... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... WILLIAM C. MCCOOL (COMMANDER, USN) . NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Coronado High School, Lubbock, Texas, in 1979; received a bachelor of science degree in applied science from the US Naval Academy in 1983, a master of science degree in computer science from the University of Maryland in 1985, and a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the US Naval Postgraduate School in 1992. ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... Submitted by Joseph Kristl on 01/22/2007 11:11:43 . ... 16:54:59 local 1/100 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400, fl = 400 mm . While Venus appeared somewhat brighter, it was much higher and thus in a considerably darker sky (and not through thin clouds). My impression at the time was that the comet was brighter than Venus (using calibrated eyeballs.. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

... Seminar archive . ... Seminar archive 2014 7 February . ... Сверхъяркие сверхновые и их механизмы излучения (Superluminous Supernovae and their Emission Mechanisms) . ... Случайное блуждание фотонов в релятивистском потоке: приложение к гамма-всплескам (Random walk of photons in relativistic flow and its application to gamma-ray burst) . ... In the relativistic flow, it has different behavior from the one in the non-relativistic flow due to the relativistic beaming effect. ... All seminars: . ...

. Date, from: . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 January February March April May June July August September October November December 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 . to: . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 January February March April May June July August September October November December 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 . Longitude, from: . to: . Latitude, from: . to: . Area, from: . to: . Brightness, from: . to: .

... One of the Case galaxies appeared to be a distant and bright AGN. This is CG 273 ( = 09 h 39 m 05 s .8, = +35 36'42", m CG =18 mag). Only one prominent emission line is seen in the wavelength range 3600 - 5500 ?. ... We identify it with the Mg II doublet 2798 ?, the corresponding redshift is 0.670. With the Hubble constant 75 km s -1 Mpc -1 and q 0 =0.5 its absolute blue magnitude M B = -25 mag, which places CG 273 to the class of quasars. ... 1/10/1998 ...

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