... 15.06.2006 . ... Featured are SAAO telescope domes and buildings, along with the dark, wedge-shaped shadow of planet Earth stretching into the distance, bounded above by the delicately colored antitwilight arch. Visible along the antisunward horizon at sunrise ( or sunset ), the pinkish antitwilight arch is also known as the Belt of Venus. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: belt of Venus . Publications with words: belt of Venus . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 June 15 . Gordel van Venus . Credit Copyright: W. P. Koorts (SAAO) . ... Visible along the antisunward horizon at sunset , ( or sunrise ) the pinkish antitwilight arch is also known as the Belt of Venus. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

Mariner 10 . ... Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner spacecraft series, and the first to use the gravitational pull of one planet ( Venus ) to reach another ( Mercury ). ... It measured 1.39 meters (4.56 feet) diagonally and 0.457 meters (1.5 feet) in depth. ... Views of Mariner 10 . ... Venus/Mercury Mission . ... Launched in November 1973, this mission provided new information about Mercury and Venus in the Mariner program's first dual-planet mission. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Venera 15 and Venera 16 were a two-spacecraft mission designed to use 8-centimeter (3-inch) band, side-looking radar mappers to study the surface properties of Venus . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... For those of you that are still bearing the psychological scars from PlutoтАЩs demotion from planet to dwarf planet a decade ago, here is news that may add salt to [ ] . ... In 2015 Armagh PlanetariumтАЩs website (including Astronotes) received well over 2.6 million page views (and over 75 million web hits*) from all over the world. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration....

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... exoplanets . ... What percent of star systems have orbits in the right orientation for scientists to find exoplanets through the transit method? ... RELATED TOPICS: EXOPLANETS . The probability of having an exoplanetт??s orbit oriented along our line of sight so that there is a transit depends on two things: the size of the star and the size (or radius) of the orbit. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Atlas of the Stars . ...

... Three day radio-astronomical forecast of the proton activity of the Sun: The figure shows multiwave radio emission scans - graphs of the distribution of intensity I and circular polarization V across the solar disk, obtained at RATAN-600. ... According to this criterion, for a proton flare to arise, the flux of radio emission must be sufficiently high at short wavelengths (blue color scans) and should increase with time compared to the general intensity. ... More about the solar activity . ...

Movin' Right Along" Movin' right along in search of good times and good news, With good friends you can't lose, This could become a habit! Opportunity just knocked, let's reach out and grab it, (yeah!) Together we'll nab it. ... Movin' right along (dug-a-doon, dug-a-doon) We'll learn to share the load. ... Movin' right along (dug-a-doon, dug-a-doon) You take it - you know best. ... Movin' right along, we're truly birds of a feather, We're in this together, and we know where we're goin'. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Facilities . ATNF facilities . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... ATCA . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Astronomy Ireland's Evening Classes to begin on 8 October . ... Donegal Bay & Blue Stacks Festival 09 has an astronomical theme this year to mark IYA 2009. ... We have the privilage of launching World Space Week in Ireland on the 3rd Oct and we honour Astronomy (working closely with International Year of Astronomy 2009, Armagh Planetarium and Robert Hill from the NI Space Office) as our Carnival theme on the night. ... Donegal on Sunday . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... The street address of the Space Telescope Science Institute is: . ... Turn right onto Pratt Street and continue east to Calvert Street. Turn left on Calvert Street and proceed north approximately 3 1/2 miles to University Parkway. Turn left on University Parkway and proceed approximately 1/3 mile (past JHU stadium and down hill) to San Martin Drive. Turn left at the signal and proceed approximately 1/4 mile to STScI. ... Turn right at signal and proceed approximately 100 yards to signal. ...

... Also, let a, b and c be the lengths of its three sides-- a of the side across from A, b of the one across from B, and c the longest one, across from C. Two useful ratios associated with the angle A ("trigonometric functions of A ") are . The sine of A sin A = a/c (involving the side a across from A ) . The cosine of A cos A = b/c (involving the side b besides A ) . ... The tangent of A . ... Calculators usually have a button " tan " which, if you punch in the angle, gives you the tangent. ...

... Right Ascensions are tabulated in decimal degrees in the archive. This may be used with the column label RA, which conforms to the archive convention [ 5 ]. ... Fortunately, the MIDAS table commands will accept sexagesimal input (see the on-line HELP for CREATE/COLUMN and NAME/COLUMN ), in almost any human-readable form. By using the R11.6 format specification for the Right Ascension columns in the *.fmt file, existing ASCII tables can easily be converted to MIDAS table format. ...

... The conference will be also partially hosted by the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkin 8, 119991, Moscow . The nearest metro stations are: Akademicheskaya (orange line) from which there is a 15-minute walk or Leninsky Prospekt (orange line) and Universitet (red line) from which one may take a tram No. 3 or 39 to the stop ?ulica Gubkina?. ... The location of the conference room at the building of the Steklov Institute will be announced later. ... Location of the Steklov Mathematical Institute . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... The Astrophysics Group is now based in the new Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, which is located close to the Institute of Astronomy off the Madingley Road to the west of Cambridge city centre. ... The Cavendish Laboratory itself is on J.J. Thomson Avenue on the University West Cambridge site across the Madingley Road. ... If eastbound towards the city, look for a long traffic island with a right-turn break through signposted J.J. Thomson Avenue . ...