T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... Holometer: A Microscope into Space and Time . ... Why would the sky look like a giant target? ... Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together . ... Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. ... The Wizard Nebula . ... Seen with foreground and background stars along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy it lies some 8,000 light-years distant, toward the constellation Cepheus. ...

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Next: Reduce point data Up: Quick Guide Previous: Print form sheets Contents . You should reduce this data of type ``scan'' before anything else. ... Plot the background rate (four channels at a time) versus time. ... Use P ROCESS BG if you want to replace edited scans with an average value from other valid scans in the same channel. ... The reason for reducing the background data first is that average will not average the point data of a scan for which no background data exists. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . America's Nerve Center for Mission Operations . ... An overall view from the rear shows activity in the new Mission Control Center, opened for operation and dedicated during the STS-70 space shuttle mission. ... Shuttle design and construction involved close support from the mission operations team. ... The Spaceflight Control Center in Korolev is where the Russian flight controllers support operations of the Russian elements of the space station. ...

... The UK has a very vibrant solar system science community highly regarded internationally. ... The knowledge gained from such research has significant application to other STFC science areas, and indeed the science of other research councils. ... We therefore seek support to provide the 2012 Introductory Solar System Plasmas School, which will provide valuable training for the next generation of solar system scientists. ...

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... Modern BIOSs are PnP and can configure some or all of the PnP devices. ... For Windows 2000 it's claimed that Windows worked OK even if you say you don't have a PnP OS. In this case Windows 2000 will report finding new hardware (even though it already knew about the hardware but didn't know how the BIOS Pnp-configured it). ... Perhaps it considers the hardware to be "new" since Windows 2000 may be finding it at a different address/irq than it has recorded in its registry. ...

... Initially SAI Supernova Catalogue was presented in the form of filebased system. ... The current version of SAI Supernova Catalogue presents data on supernovae together with data on their parent galaxies. ... The main source of data for the galaxies was LEDA database. ... In some cases our data were compared with the ones from the Asiago Supernova Catalogue and from List of Supernovae at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, but the compilation of our Catalogue is carried out independently. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... The Time shift for April, 17-18 20 April 1999 . ... The INTMINS April 1999 operations schedule was done on the base of the MIR ground track long-term prediction using the MIR's orbital elements status on 29/03/99 . ... The investigation of the time shift behaviour was began before 29/03/99 on the base of the different orbital elements determined (by KIAM RAN) 22/03/99, 25/03/99 and continued on the base of the orbital elements determined at 31/03/99, 5/04/99. ... Modified 20 April 1999  ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... See spectral jumps at 2^n channels Intro for a description of pshift,pfb, term s . ... pshift . ... 0x1ff5 . ... 0x1555 . ... noise pshift . ... noise pshift, first butterfly no shift . ... 0x1555 shift every other butterfly (this should work for noise) . ... the black trace has pshift=0x1ff5 (the current standard). the red trace uses 0x1555. shift every other butterfly (with a shift on the first butterfly) . ... When a pshift of 0x1555 is used (shift every other butterfly) no jumps are seen . ...

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