UPDATE FROM 03/08/2012: AT THE TIME OF ARRIVAL IN ENVIRONMENT DISTURBANCES OF LARGE SOLAR FLARE 05.03 0230 0409 0643 N17E52L299 X1.1/2B 3.7E-11 429 1 CME AND DEVELOPMENT MODERATE MAGNETIC STORM, IN COMPLEX ACTIVE REGIONS ON SUN AR11429 (N18L299, Sp = 1270 m.v.h. at 7.03) + AR11430 (N19L315, Sp = 200 m.v.h to 7.02) THE TWO LARGE SOLAR FLARES WAS OCCURRENCED 07.03 0000 0024 0349 N17E27L299 3B/X5.4 6.7E-11 429 1 II / 2, IV / 2, ... NEXT WEEK THE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE. ...

... Wind Speed: 0 mph . ... Average (15 minutes): 1 mph . Current Rainfall: 0.00 in/hr . Rain Storm Total: 0.00 in . Storm Started: n/a . Rainfall Totals: . Today: 0.00 in . This Month: 0.78 in . ... Sunrise: 7:06AM . ... Credit: Joe Jaworski's Davis Weather Station Linux software . ...

Blue Moon, What Is It? ... Moon | ... By popular acclaim, the second Full Moon of a calendar month is called a Blue Moon. ... If the last Full Moon of this calendar year comes after the December solstice but before New Year's Day, then it's inevitable -- the following year will have an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ... There are always thirteen Full Moons in a calendar year that hosts a "New Style" Blue Moon, and almost always twelve Full Moons during a calendar year that features an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . International Space Station . JSC Turns 40 Home | ... In 1998, when the first module of the new International Space Station launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, world attention once again riveted towards space, this time to witness a new beginning. Twenty-one flights into a 90-flight assembly sequence as of this month, the ISS is already a spacecraft of unprecedented capability for advancing the human exploration of space. ...

... The Calendar . 6a. Jewish Calendar . ... 8c. Moon dist. (1) . ... In the Jewish calendar, today is the 6th day of the month of Adar --and in this year, that is the "first Adar" or "Adar Aleph", because this is a leap year. ... Of course, you realize that the Jewish calendar follows the Moon: "Rosh Chodesh," the beginning of the month, is always supposed to fall on the new Moon --the time when the Moon's position in the sky passes that of the Sun. ... When does the Jewish year begin? ...

Eduardo Ojero eduardo.ojero@esa.int . ... Next message: [sas-uploads] SAS manifest dmactrackun [xmmsas_20081209_1801_md5sums] uploaded . Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] . Dear colleagues, As you may have noticed, I am tidying up a little bit our old sas-devel and sas-upload mailman lists. In some cases old e-mail addresses have been replaced by updated ones. ... In order to complete the cleaning, I would appreciate your reply in 10 days since now. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

INFORMATION ON UPDATED EPHEMERIDES OF MINOR PLANETS SERVICE Due to rapid growth of number of the numbered minor planets the EMP data turn out to be substantially incomplete or out of date by the time they are used. ... The package computes positions of minor planets by the formulae of elliptic motion using sets of osculating elements obtained in advance for a number of non-uniformly distributed moments of time. ... In so doing coordinates and masses of perturbing planets are taken from DE 405. ...

In 1995 Eugene set an annual rainfall record by recording, officially, 65.56 inches of rain. ... The mean annual rainfall for Eugene from the 25 year period 1970-1994 was 51.5 inches with a dispersion of 8 inches. ... Wettest Years: . ... Below are the official NWS corrected rain totals for the year 1996. Although these are now "official", I go on record here by saying there is no way I believe that Eugene, Oregon received 101 inches of rain in 1996. ... January: Old = 14.74; corrected = 14.48 . ...

... Next: FITS Checksum Verification Up: Data Models and Previous: A Proposed Convention . ... The FITSIO Subroutine Library has been available for 3 years, and has matured into a stable, full-featured interface for reading and writing FITS format files. ... The FITSIO subroutine library for reading and writing FITS files is now three years old and is used by many projects as the standard programming interface for accessing FITS format data files. ...

The ut1.dat file contains the corrections made to UT1R-TAI time which is used by the Tempo and Tempo2. ... The corrections are published monthly by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) in several IERS bulletins Bulletins B, C, D'. ... The script `getut1' extracts UT1R - TAI for every 5th day and places it in the file ut1.tmp. ... Extract the required UT1 - UTC offsets using the script `getut1' %getut1 B.nnn This produces a file ut1.tmp in the iers directory. ...

... With this adjustment, the largest three-month range occurs in February-April and is 71 њF. The range for all year, still removing the January 1962 record low, is 88 њF. The expansion coefficient for aluminum alloy 6061 is 24.3 microns/m-њC while that for borosilicate glass E6 is 2.8 microns/m-њC. The expansion coefficient difference is 21.5 microns/m-њC. Combining this number with the scale factor equation from the previous section gives a coefficient of 0.207 mm/њC for primary motion. ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS ------------------------------------------ MAXMIN dates since 1610 of sunspot cycle maxima and minima YEARLY yearly mean numbers beginning in 1700 YEARLY.PLT all yearly means in form suitable for plotting MONTHLY monthly means starting in January 1749 MONTHLY.PLT all monthly means in form suitable for plotting SMOOTHED 12-month running averages since July 1749 SMOOTHED.PLT smoothed averages in form suitable for plotting 1980- daily counts (1 table/year) from January 1980 to present

Summary by Month . Generated 04-Feb-2011 23:59 MSK . ... Month . ... Monthly Totals . Hits . Files . ... Feb 2011 . ... Jan 2011 . ... Dec 2010 . ... Nov 2010 . ... Oct 2010 . ... Sep 2010 . ... Aug 2010 . ... Jul 2010 . ... Jun 2010 . ... May 2010 . ... Apr 2010 . ... Mar 2010 . ... Generated by Webalizer Version 2.21 ...

... A bright flare-up of emission (>1000 Jy) was found in OH-maser source during tests of 18cm receiver in observations with Kalyazin 64-m radio telescope (August 2004). ... Appendix (The list of used acronyms) ASC Cold Plate DC Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Instutute cooled LNAs and antenna feed hermetic device container (part of payload ); it contains Formatter, Rb oscillators, synthesizer, control unit and is placed under dish DM Device Module = DC + H-maser EGSE ...

News archieve . February 4, 2013 . ... January 15, 2013 . On January 29 XXXVII Annual Academic Korolyov Readings are starting. The schedule of the conference is divided into 21 sections each section for specific theme. The conference lasts on February 1st. ... The new academic year has already started and it's time to think about what you're going to do next summer. We suggest you taking part in our annual summer students workshop "Space development: theory and practice." ...

... Sun's ecliptical positions. Explanations. Each row contains at 0h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial: month, day , day of the week, julian day number at beginning of day (only last three digits is given, add head of column to form correct number ), longitude in system of mean equinox of date (degrees, minutes, seconds ), two latitudes (the first for mean equinox of date and the second for mean epoch of year; seconds ), radius-vector (astron. units), precession in ...

... This year's most powerful solar flare was photographed by TESIS telescopes in the southern hemisphere of the Sun on July 5th, 2009. ... Events of such power are unique and are only observed during maximal solar activity. ... For two months, all the activity of the new solar cycle was connected with areas of this belt, including the first solar flares and coronal mass ejections of the year. ... Nevertheless, this year's largest solar flare occurred in the southern belt. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Rovers get fourth-year brain boost . ... Finally, the brain-boosted rovers will be better at avoiding potential hazards and escaping navigational dead-ends. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...