... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The length of the shadow depends on the height of an object (like a mountain or a human) and how high up the Sun is. ... We can calculate the length of the shadow if we know the Sun's angle above the horizon and the object's height. ... The Earth spins 360 degrees in 24 hours, which means it spins 1 degree in 4 minutes; that in turn means the Sun moves 1 degree every 4 minutes in the sky. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Expected More Sense Than That. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on November 8, 2002 04:14:05 UTC . ... You are missing the point - harvey1 - November 8, 2002 - 13:10 UTC . I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

WPLTN-2012 Technical Workshop Research and Experiment of Lunar Laser ranging Yaoheng Xiong, Zhulian Li, Yuqiang Li, Honglin Fu, Xiangming Zheng, Dongsheng Zhai, Yuncheng Zhang Yunnan Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg , Sep24-28 2012 LLR researchs & experiments in Kunming Overview Key problems of LLR Very long distance ranging, sub-single photon detection,.. ... St. Petersburg , Sep24-28 2012 LLR Experiments in Kunming Station Thank you ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... April . ... By admin March 16, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... Stargazing the Night Sky is a short and very informal course is for complete beginners who want to know more about the wonders of the cosmos. ... If you want to experience the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Copyright Armagh Planetarium 2014 All Rights Reserved. ...

... Class . ... ImageJ Plugin for reading an AVI file into an image stack (one slice per video frame) Version 2008-07-03 by Michael Schmid, based on a plugin by Daniel Marsh and Wayne Rasband Restrictions and Notes: - Only few formats supported: - uncompressed 8 bit with palette (=LUT) - uncompressed 8 16 bit grayscale - uncompressed 24 32 bit RGB (alpha channel ignored) - uncompressed 32 bit AYUV (alpha channel ignored) - various YUV 4:2:2 compressed formats - png or jpeg-encoded individual frames. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 14 - 20.05.2012, Forecast on 21 - 28.05.2012, Carrington Rotations 2123 2124 (28,19.04; 25,42.05.2012) SUNSPOT ACTIVITY ON LAST WEEK WAS AT HIGH LEVEL ON MAY 14 AFTER WHEN 13.05 ON THE SOLAR VISIBLE DISK THERE WERE AT ONCE 4 SUNSPOT GROUPS, BUT ALREADY FROM 15.01 EVERYTHING RETURNED TO THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE AVERAGE. ... FLARES to tm te c/p local. ...

... Moscow Centre for Continuous Mathematical Education . ... Moscow, August 26-31, 2012 . ... Registration . ... To participate please fill in the following registration form and return it to our contact addresses by the deadline May 1, 2012. REGISTRATION FORM . ... Name (as in the passport) . ... Birth date . ... If you need a RUSSIAN VISA, please, indicate this in the registration form and send us the scanned copy of your passport (including the page with photo) before May 1, 2012 by e-mail. ...

... Up: Observation Planning and Scheduling . ... The Long Term Scheduler (LTS) is a software tool used twice a year to schedule all the observing programs accepted for a six month time period. ... The Long and Short Term Scheduling Tools (respectively, LTS and STS) are part of the ESO Observation Handling Subsystem (OHS), a collection of tools for processing and managing observing proposals, observing schedules, and observation sequences in the form of Observation Blocks (OBs) (Chavan et al. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... Static Public Member Functions . CLIProcessor Class Reference . ... argsGetOption (const QStringList &argList, QString shortOpt, QString longOpt) . Check if a QStringList has a CLI-style option in it (be