This section describes the calculation by which Aristarchus used the duration of a total lunar eclipse to deduce the distance of the Moon. ... This lesson plan supplements: "How Distant is the Moon--1", section #8c: on disk Shipprc2.htm , on the web . ... The shadow of the Earth at the Moon's distance is narrower than the Earth, because the Sun is seen not as a point but as a disk 0.5 degrees wide. ... An eclipse of the Moon is the passage of the Moon through the shadow of the Earth. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

Picture an Astronomer A Project ASTRO Activity For Grades 4-12 The media and our past experiences have shaped and created our expectations of people in various careers. ... However, astronomy is carried out by men and women in every country and by people young and old. ... Activity Description Before an astronomy unit or the first visit by an astronomer to your classroom, it can be instructive to have the students picture what an astronomer looks like and then discuss their assumptions. ...

... There are load's and load's of secret's to discover, some EZR then other's. This level is PERFECTION in action for single, cooperative and deathmatch play. ... You can find this WAD on any good BBS contained within : CC_D2LV2.ARJ CC_D2LV2.ZIP ================================================================ * Play Information * Episode and Level # : MAP01 Single Player : Yes (Lot's of monsters to blow away.) ... How to use : Copy the .ARJ file in your DOOM 2 directory and unpack it. ...

... Massive stars, having 10-150 masses of the Sun, with metallicities Z tens to hundreds times less than that of the Sun (Zo), are the main regulators of the galaxy formation and evolution processes in the early Universe. ... In this galaxy, using the 6 m BTA telescope, a new massive blue variable star with high luminosity (>=10 5 Sun's luminocities in visible light) was found. As far as its properties are concerned, this star falls into an LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) class of stars. ...

... NOTE TO EDITORS: GALAXY FLY-THROUGH AVAILABLE ONLINE . HUGE GALAXY STRING CHALLENGES SPACE THEORY . An enormous string of galaxies 300 million light-years long has been discovered in the remote Universe, challenging existing theories about how the Universe evolved. ... ANU astronomer Dr Paul Francis, who coordinated the international research team, said the galaxy string lay 10,800 million light-years away. ... The research was funded by NASA and the Australian National University. ...

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. ...

Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...

... Recognizing which columns represent the same physical quantity is important not only to combine two or more tables, but it is of prime importance when the aim is to recognize sources with similar physical characteristics in an N-dimensional parameter space, ie, true data-mining. ... Modern day merging requires an additional piece of meta-data: the UCDs or Unified Content Descriptors (Ortiz et al. ... UCD(RA) > 10 is ambiguous. ... Column names are unique in a catalogue, UCDs are not. ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK FOR 2005 (in Russian) . Preface . In the тАЬAstronomical YearbookтАЭ (AY) the ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, major planets and stars computed with the maximum precision in accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are published. ... N.I. Glebova; . ... The seasons values, the phases of the Moon, the planetary configurations, the data for the eclipses of the Sun and Moon (N.I. Glebova, M.V. Lukashova) are placed on a site . ...

... OM grism data are obtained as image mode data. However the different nature of this type of data, spectra of the objects in the field of view instead of their "sky" image, makes that a special processing must be applied to the grism images. ... They are concatenated in a perl script, omgchain , which works in a similar way to the image and fast mode chains. ... All necessary corrections are applied to the grism data files. ... As we have pointed out OM grism data are image mode data. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Library . ... click image to view discuss) . ... Submitted by William Lee on 03/05/2007 05:15:46 . ... The Telescope That Discovered Pluto . ... Percival Lowell's Library . His wife built this library for Percival Lowell, in the shape of Saturn. ... Lowell's Library With His Survey Telescope . ... Lowell's Library . ... Lowell's First Telescope . ... Panorama of Lowell's Library . A panorama of Percival Lowell's library. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... V4641 Sgr is known as a detached binary containing a 9 Msol. black hole and an A0 type companion. ... Spectra of V4641 Sgr were taken by us using SAO 1-m telescope between May 23.972 and 24.002 UT (the orbital phase of 0.35), wavelength range 3900-7500A, resolution 8A, S/N~30-40. ... These observations show essential light excess over the quiet light level seen only in the orbital phases between -0.25 and +0.25 with the maximum value of 0.15 mag in the V band at the black hole inferior conjunction. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...