You don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. You can see much of it from your own back yard. ... If you enjoyed The Nine Planets , go outside and take a look at what you just read about. ... Touring the Universe through Binoculars . ... Refer to Sky & Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever: . ... William Herschel . ...

Program to display an object's position in real time} {Set the delimiter to % so we can use , in prompts} set_delimiter(%) {On first pass, get the name of the object etc.} if (s1=.) set_string (s1%Sun) display _title(+++ Real-time Positions +++) write_string (Possible objects are:) new_line write_string (Sun, Moon, name of a planet, parabolic or elliptical) new_line new_line ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

Fourier Transforms Tutorial Narrabri Synthesis Workshop Sep 2001 In this tutorial I am hoping to show you four essential properties of the Fourier plane, as it relates to interferometry. ... Working with Fourier transform images There are two parts to the fourier transform of an image, the real and imaginary parts. ... But for thinking about interferometers and visualising Fourier transforms, it is often easier to look at the amplitude and phase. ... Now compare the phase images. ... Transform back. ...

... This is usually defined as the direction pointing toward the center of the primary body. ... NODE: The place where the plane of one orbit crosses the plane of another. ... ORBITAL PLANE: The flat surface that would result if every point on the orbit of a body was connected to the center of its primary. ... PENUMBRA: The edge of the primary body's shadow. ... PERIOD : The time required for one body to orbit the primary body. ... PROBE: A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

... Great oppositions. ... Proxima Centauri. ... Scientists proved that the problem of preserving the Earth's climate and the annual change of seasons can be solved by a small star, negligible mass, but similar to a main-sequence star, moving in a circular orbit around the Sun. ... Sombrero Galaxy. The Sombrero Galaxy, M104, is known as a holder of one of supermassive black holes. ... Roughly estimate the approximate mass of the supermassive black hole in the center of M104 (answer in solar masses m). ...

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listing for HDU #1: SIMPLE = T BITPIX = 16 /8 unsigned int, 16 32 int, -32 -64 real NAXIS = 2 /number of axes NAXIS1 = 3056 /fastest changing axis NAXIS2 = 3056 /next to fastest changing axis BSCALE = 1.0000000000000000 /physical = BZERO + BSCALE *array_value BZERO = 32768.000000000000 /physical = BZERO + BSCALE *array_value OBJECT = ' ' TELESCOP= ' ' / telescope used to acquire this ...

... This is the real fix of SSC-SPR-6458 (the previous version didn'n fix it). ... Version 2.15 - 2003-11-26 ( VNY ) ------------ Protected against inconsistency of the image size and DETSEC attribute +( src / ommodmap_mod.f90 ) Version 2.14 - 2003-11-18 (CB) ------------ DEPEND file ammended for ssclib 3.0 Version 2.13 - 2003-11-18 ( VNY ) +( src /Makefile) link to SASDAL added to the makefile in order to rectify the static build Version 2.12 - 2003-11-13 ( VNY ) +( src /Makefile) ...

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