Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... First officially discovered in 1786, Comet Encke is on its 59 th documented return, making it one of the best-studied comets on the sky. Mysteriously, Comet Encke should have been discovered millennia earlier, since it likely became bright enough to see unaided many times over the past few thousand years. ... Recent observations place Comet Encke as bright as visual magnitude six during early December, making it just on the verge of unaided human vision . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2003 December 23 . Comet Encke Returns . ... Explanation: It's back. Every 3.3 years, Comet Encke swoops back into our inner Solar System . First officially discovered in 1786, Comet Encke is on its 59 th documented return, making it one of the best-studied comets on the sky. Mysteriously, Comet Encke should have been discovered millennia earlier, since it likely became bright enough to see unaided many times over the past few thousand years. ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Although the comet itself never comes dangerously close to the Earth, the particles of dust that it has shed during its many past passages through perihelion found their way into the Earth's atmosphere, appearing as meteors in the cold December sky. ... Animation 1 . ... An Ursid meteor captured by the Armagh Observatory's NE-facing meteor camera in the early morning of 23rd December. ... Meteor Showers Online . ...

... Jupiter without its Southern Equatorial Belt . The Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) started to fade during the latter part of 2009 and completely disappeared around May of 2010. It is believed that bright ammonia clouds obscure the dark belt at irregular intervals. The SEB previously vanished in 2007. The belt returned around November 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... April . ... By admin March 16, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... Stargazing the Night Sky is a short and very informal course is for complete beginners who want to know more about the wonders of the cosmos. ... If you want to experience the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Copyright Armagh Planetarium 2014 All Rights Reserved. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... The webpages on this and other sites give lots of details, but I thought it might help if I made a brief synopsis of the arguments I and others make to debunk this pseudoscientific silliness. ... The Sun is not acting in any way abnormally. There are not more earthquakes than normal. ... This is exactly the same sort of bad logic used in the earthquake argument, and is just as wrong. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... public class WindowManager . ... This class consists of static methods used to manage ImageJ's windows. ... static void . ... Adds the specified window to the Window menu. static boolean . ... Returns a reference to the active image or null if there isn't one. static ImageWindow . ... Makes the image contained in the specified window the active image. static void . ... Returns the first image that has the specified title or null if it is not found. public static void addWindow (java.awt.Frame win) ....

вычислитель, использующий классический рекурсивный подход: typedef enum { NUM, ID, OP, OPEN, CLOSE, UNKNOWN, COMMA, SMC } TokenType; char *toknames[] = { number , identifier , operation , open_paren , close_paren , unknown , comma , semicolon }; typedef struct _ Token { char * token ; /* лексема (слово) */ struct _ Token *next; /* ссылка на следующую */ TokenType ... 2) ERR("min: wrong argument count", 0); return (args[0] < args[1] ? ... Си в UNIX . ...

... The proper procedure to set up the wind baffle and enclosure to be powered by the emergency generator in the event that both commercial and site emergency generator power is lost. ... The enclosure should be open with telescope in an un-stowed position. ... Wind baffle (WB) control power switch ; Location : ?; ... Enclosure power switch box ; Location : ?; ... Change the WB manual pendent connector in WB control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed...

... Россия тоже готовится к операции Deep Impact . ... Комета Tempel 1 демонстрирует свой горячий нрав . ... Deep Impact разглядел кометное ядро . ... На снимках, полученных с борта автоматического зонда Deep Impact, сопровождающего комету Tempel 1, четко различимо твердое ядро, окруженное комой ? ... 12 января, как и было обещано NASA, с Мыса Канаверал стартовала ракета-носитель Delta II, начав 6-месячное путешествие к комете Tempel I. Миссия Deep Impact успешно началась.. ... Все ключевые слова . ...

... I finished making the changes to the online iraf help pages, committed the changes to subversion, and checked them out on the website. ... After that I returned to converting code to run under Python3. I finished and committed the changes to stwcs and I am working on pydrizzle. ... I finished converting calcos, but I am having a problem importing stsci.convolve when running under python 3. ... I finished converting the code to run under python 2 and 3. ... Archive for 2015 . ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 . ... COMETS | ... Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a close approach to Mars in October 2014. ... During the close Mars approach, the comet likely will achieve a total visual magnitude of 0 or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... casa::CompositeNumber . ... This class generates composite numbers. ... CompositeNumber (const uInt maxval=8192) . constructor: Note: if you later make a call with value > maxval, we will recalculate the list of composite numbers . ... nextLarger (const uInt value) . ... nextSmaller (const uInt value) . ... This class generates a list of composite numbers made up of powers of 2, 3, and 5, which are less than some max value and returns the smallest composite number greater than some number given. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

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... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Новый экипаж МКС - Салижан Шарипов и Лерой Чиао сфотографируют из космоса слово "Мир", которое выложат на снегу из 10 тысяч воздушных шаров участники российской экспедиции в Антарктиде. ... Из 10 тысяч воздушных шаров на снегу будет выложено слово "Мир", его сфотографируют с орбиты члены десятого экипажа МКС - договоренность об этом имеется", - рассказал он. ... Новый экипаж МКС сфотографирует из космоса слово "Мир", выложенное в Антарктиде из 10 тысяч воздушных шаров . ...