... Calendar . ... I n the last day of the International Year of Astronomy ( early evening of 31 December 2009), the Moon had the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland and the UK for 40 years: the Moon was 8% covered by the Earth's shadow. Incidentally, this was also a "Blue Moon" - the name given for the second full Moon within a calendar month. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 2002 December 8 . The International Space Station Expands Yet Again . Credit: STS-113 Shuttle Crew , NASA . Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance yet again. Earlier this month the Space Shuttle Endeavor visited the ISS and installed the fourth of eleven pieces that will compose the Integrated Truss Structure . ... Construction began on the ISS in 1998 and the core structure should be in place before 2005. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 23.12.2009 . ... Credit Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis ( TWAN ) Explanation: The Sun is a moving target . Its annual motion through planet Earth's sky tracks north and south, from solstice to solstice, as the seasons change . On December 21st, the solstice marking the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the south, the Sun rose at its southernmost point along the eastern horizon. ... Publications with keywords: solstice - sunrise . ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . ... Support of the Station functionality; . ... Onboard photographic and video recording of the ISS RS flight history and implementation of symbolic activities program. ... Support of the Space Station functionality; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Frank Borman . ... A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. ... Frank Borman retired from the air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. ...

Physics at the Terascale , December 3-5, 2007 . 2007 IEEE Nuclear Symposium , October 27 - November 3, 2007 . ALCPG Workshop 2007 , October 22-26, 2007 . Second International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders , October 1-10, 2007 . ILC Interaction Region Engineering Design Workshop , September 17-21, 2007 . ... Review of US Program for Detector R for the International Linear Collider (ILC) by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation , June 19-20, 2007 . ...

To the IUM main page . The Independent University of Moscow and the Moscow Center of Continuous Mathematical Education have organized the International Conference ``Fundamental Mathematics today'' dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Independent University of Moscow. The conference was held in Moscow from December 26 to December 29, 2001; it included the following sections: . ... Chairman: . Yu.S.Ilyashenko (IUM President) . ...

... December 20-24, 2004, . Space Research Institute (IKI),Moscow, Russia. ... The conference will commemorate his contribution to astronomy by concentrating on recent progress in cosmology and high energy astrophysics, the areas where his ideas laid basis for revolutionary advances. The conference will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, on December 20-24, 2004. ... Cosmology . ... High Energy Astrophysics Department at IKI , 2004. ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... This is my nostalgic Web Site on the Nineteenth International Logic Programming Conference (Mumbai, India, December 9-13, 2003). ... The gallery: My first impressions of Mumbai. The gallery: New friends. ... Our research group started the work on the next logic programming language about 15 years ago. ... The gallery: Mumbai in the night. ... The gallery: The Mumbai town. ... I am grateful to the Association of Logic Programming ( ALP ) that supported my visit to ICLP'03 . ...

... U.S. statements regarding today's United Nations 62nd General Assembly declaration of 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy . J. Craig Wheeler, president of the American Astronomical Society, said, "I am thrilled that we have received official United Nations designation for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The American Astronomical Society has been a vigorous and leading supporter of this initiative. ...

... Research Innovation . ... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... Karazin university . ... up until December 31, 2012 . Bilateral competition of fundamental research . Fundamental Research State Foundation (FRSF) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) announce a bilateral competition of fundamental research. The competition coverts the following areas of research: . ... July, 2016 . ... up until April 2016 . ... April 18-23, 2016 . ... Phone: +380 (57) 7051248 . ...

... VLBI Schedule . ... Main / . ... Attendance: Cormac Reynolds, Hayley Bignall (Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, Phil Edwards, Ioannis Gonidakis, Jamie Stevens (CASS); Shinji Horiuchi (ATDSCC); Jamie McCallum , Brett Reid ( UTas ); Oleg Titov(GA) . ... Need ATNF disk space (Chris,Tasso, Shaun) Continuing . ... Monitoring "check-list" for ATNF telescopes (Chris, Jamie S) Continuing . ... Implement "intents" keyword from Vex schedule into ATNF schedules for auto-phasing (Jamie, Chris) Continuing...

... Observatory . Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #25: December 2012 . ... ALMA . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... It is ALMA policy to make all science data public after a proprietary period of (usually) one year. As the first ALMA Cycle 0 data were released to the PIs one year ago, they are now becoming public. ... FIRST ALMA EARLY SCIENCE DATA PUBLIC . ...

... Please accept our apologies and stay tuned for updates. This workshop is intended as a forum to discuss exploration of the post-recombination era and the early stages of galaxy formation. It is aimed at helping researchers, leaders of ground-based and space astronomy, and policy makers share and understand the latest results in observational cosmology, and identify the most promising strategies for the future. ... Aim and Scope of the Workshop . Tentative Agenda . ... Hotel Information . ...

... December 8, 1996 . Degas Ray Crater on Mercury . ... Explanation : Like the Earth's Moon, Mercury is scarred with craters, testifying to an intense bombardment during the early history of the Solar System. ... In the above mosaic the bright rays emanating from the 27 mile wide Degas crater almost appear to be painted on . The rays consist of light colored material blasted out during the crater's formation. Numerous smaller, younger craters are seen superposed on the Degas crater itself. ...

As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ... Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France ...

... Tte tables of ionosphere and plasmasphere parameters are contained in a file param.tbl. ... Latitude Longitude Numbers of tables for (degree) (degree) Month Wm=10 Wm=100 Wm= 150 80 30 March 1 - 3 397-399 793-795 80 150 March 4 - 6 400-402 796-798 80 270 March 7 - 9 403-405 799-801 60 30 March 10 - 12 406-408 802-804 60 150 March 13 - 15 409-411 805-807 60 270 March 16 - 18 412-414 808-810 40 30 March 19 - 21 415-417 811-813 40 150 March 22 - 24 418-420 814-816 40 270 ...

... Home Links International Sidewalk Astronomy Night . ... Saturday night, April 12, 2008, is the 2nd International Sidewalk Astronomy Night.€а We call on all amateur astronomers to take their telescopes and binoculars out for the public to enjoy the wonders of the night sky.€а A first-quarter Moon will be visible, as will the planets Saturn and Mars.€а More information can be found at http://www.sidewalkastronomynight.com /, where you can register so people will know where to find you. ...