Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Cataloged as Sharpless 308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major and covers over 2/3 degree on the sky (compared with 1/2 degree for the Full Moon). Sky Panorama Over Lake Salda . ... The View Near a Black Hole . ... Discovered by accident, this manuscript page provides graphical insight to astronomy in medieval times, before the Renaissance and the influence of Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo. ...

WORLDWIDE INDICES The subscript "p" means planetary and designates a global magnetic activity in- dex. ... EQUIVALENT AMPLITUDE The a-index ranges from 0 to 400 and represents a K-value converted to a linear scale in gammas (nanoTeslas)--a scale that measures equivalent disturbance am- plitude of a station at which K=9 has a lower limit of 400 gammas. ... 17-20 I4 Monthly mean ap or PLANETARY EQUIVALENT AMPLITUDE for 03-06 UT. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Systems Engineering Docs . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . ... Doc Man . ... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... MRO-TRE-CAM-0000-0102 FTT/NAS Conceptual Design Report . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ...

... 2004 September 12 . Mercury: A Cratered Inferno . Credit: Mariner 10 , NASA . Explanation: Mercury's surface looks similar to our Moon's. Each is heavily cratered and made of rock. ... But Mercury is unique in many ways. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun , orbiting at about 1/3 the radius of the Earth's orbit . As Mercury slowly rotates, its surface temperature varies from an unbearably cold -180 degrees Celsius to an unbearably hot 400 degrees Celsius . ... About APOD | ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Emelianov N. V. (2009) Mutual occultations and eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter in 2002-2003. Final astrometric results. ... The second group of the data see in the following item jg0028 of the NSDC. ... X coordinate in arcseconds (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual eclipse) 10. Y coordinate in arcseconds (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual eclipse) 11. sigma of X in arcseconds 12. sigma of Y in arcseconds 13. ...

For today's in class we will be working with spatial and temporal data sets which are quite noisy. Particularly, you have monthly rainfall totals for the following six locations in Oregon from the period 1950 - 1999. Eugene . Salem . Portland . Astoria . North Bend . Newport . There are many facets of what you can do with this data. Please explore the following questions with some degree of sound statistical reasoning and data presentation: .

... The last quarter has seen Site Services continuing the installation of irrigation systems and new landscaping at the Visitor's Centre. ... The October 2000 term has been an interesting one in terms of operations at Parkes. ... The GPS systems at the Observatory are being upgraded to ensure the best possible long-term time reference is available for timing projects such as this. ... The influx of visitor interest was smoothly handled in the enlarged visitors centre, completed in August 2000. ...

... 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. ...

AMPLE 3 - Multi-purpose Software Package for Asteroids and Comets . ... AMPLE 3 v0.7.2 contains data base of 31.03.2011. ... OS Windows, Linux. ... New icons. ... To download the archive of new data base (for example, dbfiles-2011apr.zip ) click on necessary zip-file from list below. ... Replace directory dbfiles in "C:\Documents and Settings", where the part of AMPLE 3 is installed (for example, C:\Documents ans Settings\Username\Application Data\Ample 3), by new directory dbfiles from the archive. ...

... Low . High . Today . ... Month . ... Year . ... Highest Wind Speed . ... Highest Rain Rate . ... Lowest Wind Chill . ... Credit: Joe Jaworski's Davis Weather Station Linux software . ...

... In addition to my day job I carry out research into the history of the space program, and used to write a monthly column for Sky and Telescope Magazine ; I issue a monthly email-distributed newsletter, Jonathan's Space Report . Also check out Jonathan's Space Homepage . ... History of the space program . ... After a math degree at Churchill College , Cambridge and a summer job at Royal Observatory, Edinburgh , I began a Ph.D. at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge (the real Cambridge, I mean). ...

Summary by Month . Generated 04-Feb-2011 23:59 MSK . ... Month . ... Monthly Totals . Hits . Files . ... Feb 2011 . ... Jan 2011 . ... Dec 2010 . ... Nov 2010 . ... Oct 2010 . ... Sep 2010 . ... Aug 2010 . ... Jul 2010 . ... Jun 2010 . ... May 2010 . ... Apr 2010 . ... Mar 2010 . ... Generated by Webalizer Version 2.21 ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: The Europa World of Learning 2015 - Main Astronomical Observatory . ... Subject: The Europa World of Learning 2015 - Main Astronomical Observatory . Please update your entry for the the 2015 Europa World of Learning . ... Main Astronomical Observatory . ... The Europa World of Learning is your guide to academic institutions, staff . ... For your free trial of Europa World of Learning online visit . ... The Europa World of Learning, Routledge, . ... MAO NASU . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... September 2007 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

CrossCalibration between XMMNewton and Chandra Herman L. Marshall Chandra Xray Center, MIT Kavli Institute Overview · · · · XMM / Chandra Crosscalibration telecons: · continuing monthly meetings · formed web pages comparing fits Began effort to crosscal formally 2 · Goal: achieve = 1 for all cal sources · prototyping methodology continues Attending meetings for joint cal discussions · this EPIC cal meeting · multiobservatory ...

... ADS Abstracts Service and Moscow mirror . ... The Astrophysical Journal . The Astronomical Journal . Astronomy Astrophysics . ... Data . ... Astronomy: Databases, Images and Surveys . ... Canadian Astronomy Data Centre . ... NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) . ... Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies . ... Digital Images of 113 Nearby galaxies . ... NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library . WFPC2 Images of the Early-Type Galaxies . SDSS images of Galaxies . ... IDL . ... IDL FAQ . ...

Cloud cover and water vapor observed at Oma site,Tibet W ang Hong-shuai (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Kislovodsk 8.10.2010 Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 2 2008.11 Oma Site 40 m CT 2 tow er 4.5 m antenna Satellite communication w eather station 10m tow er SBIG seeing m onitor DIMM seeing dome MIR cloud m onitor R en ew al p o w er supply Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 3 PWV<0.5 5 .0 % 1 0 .1 % 8 .1 % Percent. ... 05 8.3% Percent . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Amateur Astronomers of Central Iowa is a small nonprofit amateur astronomy club located near Marshalltown in Central Iowa. ... Listed Since February 14, 1999 . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...