Sentences with phrase «amateur astronomers as»

It can only be seen well on long - exposure photographs and is often used by amateur astronomers as a test of their observing skill.

The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands to produce an image of the galaxy M33, known to amateur astronomers as the Pinwheel Galaxy.

The glowing apparition is known to amateur astronomers as the «Little Ghost Nebula,» because it appears as a small, ghostly cloud surrounding the faint, dying central star.

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As an amateur astronomer (I built my own 10 ″ reflector) I spend many hours stargazing.

As a result, Representative Dana Rohrabacher of Southern California has introduced congressional bills that would provide monetary awards to amateur astronomers for their contributions to the asteroid hunt.

But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south equatorial belt, has disappeared.

As a result, amateur astronomers are playing a crucial role in the search.

Amateur astronomers, long major players in ascertaining the exact orbits of asteroids, are likely to play less and less of a role as professionals turn their powerful telescopes to the objects once considered too mundane for academics to study at all.

Meteors impacting Jupiter's upper atmosphere can create spectacular fireballs, such as the one observed by amateur astronomers Gerrit Kernbauer and John McKeon on 17th March 2016.

Getting Mercury in the crosshairs of a telescope is as problematic for professional astronomers as it is for amateurs like Melillo.

But as Johnson explained here today at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, that all changed thanks to British amateur astronomer Kevin Apps, who is working closely with the Kepler science team.

Google's launch this week of Sky, a new feature within Google Earth that provides a virtual tour of celestial phenomena, may be of limited use to professional astronomers, but its impact on future scientists and amateur stargazers alike is expected to be as infinite and expansive as the universe it portrays.

These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides Earth, the moon and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers have been able to observe impacts as they occur.

Therapist by day and amateur astronomer by night, Castro joined the NASA - funded Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project when it began in February — not knowing she would become one of four volunteers to help identify the project's first brown dwarf, formally known as WISEA J110125.95 +540052.8.

In some cases, citizen - scientists such as bird - watchers or amateur astronomers collectively can make significant contributions.

Born in 1912, mathematician, amateur astronomer, politician, wife and mother Ollerenshaw is still as sharp as ever

She earned her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1945, worked as a part - time math instructor for several years, served in local government, including as Lord Mayor of Manchester, and became a dedicated amateur astronomer after her husband died.

«Old, compact star clusters, such as globular clusters, are well known to amateur astronomers,» Professor Forbes said.

Amateur astronomers may contribute more observations, but the asteroid will be very difficult for backyard astronomers to see, as current estimates are that it will reach a visual magnitude of only about 17 at its brightest, and it will be moving very fast across the sky.

Also known as M51, it is seen nearly face - on from Earth and is familiar to amateur astronomers and has been featured in countless posters, books and magazine articles.

In addition to her own programs, she has built partnerships to host several successful on - site programs such as Star Quest Star Party, the Society for Amateur Radio Astronomer's Conference and Chautauqua short courses for college teachers.

This remarkable phenomenon has attracted the attention of many astronomers (equally both professionals and amateurs), who observe galaxies regularly as they «hunt» supernovae.

The astronomer refuses to publish the calculation, claiming that it is proprietary and denouncing another amateur astronomer who tries to replicate the calculation as a «tool of big business».

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers (including David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta, Jonathan Irwin, Christopher J. Burke, Philip Nutzman, Lars A. Buchhave, Christophe Lovis, Xavier Bonfils, David W. Latham, Stéphane Udry, Ruth A. Murray - Clay, Matthew J. Holman, Emilio E. Falco, Joshua N. Winn, Didier Queloz, Francesco Pepe, Michel Mayor, Xavier Delfosse, and Thierry Forveille) announced the discovery of a planet «b» of 6.55 ± 0.98 Earth - masses in a tight inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

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This expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star is known to amateur astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere as the «Eight - Burst» or the «Southern Ring» Nebula.

Last month an amateur team of astronomers from the La Sagra Sky Survey Observatory in southeast Spain discovered an asteroid roughly 150 feet wide as it -LSB-...]

According to John Bortle of Stormville, N.Y., who has observed several hundred comets in his more - than - 50 years as an assiduous amateur astronomer, Comet Lovejoy, «appears to be only modestly condensed, at best, and lacking in any obvious stellar nucleus, even a very faint one.

On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth in an inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).

The galaxy's size, brightness and proximity make it a popular object among both amateur and professional astronomers, as it is easy to observe even in smaller telescopes.

Paglen's MATRIX exhibition looks to the night sky as a place of covert activity: working with data compiled by amateur astronomers and hobbyist «satellite observers,» cross-referenced across many sources of information, he tracks and presents what he calls «the other night sky.»

Just as Paglen works with hobbyist astronomers, curator Tyler Stallings, whose show «Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration» will be seen next year at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside, comments that the «idea of citizen scientists, a burgeoning movement, shows a shift from scientists informing the public about what's good for them to research often done by amateurs.»

In an ongoing body of photographs known collectively as The Other Night Sky, Paglen works with amateur astronomers to document classified satellites that orbit the earth.

The exhibition will include works employing high - end optical systems to photograph government sites, as well as images drawn from data of amateur astronomers to track and photograph classified spacecraft in earth's orbit.

And from Australia (where amateur astronomers have had a great view, as I learned from Phil Plait, the man behind the great Bad Astronomy blog):

As an amateur astronomer, I'm having trouble finding a cloud - free night to use my telescope in the last few years.

The astronomer refuses to publish the calculation, claiming that it is proprietary and denouncing another amateur astronomer who tries to replicate the calculation as a «tool of big business».

All that nasty brown stuff, comes from astronomer Brown, who as far as I can see has done little or no research into the BoM and yet describes Jennifer, who definitely has, as an amateur for doing so, despite her qualifications and strong environmental leanings.