... 2006 August 22 . A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares . ... Explanation: What type of cloud is that? ... Looking perhaps a bit like a gigantic owl monster, the cloud pictured above resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. ... The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel. The circular eyes of the above smoke angel are caused by air spiraling off the plane's wings and are known as wingtip vortices . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 29.11.1995 . ... November . ... November 1995 . ... 1995 1996 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: compton . Publications with words: compton . ... Boosting Compton . The Compton Observatory Turns Five . Compton Returns ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

Next: Release of 18 August Up: Old Releases Previous: Release of 30 March Contents . Fix bug in setting of formats that occurs when VLBA/MarkIV modes are mixed with Mark III modes in a schedule. ... 21Aug1997 RCW. Add Mitaka and Pentiction to the valid correlator list. 8sep97 RCW. ... Avoid postpass even on last tape of experiment for 1 tape stations. ... Fix a bug in overlapping channel warning. 12sep97 RCW. ... 4 Nov 1997 RCW. ... Fix bug in accounting for logical channels. ... Nov 97, Huib. ...

XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... ADV: XEphem 3.7 released - ecdowney - August 5, 2005 - 21:56 UTC . ... Annoucning new XEphem discussion group - ecdowney - January 31, 2001 - 22:04 UTC . ... Catalogs - george - December 31, 2000 - 22:29 UTC . ... Re: Motif - ecdowney - December 29, 2000 - 13:19 UTC . ... Re: Re: Re: Xephem catalogs - ecdowney - December 21, 2000 - 18:37 UTC . ... announcing XEphem 3.4 - ecdowney - December 5, 2000 - 08:18 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... This page contains links to delay line Final Design Review documents which have been released by Cavendish Laboratory. ... System Overview . Trolley Mechanical Design Description [to be updated] . ... Trolley Electronics Design Description [updated 2008/01/28] . Limits Design Description [to be updated] . ... Metrology System & VME Hardware Design Description (INT-406-VEN-0113) . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLine/ReleasedFDRDocuments) ...

STScI . ... CALWF3 v2.7 was released internally at STScI on May 21, 2012, and was installed in the OPUS pipeline on June 6, 2012. ... CALWF3 v2.6 was released internally at STScI on December 16, 2011, and was installed in the OPUS pipeline on January 11, 2012. ... CALWF3 v2.2 was released internally at STScI on Nov. 23, 2010, was released to the public in STSDAS v3.13 on Jan. 14, 2011, and was installed in OPUS operations on Feb. 15, 2011 as part of OPUS build 2010.4a. CALWF3 v2.1 Release Notes . ...

NASA TV Video File on 3C 58 (December 2004) . Astronomy Picture of the Day (December 23, 2004) . A Chilling Discovery (December 15, 2004) . Going to Extremes (December 14, 2004) . Deepest Image of Exploded Star (August 23, 2004) . ... Young Pulsar Reveals Clues (September 6, 2001) . Vital Elements from Supernova (December 21, 1999) . New Vision of Cosmic Explosions (September 20, 1999) . Pat Slane's Home Page Pat's SNR Page ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... Call for Public Surveys with the Arizona Radio Observatory . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Archive ESO Enews . ... Please find below an overview of the available issues of the ESO Electronic Newsletter. ... THIRD AND FINAL CALL FOR ESO/GTC PROPOSALS . ... NEW ESO ARCHIVE DATA RELEASES . ...

Below is the sample image and caption given out at the AAS meeting. ... Dark, sinuous clouds of cold hydrogen gas reveal themselves as shadows against the glow of warmer, brighter clouds in the background. ... This image, made with radio telescopes at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton, British Columbia, was presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, TX on January 8, 1999. PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Gibson and Russ Taylor of the University of Calgary. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... 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. ...

... XMM-Newton CCF Release XMM- CCF -REL-331 Page: 4 Table 1: Ratio of number of events in extracted spectra ( New /Current) Ob ject Obsid Rev RGS1 o1 RGS1 o2 RGS2 o1 RGS2 o2 PKS 2155-304 0411780301 1543 1.02 1.08 1.02 1.08 Mkn 421 0560980101 1640 1.02 1.08 1.02 1.08 Mkn 421 0560983301 1732 1.02 1.08 1.02 1.08 PKS 2155-304 0411780401 1734 1.03 1.09 ... XMM-Newton CCF Release XMM-CCF-REL-331 Page: 8 Figure 6: Evolution of the Parallel CTI (left RGS1, right RGS2...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... to the International Space Station . ... Technical management is chaired by N.N. Sevastyanov, President of RSC Energia, General Director for manned space complexes and Technical Manager for flight tests. ... The vehicle and ISS Russian Segment flight is under control of the Lead Operational Control Team (LOCT) working in the Mission Control Center in Moscow (MCC-M), (Flight Director is V.A. Soloviev, Vice-President of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Deputy General Designer). ...

... The Australian National University, Private Bag, . ... 1968 BA Honours in Natural Science, Wadham College, Oxford University. ... 1974 October Selected by the Royal Astronomical Society as UK Young Astronomer . ... 1975 August Research Fellow at the Australian National University. ... 1979 November Fellow at the Australian National University. 1982 March Australian Project Scientist to the STARLAB project. ... 1983 December Senior Fellow at the Australian National University. ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

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... March 25, 2006: Version 3.0.0 New control panel with an observing queue and a log Pointing to apparent position including proper motion precession and nutation to epoch of ... declination axis to polar axis non-orthogonality optical axis skew altitude- and azimuth-dependent mechanical effects encoder reference Control of telescope hardware August 20, 2006 Version 3.0.4 Modifications from Dan Azari adding features suported by the RC Optical Systems ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...