Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 18.08.1995 . ... Credit: NASA , Hubble Space Telescope , R. Albrecht ( ESA/ESO ) Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope imaged Pluto and its moon Charon in 1994. Pluto is usually the most distant planet from the Sun but because of its elliptic orbit Pluto crossed inside of Neptune 's orbit in 1979 and will cross back out again in 1999. Compared to the other planets, very little is known about Pluto. ... August . ... Publications with keywords: Pluto . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 13, 1999 . Pluto: The Frozen Planet . Credit: R. Albrecht ( ESA /ESO), NASA . ... Pluto is usually the most distant planet from the Sun but because of its eccentric orbit Pluto crossed inside of Neptune's orbit in 1979. On Thursday, February 11th, it crossed back out, recovering its status as the most distant of nine planets . ...

... If ephver 2 is in the parameter file then the tempo1 emulation mode is automatically used. Ephver 5 has been introduced and will be included in all tempo2 ephemeris files . Many other changes and bug-fixes to correspond with the tempo2 publications More small changes prior to acceptance of the first tempo2 paper for publication More small changes prior to submitting the first tempo2 paper for publication. ... Numerous changes mainly for the coding. ... Tropospheric delay modelling . ...

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... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Sadly C/ 2014 Q2 will probably not be as spectacular a sight as Comet C/ 2011 W3 (Lovejoy), visible near Earth?s horizon in this nighttime image from the International Space Station on 22 December 2011. ... The comet made its closest approach to Earth on 7€а January 2015, at a distance of 72 million km (45 million miles).€а In January the comet will race though the constellations Eridanus, Taurus, Aries and Triangulum. ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Auroral Probe Instrument List . Tail Probe Instrument List . ... MAGION-5 Operation on Orbit . ... Organizational Diagram of Data Processing in the INTERBALL Project . INTERBALL Data at IKI Solar-Terrestrial Data Archive . ... Attitude . Auxiliary Data . ... Attitude data files . ... Orbit data files . ... Magion-4 Sessions List (1995-1997) We provide authorized access to the instrument data. ... Interball publications list 1995-2001 ( PDF ) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

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... 13, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation, e-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru; 2 Research Institute Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea 334413, Ukraine, e-mail: prok@crao.crimea.ua Summary: We propose a combined method of astronomical investigations of small or distant planets incorporating registration of a set of integral spectra of an object and their frequency analysis. ... An application of the method is shown on example of asteroid 21 Lutetia. ... 6] Busarev V. V. (2002), Solar Sys. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 13 . Southwest Mercury . Credit: Mariner 10 , NASA . Explanation: The planet Mercury resembles a moon. ... In fact, the Earth is the only planet more dense. ... From Earth , Mercury's proximity to the Sun cause it to be visible only for a short time just after sunset or just before sunrise. ... About APOD | ...

... Visibility of Small Solar-System Bodies . Asteroids) in 2009 : . ... Distance (AU) . ... Jan. 12, 2009 . ... 8.8 m . ... is at opposition on July 4, 2009 . ... Apparent . ... from Sun (AU) . ... is at opposition on September 21, 2009 . ... middle distance between Earth and Sun, equal 149.6 millions km. ... Mean Distance: . ... a configuration of the Sun, Earth and a planet in which the apparent geocentric longitude of the planet differs by 180 from the apparent geocentric longitude of the Sun. ...

. The lineup compares artist's concepts of the planets in the Kepler-37 system to the Moon and planets in the solar system. The smallest planet, Kepler-37b, is slightly larger than our Moon, measuring about one-third the size of Earth. Kepler-37c, the second planet, is slightly smaller than Venus, measuring almost three-quarters the size of Earth. Kepler-37d, the third planet, is twice the size of Earth. // NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech

These links highlight 2008 - current ARC projects for telescopes, instruments, or operations at Apache Point. ... Eyepiece: April 10, 2009 . Painted Enclosure: April 23, 2009, Part A , Part B . Drive Maintenance: July 24, 2009, Part A , Part B , Part C , Part D , Part E , Part F , Part G . ... New Interior Photos: March 14, 2014 . TripleSpec Electronics Mount: March 05, 2008: Part A , Part B , Part C . ... TripleSpec: October 30, 2008 . ... GFP Upgrade: December 8, 2010 . ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... N eptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25 1989. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... Neptune's winds blew the Great Dark Spot westward at 300 meters/second (700 mph). ... L ike Uranus and Jupiter, Neptune's rings are very dark but their composition is unknown. ... Neptune's Ring System . ... Uranus .. ...

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Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Kyoto, Nara (Japan) ::22/08 Imperial Palace park, KICH . ... In the small temple of Imperial Palace park. ... Imperial Palace park. ... Small shrine, dedicated to one of half-legendary persons in Kyoto history and boars who saved him from enemies. Kyoto International Conference Hall (KICH). 23rd International Astronomical Union Assembly was held there. poor shot . River and gardens near KICH. ...

Technical Instrument Report WFPC2-97-07 WFPC2 internal monitoring for SM97 (Program 7022) Max Mutchler and Massimo Stiavelli August 28, 1997 ABSTRACT The goal of SMOV proposal 7022 was to verify that there was no change in basic WFPC2 instrument health and internal calibrations. ... Summary In general, analysis of the data from program 7022 shows that the 2nd Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission of February 1997 caused no significant changes to the basic health and internal calibration of WFPC2. ...