Status of EPIC operations Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo, ESAC Mallorca BOC meeting 29-30 March 2011 Routine Operations Nominal observations · See the Quarterly Status report at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/mission_status/index.php · Almost no time lost due to the instruments (~ 0.05%) Eclipse season; nominal. · 22 earth eclipses, one combined earth+lunar eclipse, and one lunar only. ... Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo | ... Status_Oper_2011.ppt | XMM-Newton | Pag. ... Status of EPIC operations | ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... During the last 48 hours, solar activity of moderate-to-large intensity was registered with two class X events (one was a maximum X5), and also events of class M and C. Two Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) occurred in March 4 and 5 reached the Earth this (Thursday) morning, March 8 at 11 UT (7 AST), and large variations in the Earth's magnetic field and energetic particle precipitation into the poles are expected. ... Arecibo Observatory €а . ...

COPRATES CHASMA NORTH WALL INTERIOR LAYERED DEPOSIT: LAYER MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISON WITH JUVENTAE CHASMA ILDS USING MARS EXPRESS HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA (HRSC) DERIVED TOPOGRAPHY Michael, G.1, E. Hauber1, K. Gwinner1, R. Stesky2 ... Planets, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany 5ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Introduction: The interior layered deposit ( ILD ) in the north wall of Coprates ... The lesser section of the ILD is confined by a ridge of the chasma wall. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Total Lunar Eclipse May 15-16 . ... Post Message | ... A total Lunar Eclipse. On the night of May 15-16 the Earth will come between the Sun and the Moon casting a shadow that will slowly cover the Moon. ... The last total Eclipse was on a day where it snowed 10? all day. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Canon of solar eclipses in Russia for the interval 1000--2050 M. V. Lukashova, L. I. Rumjantseva Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia Solar eclipses are quite rare events. ... The Canon contains the basic data about the solar eclipses observed in ter­ ritory of the former USSR (in boundaries of 1990) from 1000 to 2050 with the magnitude of phase exceeding 0.1. ... Beginning from 1887 several canons of solar eclipses were published. ...

... The storm began quite unexpectedly. The strongest geomagnetic storm for the last seven months began on Earth almost precisely at the same time as the solar eclipse reached its maximal stage, the culmination of which occurred at GMT 02:35 (06:35 Moscow time). ... Oscillations of such amplitude in the magnetic field have not been observed since October, 11th of last year, which is more than seven months ago. ... We can only add that the magnetic storm lasted approximately 9 hours. ...

... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Investigations of the ionospheric response to strong magnetics storms which are usual for our latitudes, are of great interest. ... In the figure, we present ionospheric parameter dynamics during three perturbed days in July 2000. ...

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! ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth . ... arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth (Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization) . ... Описан проект <A HREF=" http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html ">Sky in Google Earth</A>. ... http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/167.html#arxiv/0709.0752 . ... Еще они нам сказали, что image processing для DSS2 какие-то фонари в Гуггле делали 2 года!! ... А черт знает что там они делали два года. ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... 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. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Общий форум любителей астрономии > В Google Earth добавили слой показывающий засветку . ... Просмотр полной версии : В Google Earth добавили слой показывающий засветку . ... Теперь пользователь Google Earth могут посмотреть засветку для любой точки Земли . В слоях выбираем . Галерея - NASA - Earth City Light . ... Я ж выложил примерно положение в google earth? см выше (можно приблизить в программе, оно как раз по центру). ...

... SS433 is a close binary system, one star is a supergiant, a second one is a black hole. ... Even a black hole cannot accept such an enormous mass flux, a supercritical accretion disk appears, all the excess gas glows up to several tens of thousands degrees and is ejected off the disk with enormous velocities. ... SAO researchers have found an evidence of the supercritical accretion onto a black hole in SS433, which follows from a brightness variability of the SS433 disk. ...

... -instrument capability: manual at first; heading toward multi-port fast change capability [got it] Excellent pointing and tracking: 1 arcsec goal; can usually point to within ~few arcsec [or better] Excellent delivered image quality: 0.5 arcsec goal; often subarcsecond, but still feel we could improve about .3 arcsec [median seeing still about 1 arcsec ] Full suite of science instruments : Got them, upgraded them, have plans and paths to replace aging ...

... Leroy Chiao Depending on the lens and the aperture (the size of the camera's "eye" opening), some shots show great depth of field with artistic details of hard rock, ridges, valleys and rivers. ... Egypt's Lake Nasser, centered roughly at 22.64 degrees north latitude and 32.45 degrees east longitude, was captured with an electronic still camera by Leroy Chiao onboard the International Space Station. ... NASA ISS009E23442 the space station will be home to Expedition 12. ... Roundup 06 NASA...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...