... 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 (before the first ). ... Retrieve the argument to an option from a QStringList. ... Check if a QStringList has a yes/no CLI-style option in it, and find out the argument to that parameter. ... a long-form option string, e.g. "–help" . ...

. Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 2004/06 Leiden, Hague, Amsterdam (Netherlands) ::11/06/04 Returning home . Up . IMG 2302 . IMG 2304 . IMG 2305 . IMG 2306 . IMG 2310 . IMG 2312 . IMG 2315 . IMG 2317 . IMG 2320 . IMG 2321 . IMG 2322 . IMG 2324 . IMG 2328 . Photo album generated by album tool from Marginal Hacks by David Ljung on Sun Jun 28 19:27:28 2015 .

This perspective view of Marcia Crater on the giant asteroid Vesta shows the most spectacularly preserved example of "pitted terrain," an unexpected discovery in data returned by NASA's Dawn mission. ... Scientists think low-speed collisions with carbon-rich meteorites left hydrated minerals on Vesta's surface. Heat generated during later, high-speed collisions with asteroid belt rocks released water that was previously bound within the hydrated minerals. ...

Dynamical chaos in the problem of magnetic jet collimation O. Yu. ... In the paper of Bisnovatyi-Kogan (2007) magnetic collimation resulting from torsional oscillations of a cylinder with elongated magnetic field and periodically distributed initial rotation around the cylinder axis was considered. ... Space and time periods of oscillations depend on the conditions of jet formation: the length-scale, the amplitude of the rotational velocity, and the strength of the magnetic field. ...

For an infinitely long circular cylinder, the solution of the light scattering problem for the perpendicular incidence was first derived by Rayleigh [ 418 ] who returned to this problem once again in his last work [ 417 ] written a short time before his death. The problem for oblique incidence was solved in 1955 by J.R. Wait [ 491 ] (Kerker [ 274 ] at p.256 mentions also the paper of Blank, 1955); a bit later the same result was obtained in [ 172 ]). ...

... IPACMAN V2.5 Test Plan (or more) . ... Anyway, results given hereafter are related to one plaform only (the one mentioned on the top). ... specific testcases The following testcases correspond to the minimum set of tests to be run on every new IPACMAN release (alpha, beta, final, .. ... 1/ START IPACMAN . ... Expected result . ... Verify IP: select an IP on disk and run Reports>verify IP . ... IP Diff: select two IPs on disk, and run Reports>IP Diff and check manually the results: verify the . ...

This module supports ISAPI Extensions within Apache for Windows. ... This module implements the Internet Server extension API. It allows Internet Server extensions ( e.g. ISAPI .dll modules) to be served by Apache for Windows, subject to the noted restrictions. ISAPI extension modules (.dll files) are written by third parties. ... Review the Additional Notes and the Programmer's Journal for additional details and clarification of the specific ISAPI support offered by mod_isapi. ...

... We then updated to PVCam 2.7.4.2, but we still see corrupt images if we don't close and reopen the camera after every exposure sequence, and the camera sometimes fails to respond to a trigger pulse. ... Close and re-init the camera, as follows: ... pl_cam_close(0) pl_pvcam_uninit() pl_pvcam_init() . ... power off camera . ... Call pl_exp_start_cont (to start a continuous exposure sequence into a circular buffer) with a circular buffer that holds too many images and you will hang your computer. ...

Report of the RadioAstron International Science Council meeting of June 18-20, 2012 The RISC congratulated Nicolai Kardashev and the entire Astro Space Center team for their leadership and determination over more than 30 years resulting in the successful launch of RadioAstron and the magnificent early interferometer results in all four frequency bands. ... Recommendations The RISC advised the ASC to develop an Open Skies phase of RadioAstron research beginning mid 2013. ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

... R.A. = 00h55m04s.86, Decl. = -37 41'43".7 . ... Variable star in NGC 1511 . ... Variable star near Pegasus 2001bn IAUC 8624 BV anon 2001bh 7622 K star ugc11635 2001dh 7482 M star ic5374 1999db 7227 QSO anon 1999dc 7227 AGN anon 1999cx 7210 AGN anon 1999cu 7210 AGN anon 1999bs 7141 cat var ugc11093 1998di 6982 dwarf nova anon 1993U 5818 QSO anon 1993V 5818 QSO anon 1992W 5517 M star mcg 8-23-96 1992X 5517 M star mcg 6-32-24 1991ap 5327 QSO anon 1989Z 5162 var ngc4013 1985J 4059 CV ugc6274 ? ...

... The unlocked gate at the entrance to the observatoryтАЩs gravel driveway should remain closed to prevent the public from driving back to the observatory. ... This means that if there are still members of the public present at the observatory who do not wish to leave by 11:30 PM they will be locked in the park until a keyholder leaves and secures the gate(s) behind him/her. ... Roll the roof back using the hand crank near the computer room. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...