... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bulletin Board . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... On board are seven astronauts that will perform the second Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. ... Also on board Discovery is a new data recorder, which will allow much more data to be taken at the same time on HST, as well as a new Fine Guidance Sensor, which helps the telescope track on its targets. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Bernie Volz on 11/23/2014 14:07:24 . ... Sadly, we didn't get the full tour because they were starting the tour with the telescope afternoon test and found that it was not working properly, so telescope operator had to address the issues for that evening's observing. Our National Park Service guide provided lots of good information about the telescope. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... The NASA Integrated Services Network's mission is to provide a computer communications network designed to support NASA Science flight mission, discipline research programs, and collaborating scientists' affiliate research institutes. ... Use of the NASA Integrated Services Network to support NASA research, related training, and associated technical activities at non-profit institutions of research and education is acceptable. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... One of the Hubble Space TelescopeтАЩs goals was to accurately observe Cepheids in the most distant galaxies known (we knew they were far away, the problem was saying just how far). ... This work is becoming ever more refined; in January this year astronomers revealed that they had identified the farthest galaxy yet seen in a Hubble image. ... Thanks to the Hubble Space TelescopeтАЩs superb observations we can say that the universe is 13.75 billion years old. ...

... База данных . ... Любителям астрономии . Сличения стандартов времени и частоты . ГЛОНАСС (ГЛОбальная НАвигационная Система Спутников, Россия) и GPS ]. Наблюдения Всемирного времени (UT0 - UTC) при помощи . ... Наблюдения широты при помощи . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

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Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...

announces . seminars & conferences . Zelmanov' seminar . scientific & engineering staff . students & postgraduates . useful links . projects . articles . catalogs & databases . algorithms & programming . 1 mas (отчет о первой астрометрической школе) . Труды ГАИШ . history of Moscow astronomical observatory . photo gallery . miscellaneous . Some pages are now in Russian only. editor valera , . librarian gribko .

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

... After the 2nd World War, the Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) made two groups in Moscow responsible for catalogues of variable stars. ... Presently, the variable-star catalogue groups still exist within the Sternberg Astronomical Institute and the Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Elena Kazarovets (variable stars in open clusters, Peremennye Zvezdy journal, GCVS) . ... Nataliya N. Kireeva (variable stars, globular clusters, GCVS) . ...

... Specialists from the TESIS Control Centre, at the FIAN Laboratory of Solar X-ray Astronomy, have succeeded in fixing a malfunction in one of the observatory's central telescopes, which occurred in the second half of May. ... The main version of events pointed to a malfunction in the drive mechanism's reducer, which is responsible for the rotational power from the main shaft of the motor to its output shaft, which is connected to the shutter. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ...

... Миска с силиконовой подставкой 24 см, сталь, WMF Миска для смешивания с силиконовой подставкой для предотвращения скольжения. ... Сделана из нержавеющей стали. ... Чаши и миски . ... Мини-конструктор "Басс-гитара" - увлекательнейший способ времяпрепровождения и уникальная возможность собрать целую коллекцию музыкальных нано-инструментов. ... Конструктор nanoBlock - самый маленький в мире конструктор, крайне необычный, как все японское. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ... Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... The seasons, the seeing ( a clear sky is not always associated to calm , stable air ) and most important how dark your observation site is. ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

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Weather . Please Report any broken links or additions to: webmaster@wro.org . Global Hydrology and Climate Center . ... METEOSAT Weather Satellite Images from the University of Nottingham . ... Snap Weather Center . U.S. National Weather Service . NWS Internet Weather Source . Yahoo Weather . Global Weather Forcast . ... The Weather Lab . Washington Post weather in the world . ... NOAA - National Weather Service Home Page . CNN's Weather . ... The Weather Channel . ...

History of Seattle / New Year Predictions and Thoughts . ... Over six thousand people were unemployed, nearly half were service men returning from the First World War. ... One of the most exciting historical events in Seattle from 1930-1940 . ... This 3,387 ft. long bridge was the largest floating structure ever built by people. 40's The major breakthrough in Seattle's history between 1940-1950 was the Boeing Company. ... In the year 2000, I don't think too much will happen. ...