... Islands in the Photosphere . ... Credit Copyright: Gunther Groenez Explanation: Awash in a sea of plasma and anchored in magnetic fields , sunspots are planet-sized, dark islands in the solar photosphere , the bright surface of the Sun. ... In this sketch from March 6th, astronomer Gunther Groenez has faithfully recorded the intriguing shapes and shades of major visible sunspot groups and labeled them according to their NOAA active region number . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - sunspot . ...

... 2003 October 25 . Islands in the Photosphere . Credit Copyright: Gunther Groenez . Explanation: Awash in a sea of plasma and anchored in magnetic fields , sunspots are planet-sized, dark islands in the solar photosphere , the bright surface of the Sun. Before the enlightened(!) age of cameras, solar observers created detailed drawings of sunspots as they changed and progressed across the visible solar disk. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

ATNF ATUC MEMORANDUM To: ATUC From: Bob Sault Date: 4 June 2005 Subject Narrabri operations report Duty astronomer system and remote observing Following on from the December ATUC meeting, the duty astronomer scheme use to help support the ATCA has been changed. ... ATUC also requested that the requirement that the requirement for remote overseas observers to perform duty astronomer duty be dropped. ... This is now in its final stages, with the new system being offered to "friendly observers". ...

... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...

... XMM-Newton SOC Home Page Conferences & Meetings . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? How to use SAS SAS Workshops SAS Version Changes Download and Install SAS Science Simulator (SciSim) . ... EPIC cameras optical loading . ... The PI is invited to cross-check the expected X-ray flux from the target source (and from any other potentially bright source in the target field of view), or to provide the SOC with her/his own estimate, if not originally specified in the proposal. ...

... As part of the initial data delivery, the observer receives a package of so-called paper products , which are intended to provide a quick look at the data in hard-copy form. ... The information is presented in three separate tables: Target List, Observation List, and Observation Statistics. ... First, they do not have the visit-level summary of observations; some of the information is available via the tape log, but without any data quality flags or image statistics. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

... Class . ... PREV CLASS NEXT CLASS . FRAMES NO FRAMES All Classes . ... FIELD | ... METHOD . DETAIL: FIELD | ... public interface IJEventListener . ... Field Summary . static int . ... Field Detail static final int FOREGROUND_COLOR_CHANGED . ... Constant Field Values . static final int BACKGROUND_COLOR_CHANGED . ... static final int COLOR_PICKER_CLOSED . ... static final int LOG_WINDOW_CLOSED . ... static final int TOOL_CHANGED . ... Method Detail void eventOccurred (int eventID) . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Public Slots | ... ShortcutsDialog Class Reference . voidљ . ... restore colors of all items it TreeWidget to defaults. ... prefixMatchKeySequence (const QKeySequence &ks1, const QKeySequence &ks2) . ... called when apply button clicked. virtual void ShortcutsDialog::createDialogContent . ... called when editors' state changed. void ShortcutsDialog::initEditors . ... checks whether one QKeySequence is prefix of another. void ShortcutsDialog::resetCollisions . ...

We model the spectral chanages of late oxygen-rich Miras observed in different pulsation phases. From a combination of variable near-IR spectra and UKIRT spectrophotometry of the 9.7 \mu m silicate dust emission feature in different phases we study the influence of the changing atmospherical circumstances on the conditions in the circumstellar dust shell. ... A comparision with the modelling results for another long period Mira U Ori is also provided. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Imaging Basics . ... Latest Rosetta image reveals terrific detail of comet's surface . ... RELATED TOPICS: ROSETTA | ... The latest narrow angle camera (NAC) view from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission continues to reveal more details regarding Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's surface. ... For regular image updates from Rosetta, visit its ESA image page and the Rosetta blog . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Tech Meet 12 . ... Page History | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Return to Tech Meet 12 ( Edit ) . ... October 28, 2010, at 05:31 PM by jsy1001 - . ... The upper diagram shows the FLC software tasks and dataflows as presented at the CoDR. The lower diagram includes changes discussed at this meeting, some of which are for our component and integrated tests. ... ISS Data Collector probably not suitable as LocalDataCollector and unlikely to be ready in time . ...

... In principle, two observers on the ground can tell, by comparing the position of the same auroral arc against the background stars. ... The display stretches across Canada; just below it, in the middle of the picture, are the lights of Chicago, next to Lake Michigan. ... The Canadian scientific satellite Isis-2 (1971) carried an auroral imaging camera and discovered the diffuse aurora, a broad ribbon around the auroral oval, too spread-out to be noticed from the ground. ... Auroral Acceleration . ...

If you have questions, need help, want to point out errors in this page, suggest improvements or give constructive criticisms regarding the observing system and this website, call Paulo Freire . Why CIMA? ... CIMA has become the default observing mode for pulsar observations at the Arecibo Observatory . ... The 4 Wideband Arecibo Pulsar Processors (WAPPs) have become the default back-ends for pulsar observations at the Arecibo Observatory. ... CIMA / WAPP observing page now available. ...

This document describes changes that will affect users who migrate from XPA 1.0 to XPA 2.0. There have been a few changes that affect users who upgrade XPA from version 1.0 to version 2.0. ... For the SAOtng program, this means that you must explicitly specify the access point, i.e.,: cat foo.fits | xpaset SAOtng fits . ... xpaset SAOtng . By default, xpaset, xpaget, etc. now wait for the server callback to complete; i.e., the old -W is implied (and the switch is ignored). ...

CONTINUUM AND BROAD EMISSION LINE VARIABILITY OF SEYFERT GALAXIES V.T. Doroshenko1,2 , S.G. Sergeev2 , V.I. Pronik 1 2 Crimean Lab. of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia 2 Scientific-Research Institute, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Ukraine; p/o Nauchny, 98409, Crimea, Ukraine vdorosh@sai.crimea.ua We fo cused on the observed prop erties of some Seyfert galaxies without detailed discussion of underlying physical mechanisms. ...

ASTRONOMY . ASTRONOMY is a science, which studies solids and occurrences in the sky. ... They built the picture of the world according to their knowledge. With the course of time the world picture was being changed because there appeared new facts and information and new theories on the celestial occurrences and what is more impotant there appeared an opportunity to check up the correctness of ideas through the observation and measuring using the new achievements of the sciences. ...

Next: Mission Element Points-of-Contact . Previous: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... Each mission element should ensure that their contact information remains current and notify the RSOG of any changes. ... Non-RSOG mission elements will also use the "dit" list to notify the RSOG (and all other mission elements) of unexpected events that may impact operations elsewhere, e.g., if a tracking station discovers that the spacecraft is in an unexpected configuration. ...