... Chapter 4: Solar System Targets > 4.2 Target Identification . ... The following information is required to identify and classify each target. ... For example, separate targets should be defined if you plan to take spectra of several different surface features on a planet, or if you plan to observe the same feature with different timing constraints. ... Description . PLANET . If the target is the center of a planet, enter PLANET followed by its name (e.g., PLANET JUPITER , PLANET SATURN ). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... 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 . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Out-Of-Focus (OOF) Holography . ... The architecture of the OOF data reduction software can be summarised in following points: . ... A well defined set of external libraries is used and generally newer versions of these libraries are adopted quickly after release . ... Routines for simulating OOF data-sets . ... OOF ? ... Description of the OOF software architecture . ... OOF Reduction Software . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Next: Generation from Ground Calibration Up: DARKFRAME Previous: DARKFRAME Contents . This CCF component is not used by the SAS. The format of the image extension follows the description of the CCF ICD [ 5 ]. The following additional keywords are present in the Image extension DARKFRAME: . Additional Keywords in Image: DARKFRAME . column name . ... average percentage of the 1 uncertainty on a . single pixel dark count rate . ... dark count rate averaged over entire detector . ...

... Jupiter Rotation Movie from Pic du Midi . ... 6.12.2011 . ... Many interesting features of Jupiter's enigmatic atmosphere , including dark bands and light zones, can be followed in detail. A careful inspection will reveal that central clouds rotate slightly faster than clouds toward the poles. ... December 2011 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - rotation - clouds . Publications with words: Jupiter - rotation - clouds . ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Planetary Radar . ... A program of delay-Doppler mapping of the Galillean satellites is underway by L. Harcke and colleagues at Stanford University. The surfaces of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto have been imaged in order to determine the surface properties and look for different radar properties of the various terrain types. These maps will be correlated with the Galileo images of the satellites.€а . ...

... Byte-by-byte Description of files: star -J1.txt and star -J2.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations 1- 4 I4 --- YYYY Year of the date 6- 7 I2 --- MM Month of the date 9- 10 I2 d DD Day of the date 13- 14 I2 h h Hour of the day 18- 24 F7,2 d JD* Julian day of the date, JD*=JD-2450000.5 28- 31 F4.1 degrees M-J Apparent distance between Moon and Jupiter 36- 39 F4.1 % ...

In describing the SHELTRAN language the following nomenclature is used: . SHELTRAN keywords appear in capitals. SHELTRAN keywords always start on a new line and must be followed by at least one blank) . Syntactic elements are enclosed within < > . Items enclosed within [ ] are optional. < statement > is used to denote any SHELTRAN and/or FORTRAN statement(s). Statement labels. IF construct. SELECT construct. WHILE construct. ... Fortran directive lines. ...