... Credit: HST Comet Hyakutake Observing Team and NASA . MPEG Movie of the Comet's Position in April (2.8 MB) Explanation: During April Comet Hyakutake heads in toward the Sun after passing the Earth . ... Early in April, the Moon 's glow will diminish viewing of the comet's tail - except during the lunar eclipse on April 3rd ! As the comet recedes from the Earth it will appear dimmer even though it is getting intrinsically brighter as it nears the Sun. ... Comet Hyakutake Passes the Sun . ...

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Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy . Richard Hills has mainly worked on the development of radio astronomy at millimetre wavelengths, the part of the spectrum that lies between radio and the infra-red regions. ... He was Project Scientist for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, which was built on the 4200m high Mauna Kea in Hawaii in the 1980s, and continued to work with that telescope and the development of new instruments for it for many years. ... Telephone: (+44) (0)1223 337369 . ...

... Telescope . ... 2002B , 2003A , 2003B , 2004A , 2004B , 2005A , 2005B , 2006A , 2006B , 2007A , 2007B , 2008A , 2008B , 2009A , 2009B , 2010A , 2010B , 2011A , 2011B , 2012A , 2012B , 2013A , 2013B , 2014A , 2014B 2015A . 2014A . ... IKI . ... KFU . ... High Energy Astrophysics Department 2016 IKI RAN ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... April . ... April, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... At 22:42:27 UT 26/07/09, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on board of the SWIFT multi-wavelength space observatory triggered and located GRB 090726 gamma-ray burst event. ... About half an hour after the BAT trigger, the first images were obtained with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope in four BVRI filters (see Fig.1). ... The spectrum of the optical transient was obtained with the SAO RAS 6-m BTA telescope 1.54 hours after the burst, using the SCORPIO instrument in the spectroscopic mode (Fig.2). ...

... LINKS . ... SPECIAL TOPIC . CONTACT . ... ARTICLE: Venus Transit 2004 . ... AAL's Transit Observation Results . ... Divx video from the AAL observation site. ... a) Visual observation : Only with special eclipse shades ( do not use those ones you still have from the 1999's solar eclipse because it does no more protect you properly ) . ... 1. contact ( transit begins ) : 07:19 53 s with a solar altitude of 15.5 degrees . ... Venus Transit Links: . ... Venus Transit 2004: A Tremendous Success . ...

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Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

... 20 th -23 rd April 2015 . ... In 2015 the 8th busy week takes place in Firenze, in Galileo GalileiтАЩs villa тАЬil GioielloтАЭ, located in the gorgeous hills in the southern side of the city. ... is pleased to host the 8th CALIFA Busy Week . in Firenze, at Galileo GalileiтАЩs Villa тАЬil GioielloтАЭ . After the second public data release on the 1st October 2014 ( DR2 , Garc†нa-Benito et al. 2014 ) and with more than 500 galaxies observed to-date, CALIFA has entered its maturity. ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Bill Murray ( 609 ) 298-1179 strgazr@comcast.net Assistant Director John Church ( 609 ) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Michael Mitrano ( 609 )-737-6518 michael.mitrano@att.net Program Chairman OPEN Secretary Editors Larry Kane Bryan Hubbard and Ira Polans ( 609 ) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and ( ... Super Science Saturday at The New Jersey State Museum will be on April 24th. ...

April 2, 2007 (Monday) Ben Pecjak, DESY . April 30, 2007 (Monday) Peter Skands, Fermilab . May 21, 2007 (Monday) Cancelled . May 22-26, 2007 (Monday-Friday) UltraMini Workshop on New Physics for New Colliders . Fall 2006 . Winter 2007 . Fall 2005 . Winter 2006 . Spring 2006 . Summer 2006 . Fall 2004 . Winter 2005 . Spring 2005 . Summer 2005 . Fall 2003 . Winter 2004 . ... Fall 2000 . ... Winter 2000 . Spring 2000 . Summer 2000 . ...

... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Asian part of Russian Federation in the first decade of December 2006 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2006 may participate in the APAO-2006 (that is a student may participate in the 11 th IAO or in the 2 nd APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). For the 2 nd APAO the (age) group of participants to be analogous to IAO groups, rules 4.5.2-4. to be used, i.e.: . ...

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

The Isaac Newton Institute (Instituto Isaac Newton) for astronomical research (INI) was founded in 1978 by Gonzalo Alcaino. The main office is located in the eastern outskirts of Santiago (Chile). ... The Moscow branch was the first one established outside Chile. ... Besides the above named branches, the Chilean staff of the Isaac Newton Institute is involved in collaboration with astronomers of the Observatory of Rome in several research projects using data secured from telescopes in Chile. ...

... The process of proposing for Hubble Space Telescope observing time has been revised, to make it simpler for proposers. We describe the simple, flexible, and robust prototype system created to handle proposal submission. ... Proposing for Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) observing time proceeds in two phases: the scientific merits of the proposal are considered in Phase I; only accepted proposals enter Phase II, where the observations are described in complete detail. ...

... x263a; NOTE (December 2009): This bug has been fixed in Snow Leopard (10.6) x263a; Replicated servers are autofs map entries that list multiple locations from which a resource can be mounted. ... Under Leopard 10.5.1 and 10.5.2 (so far), this does not work. ... You'll need to have Xcode installed on your Mac to build this. autofs-109 does include autofs.xcode in the top directory that you can use for the build, however there are some outside components missing, so the build won't work out of the box...

... CONTACT . ... Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005­15, with some hundreds of terrestrial-type planets expected from transit measurements, and many thousands of Jupiter-mass planets expected from astrometric measurements. ... To request a printed copy, please contact Britt Sjoeberg (bsjoeber@eso.org) . ...

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