Astronomy

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Where can I find definitions of minimum detectable flux sensitivity and signal to noise ratio?
Awarded 23 hours ago
How to find a direction given the sunset
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What was this "light" that looked like a star moving in line ,disappearing only to reappear where it started?
Awarded Sep 26 at 13:51
Problems finding planets and incorporating a 2x Barlow
Awarded Sep 25 at 22:51
How is the potential-density pair relation derived?
Awarded Sep 25 at 8:37
What is the difference between the Synodic & the Sidereal Periods?
Awarded Sep 25 at 8:31
Cosmic microwave background the same as the first visible light at 379,000 yrs after the Big Bang? How do these measure the age of the universe?
Awarded Sep 25 at 0:49
How do we know universe is expanding and not light slowing down?
Awarded Sep 24 at 20:52
Actual observable horizon for satellites on an orbit line map?
Awarded Sep 23 at 21:27
Satellites or UFOs?
Awarded Sep 23 at 21:11
Will the universe eventually merge completely into a single, enormous BH
Awarded Sep 22 at 17:27
How can I compute the shape and orientation of the crescent for a given time and geographic location using data from the JPL Horizons?
Awarded Sep 21 at 14:32
The Interpretation of Uncertainty Map of NEO in Minor Planet Center page
Awarded Sep 21 at 11:19
SDSS and DESI - How much variation in sky location?
Awarded Sep 17 at 23:18
Football field size object [duplicate]
Awarded Sep 16 at 23:28
What happened to Titan's magnetic field?
Awarded Sep 16 at 19:19
Can we observe the same very old object more than once?
Awarded Sep 16 at 15:06
How much does foreground clumping affect the estimated sizes of high-redshift objects?
Awarded Sep 15 at 12:43
Fitting isochrone on color magnitude diagram obtained from growth india telescope for M67
Awarded Sep 15 at 12:43
Name for the boundary between near and far sides relative to an observer
Awarded Sep 12 at 21:56
How many undiscovered planets might be in our solar system?
Awarded Sep 12 at 12:56
Knowing what time to observe a constellation
Awarded Sep 11 at 15:46
How are planets detected from the pull their gravity exerts on their parent stars?
Awarded Sep 10 at 22:10
Does an umbrella reflector telescope exist?
Awarded Sep 10 at 17:05
How does metallicity reduce the likelihood of black hole formation?
Awarded Sep 10 at 10:41
(Fiction) How would a time traveler locate himself with 1962 technology?
Awarded Sep 9 at 7:50
Does a measuring stick with a size of a billion lightyears in intergalactic space keep the same length in expanding space?
Awarded Sep 8 at 22:53
Why don't we see purple stars
Awarded Sep 8 at 17:47
Could a planet have a massive crater without collapsing due to gravity / other factors?
Awarded Sep 7 at 23:48
How close to itself can the JWST see? Inside our own system, or must it look beyond like it is far sighted? Essentially, can JWST see Mars or others?
Awarded Sep 7 at 20:28
How did this artefact end up in the SIMBAD sky map?
Awarded Sep 6 at 12:27
How to get JPL Ephemeris data to work in n-body simulation or why is Mercury flying to Jupiter
Awarded Sep 6 at 2:47
Problem in converting equatoral coordinates to ecliptic coordinates
Awarded Sep 5 at 13:48
RAMSES fine multigrid Poisson solver fails to converge?
Awarded Sep 4 at 19:04
Source of information on density profile of a red giant star?
Awarded Sep 4 at 6:02
How to measure the latitude of the moon?
Awarded Sep 3 at 22:18
Single axis solar tracker tilt angle calculation
Awarded Sep 1 at 14:52
Lunar Librations and Subsolar Point in Matlab
Awarded Sep 1 at 0:58
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Awarded Aug 30 at 23:05
Is the dark matter just regular matter out of the observable universe?
Awarded Aug 30 at 19:56
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Awarded Aug 30 at 17:46
Maximum mass of the observable universe
Awarded Aug 30 at 8:02
How can I identify if my stone is meteorite?
Awarded Aug 29 at 12:07
What happens if there were only ordinary matter in the universe? Would the universe expand constantly? or will it decelerate?
Awarded Aug 28 at 18:04
Could a planet theoretically have a stable orbit between Venus and Earth OR Earth and Mars
Awarded Aug 27 at 9:58
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Awarded Aug 27 at 9:58
Waning gibbus moon tilt
Awarded Aug 27 at 9:58
Initial state for a 3-body problem to create Figure 8 [ restricted to 2D ]
Awarded Aug 27 at 9:50
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Awarded Aug 26 at 20:03
Around what apparent magnitude can the naked eye observe an object during full moon
Awarded Aug 26 at 16:42
What causes the halo in JWST's new image of Jupiter?
Awarded Aug 26 at 0:26
Can a photon orbit around a galaxy?
Awarded Aug 25 at 7:51
General questions about SDSS
Awarded Aug 24 at 23:06
Can two Stars form an Einstein Ring?
Awarded Aug 23 at 17:55
How do I calculate the closest point to the sun on Earth's surface?
Awarded Aug 22 at 0:26
Are heavy elements equally distributed throughout the Solar System?
Awarded Aug 22 at 0:17
Are magnetic vortices capable of providing magnetic lensing when observed away from the poles
Awarded Aug 21 at 7:25
How do I create well a weighted black hole mass function?
Awarded Aug 21 at 6:46
Beginners question about time scales
Awarded Aug 20 at 22:46
How long would it take for a planet captured by a red dwarf to become tidally-locked if it started out rotating retrograde?
Awarded Aug 19 at 6:40
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