Astronomy Picture of the Day . Charon: Moon of Pluto . ... 2.10.2015 . ... APL , Southwest Research Institute Explanation: A darkened and mysterious north polar region informally known as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution portrait of Charon, Pluto's largest moon . ... In fact, Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across, about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself . ... Publications with keywords: Charon . ... Mysterious Pluto and Charon . ...

... March 24, 1996 . Comet Hyakutake's Closest Approach . ... Explanation: The above true color image of Comet Hyakutake was taken the night of March 21/22. Tonight, Comet Hyakutake will make its nearest approach to Earth, closing to a mere 10 million miles as it passes over the planet's Northern Hemisphere . ... For the rest of March and most of April Comet Hyakutake will be visible to Northern viewers (weather permitting). ... Comet Hyakutake Finder Chart . ... About APOD | ...

... Figure 8: Can you detect the motion of the near-Earth asteroid 2000PH against the background stars during its close approach to Earth around 27 July 2004? ... Down) observed and imaged the unusual near-Earth asteroid 2000PH during its close approach to the Earth around 27 July 2004. The observations were carried out remotely using the new 2m aperture Faulkes telescope situated on the 10,000-foot summit of Haleakala, on the island of Maui in Hawaii. ...

. Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia . Apparent Close Approaches of Near-Earth Asteroids to the Stars for April 2016 . By these observations it is possible to obtain the positions of asteroids with higher accuracy. This page includes the ephemerides of such phenomena for some observatories, namely: . Pulkovo . CrAO . Kourovskaya . Majdanak . Pulkovo Obs. Mountain Station . Mondy .

. NASA's New Horizons captured Pluto on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraftтАЩs closest approach to Pluto. The color image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument that was acquired earlier during the day. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

... September 9, 1999 . Comet Hale-Bopp Over the Superstition Mountains . ... Explanation: Four years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered out near Jupiter falling toward the inner Solar System . ... Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed in 1997 behind the Superstition Mountains in Arizona . Clearly visible are the comets white dust tail that shines by reflected sunlight, and the blue ion tail that shines by glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Al Takeda on 03/29/2012 13:07:33 . Mars after the 2012 Closest Approach . This image of Mars was taken 16 days after the March 5th closest approach to the Earth using the ATMoB’s 6-inch, f/15 Schupmann telescope. ... Telescope assistance was provided by John Blomquist. ... Ed Knight Observatory, ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 21 March 2012. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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...

Define region . ... Area/perimeter . Define a region of interest on a graph or graphs. Select the region, there are 5. ... Inside polygon . Points inside a closed, non-intersecting polygon are considered inside the region. ... In the polygonal region type, define the region by successive clicks with the left mouse button, use the right mouse button to register the polygon. ... Select the region to use. ... Click on Area or Perimeter and use the mouse to define the region. ...

This service is intended as an aid to visually observing close-approaching asteroids. ... By clicking on the column headers for "Object Name", "Maximum Brightness", and "Maximum Angular Speed", you can sort the list by those fields. ... When This is the predicted time when the asteroid will be closest to the Earth. ... This field shows red if an asteroid comes as close as the moon. ... PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) This does NOT mean that this is going to hit the Earth. ...

Proposal Identification No.: R2225 Date Received: 2006-Apr-18 18:23:13 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Urgent Planetary Radar Solar System 6.0 Hours Urgent Proposal for Arecibo Radar Imaging of near-Earth Asteroid 2006 GY2 We propose radar imaging of recently-discovered near-Earth asteroid 2006 GY2 during its close approach within 0.017 AU on 2006 May 15-16. ... Part of the observing run. ...

Photograph quality The photographs must be: I no more than 6-months old 35­40mm in width close up of your head and top of your shoulders so that your face takes up 70­80% of the photograph in sharp focus and clear of high quality with no ink marks or creases too close too far away I I I I blurred ink marked/creased I The photographs must: show you looking directly at the camera ...

... Gallery . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: Tree Clearing . Description: Burnt pine trees in the "working" area of the observatory were cut and reduced to woodchip in August and September 2003. Trees on the rest of the ANU block took 6 months longer to clear. ... The windrows were burnt up to two years later. ... Views: 2519 . ... Views: 2335 . ... Views: 2363 . ... Views: 2384 . ... Views: 2264 . ... Views: 2287 . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

Vega Stamps . International project VEGA was managed by Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 spacecraft were developed by Babakin Space Center and fabricated by Lavochkin Association in Khimki, Moscow region. ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 have been the part of the international fleet to Halley's comet, that also included Giotto mission of European Space Agency (ESA) and Sakigake and Suisei by Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan. ... Vega 1 . ...

ChangeLog for srcmatch =============================== Version 3.15.1 - 2004-03-16 (GL) --------------------------------- Correction to documentation Version 3.15 - 2003-07-01 (GL) --------------------------------- Closed SPR: SSC-SPR-3107 (Incorrect flux units in merged source list) Version 3.14 - 2003-02-24 (GL) --------------------------------- Close SSC-SPR-3033: Copy ID colums and "TOT" columns also for single band input lists. ... Close SSC-SPR-3084: Included flag columns in copylist routine. ...

These Dreams - Heart Spare a little candle Save some light for me Figures up ahead Moving in the trees White skin in linen Perfume on my wrist And the full moon that hangs over These dreams in the mist Darkness on the edge Shadows where I stand I search for the time On a watch with no hands I want to see you clearly Come closer than this But all I remember Are the dreams in the mist These dreams go on when I close my eyes Every second of the night I live ...