... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

The Columbia is lost' JSC2003e03366 As the tragic events of Feb. 1, 2003, unfolded in the Mission Control Center, the assembled team remained calm, even as they were called upon to react instantaneously to a disaster that rocked the entire world. ... RIGHT: At a press conference several hours after the Columbia accident, the faces of Milt Heflin, Chief of the Flight Director Office, and Mr. Dittemore share their emotion over the NASA family's loss with a national TV audience. ...

FITShdr' package contains set of utilities, that allows to display or modify FITS-file headers (FITS MEF included). ... Both source tarball and i386 RPM are available for downloading: fitshdr-current.tar.gz size: 36379 MD5 checksum: 1e7222149ca36696797a6e0f4af41afc SHA1 checksum: 990bdf69f67d2b989d2d6e044deeaf9128d4470c fitshdr-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm size: 539101 MD5 checksum: 19e046da52b3ec8dd89aaed9e806bb5d SHA1 checksum: 07a4b4e2bd96a4c9fda7dc65127d0b80130c97e1 . ...

Andromeda Nebula. In the XVIII century the great English astronomer William Gershel included this galaxy into the observed stars congestions. ... What is this nebula interested for? It is a great spiral galaxy 1,5 times more than our galaxy - The Milky Way. The Milky Way and Andromeda Nebula are the greatest objects of the local group of galaxies. ... Andromeda Nebula is not the nearest galaxy to ours but its structure looks like the structure of our Galaxy. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

Astrophotography . Astrophotography - by Jerry Lodriguss . ... Great CCD work by another AAAP member . Dan McCauley's Astrophotography . ... Russell Crowman Astrophotography - by Russell Crowman . ... CCD Astrophotography - by Al Kelly . Astrophotography for the Amateur - by Michael A. Covington . Astronomy and Astromicroscopy - by Sam Bissette . Weileong's Astrophotography Home page - by Tan Wei Leong . Astrophotography Gallery - by Chris Vedeler . ...

... 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 . ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

... Von einem zu dem andern. ... Hans Hotter . Wolfgang Windgassen . ... Theo Adam . ... A very promising and young Siegfried, Lance Ryan ; . and almost as young and already excellent Parsifal, Burkhard Fritz . ... Deutsche Oper am Rhein with . ... Operacast , weakly list of the opera broadcasts in the internet. ... Online Musik Magazin , it knows almost everything about neuen (und alten ) Auff hrungen in Deutschland. ...

... Meteorite Boguslavka fall , October 18, 1916. ... By fear of such awful stories we will learn to do good and to keep God's commandments and then we will be blessed" - lamented the scribe as he entered a meteorite fall in Great Novgorod into the Tale of Years. ... The greatest among them were meteorite falls in Great Ustyug (1290), Great Novgorod (1421) and near the village of New Ergy (1662). ... The third and fourth seals show the cloud of stones covering Great Ustyug rocks falling onto the town. ...

... Main . ... Software . ... The Fakerat is a software package to help planning of observations with the RadioAstron mission. This version of the software has been designed to match the technical information that appears . in the RadioAstron User's Handbook . Fakerat, version 16, Linux distribution; release on December 27, 2013: . ... fakerat file . fakerat_lib file . readme file . install file . ... package src . Software complex ASL , Windows and Linux distributions. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...