... After going through several logical arguments for the Earth's sphericity (which have not held up over time), Aristotle wrote: . ... Again, our observations of the stars make it evident, not only that the earth is circular, but that it is a circle of no great size. ... There is much change, I mean, in the stars which are overhead, and the stars seen are different, as one moves northward or southward. ... Back to the main file (8) The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus . ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Previous . Next Click the image to view it in fullsize. Previous . Next . Elbrus is an inactive volcano, no eruptions have ever been recorded. However recent investigations showed the presence of magma chamber.

Home - News - Download - Documentation - Search - FTP . About NEdit . ... Download . ... Mirror Sites . ... Christian Denat . ... Back ] . Eg. using the cleartool command: type = MADS_CP_55.15 cmd = "/usr/atria/bin/cleartool find -avobs -version 'lbtype(" type ")' -print" answer = shell_command(cmd, "") if (length(answer) == 0) { dialog("No match to the query\n\n" cmd "\n\n", "OK") } else { # Put the result into a new NEdit window new() focus_window("last") insert_string(answer) } [ Back ] . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Site Info . ... This page is basically a list of links to websites that either support or refute the claim that NASA never sent men to the Moon. I have my own detailed rebuttal of the Fox television program ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?'' in my Bad TV section . ... I plan on having a thorough debunking of this on this site eventually. ... Below are listed pages by both the conspiracy theorists and the debunkers. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... R P is the perigalactic radius and R a , the apogalactic radius. Z max is the maximum deviation of the star from the Galactic plane. THe dotted curve shows the position of the Galactic plane. The hatched horizontal band shows schematically the band in Z , where the probability of that location of the star was calculated. The vertical band shows the width of the column in which we reconstruct the star distribution in Z . ... next figure | previous figure . ...

... The improvement will be more pronounced in our crowded Wide Field Camera (WFC) images, and may be increased further through use of a more sophisticated method of combining the individual dithered images. Our analysis allows us to check for point spread function shape variations in the HST Planetary Camera (PC) field. ... In crowded field images, we are deriving information about the faint end of the luminosity function (LF) from the texture of the image background. ...

... I may have lied to you and about you, and made a few pronouncements a bit too sweeping, perhaps, and possibly forgotten to tag the basses here or there, And damned your extravagance, and libeled your tastes and libeled your relatives, and slandered a few your friends O.K., Nevertheless, come back. ... Come back.. ... We will invite the undertaker, who lives beneath us, And a couple of boys from the office, And some other friends. ... And a few reporters, if anything should break. ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

Use of GLONASS for International Time Keeping . ... For short- and middle-distance time transfers, the GLONASS P-code links show an accuracy of about 1 ns, which is better than that of the GPS C/A-code links. ... radiointerferometry with very long baselines, GLONASS, GPS, international time metrology, P-code signal, calibration of time receivers, uncertainty, P-code links, C/A-code links, accuracy, time links, TAI calculation, GLONASS time (GLNT). ...

MAJOR MAGNETIC STORMS 1932-1997 ACCORDING TO THE Ap* CRITERIA To view a plot of the number of magnetic storms v.s. sunspots, go to ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/APSTAR/magstorm.gif A simpler global index of magnetic activity (other than Kp or Km) is produced in France from the K indices of two nearly antipodal magnetic observatories in England and Australia. ... An AA* index has been derived that is the counterpart of Ap* but is available for the longer span of years. ...

... 16-mm/2.8 Fish-eye . ... I set up my Edixa Prismaflex TTL on a tripod outside the dome at Zeiss 50" and opened the camera for several hours. The 2.6 m Shain reflector is visible at center. The time exposure of about 5 hours duration showing circumpolar stars. The dome can be seen to blur slightly due to their motion during the exposure. Back to Astronomical Images Home Page . ...

... THE SIMPLEST MODEL. ... 13, Moscow 119992, Russia E-mail: san@sai.msu.ru Abstract: The analysis of the simplest model shows that an asteroid ­ rubble pile evolves, depending on the parameter V2d (where V is the average velocity of fragments and d is the average distance between fragments), either as a conglomerate of "independent mutually gravitating clusters" (when V2d < fm, where f is the gravitational constant and m is the average mass of a fragment) or as a "receding cluster" (when V2d > fm). ...

... Norm Oberle being reflected by one of his . ... The 31" mirror at the . ... It was through Norm's classes that I made my own two telescope mirrors described elsewhere on this site. ... Soon he made his first first telescope. ... Norm was one of the charter members and organizers of Cuyahoga Astronomy Club and its first president. ... In 1968, Norm formed the LEAP Project (Lake Erie Astronomical Project) partially an out growth of the telescope making class and astronomy meetings at the planetarium. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... TextUserInterface Class Reference . ... voidљ . setTuiMenuActive (bool tActive) . Show/hide the TUI menu. ... virtual voidљ . ... Update the module with respect to the time. ... virtual boolљ . ... virtual void TextUserInterface::draw . ... virtual void TextUserInterface::handleKeys . ... virtual void TextUserInterface::init . ... Loads the module's configuration from the config file. void TextUserInterface::setTuiDateTime . ...

... The VSOP Symposium proceedings, "Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI" have been published and have been distributed to participants. ... Following the successful launch of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) satellite HALCA in February 1997 there have been many exciting results from space VLBI observations. ... Also, check the newly revised getting to ISAS page which has links to pictorial "Getting to ISAS from Fuchinobe" and "Getting to the Dai-Ichi Hotel from Fuchinobe" pages! ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

. Other Relevant Plots . Map of survey sky coverage also showing locations of all previously known QSOs. Plot showing our QSO candidate selection . The final photometric catalogue of UBR selected QSO candidates. | Front page | . | << - Talk Overview | Survey status - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

East Dubuque,Illinois, USA . Greetings from our East Dubuque School to Zelenogorsk. ... Our classes are in the high school link. Hi, my name is Chris Rath. ... East Dubuque is a small town of about 2,000 people. ... Our high school here in East Dubuque is also pretty small, it only has about 190 . ... I am now 16 years of age, and a junior at East Dubuque High School. ... I am a senior at East Dubuque High School. ... people in the town of East Dubuque. ... East Dubuque High School . ...

Atlas of the Arcturus MgH line's families spectrum* O. M. Ivanyuk, Ya. V. Pavlenko Atlas consists on three parts: The first part ­ is a spectrum atlas in range from 4925е till 5225е that covers MgH A -X 0-0 , MgH A-X 1-1 and MgH A-X 2-2 line's families The second part of atlas shows range from 5375е till 5625е in accordance with MgH A-X 0-1 and MgH A-X 1-2 families And the third ...

. home - main - author - help english - russian . Here you can find: . 1. A general timeline chart which shows [almost] all russian space programs . 2. Manned flights timeline chart which shows manned missions in detail, including what craft and cosmonauts were on orbit at any particular moment .