Title: Determination of characteristics of newly discovered eclipsing binary 2MASS J18024395 +4003309 = VSX J180243.9+400331 Authors: Ivan L. Andronov, Vitalii V. Breus, Stanislaw Zola During processing the observations of the intermediate polar 1RXS J180340.0+401214, obtained 26.05.2...
Title: AGB Stars in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Authors: Patricia A. Whitelock, John W. Menzies, Michael W. Feast, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Toshihiko Tanabe, Yoshifusa Ita We report on a multi-epoch study of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, made with the Infrared Survey Facility, over an a...
Like occultations, there is another class of celestial phenomena that hold attraction to the astronomer. Known as 'transit' it represents the passage of a planet across the solar disc. Viewing from the earth there are only two planets that can come in between the Sun and ourselves: Mercury and Ven...
Orbital elements:
2012 YK7 Earth MOID = 0.1216 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 340.88823 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.37144932 Peri. 282.26061 +0.56912424 -0.81094267
a 1.9166214 Node 132.18975 +0.80755651 +0.52015740
e 0.5052451 Incl. 10.56922 +0.15475813 +0.26797063
P 2.65 H 21....
Title: A First Look at the Auriga-California Giant Molecular Cloud With Herschel and the CSO: Census of the Young Stellar Objects and the Dense Gas Authors: Paul M. Harvey, Cassandra Fallscheer, Adam Ginsburg, Susan Terebey, Philippe Andre, Tyler L. Bourke, James Di Francesco, Vera Konyves, Bre...
Tropical Cyclone Dumile is forecast to make landfall in Reunion probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 16 hours probability for TS is 90% within 4 hours The Tropical Cyclone is located near 17.9°S, 55.0°E
Vasilis A. Kanatas (born 3 January 1967) is a Greek physicist. He is an amateur astronomer and member of the Amateur Astronomy Association "Achyrostrata" (named for an ancient word for our galaxy used by local people), based in the Delphi Municipality. Read more
Title: Discovery of a faint X-ray counterpart and of a parsec-long X-ray tail for the middle-aged, gamma-ray only pulsar PSR J0357+3205 Authors: A. De Luca, M. Marelli, R.P. Mignani, P.A. Caraveo, W. Hummel, S. Collins, A. Shearer, P.M. Saz Parkinson, A. Belfiore, G.F. Bignami The Large Area Tele...
Orbital elements:
2013 AC Earth MOID = 0.0303 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 328.61425 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.45500902 Peri. 129.58953 +0.29158042 -0.95612170
a 1.6741308 Node 303.43540 +0.86681367 +0.27670870
e 0.4018492 Incl. 1.95701 +0.40449342 +0.09624751
P 2.17 H 25.2 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 YL7 Earth MOID = 0.0862 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 296.28374 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.55233597 Peri. 325.03361 -0.46340848 -0.88593709
a 1.4711846 Node 152.55885 +0.82221754 -0.43795094
e 0.2755955 Incl. 2.38595 +0.33047073 -0.15269072
P 1.78 H 22.6...
Orbital elements:
2012 YJ7 Earth MOID = 0.0153 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 288.83518 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.47393074 Peri. 254.60174 -0.92418749 +0.37789974
a 1.6292690 Node 307.57006 -0.31811944 -0.84189432
e 0.6297943 Incl. 4.00808 -0.21137054 -0.38523465
P 2.08 H 22.4...
Title: X-ray studies of the Black Widow Pulsar PSR B1957+20 Authors: R. H. H. Huang, A. K. H. Kong, J. Takata, C. Y. Hui, L. C. C. Lin, K. S. Cheng We report on Chandra observations of the black widow pulsar, PSR B1957+20. Evidence for a binary-phase dependence of the X-ray emission from the pulsar is fou...