... 14 & 15 July 2008: from Babylon to the Big Bang - a History of Astronomy . ... This is a collaboration between the project P.I. in the Centre for Astronomy at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Dr. Ray Butler) and researchers in the University of California at Santa Cruz (Prof. Jean Brodie), the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh (Dr. Dougal Mackey), and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts (Dr. Jay Strader). ... Closing date: Friday 18 July 2008. ...

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... Home Education Classes AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February - March 2016 . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ...

Links and Resources for Energy and the Environment . The world is finally becoming globally aware that exponential resource usage in combination with finite reserves is a recipe that ensures our great grandchildren won't be born. ... National Environmental Information Service . ... Electronic Energy Journal . ... Sustainable Development Dimensions , including sections on Environmental information , Environmental policy, planning and management and Energy for development . ... Acid Rain Resource . ...

... Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... Mission Definition . Ask anyone on the street to give an example of a planet, and they'll consider you a bit dim. ... Finally, if you ask "What is the exact scientific definition of 'planet'?", it turns out that nobody can answer it, because there really isn't one. ... The word itself means "wanderer" in Greek, and other cultures generally have words for "planet" with a similar meaning. So why isn't that good enough for us today? ...

... Динамик СЧ . Размер BRAND: 3 года (98 см) . Размер BRAND: 4 года (104 см) . Размер BRAND: 5 лет (110 см) . Размер BRAND: 6 лет (116 см) . Размер BRAND: 7 лет (122 см) . Цвет: белый . ... Шорты . ... Артикул: FF_117_WHITE Цвет: белый и синий Состав: 100% хлопок Особенности: стильная мужская футболка, изготовленная из высококачественного хлопка. Параметры изделия: Для европейского размера L: длина изделия 68 см, длина рукава 22 см. ... Размер: Двуспальное (евро) . ...

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First results of X/S and X/Ka-band catalog combinations with full covariance information Andreas Iddink , Christopher Jacobs, Thomas Artz, Axel Nothnagel 22.09.2014 First results of S/X and X/Ka-band catalog combinations with full covariance information Andreas Iddink ­ 22.09.2014 Motivation Features of the ICRF2 ICRF2 (Defining- Sources ) 3414 ... Step: Import of the X/Ka catalog with full covariance information (Data provided by Christopher Jacobs et al. ...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

... The trgm contrib module provides functions and index classes for determining the similarity of text based on trigram matching. ... The set of trigrams in the word "cat" is " c", " ca", "at " and "cat". *real similarity(text, text) . ... The trgm module comes with an index operator class that allows a developer to create an index over a text column for the purpose of very fast similarity searches. ... CREATE TABLE test_trgm (t text); CREATE INDEX trgm_idx ON test_trgm USING gist(t gist_trgm_ops); . ...

... favourite school! ... Relying on our good willed highly skilled teachers, the school is formed with the spirit of co-operation and joint creativity, the co-operation of classes that create a unique atmosphere of unity. ... The ability to act independently: defend ones rights, interests, show responsibility, to plan and organize ones plans, independently acquire . The ability to work with different types of information and to use it for expanding ones knowledge, . ...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... SPICE System Documentation . Comprehensive set of SPICE System documentation including tutorials, subroutines and data formats descriptions, etc. Other related home pages: . Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility at JPL . MARS-96 Space Mission . ... Please, forward comments and questions about information on this page and all descending NAIF and M96 SPICE implementation pages to NAIF group at IKI . naif@arc.iki.rssi.ru . ...

... Credit Copyright: CNSA , Chinanews , Kenneth Kremer Marco Di Lorenzo Explanation: Where has the Yutu rover been on the Moon? Arriving in 2013 mid-December, the Chinese Yutu robotic rover has spent some of the past month and a half exploring Mare Imbrium on Earth's Moon . ... Pictured above is a digitally created time-lapse composite panorama showing the region surrounding the Chang'e 3 lander , capturing the desk-sized rover in three positions. ... Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star . ...

Most of the galaxies visible in this Hubble image are members of a huge cluster called CLASS B1608+656, which lies about 5 billion light-years away. But the field also contains other objects that are both significantly closer and far more distant including two gravitational lenses dubbed Fred and Ginger. ... Fred, also known more prosaically as [FMK2006] ACS J160919+6532, lies near the lens galaxies in CLASS B1608+656, while Ginger ([FMK2006] ACS J160910+6532) is markedly closer to us. ...

The coordinates, diameters, altitudes and morphological features of all the craters of Mars exceeding 10 km in diameter, totaling 19 308, are compiled. ... The catalogue is intended for use by investigators of Mars, students, in comparative planetology and in the selection of craters for naming. ... 1 one terrace . 2 many terraces . ... 6 many hills and one ridge . 7 one hill and many ridges . ... 1 one crater . 2 many craters . ... Sample craters of different morphological categories . ...

... 29a. Satellite looking up . 29c. Satellites probing around . ... The US Air Force furthermore sponsors polar satellites of the DMSP series, scanning the cloud cover of the polar region and also studying ions and electrons of the magnetosphere. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has studied the Earth atmosphere. ... Next Satellite Class: #29c Those observing local conditions . ...

Supernova 2007uy and 2008D in NGC 2770 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2007uy and Supernova 2008D in NGC 2770 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. 2007uy was discovered by Yoji Hirose (Japan)). ... 2008D was discovered by the Swift/XRT satellite which was then observing 2007uy , and announced by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA). ... SNWeb has a 2007uy page and 2008D page . ... JM Llapasset . ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...