Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 16.07.2003 . ... Credit: Solar System Simulator , JPL , NASA Explanation: When earthdweller Patrick Vantuyne wondered what his home planet's single large moon would look like if viewed from Mars on July 17, he availed himself of the JPL Solar System Simulator . ... Vantuyne's efforts were rewarded with this remarkable simulated view of of the crescent Moon against the background of a darkened Earth. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - occultation - simulation . ...

... For many years, all email related to a given HST observing program has been stored in that program's "history" file on SOGS. ... Nevertheless, we continued to store HST observing program emails in text files. ... Beginning on December 19, 2011, Exchange Public Folders will be used to store all future HST observing program related email. ... One folder per HST observing program . ... Exchange public folders are visible only to Outlook and Outlook Web Application (OWA) and not to other mail clients. ...

... January 4, 1997 . A Star Where Photons Orbit . ... Explanation : The above computer animated picture depicts how a very compact star would look to a nearby observer. ... From here one can either look down and see several duplicate images of the entire surface of the star, look up and see several duplicate images of the entire night sky, or look along the photon sphere and see the back of one's own head. Tomorrow's picture: Too Close to a Black Hole . ... About APOD > . ...

In 2007-2008, the planet Uranus will reach one of its annual equinoxes for the first time since 1966. As a consequence, its five major satellites orbiting in the equatorial plane will undergo a season of mutual eclipses and occultations very similar to the one that Jupiter's Galilean satellites undergo every 6 years. ... Some of these events occur when Uranus is at conjunction, or the satellite is transiting or too close to the limb of the planet. ... Complete table of events . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Parkes projects/positions database . ... R.J. Sault, G.J. Carrad, P.J. Hall, J. Crofts, 2000, ``Radio path length correction using water vapourradiometry'' submitted to Proceedings of WARS 2000 . Bob Sault, Peter Hall, Graeme Carrad, 1999 "Atmospheric phase correction for the ATCA" , presented at URSI 1999 (Toronto, Canada). ...

Lectures . ... 100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ ? ... Michael Way, astronomer/computer scientist at NASAтАЩs Ames Research Center and its Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will give the first lecture of the AAAтАЩs 2009-10 lecture series Friday, October 2 when he discusses тАЬ100 Years of Cosmology: From Spiral Nebulae to the Cosmic Microwave Background.тАЭ The free public lecture is at 6:15 p. m. at the Kaufmann Theater of the AMNH. by . ...

Next: AXAF Recipes Up: ROSAT HRI Recipes Previous: Quantum Efficiency Correction (a.k.a. For some observations, a significant amount of data may have been rejected during SASS processing because the background level was higher than the calculated threshold for rejection. ... REJECTED EVENTS . ... The recipe will allow the user to include rejected events in the generation of a new qpoe file and filter on the background level. ... This creates a qpoe file with standard + rejected events. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How do light pollution filters work? Do they actually help? ... Light pollution reduction (LPR) filters work because many outdoor lighting sources do not shine evenly across the visible spectrum. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Next: Galactic Gravitational Wave Background Previous: Structure of the Galaxy . We will call ``transparency'' of the background the ability of the observer to detect a gravitational wave signal other than that produced by binary systems, by means of adjusting variable parameters of an imaginary GW detector (namely, its angular resolution and frequency band), so that less than one occasional binary system falls into the detector's beam at a given frequency in a given direction. ...

Start CIMA from the right-mouse-button menu on the Observer machine. ... This window will now vanish. Next go to the CIMA main menu window, seen on the left of the screenshot above.Before starting observing, it is a good idea to restart the WAPPs (the spectrometers used by AGES). ... From the main menu, select Command File Observing to bring up the Command file observing window (below). ... Hit the Run button at the bottom of the command file observing window to run the file. ...

... Либо, напротив, увеличено, если есть хороший объект наблюдения. ... если программа наблюдения говорит, что файл эфемерид не найден (написано ephem is not внизу экрана слева), перегрузить программу. если файл опять не найден, проверить , какое имя файла эфемерид задано в файле zadanie, и существует ли такой файл . если программа говорит, что нет эфемерид для данного наблюдения , проверить , существует ли строка с эфемеридами для данной даты в файле эфемерид . если подошло ...

... The scheduling routines assist in creating an observing list (stored in the startable) from scratch or from another list stored on disk, and computing the visibility of the stars in a specific night and array configuration. The date of observation is taken from the variable date , and the array name from the variable systemid . If these are not defined, defaults are used for date (the next night) and for array (NPOI). ... addstar , stars _char Add one or more stars to the startable. ...

... Running Rings Around a Planet . ... Saturn's delicate rings have caught human eyes for over three centuries. ... Now we know, thanks to the Voyager space probes, that Saturn's rings consist of thousands of "ringlets," each made of chunks of ice ranging in size from dust to boulders [see "Rally Around the Ring," March/April 1995, p. 10]. ... The appearance of Saturn's rings to us ground-hugging Terrans is changing constantly. ... Saturn's diameter is 120,000 kilometers, so how large are the rings? ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . A group who goes out in rural areas to observe mainly using PA gameland parking lots. ... They are an E-mail/telephone alerting service for observing. ... Erie, PA 16509 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Site User's Guide (revised January 2015) . General Observing Information . ... An area map is available, as well as detailed directions from regional airports. ... APO does not recommend using GPS for directions to the site; please use the written directions below. ... APO/SDSS/NMSU Purchasing, Travel, Receiving, and Shipping Procedures . APO Site Safety Plan, V2.31 (current); APO Sprinkler and Shutter Procedures (pdf) . ... Roads to APO are all paved but are subject to heavy snow and ice. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Космический корабль, который работает на солнечной энергии, вскоре может начать свой полет по Солнечной системе. Группа американских и российских ученых готовится запустить зонд с гигантскими пластиковыми "парусами", которые могут ловить солнечный свет подобно тому, как паруса яхт ловят ветер, пишет The Observer (перевод на сайте Inopressa.ru). ... The Observer: российские и американские ученые создали космическую яхту с парусами из солнечных батарей . ...

... Your main research interests concern neutral hydrogen. ... That means that there must be enormous quantities of gas lying around, waiting for the chance to collapse under its own weight into lumps and form stars and galaxies. If we could actually observe this gas, as it moves around and assembles itself into lumps, we would be directly observing the process of galaxy formation. ... Optical astronomers seem to think that they can observe galaxy formation by taking optical images. ... In galaxies. ...

... Un Satellite GOES . Il s'agit des satellites m?t?o, qui surveillent le temps, comme ceux de l' "administration am?ricaine Oc?anique et Atmosph?rique Nationale " (NOAA) :c' est la s?rie GOES (l'un d'eux sur le dessin de droite) Ils sont en orbite synchrone, observant toujours le m?me secteur, bien que la Terre tourne. ? cette classe appartiennent aussi "les satellites espions" qui observent la terre depuis des orbites circulaires basses. ... des clients commerciaux. ...

... On some space shuttle missions, there are opportunities for observers in the continental United States and Hawaii to see the orbiter fly overhead. ... The second item is a Space Shuttle Mission Chart, which is a Mercator projection map of the world with the orbiter's orbits superimposed on Earth's surface. ... Shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which is at a latitude of 28.5њ north. ... NASA Johnson Space Center . ... You will see that Shuttle orbits just graze the globe...