Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... January . ... By admin January 12, 2012 Posted in: January , Monthly Sky Notes . ... Aldebaran is the brightest star in Taurus and it marks the fiery eye of the bull.€а It is a giant red star located about 65 light years away and is about 40 times the diameter of the Sun. €аAldebaran is Arabic for тАШthe followerтАЩ as this star appears to follow the€а Pleiades star cluster€а across the sky. ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

Changes SciSim v2.0.3 . SciSim v2.0.3 is a bug fix release of SciSim and contains only minor changes compared to v2.0.2. The input (configuration & data) files, as well as the ODF products are compatible with previous versions. ... EDUID is currently coupled to ccd id. ... Iterpretation of Quadrant and CCD numbering has changed (see also the ESIM documentation in the SciSim User Guide). ... The following README files specify the changes in the data-files and in the configuration file: . ...

Physicists have been honored by having their picture on currency in many countries around the world. ... Marie and Pierre Curie (Marie: 1867-1934, Pierre: 1859-1906) appear on the French 500 franc note. ... The greatest physicist of this century, Einstein not only invented the theories of special relativity (behavior of rapidly moving object) and general relativity (theory of gravitation), but made fundamental contributions to the beginnings of quantum theory. ... For a bio, click here . ... 100 K) . ...

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

Contact with possible Extraterrestrial Life . Recommendation for the human Contact Team to Interact with Unknown Life Forms . Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form must be prepared for severe psychological impact. Extreme anxiety response will almost certainly occur. The personality traits of individuals who can withstand extreme anxiety must be determined and such individuals selected to comprise the team. ... Contact team report. ... Our Contact team continue investigation. ...

The Experiment: To find the first galaxies . Understand basic properties of star formation/galaxies ? guess how a young galaxy, or protogalaxy would appear . ... New stars very blue: will appear redder at large distances (redshift). Dust protects gas from radiation. Dust is heated and is luminous at infrared wavelengths. ... Gas in close to a group of galaxies (cluster) may become very hot and emit X-rays. Previous slide . Next slide . Back to first slide . ...

The Astronomy Net . Articles | AstroGuide | ... Forums . ... H ere you can find resouces to help understand perhaps the grandest of all sciences. ... Upcoming Sky Events . ... This site includes lists of manufacturers, vendors, software, etc. organized in the AstroGuide to help when you are looking to purchase your tools. ... Astronomy Articles . ... Are you interested in writing an article for the Astronomy Net? ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Guest Editorial , July 2006 . Past ? Present ? Future . ... SETI, the quest for reasonable signals from Space, is aimed at the Past. ... From here on Earth, we can say with good reason that conducting both searches (SETI) and transmission (METI) of reasonable signals, we appear poised just halfway between the Past and the Future: namely, in the Present! ... This editorial was submitted in response to Their Past, Our Future , by SETI League executive director emeritus H. Paul Shuch. ...

Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

... David P. Stern Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics NASA . ... Early Work on Geomagnetism . ... Polar Magnetic Storms . ... This review traces early research on the Earth's magnetic environment, covering the period when only ground-based observations were possible. ... This is an account of early research on the Earth's distant magnetic environment, work that led to magnetospheric physics and to space plasma physics. ...

... For brevity, Navigator will refer to Netscape's Navigator product (which in later versions was renamed "Communicator" and various other names), and MSIE will refer to Microsoft's Internet Explorer product. ... Apache as of version 1.2 is an HTTP/1.1 server (with an optional HTTP/1.0 proxy). ... All versions of Navigator from 2.0 through 4.0b2 (and possibly later) have a problem if the trailing CRLF of the response header starts at offset 256, 257 or 258 of the response. ...

... Samara region . ... Professor of the Biochemistry Faculty of Florida International University (Miami, USA), a well-known scientist in the field of quantum chemistry Aleksandr Moiseevich Mebel visited SSAU in the middle of December. ... In addition, in his lectures in SSAU Aleksandr Mebel told about modern methods of quantum chemistry, provides accurate information about the geometric and electronic structure of molecules, the relative energies of the intermediate states and reaction products. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

HTML is an application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). ... Every SGML document has three parts: . SGML declaration . ... For example, the SGML declaration in the HTML DTD specifies that the string that opens an end tag is </ and the maximum length of a name is 72 characters. ... Most HTML elements are identified in a document as a start tag, which gives the element name and attributes, followed by the content, followed by the end tag. ...

G. E. Tsydynzhapov, A. F. Shevchun, M. R. Trunin, V. N. Zverev, D. V. Shovkun, N. V. Barkovskiy, and L. A. Klinkova "Observation of a Transition from BCS to HTSC-like Superconductivity in Ba 1-x K x BiO 3 Single Crystals " JETP Letters, 83 , 405 (2006) . This is well known that the electron concentration in superconductor K x Ba 1-x BiO 3 diminishes together with the critical temperature T c when the potassium doping x increases above x=0.35. ...

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Frank Borman . ... A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. ... Frank Borman retired from the air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...