... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... John Huggins . Consultant for Telescope control systems featuring Linux, VMEbus and embedded Pentium systems. Last Update January 23, 2005 . Listed Since January 23, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... LABOROSCOPES . ... Setting the New Perfomance Standard in Laboratory and Clinical Microscopy.. ... Offering the advantages of all three major contrast techniques – Brightfield, Phase Contrast and Darkfield – and perfectly suited for photomicrography, the LABOROSCOPE? always delivers sharp, crisp images, setting the new performance standard in laboratory and clinical microscopy. ... 1 EM-15X focusing eyepiece with 2 standard graticules; a 10mm / 100div scale and a 10mm x 10mm / 400 square grid. ...

... From the chain visibility point of view, it is very recommended to look at the Javascript movies , especially if the frame rate can be not regulated in your MPEG player. ... The non-CH-associated large-scale chains visible on the SOHO/EIT images at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram of December 16, 1997. ... The SOHO/EIT movies at 171 and 195 show the chain dynamics on June 1-3, 1998. ... Javascript movie (230 KB), SOHO/EIT, 171 . ...

Subatomic resolution on Cu(014)-O . 3nm x 3nm STM image of the Cu(014)-O 0.5ML surface measured with MnNi tip. ... This result has been discussed in Phys. Rev. Letters, 98, 206101 (2007) (A.N.Chaika, V.N.Semenov, S.S.Nazin, S.I.Bozhko, S. Murphy, K. Radican, I.V.Shvets, "Atomic Row Doubling in the STM Images of Cu(014)-O Obtained with MnNi Tips"). Image courtesy of A.Chaika. The image was measured in constant current mode using RT STM GPI-300. Copyright ISSP RAS, LSSS, 2006-2007 . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . Positions of the asteroids that have been sent by observers to the Minor Planet Center are automatically processed by means of calculation of (O-C) values with the help of the EPOS software package created at Pulkovo Observatory. ... Here attention is paid to observations of the near-Earth asteroids. This work was initiated by Dr. O.Bykov at Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory. ...

President's Message STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... The telescope was used in determining mid-course position, navigation to a lunar landmark for landing on the Moon, and navigation for liftoff from the Moon and navigation to the Command Module which was orbiting the Moon during the Astronaut's exploring the surface of the Moon. ... See you on Dec. 1st! ...

Flexible frame grabbing to PC over PCI bus from area & line scan cameras . ... Analog input up to 20 MHz and digital input up to 32 Mbytes/Sec. ... The LPG-132 will easily interface to virtually any analog or digital camera and provides lightning fast PCI transfers at an amazingly attractive price. The LPG-132 will interface with any camera or sensor at data rates up to 32 Mbytes/Sec. ... The LPG-132 comes in two configurations - one for analog input and the other for digital inputs. ...

... 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. ...