... Following the Observatory's initiative in 2002, drawing attention locally to the issue of light pollution and the problems it produces both for astronomy and awareness of the night sky, and for saving energy and improving the natural environment, Mark Bailey made a presentation on light pollution, on 7 May 2003, to the Armagh City and District Council Environment, Health and Recreation Committee. This focused specifically on the growing problem of light pollution in the City of Armagh. ...

Bridge World Standard Bridge World Standard (BWS) is a system based on the majority preferences of approximately 125 leading experts and thousands of Bridge World readers. ... Jacoby transfers (splinter rebids; game raise is slam try; two diamonds plus two spades forcing only one round); two spades shows minors; three hearts invitational, major two-suiter; Texas transfers; Stayman (two-spade rebid invitational; two-heart rebid weak; minor rebid forcing); Smolen; three of a minor invitational; Gerber. ...

High Pressure Research, 20M). ... Downloaded By: [HEAL-Link Consortium ] At: 15:53 14 January 2008 HIGH PRESSURE STUDY OF THE 2D POLYMERIC PHASE OF C60 BY MEANS OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY J. ARVANITIDIS , K. P. MELETOV b,c, G. A. KOUROUKLIS ', K. PAPAGELIS a, A. SOLDATOV K. PRASSIDESd and S. VESax ... In addition, high-pressure treatment of C60 at high temperatures leads to polymerization of the pristine material [5]. ... A number of new modes appear in the spectrum under high pressure. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... 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.. ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... 2012/10/18 . GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)? (http://eros NULL .usgs NULL .gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info) . ... You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. ... 2014/11/12 at 1:03 am . trusted@pillspot.com (http://trustedpillspot NULL .com/?p=777&lol= ? ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... a utility program that enables the user to interact with the UNIX operating system. Commands entered by the user are passed by the shell to the operating system which carries them out. ... The user may select which one they wish to use. a character at the start of the command line which indicates that the shell is ready to receive your commands. ... This is assumed to be the keyboard unless input is redirected or piped from a file or another command. the destination for information from a command. ...

... C+ will give a nicer C++. ... SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" Currently, there is only one known circumstance in which \s-1XPA\s0 can get (temporarily) deadlocked in a race condition: if two or more \s-1XPA\s0 servers send messages to one another using an \s-1XPA\s0 client routine such as \fIXPASet()\fR, they can deadlock while each waits for the other server to respond. This can happen if the servers call \fIXPAPoll()\fR with a time limit, and send messages in between the polling call.) ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... The flying laboratories, which are designed on the basis of the "IL-76 MDK" wide-body airplane, can create short-term weightless conditions. ... Weightlessness lasts for 25 seconds and can be recreated up to 15 times within one flight. ... The airplane volume (3,4m У 3,2m У 14.1 Л), as well as the payload of experimental equipment, allocated in the laboratory compartment, advantageously single out our airplane from the similar ones in the world. ... Flight . ... 25 sec . ... Upon request . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Open access submissions and content now available . ... Отправлено: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:50:43 +0300 (EEST) Тема: Open access submissions and content now available Planetary and Space Science Welcomes Open Access Submissions @media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) { } p { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; color: #53565A; } img { display:block; -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; } Can't see this email properly? ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

A.I.Neishtadt . Probability phenomena in perturbed dynamical systems . ... If in a deterministic dynamical system a small variation of initial conditions produces a significant change of motion, then the behavior of such a system is practically non-distinguishable from a random one. ... Such quasi-random behavior exists also in systems which differ by an arbitrary small perturbation from systems with a very simple (periodic or quasi-periodic) dynamics. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

To order one of the possible additional functions use list box at the top left of the Select elements dialog box. ... On each element El in this column one can impose selection conditions of the types . ... El >= B AND El <= C. If B > C, then selection will contain all minor planets with element El complying with disjunction of conditions: . ... If conditions are imposed on several elements, then selection contains only those minor planets, which satisfy all requirements. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . ... Sky this Month . ... space flight . ... Imaging Basics . ... New repairs and additional imaging begin on space shuttle Discovery . ... Space shuttle Discovery remains inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where technicians today are starting repairs on three support beams, called stringers, on the outside of the shuttle's external tank. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Magnetic field experiment on Vega - 1 and 2 spacecraft. ... Two spacecrafts, Vega-1 and Vega-2 have been launched aboard Proton rockets from Baykonour on 15 and 21 December 1984, respectively. ... During the cruise phase from Earth to Venus both Vega-1 and Vega-2 spacecrafts had one-axis orientation i.e. Bx of magnetometer was directed to the Sun, By and Bz axes were rotated around Bx-axis. ... Spacecraft position data are presented in HGI and SE systems. ... Vega-1 magnetic data for 1984 . ...