... Uranus's Moon Oberon: Impact World . ... Uranus's Moon Umbriel: A Mysterious Dark World . ... This dark moon reflects only half the light of other Uranus' moons such as Ariel. ... Tonight's full moon would normally washout the spectacle of Comet Hyakutake's lovely tail, even for those far from light polluted skies. ... As the Sun floods Comet Hyakutake with ultraviolet light gases in the coma scatter the radiation and fluoresce making the comet a bright source in the ultraviolet sky. ...

... 2010 October 26 . Comet Hartley Passes a Double Star Cluster . ... Explanation: Most star clusters are singularly impressive. ... Also known as "h and chi Persei", this unusual double cluster , shown above, is bright enough to be seen from a dark location without even binoculars . ... Captured earlier this month, the bright comet 103P/Hartley , informally called Comet Hartley 2, passed well in front but only a few degrees away from the famous double cluster. ... About APOD | ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

The computed band passes. ... The interim correlator input is filtered by 8 analog filters (50 Mhz wide at the 260 Mhz IF... one for each sub correlator). ... For bandwidths of 25 Mhz and below the real data stream is digitally down converted to complex samples I, Q streams. ... The Top figure is the halfband filter bandpass computed from the filter coefficients. ... The computed filter has aliased power, extra IQ filtering, and two applications of the filter on the resulting real bandpass. ...

... JWST Overview . ... On March 23, 2007, the Non-Advocate Review Team (NRT) submitted a short memorandum to NASA Headquarters stating that the Technology Non-Advocate Review (T-NAR) held on January 30-February 1 had successfully met its objectives. ... The NRT's report agreed with the Project's readiness assessments for the nine successful technologies listed above and stated that "an [new] approach was identified and actions were taken to bring the MIRI cryocooler technology to TRL-6 maturity. ...

ALBUM: Oil And Gold @SONG: This Big Hush Is there a fire in the sky is there a moon up there Is there anything alive now this darkness is what I hear This is a breathless silence a moment out of time I see your face in the shadows the tell tale signs are in your eyes More than I can hold in my hands running through the cracks like water Aching with a passion inside as deep as the river [ ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

... It is dark. ... Even without the structures' intense glare, your eyes take a moment to adjust to the vast scatterings of stars dazzling as diamonds on a sea of black velvet. ... A waiter you hadn't noticed puts a menu on the table. ... Oui," the waiter responds, "It is the stellar wind. ... You should be able to see them all in another moment -- the big one first and then the others. ... A second later a gap appears and, just as the waiter predicted, you see a brilliant blue white star. ...

... PLE: Just another reminder about the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 14 - 15. ... The moon passes completely inside the penumbra, or 'partial shadow', of the Earth, but no part of it actually enters the umbra, which would give a partial eclipse. ... 22 March, 7.30 p.m., Lecture Room 5, Stranmillis College, Belfast: IAA Public Lecture, "The Solar Wind: from Explosions on the Sun to Us", by the redoubtable Dr Miruna Popescu of Armagh Observatory (Doctorate just awarded - congratulations!) ...

To pass several arguments from the command line to the shell: cat first_5args # This script echoes the first five arguments # supplied to the script echo The first five command line echo arguments are $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 first_5args mines a pint john o.k. The first five command line arguments are mines a pint john o.k. This passes the arguments represented by parameters $1 through $5 to the shell script. ... This processes the three files given as arguments to the command printps . ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > MOONS passes its Preliminary Design Review . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... The Multi-Object Optical and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (MOONS), has officially passed the major milestone of Preliminary Design Review (PDR). ...

Next: READBACK TESTS Up: Tape Management Previous: TAPE LENGTHS and PASS Contents . ... The Mark III and VLBA systems make longitudinal recordings using many heads, all mounted on a head stack. ... Modes with 2 heads are MarkIV only. ... Bit rate: 64 Mbps 128 Mbps 256 Mbps 17600 All/High 20:32:00 10:16:00 5:08:00 17600 VLBA/Low 12:19:12 6:09:36 3:04:48 17600 Mark III/IV/Low 12:09:52 6:04:56 3:02:28 8800 VLBA/Low 6:09:36 3:04:48 1:32:24 8800 Mark III/IV/Low 6:04:56 3:02:28 1:31:14 2 Pass/head pos. ...

... The most important tool you have to see the universe is not the large light buckets that are proliferating, but rather your eyes. ... Light enters the eye through the cornea, passes across the aqueous humor (the liquid behind the cornea), passes through the pupil and through the lens. ... After passing the lens, the light then crosses the "vitreous Humor" a jelly-like substance that fills the inner eye, and reaches the retina, the light sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Le monde entier regarde V†йnus passer devant le Soleil . ... Hier soir, †а New York, les curieux scrutaient le ciel dans l'espoir qu'une †йclaircie leur laisse entrevoir V†йnus devant le Soleil. ... Transit et Soleil de minuit . ...

Princeton and New York University researchers have simulated the effect of a primordial black hole passing through a star. Primordial black holes are among the objects hypothesized to make up dark matter тАФ the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe тАФ and astronomers could use the researchers' model to finally observe the elusive black holes. ... The different colors correspond to the density of the primordial black hole and strength of the vibration. ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The order in which libraries to link to are passed to the linker is important . ... Many libraries use the GNU Autoconf/Automake build toolchain. ... Run the ./configure script, which looks for the various programs and libraries that the package needs . ... The simplest way is to run ./configure and make note of any complaints about missing programs or libraries that it reports. ... Some notes on the GNU toolchain . ... Passing options to configure . ...

... 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. ...