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• All Sky Automated Survey — The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) is a Polish project implemented on 7 April 1997 to do photometric monitoring of approximately 10 million stars brighter than 14 magnitude all over the sky. The automatic telescope discovered two new comets in… …   Wikipedia

• Robotic telescope — A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human. In astronomical disciplines, a telescope qualifies as robotic if it makes those observations without being operated… …   Wikipedia

• Amateur astronomy — Amateur astronomy, a subset of astronomy, is a hobby whose participants enjoy studying and observing celestial objects. Overview The typical amateur astronomer is one who does not depend on the field of astronomy as a primary source of income or… …   Wikipedia

• Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …   Universalium

• Robert Evans (astronomer) — Robert Owen Evans (born 1937 in Sydney, Australia) is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all time record for visual discoveries of supernovae (42).Evans graduated from the University of Sydney,… …   Wikipedia

• N2K Consortium — The N2K Consortium is a collaborative multinational effort by American, Chilean and Japanese astronomers to find additional extrasolar planets around stars that are not already being surveyed. The N2K is shorthand for the set of roughly 2,000 of… …   Wikipedia

• Redshift — This article is about the astronomical phenomenon. For other uses, see Redshift (disambiguation). Physical cosmology …   Wikipedia

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• David Charbonneau — is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. His research focuses on the development of novel techniques for the detection and characterization of planets orbiting nearby, Sun like stars. These distant worlds are called exoplanets. As a… …   Wikipedia

• P/2007 R5 — Infobox Comet name=P/2007 R5 (SOHO) discoverer= Terry Lovejoy, Kazimieras Cernis, Bo Zhou, and Sebastian Hönig discovery date=September 4 1999 designations=P/1999 R1, P/2003 R5 semimajor=2.5237 AU perihelion=0.0570 AU aphelion=4.9903 AU… …   Wikipedia

• photography, technology of — Introduction       equipment, techniques, and processes used in the production of photographs.  The most widely used photographic process is the black and white negative–positive system (Figure 1 >). In the camera the lens projects an image of… …   Universalium