... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... On August 27, 2003, at 9:51 Universal (Greenwich) Time, Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth for quite some time. ... A lot of astronomers and news media are saying about how close it will be and how big it will look, but they are leaving out two crucial facts: Mars will be nearly 56 million kilometers away, and it's only fractionally closer than the last favorable pass. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

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This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/02/2013 14:08:17 . Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) – November 30, 2013 . Comet Lovejoy rises at 1 am and is the brightest comet in the early morning sky. ... It passed close to the Earth on November 20. Lovejoy is now moving away and is growing dimmer. 30 images x 120-second subframes, Total= 1 hour. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

The program "Pioneer" . Pioneer - 10", the first space vehicle started in March, 1972 to the Jove, has reached . ... This photo of the Jove was received December, 1, 1973 when space probe " pioneer - 10 " has come nearer to a planet on distance 2,5 million km. ... This photo was received by "Pioneer - 11" December, 6, 1974 from distance 1,1 million km from a planet. ... The picture is received in December, 12, 1974 when "Pioneer - 11" was on distance of 1207 thousand kms from the Jove. ...

This service is intended as an aid to visually observing close-approaching asteroids. ... By clicking on the column headers for "Object Name", "Maximum Brightness", and "Maximum Angular Speed", you can sort the list by those fields. ... When This is the predicted time when the asteroid will be closest to the Earth. ... This field shows red if an asteroid comes as close as the moon. ... PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) This does NOT mean that this is going to hit the Earth. ...

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Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 13 - 19.07.2015, Forecast on 20 - 27.07.2015, Carrington Rotations 2165, 2166 (17,64.06; 14,84.07.2015) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL WAS CLOSER TO THE LOW. ... FLARE ACTIVITY WAS AT THE LOW LEVEL ON JULY, 14, 18, 19.07 AND AT THE VERY LOW LEVEL IN OTHER DAYS. ... ACCORDING TO THE DATA FROM SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS, >34 CMEs, TWO WERE "PARTIAL HA- LO II" TYPE (angular width 90 - 180 deg.) ... CME AT 19.07. ...

... Edward L. (Ned) Wright received his AB and PhD degrees from Harvard University, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows. ... Prof. Wright is interested in infrared astronomy and cosmology. ... He has been working on the COsmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) since 1978. ... Wright, E. L. 2000, ApJ submitted, "DIRBE Minus 2MASS: Confirming the Cosmic Infrared Background at 2.2 Microns" . ... The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: II. ...

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... Michael Collins (BGEN, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... SPECIAL HONORS: Presented the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969 and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, and the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini VII mission. ... Collins served as command module pilot on Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969--the first lunar landing mission. ... This is the only version available from NASA. ...

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A year is a time interval approximately equal to the period of the Earth's rotation around the Sun. ... 2) a tropical year is a time interval between the Sun's two centre successive passing through the medium point of the vernal equinox (365,2422 days); . 3) anomalistic year is a time interval between the Sun's two centre successive passing through the perihelion of its visible heliocentric orbit (365,2596 days); . ... 6) lunar year includes 12 lunar synodic months (about 354, 367 days); . ...

... CYLINDRICAL PROJECTIONS: -Jc lon0 / lat0 / scale (Cassini) -Jj lon0 / scale (Miller) -Jm scale ( Mercator - Greenwich and Equator as origin) -Jm lon0 / lat0 / scale ( Mercator - Give meridian and standard parallel) -Joa lon0 / lat0 / azimuth / scale (Oblique Mercator - point and azimuth) -Job lon0 / lat0 / lon1 / lat1 / scale (Oblique Mercator - two points) -Joc lon0 / Je lon0 / lat0 / scale (Equidistant). Jf lon0 / lat0 / horizon / scale (Gnomonic). ...

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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) . ...

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... 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 . ...