Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The robot spacecraft Galileo whose primary mission is to explore the Jupiter system, has encountered and photographed two asteroids during its long journey to Jupiter. ... The Earth-Moon System . ... A double planet? From 4 million miles away on December 16, 1992, NASA's robot spacecraft Galileo took this picture of the Earth-moon system. ... This picture of the planet Jupiter was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it passed the planet in 1979. ...

... 2013 December 15 . Gibbous Europa . Image Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA ; Copyright: reprocessed by Ted Stryk . Explanation: Although the phase of this moon might appear familiar, the moon itself might not. In fact, this gibbous phase shows part of Jupiter 's moon Europa . ... Recent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered new evidence that Europa, like Saturn's moon Enceladus , has ice venting from its surface. ... About APOD | ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Nikonorov Artem Vladimirovich . ... Bibikov S. , Nikonorov A. , Skidanov R. and others. ... Fursov V.A. Spectrum Shape Elements Model to Correct Color and Hyperspectral Images // 8th IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS), 24-28 августа, Stockholm, , 2014, P. Code 6914282 . ... Nikonorov A. V. , Bibikov S.A. , Fursov V.A. Boundaries Detection and Color Correction of Shadows in Color Images // Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. ...

Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

... 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. ...

. Executes spacecraft command timeline. Provides pointing control, power system control, gathers telemetry, provides routine safemode protection, and much more . Executes SI command timeline. Provides safety monitoring, special purpose computing, and data interface for SIs. SI specific operations, science data formatting and processing, local health and safety monitoring. Provides safemode control for HST when DF-224 is down . Previous slide . Next slide . Back to first slide . View graphic version . Ъ

Galileo Mission Status . December 10, 1995 . 4:20 a.m. NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around the planet Jupiter, this morning began the first scheduled return of data from its companion atmospheric probe that parachuted into the jovian atmosphere last Thursday. ... Forty minutes of data collected by the probe stored in the orbiter's onboard computer memory will be radioed to Earth over the next four days and presented to Galileo scientists for analysis. ... Space History Galileo . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... 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 . ... Supernova simulations reveal new processes . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... new: . ... Python 2.6.2 + most up-to-date modules (December 2009) . ... pyQC script structure . ... The current installation of python and its associated modules on our DFO machines is extremely old (i.e. python 2.4.2 was released in Sept. ... The new python executable lives in: /qcdp/bin/python . ... The first figure shows the execution times for the old python installation, while the second figure shows the execution times based on scripts running the python 2.6.2 installation with the new modules...

... Archives . ... People . ... The 2 Megasecond Chandra observations of the Southern Deep Field , which have been processed, reduced, and mosaiced. ... There are many more, I am sure, and if people find any particularly good ones, please point them out in the comments! ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... I haven?t had time to really study the data in the book, but I hope it useful. http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/jvw/ASTROSTATS/index.html#chapter1 07-15-2008, 1:31 pm . ... Comments RSS . ... Chandra Blog . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 4, 2015 | 3 Comments Already the year 2015 is proving to be a great year for stargazing with planets, comets and meteorites gracing the skies but prepare for March as it brings a тАШmicro [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 5, 2014 | 4 Comments The December skies mark my favourite time of the year for stargazing. ... Posted on October 24, 2014 | ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | ...

. Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. Jovian path.

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 1996, vol. ... 627-646. 1-D Maps, Chaos and Neural Networks For Information Processing . ... Revised December 28, 1995 and October 3, 1995. ... An application of complex dynamics and chaos in neural networks to information processing is studied. ... In contrast to other methods of using neural networks and associative memory to store information, the information is stored in dynamical attractors such as limit cycles, rather than equilibrium points. ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

... Colors of Sunlight . S-4A.Color Expts. ... Here is your opportunity to demonstrate the three-color theory by using your computer. I am indebted for this to Joe Burns , on whose color demonstration file it is based. ... You see below two tables with colored fields. ... blue . ... D0FBFF gives the intensity of the three colors which make up the background: D0 is the intensity of red , FB is the intensity of green and the second FF is the intensity of blue , the maximum blue you can get. ...

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Target: Jupiter Date: 2012-11-05 Time : 03:38:10 Telescope: CDK20N Camera: Apogee U16M Filters: griz Exposure time : Satellites: z' at 0.2 seconds full frame Disk: g' at 0.008 seconds 256x256 subframe r' at 0.006 seconds i' at 0.006 seconds z' at 0.20 seconds Observer: John Kielkopf Processing: John Kielkopf ...