... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 . ... COMETS | ... Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a close approach to Mars in October 2014. ... During the close Mars approach, the comet likely will achieve a total visual magnitude of 0 or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... January . ... By admin February 20, 2013 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, imaged through Armagh Planetarium?s telescope in January 2013. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, imaged with the new telescope in January 2013. ... Armagh Planetarium?s new telescope in action in January 2013. ...

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... Please print clearly) Title Family Name/Surname Institution Mailing Address Email First Name/Initials Country Ph Post Code Fax Guests (must provide details if attending Welcome Reception or Dinner) Title First Name Surname Title First Name Surname REGISTRATION FEES Standard Registration Student Registration CONFERENCE DINNER Will you be attending? ... METHODS OF PAYMENT Total remittance in Australian Dollars (AUD$), by cheque or money order Australian National University. ...

... A Close Pass of Saturn's Moon Dione . Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA . ... When making its closest pass yet of Saturn's moon Dione late last year, the robotic Cassini spacecraft snapped this far-ranging picture featuring Dione, Saturn's rings, and the two small moons Epimetheus and Prometheus . ... Future events in Cassini's continuing exploration of Saturn and its moons include tomorrow's flyby of Titan and imaging the distant Earth passing behind Saturn in June. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

This page provides a jumpstation for a variety of web resources appropriate to the development and use of CCDs in professional astronomy. I make occasional searches of the web in an attempt to keep it complete and up to date. ... Observatories & Universities . Commercial . ... Data Reduction . ... Apogee Instruments make a high-end, off-the-shelf system and offer the "CCD University" with some introductory on-line tutorials about CCD technology. ... Philips make CCDs up to 7kx9k pixels. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... The goal here is to make a publication quality image of the sky with the coordinates labelled in the standard Right Accession/Declination units. ... Use the PGTBOX function which knows how to label the coordinate box in time units . ... тАЬINTтАЭ To draw tick marks and label them (тАЬIтАЭ so that the ticks are inverted, i.e., going outside the box) . ... Ensure that the matrix representing the coordinate system of the image is correct when calling PGIMAG . ...

... Please send the data required for registration to us by e-mail. ... Please make sure that you have received a confirmation of your registration by e-mail . Otherwise please send us an e-mail containing information indicated in the form. ... The conference budget is very limited, but we hope to provide a partial financial support for younger participants. ... Please notice that, due to the limited seating-capacity of the conference rooms, the number of participants is limited to 100 only. ...

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Dear Colleagues, As you know, JENAM-2007 will take place in Yerevan, Armenia. ... JENAM-2007 will consist of 6 Plenary sessions (invited reviews on hot topics of modern astrophysics, 8 EAS Symposia, and 7 Special Sessions (SPS). ... The opening and closing sessions, EAS symposia and special sessions will be organized in the conference halls and auditoria of the Yerevan State University (YSU). ... The proceedings of the JENAM-2007 will be published in the EAS proceedings series in 2008. ...

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... New Members . ... October Public Night . ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... If for some reason you need a hardcopy and cannot print one yourself, please feel free to contact me at 419-845-2629 and I will be happy to send you one via regular postal mail...

... A language centre has helped move a group of Russian academics a step closer to realising their ambition of studying for a prestigious research degree in the UK. The scholars from Samara State Aerospace University lacked the English language skills needed to study at Glynd?r University for a PhD, one of the highest academic qualifications. ... This has seen Glynd?r University Professor Richard Day, Professor of Composites, visit Russia to deliver guest lectures to students at Samara. ...

... A small yet powerful planning and scheduling toolkit has been built for the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS ) Small Explorer spacecraft. ... The simple design, minimal resource requirements and easy extensibility of the SWAS planning and scheduling toolkit should make it useful for other space astronomy missions. ... The relatively severe time and manpower constraints for the development of the SWAS Planning and Scheduling toolkit have forced it to remain small and simple. ...

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The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Sapphire shaped crystals for medicine This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. ... We have developed a new kind of medical instruments and devices for laser photodynamic and thermal therapy, laser surgery, fluorescent diagnostics, and cryosurgery based on sapphire crystals of vari ous shapes with capillary channels in their volume. ... This development has given rise to the emergence of essentially new areas of application. ...