The following activities are included in the Universe at Your Fingertips guide. ... Clicking on each activity will take you to a "reviews" page where you can post a review, or read reviews posted by others who have used the activity. ... Activity Online . ... MOON AND PHASES . ... Observing Phases and Features . ... Modeling Moon Phases . ... SUN AND SEASONS . ... Observing the Sun Safely . ... Observing Where the Sun Sets . ... Making Pictures of Motion . ... Morning Star and Evening Star . ...

Proposal Identification No.: R1980 Date Received: 2004­Jun­02 00:41:24 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Astronomy Sub­Category: Radar Observation Category: Solar System Total Time Requested: 70.25 Hours Proposal Title: Radar imaging of four near­Earth asteroids in October­November, 2004 ABSTRACT: We propose delay­Doppler imaging of near­Earth asteroids 3908 Nyx, 7753 (1988 XB), 1998 ST27, and 1999 LF6. ... 1988 XB and 1999 LF6 will be observed for the first time. ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Facilities . ... Science & Technology . ... A list of workshop outcomes is now available from the ASKAP Project Scientist. ... Lisa Harvey-Smith: The updated Early Science Plan . ... Ian Heywood: ASKAP Commissioning and Early Science team . ... SKA Key Science Program workshop (informal debrief) . ... Back to ASKAP Early Science Community Workshop 2015 main page . ...

Return to Hidden Hollow 2008 Info . ... A few thousand stars resolved through a small telescope. ... Special thanks go out to Tammy Plotner and her Hidden Hollow associates from the Richland Astronomical Society who organized this event. ... It is nice to see that they are providing us with all of the essentials. ... Ron Ravneberg is an amateur astronomer, telescope builder and long-time member of the Columbus Astronomical Society. ... Phil Creed is an active participant in amateur astronomy. ...

Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Практика > Астрономический наблюдательно-информационный портал > Хвостатые гостьи (все о кометах) > C/2016 A8 (LINEAR) _ CK16A080 _ LM04Jwy object = 220-я Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)! ... Просмотр полной версии : C/2016 A8 (LINEAR) _ CK16A080 _ LM04Jwy object = 220-я Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR)! ... Открытая комета C/2016 A8 (LINEAR) _ CK16A080 - 220-я в активе проекта Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) .. ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999dh in IC 211 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. Supernova 1999dh is a LOSS discovery. ... AUDE has a 1999dh page in French [ Translate ] . KenIchi Kadota and Seiichi Yoshida sn1999dh images . ... LOSS image . ... Rafael Ferrando image . ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... On 9 September 2009, a contract was signed between ISC Kosmotras and SSTL for the launch of Nigeria-2 and NigeriaSat- у satellites on Dnepr rocket as part of 2010 cluster launch from Yasny Launch Base. According to information provided by SSTL the NigeriaSat-2 satellite is being built for the Nigerian government (NASRDA) as a follow-on to the NigeriaSat-1 satellite that was launched in 2003. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Earth System Science at 20 . This NASA Oral History Project features recollections from those who significantly contributed to the launch and evolution of Earth System Science. These interviews were gathered as part of the 20th anniversary of the Earth System Science Program. ... NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C. Program Manager , Stratospheric Theory and Data Analysis, Earth Science and Applications Division . ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . ... Determine possibilities to obtain on-line documented information during crew visual-instrument observations by using hand optical devices in a long-duration space flight from the Russian Segment of the International Space Station to assess ecological effects of the industrial activities on the territory of the RF and foreign countries. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...