* Astronomy

ATel 6267: ASAS-SN Discovery of a Probable Supernova in 2MASX J02183825+3336556

NGC 6211 (also MCG 10-24-27, UGC 10516 and PGC 58775) is a magnitude +12.6 barred spiral galaxy located 242 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Obse...

NGC 6213 (also MCG 10-24-30 and PGC 58778) is a magnitude +14.7 spiral galaxy located 247 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Ave...

NGC 6852 (also PK 42-14.1, IRAS 19581+0135, and WD 1958+015) is a magnitude +12.6 planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquila. The central star is at magnitude +17.9 The planetary nebula was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at W...

IC 1275 (also Sharpless 2-031) is a magnitude +12.6(?) emission nebula located in the constellation Sagittarius. The nebula was discovered by German astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard using a 15.24 cm (6 inch) refractor on the 25th June 1892. Right Ascension 18h 10m 07.0s, Declination -23° 45' 4...

Title: The Young Cluster in IC 1274 Authors: S. E. Dahm, G. H. Herbig, Brendan P. Bowler IC 1274 is a faintly luminous nebula lying on the near surface of the Lynds 227 (L227) molecular cloud. Four luminous, early-type (B0-B5) stars are located within a spherical volume ~5' in diameter that appears to...

Willcox Playa 010 32°08'54.5"N, 109°52'25.2"W Cochise County, Arizona, United States Found: 25 June 2006 Classification: Primitive achondrite (Lodranite) History: The 22.3 g stone was found on the Willcox Playa by Jason Utas while hunting for meteorites with Peter Utas. Physical...

Explosive venting from a supermassive black hole are sprouting plumes of material 300,000 light-years across. Observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed the energetic plumes of particles associated with a massive galaxy cluster called [url=http://www.activeboard.com/...

Sun 24.06.14: A new sunspot

Sun 24.06.14: A new sunspot

Orbital elements: 2013 KN6 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0479 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 10.51792 (2000.0) P Q n 0.55621305 Peri. 232.31463 -0.15692283 -0.93932629 a 1.4643400 Node 229.65167 +0.98424253 -0.12325521 e 0.8503421 Incl. 23.59276 +0.08149770 -0.32011603 P 1.77 H 1...

'Prehistoric Sistine Chapel' gets world heritage status A cave in southern France dubbed the "prehistoric Sistine Chapel" has been added to Unesco's World Heritage list. The 1,000 drawings carved in the walls of the Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, or Grotte Chauvet, are 36,000 years old...

Fireballs Seen by Day. 1929 The Government Astronomer (Mr. H. B. Curlewis) said yesterday that during the previous three weeks, several very bright meteors had been noticed at night, showing that the earth was evidently passing through a scattered stream of meteoric particles. In addition to the...

Big solar blowouts hold a clue to space weather Solar jets are ejections from the surface of the Sun, where 1-10 tonnes of hot material are expelled at speeds of up to 1000 kilometres per second. Using space based observatories like Hinode and STEREO, solar physicists have recently discovered a new t...

ATel 6258: Spectroscopic classification of ASASSN-14cv as a cataclysmic variable in outburst

Orbital elements: 2009 RT1 Earth MOID = 0.0375 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 334.24956 (2000.0) P Q n 0.79417996 Peri. 135.76691 +0.43703278 +0.89911519 a 1.1548443 Node 160.10895 -0.84383089 +0.41924164 e 0.1056384 Incl. 4.10860 -0.31137081 +0.12581067 P 1.24 H 23.5 G 0.15 U 7 [...