... Shortly after its discovery it was determined to be in a highly elliptical path near Jupiter and on a collision course. ... T he size and mass of the original body and the individual fragments is as of this writing still highly uncertain. ... B etween 16 July 1994 and 22 July 1994 the fragments impacted the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. ... T he pictures were posted to the Net within hours of the impacts and caused severe overloading on some ftp and WWW sites. ... JPL's SL9 page . ... Small Bodies .....

... As the foundation for the SAO MMT Instrument control software, we have developed an ASCII protocol for passing messages between client and server applications. Server interfaces are described as registered commands and published values. ... The mechanics of exchanging data between the client and server over a TCP/IP socket are handled by the library. ... However, we also have used the msg library to build complex systems with dozens of registered commands and hundreds of published values. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The sky can be a crowded place. As the Moon makes its stately orbit around the Earth once a month, there are a lot of objects which it passes along the way. ... It so happens that a handful of bright stars lie near the path on the sky that the Moon takes, and so the Moon does actually pass close to or even in front of stars every now and then. ...

Our friend, mentor, and colleague Alanna Connors passed away on February 2, 2013. ... She received her undergraduate physics degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and a Doctorate in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland in 1988. ... Her research in X-rays and later gamma-ray astrophysics required solid statistical methods which were generally unknown to astronomers in the early nineties. ... She also had an interest in public science education. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelSphericalIndexMultiRes Class Reference . ... voidљ . ... Insert the given object in the StelSphericalIndexMultiRes . ... template<class FuncObject > . ... processIntersectingRegions (const SphericalRegionP &region, FuncObject &func) const . ... processAll (FuncObject &func) const . ... processBoundingCapIntersectingRegions (const SphericalCap &cap, FuncObject &func) const . ... processContainedRegions (const SphericalRegionP &region, FuncObject &func) const . ...

... In accordance with assignment she was sent to Nikolaev branch of the Pulkovo observatory. At the Nikolaev Observatory Eugene Khrutskaya worked with the meridian circle, she made a lot for automatization of observational process, and in 1973 she created the catalog of right ascensions obtained for more than 6000 stars, and she defended her thesis. ... From 2004 to the present, Evgenia Khrutskaya was Head of the Laboratory of astrometry and stellar astronomy. ... Pulkovo observatory . ...

... ADS Abstracts Service and Moscow mirror . ... The Astrophysical Journal . The Astronomical Journal . Astronomy Astrophysics . ... Data . ... Astronomy: Databases, Images and Surveys . ... Canadian Astronomy Data Centre . ... NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) . ... Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies . ... Digital Images of 113 Nearby galaxies . ... NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library . WFPC2 Images of the Early-Type Galaxies . SDSS images of Galaxies . ... IDL . ... IDL FAQ . ...