... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1996/05 Chalkidiki (Greece) ::Village Kallithea. The "8th European Meeting on Solar Physics" was held there. ... A sight from the hotel's window. Near hotel, in the garden. Hotel entrance. ... Garden with playground, pool etc. near the Athos Palace hotel. ... How did I managed to get so many shots of hotel entrance? ... Photo album generated by album script from MarginalHacks by David Madison on Sun Jun 28 19:25:09 2015 . ...

... Astronomers have found a planet the size of Earth just outside of our Solar System, orbiting around our nearest star! ... More than 800 planets have now been found outside our Solar System, we call them 'exo-planets . ... While the newly discovered exo-planet is similar to the Earth in size, it is much closer to its star than our planet. ... A year on the exo-planet would be just three days long (this is how long it takes the planet to complete one orbit of its star). ...

STScI . JWST . ... What is STScI . ... Science Blog . ... JWST Overview . Overview . ... JWST Science . ... JWST Science Corner . ... Jan 1st, 2013: The JWST team will be at the 221st American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Long Beach CA, and will host both a special science session and a town hall meeting. Through a partnership with the AAS, STScI will be webcasting these sessions online using "GoToMeeting. ... Session 318, "The JWST Town Hall" on Wednesday Jan 09th at 12:45 pm . ...

... APPLY/DISPERSION in out [y] [coef] . Apply the dispersion relation to a 1D spectrum and generates a table . BATCH/LONG . ... CALIBRA/FLUX in out [resp] . Correct an image for the instrumental response function . ... Wavelength calibration of 1D and long-slit spectra . ... LINADD/LONG in w,bin [y] [mtd] [mode] [line] . ... PLOT/CALIBRATE [mode] . ... Plots a 1D spectrum in table format, as supplied by APPLY/DISPERSION . ... RESPONSE/LONG [plot] [fit] [deg] [smo] [table] [image] [visu] . ...

... Bionic eyes. If our eyes could see in different wavelength bands, this is what the Sun would look like. ... Visible light, crucial to photosynthesis, is a type of radiation. ... At the heart of this revolution is the recognition that light travels as a wave. ... Dreams of Fields . ... By the time the fields go from strong to weak and back to strong, the wave has moved a certain distance, known as the wavelength. ... Red light, blue light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio waves, x-rays ? ...

... The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. ... Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. ...

... The Long Jet of Pictor A . ... 19.06.2000 . ... ACIS , Chandra , NASA Explanation: A jet stretching nearly a million light years has been imaged emanating from galaxy Pictor A. The thin jet of electrons and protons shoots out at nearly light-speed likely from the vicinity of a large black hole at the galaxy center. At the left of the above image in X-rays is the radio galaxy Pictor A , known as a radio galaxy for its strong radio emission . ... Publications with keywords: jet - Pictor A . ...

... 2000 June 19 . The Long Jet of Pictor A . ... ACIS , Chandra , NASA . Explanation: A jet stretching nearly a million light years has been imaged emanating from galaxy Pictor A. The thin jet of electrons and protons shoots out at nearly light-speed likely from the vicinity of a large black hole at the galaxy center. At the left of the above image in X-rays is the radio galaxy Pictor A , known as a radio galaxy for its strong radio emission . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off meeting 5 Where are we today? Use results from this to secure funds for expansion post 2012 Majority of funds from NMT ­ possibility of some STFC support 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off meeting 6 The FTT /NAS system Ensures that the light beam collected by a telescope is sent down the beam relay pipes in the right direction The FTT /NA system monitors the light The active secondary mirror redirects it 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

XMM-Newton EPIC TTD Meeting Preparation for next eclipse season 7th Feb 2001 Mauro Casale ESA H/Q: 7th February 2001 XMM 1 Facts / lessons learned from previous eclipses 1) the eclipses will occur before perigee in the period 19-03- 2001 / 24-04- 2001 2) the shortest time between end of eclipse and Perigee time is about 22 minutes; in most of the other cases it is around 30-31 ... T0 - 1.6/1h: Eclipse start. ... ESA H/Q : 7th February 2001 XMM 7 ...

... Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 218th meeting of the AAS ? The results presented here unfortunately do not reflect all the tweets from the meeting, but only those available via the Twitter Search API . Also, unlike my AAS 215 study I am only using the #AAS218 hashtag since #AAS is no-longer particularly astronomy-related (this link may include language or links that could be considered offensive). ... An archive and analysis of #AAS218 tweets using the Archivist site; . ...

... Members . ... The ATM's of Boston was founded in 1934 by a group of persons interested in assisting others in the art of optical polishing the craft of telescope making, and to learn together about the science of astronomy and the use of astronomical instruments. ... Mr. Jones introduced the club to Dr. Harlow Shapley at Harvard College Observatory. ... Regular shop activities resumed with the help of these "professional amateurs" and the club grew to 180 members. ... Club Newsletters . ...

... 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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... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

Version 1.0 RadioAstron International Science Council meeting 2014 8 August 2014 , 14:00, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (room 48), Moscow 9 August 2014 , 09:00, Space Research Institute ( IKI , room 200), Moscow [10 August 2014 , 10:00, IKI : science team meetings] 8 August 2014 , start at 14:00, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (room 48): 14:00 Greetings Kardashev, Kovalev , ... The Kaluzhskaya shopping center is suggested as a lunch place for 10 August 2014. ...