... Nel 1874 partecip alla spedizione italiana diretta da P. Tacchini in Bengala (Muddapur) per osservare il passaggio di Venere sul disco solare ed effettu osservazioni spettroscopiche e meteorologiche. ... La sua cultura tecnica e la sua capacit di osservatore furono determinanti quando, nel gennaio del 1894, assunse la direzione dell'Osservatorio di Arcetri dopo aver vinto il posto di professore ordinario di astronomia nel R. Istituto di Studi Superiori di Firenze. ... Astrofisico di Arcetri ”, fasc....

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Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

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... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... This image is a single frame of a GREAT animation made of several images of Jupiter and its moons by Antonio Cidadao. You can actually watch the moons orbit Jupiter! ... So it surprises me that no ancient texts describe the moons of Jupiter. ... If Jupiter were painted black, the four moons would be pretty easily seen with the naked eye from a dark site. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM-CCF-REL-136 OM Flux conversion factors Bing Chen December 10, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS ag OM COLORTRANS 0008 2000-01-01T00:00:00 COLORMAG No 2 Changes Flux conversion factors for U, B, V, UVW1, UVM2 and UVW2 lters are added in the keyword in the colormag extension. These ux conversion factors help users to get a rough estimation of ux (expressed in erg=cm 2 =s=A) from countrates directly. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... To view Postscript Format files you must have access to Ghostview or another suitable viewer. To view PDF files you will need Acrobat Reader or another suitable viewer. ... A 403, 731 (2003) . Full Paper - Postscript . Full Paper - PDF . ... 389 The North-South Asymmetry of Soft X-Ray Solar Flares . ... Full Paper - HTML . ... Davis C.J., Smith M.D., Stern L., Kerr T.H., Chiar J. MNRAS, 344, 262, 2003 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Well let me tell you the link?. there is a dwarf planet out there in our Solar System which could claim to have a similarity to rugby. That dwarf planet is Haumea which is in the shape of an ellipsoid (oval like a rugby ball). ... Haumea (pronounced how-MAY-ah) is the fifth dwarf planet coming after Pluto, Eris, Ceres and Makemake. ... Named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth Haumea had quite a controversial discovery. ...

... Astronomical Definition: self-replicating information . ... Climate Changes . Milloins of years timescale . ... Mass Extinctions in Geological History: . 500 million years ago (unclear) . ... Evidence from Fossil Record: 100-150 million year extinction periodicity ?? ... Climate Cycle ? ... Since the orbital period of the Sun around the center of the Galaxy is about 250 million years then every 100-150 million years the earth is in a spiral arm which is a region of high supernova density. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer . ... Mark Trueblood was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1948. ... It was Andy, with the encouragement of Irv Winer, who got Mark interested in telescope building and astronomy again. ... Society for Astronomical Sciences (Robert Crawford lead author) . ... Trueblood, Mark, "The Space Telescope Payload Operations Control Center" in Genet and Genet, eds., Microcomputers in Astronomy - II, Fairborn Observatory (Fairborn: 1984), 11. ...