... 28.05.1997 . ... Classics of the science fiction genre with visions of Earth's alluring planetary neighbor include H.G. Wells' terrifying "War of the Worlds" , Edgar Rice Buroughs' John Carter adventure series ( Thuvia, Maid of Mars , The Gods of Mars , A Princess of Mars , The Warlord of Mars ), Robert Heinlein's youthful "Podkayne of Mars" , and Ray Bradbury's reflective and philosophical "The Martian Chronicles" . ... Publications with keywords: Mars - fiction . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

Located at the Hidden Hollow Campground, near Mansfield, Ohio. and counting.. ... For those of you who dislike the outdoorsy camping thing, or if you want a little privacy there are several hotels within 7 miles of Hidden Hollow . Located at the intersection of I-71 and State Route 13 (about 10 minutes from Hidden Hollow ‘02) : . ... HERE IS A MAP: This map is of Central Ohio surrounding the I-71 exit to Hidden Hollow. ... Map of Hidden Hollow Camp Grounds . ... Hidden Hollow 2002 Forms . ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... SBIG has provided the library used here. It is essentially the same library used by commercial software for control of their cameras under Windows. ... This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface program to control SBIG astronomical CCD cameras. ...

... The issue of notes for one pound and for ten shillings were to circulate "As fully as sovereigns and half-sovereigns are current and shall be legal tender in the United Kingdom for the payment of any amount" . Why not the Bank of England, with all their experience and expertise? The Bank felt that large numbers of low-value notes wouldn't be "safe" unless they were printed on special hand-made paper. ... Both notes were the same size and were printed on only one side of paper. ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" and the answers given to them. ... The ones included below are either of the sort that keeps coming up again and again--the danger of solar eruptions, the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, etc.-- or else the answers make a special point, going into extra details which might interest other users. ... Radiation Belts and Manned Space Flight . ... Capturing the Energy of the Solar Wind . ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

Our brief introductory notes on optical characterization of media define different optical parameters (including the refractive index, dielectric permittivity, absorption coefficient, reflectance, transmittance) and show their relationship. ... A Postscript version of the remarks is here . ... A brief description of the JPDOC was printed in the A Suppl (the Postscript version of the paper is here ). ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System Instruction Manual . ... Remove the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System from the telescope or camera. Use the supplied hex wrench to remove the three screws from the telescope side of the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. Position your Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System to align with the diagram below. ... Carefully screw each filter into the wheel, and re-assemble the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

HTML is an application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). ... Every SGML document has three parts: . SGML declaration . ... For example, the SGML declaration in the HTML DTD specifies that the string that opens an end tag is </ and the maximum length of a name is 72 characters. ... Most HTML elements are identified in a document as a start tag, which gives the element name and attributes, followed by the content, followed by the end tag. ...

... Apollo 15 brings back 4 billion-year-old moon rock . ... Scott said. ... During the crew?s three spacewalks, Scott and James B. Irwin spent almost nineteen hours exploring the moon and covered 17.5 miles of lunar terrain in the lunar rover. ... For more information on the crew training, traverses, and experiences of some of the instructors for Apollo 15, read some selected oral history interview excerpts available on the JSC History Portal: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/special_events/Apollo15.htm...

... I would several points which we faced during our everysolved for better quality of individual ACs' and EOP products · There are two main EOP products provided by two IERS Product Centers on Earth Orientation (Earth Orientation Center (EOC) and Rapid Service/ Prediction Center (RSPC)). ... However, the latter is not provided by the IERS. ... ITRF · Using ITRF in computation of EOP series produced by various ACs seems to be a necessary condition to provide the consistency between the IERS products. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999bg in IC 758 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. 1999bg is another discover by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search who have been very prolific over the past year but have had a bit of a lull lately. ... AUDE has a 1999bg page in French [ Translate ] . M1 Supernova search has a 1999bg page in Spanish [ Translate ] . Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999bg images page . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

Trace: syntax . start : wiki : syntax . ... SAI VO Projects . ... User Space . ... Links . ... DokuWiki does not use CamelCase to automatically create links by default, but this behaviour can be enabled in the wiki:config file. ... DokuWiki supports [[doku>wiki:interwiki|Interwiki]] links. ... You can also use an image to link to another internal or external page by combining the syntax for links and images (see below) like this: [[http://www.php.net|{{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png}}]] . ... Row 1 Col 1 . ...

S S P i s n ow p ro u dl y sponsored by SSP2015 REGISTRATION FOR M August 7 ­16th. ... SSP 2015 is located at Peppermint Park Camping Resort, Plainfield, Massachusetts to provide you with top-notch facilities, camping grounds and on-site food service, as well as fantastic amenities such as FREE WI-FI, beautiful in-ground swimming pool, new kid's playground, and lodge with fireplace, all under the pristine dark skies of the Berkshire Mtns! ... 45) > The Famous SSP Chicken StarBQ, Sunday August 9th. ...

The Astronomy Shop . ... Cards | MoonBeams™: Moon Calendar Inside a Note Card - Wallet Set . ... Additional fold-out panels in the card contain moon watching information on times of phases, names of Full Moons, apogee/perigee dates, eclipse dates, etc. Your card becomes a lovely reference hang-up or 3-sided stand-up that the recipient will enjoy the whole year long! 8.5 x 11 flat, folds to 3.7 x 8.5. ... Mix & Match any number of these Wallet Packaged Sets to receive quantity discount pricing. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...