... December 13, 1998 . Blasting Off from the Moon . ... The Lunar Module that landed two astronauts on the Moon actually came apart. The top part containing the astronauts carried additional rocket fuel which allowed it to blast away, leaving the bottom part on the Moon forever. The top part would later meet up with the Command Module and its astronaut pilot, which were continually orbiting the Moon. ... The frame above captures the top part of the Lunar Module just at it was blasting off. ...

Useful Links: STScI Home Page . ... Science Instruments HST Data Archive E/PO Proposals STScI Documents Grant Provisions Instrument Handbooks: (Updated Handbooks for Cycle 10 will become available in Summer 2000.) ... The Call for Proposals describes the policies and procedures for submitting a Phase I proposal for HST Observing or Archival Research. ... STScI Newsletter Articles about the HST Proposal Selection Process . ... Internet Links in the Call for Proposals . ... Cycle 10 Announcement Page . ...

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... Two Worlds, One Sun, is the legend emblazoned on the Spirit rover's camera calibration target. Resting on the rover's rear deck, it also doubles as a sundial, allowing students to determine the solar time at Spirit's landing site on Mars. ... The picture is a portion of the 3D panorama of the Spirit rover's landing site released yesterday, constructed with data from the Mars rover's navigation cameras. ... Deimos: A Small Martian Moon . ... Pictured above is Deimos, the smaller moon of Mars. ...

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... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Meade Variable Projection Camera Adapter (1.25") . ... The Variable Projection Camera Adapter. ...

... This experiment makes use of a novel an sophisticated CCD imaging design whereby by 4 2048x2048 detectors are butted together to form a single 4096x4096 pixel detector system. ... Figure 4 (1.1 Megs) shows an example image from one of the LMC fields that is searched for gravitational microlensing amplification of stellar brightness. ... Figure 5 (124 Kbytes) shows an image of NGC 253, taken with this camera and a 320x512 RCA CCD which has 30 micron size pixels. ... Page 5 . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... The participants got unique knowledge during the four very busy days of training at the School of Astronautics, they heard firsthand about the life at the International Space Station and the work in space, they even were able to try on the suit for the spacecraft flight and the gloves, in which Oleg Artemyev worked in open space. ... If I lived another life, I would have studied in SSAU at the Engine Building Department , - shared his thoughts Oleg Artemyev. ...

Space debris is a serious and growing threat to operating spacecraft. Potential debris collisions with satellites are becoming increasingly likely and can cause economic loss of between $25 million and $500 million per event. ... National and international partners include EOS Space Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems (US), Optus Satellite Systems, the Australian National University, RMIT University and the National Institute of Information and Communication s Technology (Japan) . ...

... 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 . ...

... Events . ... The orbit of the Moon is too small to be seen on this scale, but the 2008 December 1st alignment was especially interesting because additionally Venus was occulted by the Moon (this occultation was visible from Europe and NW Africa). Some more photos of the 1 December events received from Jonathan Bingham . ... Venus coming out from behind the Moon; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ISS; photograph by Jonathan Bingham . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

The following is a list of the currently available preferences for a CIMA observing session with CIMA version 2.2: . ... This option allows You to select whether You want log-files or not when running in off-line mode. ... This option allows You to specify whether You want the CIMA observation status window to be opened automatically for You when Your CIMA session starts. ... Help-windows only stay open as long as middle mouse-button is pressed --- Default: No . ...

... Allows webmasters to configure the response of Apache to some error or problem. Customizable responses can be defined to be activated in the event of a server detected error or problem. e.g. if a script crashes and produces a "500 Server Error" response, then this response can be replaced with either some friendlier text or by a redirection to another URL (local or external). ... New behavior . ... redirect to a local URL, or . ... Each new variable will have the prefix REDIRECT_ . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on June 29, 2015 | 759 Comments Maybe you have seen one of the alarming videos or emails circulating around the internet claiming that the End is Nigh. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2014 | ... Posted on October 18, 2013 | ... 3 Comments In February 2013, the asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past the Earth closer than many of the EarthтАЩs geo-stationary satellites. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / Using odfbrowser / Graphical User Interface (GUI) The toolbar contains buttons, that allow the user to filter information and to configure and run the programs on the selected exposures. If you hover your mouse over one of those buttons, some text will pop-up, that gives you additional information about the button. Some buttons will only become active once you selected one or more exposures. XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-02 ...

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... 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. ...