... A really beautiful animation of Jupiter and two of its satellites sent to us by Carl O'Beirnes, J09 Balbriggan Observatory: . With Jupiter now starting to climb at our latitudes I set back up the C14 to take a few images. ... Thank you Carl! More to come from Jupiter this week: dark spot just appearing in the South hemisphere (Sunday 19th July), and Gallilean satellites o ccultations visible from Ireland starting Friday 24th July. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Fortran is a simple language . Fortran has always existed . Fortran compilers are generally available . Earlier the first programming language . ... Good at numerical analysis and technical calculations . ... A large number of programs and routines in Fortran are exchanged internationally . ... Fortran doesn't have reserved words, it has short identifiers, the identifiers do not have to be specified . ... Fortran programs are usually less well structured then Pascal programs . ...