... 2014 February 3 . Lunar Time Lapse Panorama including Yutu Rover . ... Explanation: Where has the Yutu rover been on the Moon? ... Because it uses solar power , the mechanical Jade Rabbit goes into sleep mode to endure the two-week long lunar night. Pictured above is a digitally created time-lapse composite panorama showing the region surrounding the Chang'e 3 lander , capturing the desk-sized rover in three positions. ... Organize Your Universe: Free APOD 2014 Calendar in PDF format . ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

Next: Publication Costs of Astronomical Research . ... Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, China, e-mail: library@nanjing.jspta.chinamail.sprint.com . This article includes a general overview of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) followed by a description of the document resources held in the Observatory Library. ... The predecessor of the Observatory was the National Research Institute of Astronomy in the former Academia Sinica and its observing site, the PMO. ...

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... 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 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

... Near the end of this century, major astronomical observatories still boast of telescopes with lenses and mirrors made by them including Lowell Observatory's 24 inch diameter refractor, the United States Naval Observatory's 26 inch refractor, the McCormick Observatory's 26 inch , Lick Observatory's 36 inch , and Yerkes Observatory's 40 inch refractor - the largest refracting telescope in the world. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: Observatory - refractor - telescope . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Click for more . ... Binary Star KL Dra . ... Pleasant March: slightly drier, milder and sunnier than average . 2016 April 7th . Cool, damp February with average sunshine; wettest winter for 139 years . 2016 March 16th . Discovering the stars at Armagh: Free St Patrick s day events hosted by Armagh Observatory . 2016 March 15th . ... Mild, wet January, slightly duller than average . ... 2016 January 15th . ...

... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б  . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

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Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Fees . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Telescope Aperture / Mount . ... 20,000 . ... Meade 20-inch MAX on MAX Mount . ... Housing in our automatic observatory at our site near Sonoita, Arizona . ... Telescope (you provide the telescope, mount, control computer, cables, etc.) ... Long distance telephone charges for calls initiated by your computer or staff on Winer telephones . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

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... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... The Science Analysis Software (SAS) is an extensive suite of software tools developed to process the data collected by the XMM-Newton Observatory . SAS is released periodically. ... After the release of the general patch to SAS 7.1.0, many users have requested to identify it with a new version number. ... 28/11/2007] General Patch to SAS 7.1.0 : SAS 7.1.0 is able to recognize and process correctly RGS data taken in single readout node sub-mode. ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

... Mt Stromlo will resume its mantle as the home of Australian astronomy through the planned redevelopment, which includes the placement of two telescopes on Mount Stromlo and one at the ANU Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, reconstruction of heritage buildings and enhanced viewing facilities for the public, including a new virtual reality theatre. ... Mt Stromlo is not just an icon of Australian science, it is the workplace of number of the world?s leading researchers,? ...

... Indiana Jones is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. ... There's the intrigue of the megaliths of Stonehenge, the ancient pyramids of Egypt, the earthen figures of Britain and Peru, and the bloody rituals of the Maya. ... To make sense of these great structures and sophisticated concepts, archaeologists and astronomers have pooled their talents. ... People could use these alignments to synchronize their calendars or track the exact path of a celestial object. ... Maya glyphs of Venus. ...