Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

... From a Bang to a Whimper - Celebrating Differing Views of the Universe - Tuesday 12 May 2009, Trinity College Dublin . ... Constructing a 16 inch Dobsonian Telescope: Monday 11 May 2009, Ballyclare . тАШ Discover the Stars at ArmaghтАЩ - the second Cross-Border Schools Science Conference, an International Year of Astronomy 2009 event, took place in Armagh on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th April 2009. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 21.10.1999 . ... Credit Copyright: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA Explanation: The Sun rotates on its axis about once every 27 days. ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... October 1999 . ... 1999 2000 . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - solar rotation - sunspot . ...

... The initial descriptions of the FITS format provided a simplified method for describing the physical coordinate values of the image pixels, but deliberately did not specify any of the detailed conventions required to convey the complexities of actual image projections. ... They were CRPIX n for the reference pixel location on pixel axis n , CRVAL n for the coordinate value at that pixel, CDELT n for the increment at that pixel in the coordinate value, and CTYPE n for the type of coordinate. ...

... The package AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is dedicated to solving a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... Obtaining selection of orbital elements and/ or photometric parameters of minor planets in conformity with imposed restrictions. ... The orbital elements of all minor planets used in AMPLE for 2015 have been determined in IAA on the ground of available observations in the catalogue of observations of the Minor Planet Center. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

... A Flag for Mars . ... A Flag for Your Planet Activity . ... This Mars flag was a red, green, and blue tricolor. ... Red stands for the current desert, green for a 2nd step planet with vegetation and blue for the fully terraformed blue planet Mars. ... The tricolor flag design is similar to the flags of many nations, including the following flags that have two of the three colors of the red, green, and blue tricolor Mars flag: . ... red . ... The official proportions of the U.S. flag are 10 x 19. ...

... Excel file with explanations how to fill; please, save the table in format not later Excel-1997-2003.) ... Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad that have to be translated into native languages of participants (if using Word, please, save the translation in format not later Word-1997-2003), attention for additions during last years ( blue and red text ): . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... solar system . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Tour the Solar System . ... Do the paths of totality during solar eclipses follow a pattern that repeats after a certain period? ... RELATED TOPICS: SOLAR ECLIPSE . Total eclipses follow a period known as the saros, which is 18 years and 11 1/3 days long. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Join Astronomy for America's 2017 total solar eclipse! ...

ERS -1,2 SAR . ... SIR-C/X SAR . ... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994, simultaneously recorded SAR data at three wavelengths (L-, C-, and X-bands; 23.5, 5.8, and 3.1 cm, respectively). ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . Engineering the Future . ... Building the new center was the easy part. But major questions still remained. How does one do these human space missions? ... These major entities-the Engineering Directorate, the program office and, soon, the flight controllers and operators-did not operate in a vacuum; the integrated strength of all of these organizations was crucial in achieving NASA's and the nation's grand human space flight objectives. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, th