Armagh Planetarium Events News of events at Armagh Planetarium . ... Education . ... Written by AP_admin on February 29, 2016 in Family Events . ... Over five weeks, the course takes a season by season look at the stars in their constellations and the mythology surrounding them.б We will look at how to spot satellites and planets too. If you want to discover the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Stargazing the Night Sky? ... 2016 Armagh Planetarium Events. ...

... In an unexpected twist, recent observations have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photogenic spiral is rotating in the opposite direction from all of the stars! ... Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together . ... Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. How, then, can there be a picture of both the shuttle and the station together, taken from space? ...

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference (ADASS) 1997 14 - 17 September 1997 Allgau Stern Hotel, Sonthofen, Germany Limited funds are available to assist attendees who might not otherwise be able to attend ADASS '97. ... E-mail address and fax number 4. ... Type of financial assistance requested - Air fare (from where to where) - Number of nights lodging - Number of days per diem - Waiver of Registration fee, Abstract fee, Computer Demo fee 9. ...

Up: Sky Surveys . ... The object catalogue and compressed pixel data are stored online and are accessible via the WWW. ... small area (up to 15arcmin) pixel images with attached object catalogue, . ... The primary data format is FITS for both images and binary tables of object catalogues, which enables porting of the data into established software packages. ... In this way, it is possible to browse the data by clicking on objects in the image display or the catalogue list to highlight them in both. ...

This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Reflections: Science Fare , Phil Plait . The Bad Astronomer (a.k.a. Phil Plait) gives a short speech to students who participated in a science fair. ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Education Matters, David Bruning . ... Reflections, Phil Plait . ...

Sagan Memorial Station (Pathfinder) . This page contains some of the best images taken by Mars Pathfinder. ... Sojourner Gets Her Rock This "movie" was generated from 23 separate frames taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) and lasts approximately 8 seconds. ... Sagan Memorial Station Images . ... Yogi Rock ( JPEG ) . Yogi, a rock taller than rover Sojourner, is the subject of this image, taken by the deployed Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. ... Couch Rock ( JPEG ) . ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

Ron Miksa, Carl Lindenmeyer, and John Korienek, as well as Steve Bastian (all from FNL), were on site to install the new manipulator arm in the 2.5m support building. Not to break tradition, these photos are of the completed installation and those hard working folks are not pictured. Captions above photo . ... Note that the bay door is open. ... The arm swings out from the body of the manipulator, and the assembly is moved along the metal runners to position it in front of the plate cartridge. ...

My colleagues and I have recently completed a series of observations of SN1999an. ... The telescope is located at Martin Observatory in Blacksburg, VA, and is operated by the Physics Department of Virginia Tech. Our IAU Minor Planet Center Observatory Code is 841. ... Attached you will find a copy of one of our images (in .jpg format) with the supernova indicated. ... Virginia Tech Department of Physics . Back to Bright Supernovae . Back to Supernova 1999an . ...

... Points in 3-dimensional space are in general position, if no four of them are in one plane. Two triangles in 3-dimensional space whose six vertices are in general position are linked if the outline of the first triangle intersects the interior of the second triangle exactly at one point. ... Then there exist two linked triangles with vertices at these points. ... Assume that the vertices of two triangles are in general position. ... And the vertices of these two triangles are in general position. ...

... russian ) . ... Came to work at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) . ... Chairman of the "Solar Physics" section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . Vice-Chair of «Solar System» Section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences and "Geophysical Research" Section of Scientific Technical Council of Federal Space Agency. Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Scientific interests . ...

. Next: Initial velocity Up: Space and velocity distributions Previous: Space and velocity distributions . Following Paczynsky (1990), we assume initial space distribution of young neutron stars to be varying exponentially with distance from the Galactic center and from the Galactic plane, that is probability distribution for young neutron star positions can be written in the form . with kpc, and pc. Mike E. Prokhorov . Fri Jul 19 19:16:07 MSD 1996

... That segment of good times that have been forgotten . ... Forgotten times . Moore Memorial Church, 316 Middle Xizang rd. ... By 1925 it had 1200 followers. ... Two-story hall with wooden seats for choir, Gothic ceilings, arch window. ... Textured patterns and scarlet brick walls, windows graced by dark grey stone quoins. 42.1-meter high bell tower was one of the highest in the city, the church - was one of the largest in China at that time. ... To the sixth trip . ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... acquiring practical habits and skills of performing all the flight operations envisaged for a flight participant; . maintaining and honing professionally required qualities and skills for a successful activity in conditions of effect of adverse factors of a space flight, as well . ... preparing for the activity outside the spacecraft; . ... preparing for professional activity in conditions of effect of the space flight factors; . ...

... You can work in group sizes as large as 5. Each individual in that group could be assigned a particular question which would allow the group to complete the assignment in a more efficient manner. ... The Assignment: . Provide some information in response to the following questions. ... Find some information on possible tidal power sites in the United Kingdom and report on their potential for power generation. Find some information on the design and potential of the Advanced Gas Turbine. ...

... Submitted by William Lee on 03/05/2007 05:26:53 . Lowell's Library With His Survey Telescope . His wife built this library for Percival Lowell, in the shape of Saturn. ... In the foreground is the survey refractor that Lowell carried (or, rather his assistant did) around the world searching for a site of his observatory, prior to settling on Flagstaff, AZ. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Team . ... conferences . Holding conferences: . GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... Here we present the V and Rc images of the GRB 021004 optical transient field. ... Below is the text of our telegram in GCN circular TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1717 SUBJECT: GRB021004, late time optical observations DATE: 02/12/02 16:51:59 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS 23.9 ------------------------------------------ At this stage it is not clearly whether the object is the pure host galaxy. ...

This Directory contains mean hour values of geomagnetic field components at observatories in Russia and other repub- lic of Former Soviet Union (FSU). The List of these observatories has indication of Data Years. ... Files are prepared in the DOS format. The Format for mean values follows after this list of the geomagnetic observatories. ... 21-116 24I4 24 4-digit hourly mean values for the day. ... If any of the hourly mean values for the day are missing 9999 will appear as the daily mean. ...