You don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. You can see much of it from your own back yard. ... If you enjoyed The Nine Planets , go outside and take a look at what you just read about. ... Touring the Universe through Binoculars . ... Refer to Sky & Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever: . ... William Herschel . ...

Program to display an object's position in real time} {Set the delimiter to % so we can use , in prompts} set_delimiter(%) {On first pass, get the name of the object etc.} if (s1=.) set_string (s1%Sun) display _title(+++ Real-time Positions +++) write_string (Possible objects are:) new_line write_string (Sun, Moon, name of a planet, parabolic or elliptical) new_line new_line ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

Fourier Transforms Tutorial Narrabri Synthesis Workshop Sep 2001 In this tutorial I am hoping to show you four essential properties of the Fourier plane, as it relates to interferometry. ... Working with Fourier transform images There are two parts to the fourier transform of an image, the real and imaginary parts. ... But for thinking about interferometers and visualising Fourier transforms, it is often easier to look at the amplitude and phase. ... Now compare the phase images. ... Transform back. ...

... This is usually defined as the direction pointing toward the center of the primary body. ... NODE: The place where the plane of one orbit crosses the plane of another. ... ORBITAL PLANE: The flat surface that would result if every point on the orbit of a body was connected to the center of its primary. ... PENUMBRA: The edge of the primary body's shadow. ... PERIOD : The time required for one body to orbit the primary body. ... PROBE: A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

... Great oppositions. ... Proxima Centauri. ... Scientists proved that the problem of preserving the Earth's climate and the annual change of seasons can be solved by a small star, negligible mass, but similar to a main-sequence star, moving in a circular orbit around the Sun. ... Sombrero Galaxy. The Sombrero Galaxy, M104, is known as a holder of one of supermassive black holes. ... Roughly estimate the approximate mass of the supermassive black hole in the center of M104 (answer in solar masses m). ...

ALBUM: Fragile Group: Yes 1971 Atlantic Records --------------------------------------------- @ SONG : Roundabaout (Jon Anderson/Steve Howe) I'll be the round about The words will make you out 'n' out You change the day your way Call it morning driving thru the sound and In and out the valley The music dance and sing They make the children really ring I spend the day your way Call it morning driving thru the sound and In and out the valley CHORUS In and ...

listing for HDU #1: SIMPLE = T BITPIX = 16 /8 unsigned int, 16 32 int, -32 -64 real NAXIS = 2 /number of axes NAXIS1 = 3056 /fastest changing axis NAXIS2 = 3056 /next to fastest changing axis BSCALE = 1.0000000000000000 /physical = BZERO + BSCALE *array_value BZERO = 32768.000000000000 /physical = BZERO + BSCALE *array_value OBJECT = ' ' TELESCOP= ' ' / telescope used to acquire this ...

... This is the real fix of SSC-SPR-6458 (the previous version didn'n fix it). ... Version 2.15 - 2003-11-26 ( VNY ) ------------ Protected against inconsistency of the image size and DETSEC attribute +( src / ommodmap_mod.f90 ) Version 2.14 - 2003-11-18 (CB) ------------ DEPEND file ammended for ssclib 3.0 Version 2.13 - 2003-11-18 ( VNY ) +( src /Makefile) link to SASDAL added to the makefile in order to rectify the static build Version 2.12 - 2003-11-13 ( VNY ) +( src /Makefile) ...

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Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

Allows you to specify the magnitude, proper motion, etc. of the object. ... Mag : magnitude of object. ... Obs Date : date of observation; used for correcting proper motion and radial velocity. ... PM RA/Long : proper motion in RA or Longitude, in arcsec/century. ... Warning: like all option panels, this one must be visible for its settings to have any effect. ... Defaults: restores this panel to its default values (the same values that will be used if you slew with this panel closed). ...

Application of IVOA software tools for radio sources investigation Zhelenkova O., Kopylov A., Chernenkov V. The interrelationship between the objects of astronomical catalogs in the different ranges of electromagnetic spectrum and their association into the real astrophysical source has obvious scientific interest. ... We used NVSS as the reference coordinate catalog. ... For 60% of radio sources identified with the objects of the radio catalogs we discovered optical candidates in SDSS survey. ...

tranback -- Transform an X,Y position from output to input pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle tranback xout yout . xout = 400 [real] . ... The X dimension of the input image (this is used to determine the centre which is the origin of the transformations). (nyin = 800) [real] . ... If "output" the input image center is mapped to the center of the output grid, rotated about that center and then shifted along the grid of the output image. ...

... In a game of ping-pong, suppose a paddle moves at 20 miles per hour and hits a ball with 20 mph in the opposite direction. ... In the new problem, a ball moving at -40 mph hits a non-moving surface; if the collision is elastic (no energy lost), that ball returns with the same speed but in the opposite direction, i.e. its velocity reverses sign. ... Something very similar happens when a spacecraft with velocity v passes close to a moving planet and is deflected. ... Could Earth capture a second moon?...

... Workshop | ... I work in a field of relativistic astrophysics, and my current scientific interests are black holes and cosmology. Black holes are objects predicted by General Relativity. ... Why Do We See So Few Black Holes in Massive Binaries?" (with V.M. Lipunov). The limits got on massive binary system parameters for accreting black hole to be observable. ... Winter School on Black Holes Astrophysics 2002 . ... International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics 2002 . ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . ... And now it's a high time for everyone not only to take use of the satellite communication, but also to fly into the real space without being a professional cosmonaut. ... My flight into space is not a walk, it is fulfillment of my life-long dream", - said Dennis Tito prior to take-off. ... ATLAS aerospace company is privileged to offer you a real flight into space - the most unbelievable and challenging adventure. ... Services / Space flight: General description ....

Composition and Cartesian product of continuous mappings are continuous. ... A segment of the real line is connected. An arcwise connected set is connected. ... A closed subset of a compact set is compact. ... A continulus mapping of a compact is uniformly continuous. ... Newton--Leibnitz formula. ... Taylor's formula. Taylor series expansion of some elementary functions including $(1+x)^\alpha$ for arbitraty $\alpha \in R$. ... A formula for the convergence radius of a power series. ...