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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

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... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Moscow 2005, October 3 - 6 . October 3, Monday . ... ICE BREAKER . ... SPACE SCIENCES. ... COFFEE BREAK . ... Mars: Past, present, future . ... LUNCH . ... From the Sun to the Earth and beyond - CME/Solar wind monitoring through a Solar Polar Orbiter Radio Telescope . ... Some implications of recent spacecraft data on the sources, loss and transport of magnetospheric particles . ... Space Physics as a bridge between the space science and applications . ...

NEUTRON MONITOR DATA FOR JUNGFRAUJOCH AND BERN DURING THE GROUND-LEVEL SOLAR COSMIC-RAY EVENT ON 28 October 2003 R. Buetikofer and E.O. Flueckiger Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bern Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern , Switzerland This report includes information on the processing and use of the data for the ground-level solar cosmic ray event on 28 October 2003 obtained by the following three ... Section 3 of the IGY neutron monitor at Jungfraujoch is the central section. ...

One of the goals of ALFALFA (the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey) is that of verifying whether a significant population of optically faint, baryon rich, low mass systems exists. ... ALFALFA has easily detected the cloud VIRGOHI 21, reported by Davies et al. ... The clouds in the complex appear not to be gravitationally bound to one other, and may represent the remnant of an ancient episode of harassment. ... Davies, J., Minchin, R., Sabatini, S., van Driel, W., Baes, M. et al. ...

Science Support Status Maria Santos-Lleo EPIC calibration meeting, ESAC 9 April 2015 Overview XMM-Newton Mission extension approved for 2 more years Team moves are now frequent, thank you to those who left (excellent contribution appreciated!) and welcome to new, very motivated people! ... EPIC calibration | 9 April 2015 | Pag. ... A O 15 · Call for proposals 25 August ­ 9 October (12:00 UT) 2015 · OTAC results mid Dec 2015 · Phase II: 12 Jan ­ 5 Feb 2016 Science Operations | ...

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... October 4, 1998 . One Small Step . Credit: Apollo 11 Crew , NASA . Explanation: On July 20th, 1969, a human first set foot on the Moon . ... It has been estimated that one billion people world-wide watched Armstrong's first step - making the live transmission from a camera mounted on the lunar lander one of the highest rated television shows ever. Upon setting foot on the moon, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." ... About APOD > . ...

... The data from the images during this period is as follows: 09_1846.fit sur,sig= 2669.5 8.8 plat,sig= 2682.6 7.9 P-S= 13.1 DT= 0.8 . 09_1852.fit sur,sig= 2666.5 8.0 plat,sig= 2679.2 8.1 P-S= 12.7 DT= 0.6 . ... 09_1912.fit sur,sig= 2659.9 8.4 plat,sig= 2669.5 8.1 P-S= 9.6 DT= 0.0 . ... The filenames are date_mst.fit; sur,sig give the mean level in the image of the surround and the noise. plat,sig give the mean level in the heated plate and its noise. ... noise: < 0.16 C-deg-(min)^0.5 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Spot Uranus in October . ... The Sky this Week: Get your Uranus observing info from a daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Monday, October 8 . The first day of the conference, Monday October 8th, may be entitled "The mathematics of Sossinsky's friends", and will be consist of five one-hour talks by prominent mathematicians on their research results, not necessarily the latest ones, but results that they feel are appropriate for the occasion. The conference program for October 8th is the following: . ... The second day of the conference, Tuesday October 9th, may be called "Sossinsky's mathematics". ...

... MAO main . Info . e-EPS | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | October 2015 . ... On 9 October 2015 the German Physical Society [DPG] organized a meeting between National Node representatives of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 [IYL 2015] at the Magnus Haus in Berlin, Germany. ... Nominations are now open for the Edison Volta Prize of the European Physical Society [EPS]. ... Published by the European Physical Society . ... MAO NASU . ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

October 14, 2002 (Monday) David Jackson, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK . ... Fall 2000 . ... The resolution obtained is compared with the starting point, based on an optical survey, and is shown to achieve the design performance. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . return to top . ... Amplitude analysis of the D + , D s + decays to KK p and D 0 decay to K s KK are presented using the data collected by Fermilab High Energy Photoproduction Experiment E831(FOCUS). 2:30 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...