younger group. 1 participant in the senior group. prizewinners (I-st or II-nd prize) of the previous IAO not older than the age limit who did not used such a possibility before. 1 team leader (specialist in astronomy or astronomy education). ... For the states, starting their activity in the International Astronomy Olympiad and for the students participating the first time in IAO the age limits for the groups for IAO-2004 are defined as: . ...

... OBSERVING NIGHT: The IAA's next planned observing session will be Sat. 16th Dec., meeting at 7.30pm in the carpark at Delamont Country Park, Killyleagh, Co Down. ... I am honoured to be the representative of the amateur astronomy community on the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Astronomy Space Research. ... ESO Membership: A possible application for Ireland to join ESO is being reconsidered by Government, and is being pursued by this Committee as top priority. ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... Sun images . Magnetic storms online . Sun flares . Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... February : 2016 . ... No geomagnetic storms were observed for the past 3 hours No geomagnetic storms were observed for the past 24 hours . ... Mean planetary A index = 6 . ... Last updated: February 10, 2016 00:00 UT . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... A1 centered at 2500 angstroms with a width of 1200 angstroms . ... M63 or NGC 5055 is a pleasant spiral galaxy with multiple arms and a bright inner region. The exposure times were 1149 seconds through B1 and 576 seconds through A1. NGC 752 a galactic stellar cluster was observed for 777 seconds through B5 . ... NGC 1365 is a prominent spiral galaxy in the Fornax Cluster. ... The galaxy fits comfortably into one UIT frame and this exposure was for 1360 seconds through A1 and B1. ...