... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . Meteors and Meteorites . ... WeтАЩve become rather obsessed with meteor showers in recent months, and for good reason. ... The first meteor shower peaks around 11- 12 November too, so keep an eye out. ... On 11 November there will be a New Moon, so the night sky will not be flooded with moon light. ... Normally this is a relatively weak meteor shower with the meteors hitting the EarthтАЩs atmosphere at 65 km/s. Finally we will see a Full Moon on 25 November. ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Time Particles - And The Lack There Of. ... There is no such thing as time. ... For example time travel isn't possible really. ... The whole idea that travelling faster than light will send you back in time is more than ridiculous. ... No such thing as time, no so such thing as time travel or time particals. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The Earth's surface receives more light per unit area. ... The Earth is closer to the Sun. ... At what time does the Third Quarter Moon rise? a) 9:00 AM b) 12:00 Noon c) 9:00 PM $d) 12:00 Midnight When the moon is in its last quarter , when does it rise and set? a) sunrise, sunset b) sunset, sunrise $c) midnight, noon d) noon, midnight Why don't lunar eclipses happen at every full moon ? $a) The Moon 's orbit doesn't always take it through the Earth's shadow. b) The Moon 's ...

... SATELLITE: An object that revolves around a planet. ... SIDEREAL DAY: The length of a planet's rotation period relative to the stars. SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun and all the objects that are held in its gravitational field and move around it. ... SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION: The position of a planet when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth (thus making in invisible). ... TRANSIT: The movement of an object between the Earth and the Sun and showing on the surface of the sun as a black dot. ...

ATMoB "Double Star Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ­ in particular, double, triple, and multiple stars. Introduction: Double, triple, and multiple stars are the "Rodney Dangerfields" of the night sky. ... W hile they can be observed under a variety of sky conditions, double stars ­ especially close ones ­ are best viewed on nights when the seeing is steady. ... The direction from a star to Polaris is north. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

The efficiency of interaction of radiation with a particle and hence its optical properties depend on the particle chemical composition, size, shape, structure, etc. ... Particle size expressed in units of the wavelength of incident radiation, together with chemical composition, most strongly affects the optical properties of a scatterer. ... There are many methods to solve the light-scattering problem for a homogeneous spheroid (our survey of the light-scattering methods see here ). ...

... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Graduated from East Detroit High School, Eastpointe, Michigan, in 1973; received a bachelor of science degree in bioscience from the U.S . Naval Academy in 1977; a doctorate in medicine from Wayne State University in 1981; a master of science degree in systems management from University of Southern California in 1988; a master of public health degree in health policy from the ... Top graduate, Naval Flight Surgeon Training and Naval Safety Officer's School. ...

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Next: Future Work Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Modes of Operation . ... However, the first experiments with Co-60 irradiation showed loss of charge transfer performance at doses of 10krads [Lumb and Holland 1988b]. ... These studies showed that the charge transfer degradation was a more severe problem than conventional integrated circuit damage mechanisms. ... Another manifestation of radiation damage is that of dark current spike generation. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... This is only one of over 20 galaxy lenses now known. ... This, and other new results from the LASCO (Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph) instrument on board the European Space Agency/NASA spacecraft SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), will be presented at the UK National Astronomy Meeting at the University of St Andrews by Dr Mark Lyons from the University of Birmingham. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

Next: Descriptor NFILTCAR Up: Instrument descriptors Previous: Instrument descriptors . The two most critical types of physical information needed about the filters themselves are (1) what are their transmission curves? and (2) does the instrument either regulate or measure their temperature? ... In addition, we need to know how many different filter-code fields appear in the data. Bearing all this in mind, here are the descriptors for filters: . ... Mon Jan 22 15:08:15 MET 1996 ...

... Nashville. ... Is it my fault that I can't reap what I sow? Nashville, did you give me half a chance With your southern style, and your hidden dance away? ... Nashville , I'd like to know your fate I'd like to stay a while But I've seen your lowered states today ( I've seen them today , honey, I swear I've seen them today ) Now I'm leaving - I've got all these debts to pay You know we all have our dues - I'll pay 'em some other place I'd ...

Phase Retrieval Measurements of Antenna Surfaces Using Astronomical Sources Bojan Nikolic, John Richer, Richard Hills Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K. Abstract We present a novel technique for accurate measurement of the largescale errors in an antenna surface using astronomical sources and detectors. Out-of-focus images of compact astronomical sources contain a wealth of information about the telescope optics. ...

... The plug-plates of SDSS project are responsible for locating the optical-fiber plugs spatially and for defining the plug tilt with respect to the surface of best focus. ... Previous attempts to match the SDSS plug-plates to the surface of best focus were conducted using only the bending fixture. The analyses performed indicated that by adding a central constraint to the plug-plate deformation process, the plates could be made to match the surface of best focus within an acceptable range of error. ...

... We employ Stokes I and V LSD profiles of the co ol magnetic Ap star CrB, extracted for the elements Ti, Cr, Fe and Ba, to confirm systematic element-toelement differences in the longitudinal field variation of this star. ... 5 Mo deling the phase variations The longitudinal field and equivalent width variations of CrB potentially provide a useful method to probe the surface abundance distributions of this and other slowly-rotating magnetic stars. ...

11 august 2014/Monday: Arriving, Registration . ... The variation of solar flare coronal X-ray source spatial properties. ... Melnikov V.F., Charikov Yu.E., Kudriavtsev I.V. Directivity of X-ray and gamma-ray emission from different parts of flaring magnetic loops. ... E., Melnikov V.F. Angular characteristics of polarization degree of hard X-ray emission from different parts of flaring magnetic loops. ... The thick target model and analytical calculations of the hard X-ray emission from solar flares. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...