The Solar spots - are the dark formations on the Sun's disk. ... The greatest observed spot is 100 thousand kilomiters. The spots are the places of the magnetic fields' getting out to the solar atmosphere. ... That's why they look so dark . ... The Solar convection zone is the layer with the thickness of 150 - 200 thousand kilomiters, situated under the photosphere; the substance of this layer being in convectional movement transformes the energy from inside the Sun's to its surface. ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces ћ Meade ћ Misc. ... Eyepieces | Post . ... Is This THE Place For Commercials ? ... Follow Ups | Post Message | ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Supernova 2006dy in NGC 5587 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2006dy in NGC 5587 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered by Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... Image Credit . ... Koichi Itagaki image . 2006/07/22.22 . ... JosИ Hernandez image . ... Koichi Itagaki . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 > Modules . ... mod_ext_filter presents a simple and familiar programming model for filters . ... any programming/scripting language can be used, provided that it allows the program to read from standard input and write to standard output . existing programs can be used unmodified as Apache filters . ... mod_ext_filter directive to define a filter . ... program /usr/bin/enscript, with the type of . ...

... replaced by Duplicator class . ... Short images are always unsigned. ij.plugin.ImageCalculator.calculate(String, ImagePlus, ImagePlus) . replaced by run(String,ImagePlus,ImagePlus) . ... ij.gui.NewImage.createUnsignedShortImage(String, int, int, int, int) . ... replaced by ImagePlus.setOverlay(Roi, Color, int, Color) . ... replaced by the Plot class. ij.gui.PlotWindow(String, String, String, float[], float[]) . replaced by the Plot class. ij.gui.PolygonRoi(int[], int[], int, ImagePlus, int) . ...

... Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION is canceled . ... With great regret we have to inform you that the Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION scheduled to take place 28 September, 2009 - 4 October, 2009 in Moscow, Russia, has been canceled by the Organizing Committee. ... On behalf of UNIVERSAT-2009 Organizing Committee, . ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... The Sun stays at the center and the planets orbit it serenely, each in its place. ... Tiny Pluto, orbiting the Sun an average of nearly 40 times the Earth's orbital radius, has an odd orbit. Most planets orbit the Sun in nearly perfect circles, but Pluto's orbit is noticeably elliptical. ... The orbits of Pluto and Neptune have a coincidental timing to them: Pluto orbits the Sun twice for every three times Neptune does. ...

... Meteorite Boguslavka fall , October 18, 1916. ... By fear of such awful stories we will learn to do good and to keep God's commandments and then we will be blessed" - lamented the scribe as he entered a meteorite fall in Great Novgorod into the Tale of Years. ... The greatest among them were meteorite falls in Great Ustyug (1290), Great Novgorod (1421) and near the village of New Ergy (1662). ... The third and fourth seals show the cloud of stones covering Great Ustyug rocks falling onto the town. ...

... Making a Case for METI . ... Many leaders of the modern SETI community oppose the deliberate transmission of messages from Earth to the stars in attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). ... Like Arecibo, our transmissions include scientific information. ... METI is not scientific . ... So, to increase the likelihood of effective communication across interstellar space, we include in our METI transmissions non-scientific messages: text, audio, video, art, music, etc. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... Other Planned Activities Include Solar Observing Astrophotography Presentations and CCD Demo's Field Trip to AAAP Observatory at Jenny Jump Workshop: Learning to Use Your New Telescope Plus Swimming (life guards provided), Fishing, Volleyball, Basketball, Hiking, Game room Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 per person ($45 after June 9) Bunkhouse -- $45.00 per ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... AngleSpinBox Class Reference . A spin box for displaying/entering angular values. More... #include < AngleSpinBox.hpp > . ... virtual voidљ . ... Set the value to default 0 angle. ... AngleSpinBox (QWidget *parent=0, DisplayFormat format= DMSSymbols , PrefixType prefix= Normal ) . ... Set the display format. ... the value to set, in decimal degrees. void AngleSpinBox::setDisplayFormat . ... the value to set, in radians. void AngleSpinBox::valueChanged . ...

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... Big Science with "Mini" Telescopes: Mapping the Galaxy from NYC, Cambridge, and Chile. ... Thursday, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:00 PM . ... In an office directly above the long-time meeting place of the group, Phillips Auditorium, Dr. Shapley spent decades studying the structure of our Galaxy. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Scope of Directives .htaccess Files . ... Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. ... Any directive may be placed in any of these configuration files. ... Apache configuration files contain one directive per line. ... Directives placed in the main configuration files apply to the entire server. ... The server administrator further controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files by configuring the AllowOverride directive in the main configuration files....

... It was a great privilege for me to live and work for dozens of years within that scientific and humanist community, especially for sixteen years at PhIAN. ... Mandelshtam began his research at the University of Strasbourg (Germany) with the famous physicist Karl Ferdinand Brown, who was the recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics together with Guglielmo Marconi for developing wireless telegraphy. ... Mandelshtam's collected works show that he was equally familiar with all the branches of...

Dear Colleagues, As you know, JENAM-2007 will take place in Yerevan, Armenia. ... JENAM-2007 will consist of 6 Plenary sessions (invited reviews on hot topics of modern astrophysics, 8 EAS Symposia, and 7 Special Sessions (SPS). ... The opening and closing sessions, EAS symposia and special sessions will be organized in the conference halls and auditoria of the Yerevan State University (YSU). ... The proceedings of the JENAM-2007 will be published in the EAS proceedings series in 2008. ...