... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

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... First announcement . Second announcement . ... Astronomy in Ukraine Past, Present, and Future (MAO-2014) . ... The Conference devoted to the 70th anniversary . ... Pre-registration for the conference is terminated. The second announcement will be released on the 1st of March. Those who have filled out the pre-registration form will be asked to continue with the registration. Those who register for the first time, will be offered a full registration form. ...

Images and text 2003 Paul Valleli . While up at Stellafane for pre-convention preparations, I spent some early morning times, experimenting with different videography setups on the 13" F/10 Schupmann at the McGregor Observatory. ... Mars was too bright and would have required neutral density filters. ... Next time, I will try 12mm and 9mm projections. ... I aquired about ten thousand frames by 3AM, at which time a breeze picked up and the seeing went to Hellas! ... 2003 Paul Valleli . ...

. In an effort to provide a centralized database for indexing locations and descriptions of Shuttle debris, the editors of Astronomy Net have generated a database and web page where reports can be logged. This may or may not prove useful for cataloging debris reports, but Astronomy Net is happy to dedicate computer resources to help out any way possible. We express our sympathy and prayers to the families and friends of the Columbia crew. If you have located Shuttle debris, report it here.

... Астрономические каталоги . ... Астрономический Интернет . ... на учебный Автоматизированный Астрономический Комплекс Новосибирского Государственного Университета. ... Автоматизированный Астрономический Комплекс оснащен телескопом-рефлектором системы Ньютона с параболическим главным зеркалом диаметром 315 мм. и солнечным телескопом-рефрактором с объективом диаметром 100 мм. ... Расположен астрономический комплекс на лабораторном корпусе НГУ в Академгородке, 30 км к югу от г. Новосибирска. наверх . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VLSS . ... To facilitate access for UK and European users, MRAO is providing a UK Mirror of the VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS), which is being produced in the US jointly by NRAO and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). ... A catalog of discrete sources on these images created by fitting a elliptical Guassians to all sources detected at the 5 sigma level or higher. ... This survey contains publicly available images and catalog information on over 1.8 million radio...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...