... 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. ...

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

... 28.12.2011 . ... A breathtaking spectacle in itself, Lovejoy performs on this celestial stage with southern stars and nebulae, including the Large and Small Magellanic clouds right of the telescope dome, and the glow of zodiacal light along the left edge of the frame. ... December 2011 . ... Publications with keywords: comet - Paranal Observatory - VLT - magellanic clouds - zodiacal light . Publications with words: comet - Paranal Observatory - VLT - magellanic clouds - zodiacal light . ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...

... 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). ...

... The file names' construction . The flight (m) stage's file set . ... the orbital data used for the flight operation monthly (m) long-term planning, . ... The orbital calculations are based on the initial orbital data determined by KIAM RAN using the orbital radio measurements treatment.The determined initial orbital data are presented as a state vector (satellite position and velocity) in the J2000 reference. ... Accept the file with extension '.bgr', where the Moscow time (MT=UT+3h) is used. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... The 1 st Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad will held in Siberia (Asian part of Russian Federation) on December 4-11, 2005. ... Among three Siberian cities which were ready to organise the Olympiad city of Irkutsk (near Baikal lake) won this right. ... Saturday December 3 Excursion to Irkutsk (for arrived on 02.12. delegations) . ... Sunday December 4 Excursion to Taltsy and Listvianka (Baikal lake) (for arrived on 02-03.12. delegations) . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2005 - results . ...

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The Richland Astronomical Society is a nonprofit organization formed in 1960 to promote the advancement of amateur astronomy. ... Mike Romine - President/Board Member . ... Bob Kocar - Treasurer/Board Member/Grant Coordinator . ... Eric Heintz - Assistant Observatory Director/Board Member . ... Tammy Plotner - President Emeritus/Webmaster (www.wro.org)/Astronomical League ALCor. ... Site content is maintained by Webmaster Tammy Plotner and Assistant Webmaster Greg DeChant All rights reserved. ...

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Blue Moon, What Is It? ... Moon | ... By popular acclaim, the second Full Moon of a calendar month is called a Blue Moon. ... If the last Full Moon of this calendar year comes after the December solstice but before New Year's Day, then it's inevitable -- the following year will have an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ... There are always thirteen Full Moons in a calendar year that hosts a "New Style" Blue Moon, and almost always twelve Full Moons during a calendar year that features an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ...

... 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 . ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... 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. ...

Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...