... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums . ... For The Record...."vague Denials And Buck-passing?" Forum List | ... Post Message | ... Posted by Michael W. Pearson on October 17, 2002 16:06:07 UTC . ... carefuluniverse - October 17, 2002 - 20:27 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

JSC History . JSC Oral History . NASA History . History-NASA Centers . ... NASA Oral History Project: Chilean Miners Rescue . ... NASA Provides Assistance to Trapped Chilean Miners . NASA Engineer Helps Chilean Miners . ... Alphabetical List A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z Administrators Aviatrix Herstory Ballistics JSC OHP ISS OHP NACA OHP Experts OHP Space Shuttle Program Earth System Science NASA at 50 STS Recordation Chilean Miners Rescue Shuttle-Mir OHP SCA-SRB OHP C3PO OHP . ...

... Computerised Instrument Control and Data Acquisition (CICADA) is a software system for control of telescope instruments in a distributed computing environment. ... Computerised Instrument Control and Data Acquisition (CICADA) is a software system developed to provide access to, control of, and retrieval of data from, instruments mounted on observatory telescopes. ... Each instrument class generates its own request data structures using its own generate_req method, which is called by the control...

... The Russian TESIS (FIAN) Solar Observatory has transmitted observations back to Earth of the solar eclipse made on July 22nd, 2009. ... On the first occasion, the satellite passed through the eclipse area at 04:30 Moscow time, making it the first on our planet to see the shadow of the Moon, which was still in space and was only approaching the Earth ( film 1.2 MB, wmv format ). ... The first Moon passage over the solar disk (00:30 UT) (Movie wmv; 1.2 MB) . ...

... Luminous blue variable (LBV) stars are the most massive stars with 40-120 solar masses, which are passing the short stage of evolution losing their hydrogen envelopes before exploding as Supernovae. These are extremely rare objects, only about a dozen of the most massive LBVs are known in the Galaxy. ... In the spectral observations of stars with infrared circular nebulae, found in the Spitzer survey (24 microns), a new LBV star in the Galaxy was discovered. It was named MN112. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Le monde entier regarde V†йnus passer devant le Soleil . ... Hier soir, †а New York, les curieux scrutaient le ciel dans l'espoir qu'une †йclaircie leur laisse entrevoir V†йnus devant le Soleil. ... Transit et Soleil de minuit . ...

... This glossary is not meant to be an exhaustive list of techno-definitions. ... Is there a term you don't see here? ... Do you know how to pronounce the CONSTELLATIONS , STARS , or the PLANETS and their MOONS ? ... First Law - the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at a focus . ... LIGHT BUCKET: A common slang term for a large apertures . ... LIGHT POLLUTION: The illumination of the night sky caused by artificial light sources on the ground (streetlights, billboards, etc.) ...

... Files in red?history) . ... The Sun . ... Large sunspots may be occasionally seen by the unaided eye, with the sun near the horizon and dimmed by thick haze. ... Year after year, beginning in 1826, on every clear day, Schwabe would scan the sun and record its spots, until 17 years later he began to suspect a regular variation . ... Some, led by Rudolf Wolf, examined old records to reconstruct earlier sunspot cycles, while Edward Sabine in England in 1852 found a similar periodicity in magnetic...

Our friend, mentor, and colleague Alanna Connors passed away on February 2, 2013. ... She received her undergraduate physics degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and a Doctorate in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland in 1988. ... Her research in X-rays and later gamma-ray astrophysics required solid statistical methods which were generally unknown to astronomers in the early nineties. ... She also had an interest in public science education. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... I may have lied to you and about you, and made a few pronouncements a bit too sweeping, perhaps, and possibly forgotten to tag the basses here or there, And damned your extravagance, and libeled your tastes and libeled your relatives, and slandered a few your friends O.K., Nevertheless, come back. ... Come back.. ... We will invite the undertaker, who lives beneath us, And a couple of boys from the office, And some other friends. ... And a few reporters, if anything should break. ...

This page is devoted to information on supernova 1999ee and 1999ex in IC 5179 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... Use this 1999ee VSNet data query and this 1999ex VSNet data query to see what information has been reported so far. ... vsnet-alert 3714 ] SNe 1999ex and 1999ee in IC 5179 . ...

Next: CHECK/ROMAFOT Up: Additional Utilities Previous: ADDSTAR/ROMAFOT . FCLEAN/ROMAFOT cat_tab inti_tab [into_tab] . With this command the user can avoid examining all the objects found on the artificial image and, consequently, is able to save a considerable amount of time. FCLEAN/ROMAFOT compares the intermediate file created by GROUP/ROMAFOT to the catalogue created by ADDSTAR/ROMAFOT and selects only the windows which contain an artificial image. ...

OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

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