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... On the equator (point C) the sun would always rise until it was overhead, while at the poles (A and B) it would always be on the horizon, going around the horizon once a day. ... Because everything is symmetric with respect to the line AB, the dark and light portions are always equal, and so are day and night, anywhere on Earth. ... Twice a year, the angle is as big as it can get, at the summer and winter solstices , when it reaches 23.5 degrees. ... That part of Earth enjoys summer . ...

Phases of the Moon Phases of the Moon are not caused by the Earth's shadow. They are due to a change in our viewing perspective as the Moon orbits around us as it is lit by the Sun. ... The Earth spins in the light, so that the entire Earth gets to be lit at some point each day. Even though the Moon is always half-lit like the Earth is, sometimes we on the Earth see only a tiny bit lit, other times completely lit, depending on where the Moon is in its orbit around the Earth. ... Look at Day 7. ...

... 2012 November 5 . Saturn's Moon Dione in Slight Color . ... Explanation: Why does one half of Dione have more craters than the other? Start with the fact that Saturn 's moon Dione has one side that always faces Saturn, and one side that always faces away. This is similar to Earth's Moon . This tidal locking means that one side of Dione always leads as the moon progresses in its orbit, while the other side always trails. ... Tomorrow's picture: moon egg . ... About APOD | ...

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Comment on the International Jubilee Symposium . ... The usefulness of the Internet as a method of holding international meetings without the expense of travel is also clear, but this new medium is not yet well established in this role. ... How can we move on with international cooperation in the World Wide Web era? I would like to suggest that NASA's Planetary Data System is a good model. ... At the same time, much might be done with older images, by scanning prints to create new digital files. ...

Interstellar Radio Messages . ... One-Dimensional Radio Message to Blind Aliens . ... Project METI@home: Messages to ETI from Home . ... Limitations on Volume of Interstellar Radio Messages . Synthesis and Transmission of Cosmic Call 2003 Interstellar Radio Message . ... Transforming SETI to METI . ... Test SETI during Transmissions of Interstellar Radio Messages . Sending and Searching of Interstellar Messages . ... The First Musical Interstellar Radio Message . ... IRE RAS 1996-200 9 ...

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GMATCH . That projects is aimed for the solution of the well known problem of all observational astronomers -- the WCS alignement of the images. It is always great to have the possibility to determine the exact J2000 coordinates of each point of the frame. It is always great to not manually align the images before summing them. My program is aimed to solve all those problems. ... Download . ... WCSLIB library (by M. Calabretta)(download from here ) . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ClassљList . ClassљIndex . ClassљHierarchy . ... TuiNodeResponse Struct Reference . A TuiNodeResponse contains a flag, "accepted" if a keystroke was accepted And a link to a node, should the key action have prompted a change in the current node used by the menu system. More... #include < TuiNode.hpp > . ... Definition at line 30 of file TuiNode.hpp . The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file: . ...

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... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

... Authors: Spyros Basilakos (Imperial College London) . ... Title: Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0 . ... Title: The Merger Rate to Redshift One from Kinematic Pairs: Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI . ... Title: Multi-wavelength observations of an evolved galaxy group: An endpoint of galaxy merging? ... 23 matches for the search pattern galaxy merging . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+merging/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...