Click for a video of the pendulum . ... In 1851 Leon Foucault (1819-1868) was made famous when he devised an experiment with a pendulum that demonstrated the rotation of the Earth. Joseph Ashbrook's book, The Astronomical Scrapbook , (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has a short chapter on Foucault's contributions to astronomy. ... Click here for more a detailed pdf document (5MB) about the University of Louisville's Foucault pendulum along with technical notes and the original working drawings. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

. 4.02. And here is the second one, on another hill. Please pay your attention to the wild cow's excrements in the front of the photograph. Actually, people don't hold cows here, only hens and buffaloes. But there are wild cows on the island.

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 03 апреля 1998 (1998-04-03) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Hubble Reveals Details Of A Newly Born Planetary Nebula Привет всем! ... STScI-PR98-15 HUBBLE REVEALS DETAILS OF A NEWLY BORN PLANETARY NEBULA Astronomers have caught a peek at a rare moment in the final stages of a star's life: a ballooning shroud of gas cast off by a dying star flicking on its stellar light bulb. ...

... Technique of supervision of solar atmosphere active formations with the Multichannel Flare Spectrograph. Consider in details now a method of observations of fast processes in solar chromosphere with Multichannel Flare Spectrograph (MFS) installed in Ondrejov Observatory (Czech Republic). ... The working spectral range lies between IR CaII 8542 A and K CaII 3870 A. To observe solar image on the spectrograph's slit a lens, narrow-band H-alpha filter (4) ("Daystar") and CCD-chamber are used. ...

The Astronomical Journal welcomes new submissions at IOP Publishing . ... From: Andrew Wray < andrew.wray@iop.org > . ... On behalf of the IOP-AAS Project Team, I am delighted to announce that IOP Publishing is now processing all new submissions to the AJ. Submitting a new article . To submit a new article to the journal, go to http://authors.iop.org/aj , where you will find our beta version of the new AJ web submission site. ... Refereeing an article . ... IOP Publishing . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Submitted by Robert Halstead on 01/12/2015 11:43:34 . Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 on Jan. 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. The comet is quite bright and could be seen easily in my 10x50 binoculars. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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 . ...

... Participant : The person whose name appears on the booking form. ... Participation Fee/ Optional Program Price . ... Passport and Visas . ... Travel insurance is highly recommended for all Participants while attending SpaceDTP-2016 and any related optional trips arranged by the Organizer. ... This booking condition states that the Participant must assume that he/she is not covered by the Organizer insurance policy including all liability insurance, for death, injury, damage or any other loss. ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... LabelMgr Class Reference . ... intљ . labelObject (const QString &text, const QString &objectName, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999", const QString &side="E", double labelDistance=-1.0, const QString &style="TextOnly") . ... labelScreen (const QString &text, int x, int y, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999") . ... setLabelText (int id, const QString &newText) . ... virtual voidљ . ...