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... Parents who home-school their children often find it hard to locate suitable material for teaching astronomy and physics, as well as earth and space sciences, especially at the level of upper grades. ... Stargazers" also includes a linked, annotated timeline that covers 13,000 B.C.-2003 A.D. which allows parent-teachers to relate the science to history. ... I am grateful to a homeschooling parent, Mrs. April Dykes, for volunteering to handle the distribution of such disks, at cost. ... April Dykes ....

... This past spring, as Comet Hyakutake decorated our evening skies, I received a telephone call from an upset parent. We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" The exasperated mother said they found binocular and naked-eye views to be better than those through the telescope. ... They may be bright overall, but all that light is coming from a big area of space. ... OK, you say, I found Comet Hale-Bopp this evening. ... Does the comet have a tail? ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... meteors impacting the Earth's upper . ... The Armagh Observatory is opening its doors on Monday 13th December for an evening of meteor observing to capture the Geminid meteor shower. ... They may be seen at any time during the period 7-17 December, appearing to come from a point in the sky known as the radiant, located near the two bright stars called the "twins", Castor and Pollux, in the constellation of Gemini. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Even more from Cassini . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 . ... MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula . ... M3: Inconstant Star Cluster . ... Hurtling through a cosmic dust cloud a mere 400 light-years away, the lovely Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster is well-known in astronomical images for its striking blue reflection nebulae. ... Better known as M106, bright spiral galaxy NGC 4258 is about 30 thousand light years across and 21 million light years away toward the northern constellation Canes Venatici. ... Aurora Over Alaska ....

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The Fire Ship As I stepped out one evening upon a night's career, I spied a lofty clipper ship and after her I steered. ... She had a dark and a rovin' eye, And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets. She was a nice girl, a (dacint) proper girl, But one of the rakish kind. ... I eyed that girl both up and down for I'd heard such talk before, And when she moored herself to me, I knew she was a whore. ... I fired off my cannon into her thatch of hair. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 July 29 . Orange Sun Simmering . ... The above image , taken in a single color of light called Hydrogen Alpha , records a great amount of detail of the simmering surface of our parent star . ... Two active areas of the Sun are marked by bright plages . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Star parties can be done with naked eye observing, or with telescopes, as long as your site is reasonably dark enough (or can be darkened). Star parties give students the opportunity to put their observational skills to work, and to directly experience astronomy. ... As mentioned earlier, star parties are also great opportunities to involve families, the school, and the community. ... Fun Star Party Ideas . ... Give students "ASTRO Boxes" containing activities or tasks to do during the star party. ...

... For a long time we've known that planets form and live around stars. ... When a star is born, any leftover gas and dust forms a disc around it, similar to Saturn's rings. Within this disc, small dust grains made of rock sometimes form. ... Now, for the first time ever astronomers have spotted solid grains in the gassy disc around a 'brown dwarf' an object that is neither a planet nor a star. ... Astronomers didn't expect to find these solid grains around brown dwarfs for a number of reasons. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualitГїs . des reportages . ... des pages consacrГїes Г la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communautГї avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiositГї. Accueil Г? la une On a retrouvГї les parents du SystГЕme solaire . ... Page 8 . ... En les Гїtudiant, les astronomes ont rГїcemment rГїussi Г dГїcrypter des informations capitales pour comprendre comment le SystГЕme solaire est apparu. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Women make up roughly half the population of the planet, yet they are vastly outnumbered by men in the sciences. ... When the commercials come on, I am appalled: girls are almost universally shown playing with dolls which are only used for makeup and clothes, while boys' toys are typically aggressive and violent. ... Here's the tie-in with astronomy: the boys' Pull-Ups have stars on them, while the girls' have flowers. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

. April 28, 1998 . Fig. 1. An example of the EUV chain revealed by the modified SOHO/EIT images. The SOHO/EIT (171 A) image of April 28, 1998 with a complex system of the chains forming an extensive oval structure 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 on the visible disk. Two (maybe even three) straight chains, located quasi-parallel to the solar equator between points 3 and 6, are also present. Back to the page of the SOHO/EIT and Yohkoh/SXT chains . Back to the parent page . Last update: 9 August 1998 .

Spring 2000 at Osborn Elementary School here in Ashland, Ohio. We had set up a display and a scope with a solar filter and talked to . 3 or 4 groups of kids and parents about astronomy. We even gave them a slide show! ... This is ONE of the displays we set up . ... We have a type 2 full aperture filter. Me attempting to show the sun to the kids (the trees were in the way). ...

Activities in December including (but not limited to) getting ready for Christmas, playing at parks, school Christmas pageants, etc. Rhiannon took part in a Christmas pageant at her school. More Christmas pageant. ... Even more Christmas pageant. ... Rhiannon is an angel in the pageant. Rhiannon and Gayathri as Christmas angels. Rhiannon makes Christmas cookies. More cookies, yum. ... Christmas morning continued. ... Ellen Howell <ehowell@naic.edu> Last modified: Fri Oct 12 2001 ...

Birthday in Canada . Parents of children up to around 13 or 14 make a bigger show of birthday celebrations here in Canada than do people of other ages. In fact they seem to try to outdo each other in terms of providing entertainment for the kids. ... They provide food and games for the kids to play. ... I spend my birthday either at home with my friends and family, or at a restaurant with friends and family. ... On this day we usually have Pizza, cake, junk food mostly. ... Alexandra . ...

... 26 љ void get_sun_helio_coordsv( double jd, double xyz[3], void *); . ... 28 љ void get_venus_helio_coordsv( double jd, double xyz[3], void *); . ... 37 љ void get_mercury_helio_osculating_coords( double jd0, double jd, double xyz[3]); . 38 љ void get_venus_helio_osculating_coords( double jd0, double jd, double xyz[3]); . 39 љ void get_earth_helio_osculating_coords( double jd0, double jd, double xyz[3]); . 40 љ void get_mars_helio_osculating_coords( double jd0, double jd, double xyz[3]); . ...

... Classes . ... Class Index . ... casa . casa::ISMIndex . ... Get the bucket number for the given row. void . ... It is used to add the bucket number at the correct place (such that the row numbers are kept in ascending order). void casa::ISMIndex::addRow . ... Read the bucket index from the AipsIO object. uInt casa::ISMIndex::getBucketNr . ... Also return the start row of the bucket and the number of rows in it. uInt casa::ISMIndex::getIndex . ... Block < uInt > casa::ISMIndex::rows_p [private] . ...

This document covers stopping and restarting Apache on Unix and Cygwin only. ... Then the parent itself exits. ... It re-reads its configuration files, and re-opens any log files. ... Note: If your configuration file has errors in it when you issue a restart then your parent will not restart, it will exit with an error. ... The USR1 signal causes the parent process to advise the children to exit after their current request (or to exit immediately if they're not serving anything). ...