... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

... How to Find Us . ... Take a stroll around the beautiful grounds of the Armagh Observatory Astropark. Armagh Observatory's Astropark is a scale model of the Universe where visitors can walk through the Solar System and into the Milky Way and beyond. The landscaped grounds are dotted with stainless steel scale models of the planets demonstrating how small our planet Earth is compared with some of its neighbouring worlds. ... Find out more about the Armagh Observatory Astropark. CONTACT US . ...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

... R.A. = 00h55m04s.86, Decl. = -37 41'43".7 . ... Variable star in NGC 1511 . ... Variable star near Pegasus 2001bn IAUC 8624 BV anon 2001bh 7622 K star ugc11635 2001dh 7482 M star ic5374 1999db 7227 QSO anon 1999dc 7227 AGN anon 1999cx 7210 AGN anon 1999cu 7210 AGN anon 1999bs 7141 cat var ugc11093 1998di 6982 dwarf nova anon 1993U 5818 QSO anon 1993V 5818 QSO anon 1992W 5517 M star mcg 8-23-96 1992X 5517 M star mcg 6-32-24 1991ap 5327 QSO anon 1989Z 5162 var ngc4013 1985J 4059 CV ugc6274 ? ...

... Structure Detection in Low Intensity X­Ray Images using the Wavelet Transform Applied to Galaxy Cluster Cores Analysis Jean­Luc Starck and Marguerite Pierre CEA/DSM/DAPNIA F­91191 Gif­sur­Yvette cedex Abstract. ... Multi­resolution filtering methods based on the wavelet coe#cients detection are also discussed. Finally, using a set of ROSAT HRI deep pointings, the presence of small­scale structures in the central regions of clusters of galaxies is investigated. ... 1995; Rosati et al. ... 1996). ...

... In this work, we investigate some a new possibility to estimate correlations between radio source position catalogs (RSC). ... Catalogs AUS AUS AUS AUS AUS AUS BKG BKG BKG BKG BKG GSF GSF GSF BKG GSF IAA MAO OPA USN GSF IAA MAO OPA USN IAA MAO OPA USN MAO OPA USN OPA USN GSF IAA IAA IAA MAO With correlations, the system to be solve consists of the equations: The key point is to obtain a reliable estimates of ij. ...

... Aims: Today, large ground-based instruments, like VISIR on the VLT, providing diffraction-limited (about 0.3 arcsec) images in the mid-infrared where strong PAH features appear enable us to see the flaring structure of the disks around Herbig Ae stars. Although great progress has been made in modelling the disk with radiative transfer models able to reproduce the spectral energy distribution (SED) of Herbig Ae stars, the constraints brought by images have not been yet fully exploited. ...

Next: GOCG Post-Observation Products . ... Reconstructed Orbit . JPL MMNAV Reconstructed Orbit . ... The JPL MMNAV files will be made available on the JPL MMNAV FTP site in directory [RAstron.ODDATA.JPLICV.TRACK] (note the capital letters). back to top . ... What: X-band Doppler tracking data will be transmitted in near real-time from the DSN GTS to the JPL MMNAV team and from the Pushchino GTS to the ASC navigation team, and post-pass (via FTP) from the GBTS to the JPL MMNAV team. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . Home of the Nation's Astronaut Corps . JSC Turns 40 Home | ... Wearing extravehicular mobility units, two astronauts evaluate techniques in the Weightless Environment Test Facility involving the space walk to capture the Intelsat satellite. ... Now, four decades later, about 160 astronauts are at JSC including some from overseas. ... The Weightless Environment Training Facility at the center was once used to train astronauts for spacewalks. ...

The following figures show the behaviour of the efficiency factors Q ext , Q sca , Q abs as well as albedo and asymmetry parameter g for porous particles. ... These optical characteristics are compared with results of Lorenz-Mie calculations for corresponding n -layered spheres. ... factors . Qext(x) . Qsca(x) . ... Qabs (x) . ... albedo (x) . ... Henning, Modelling the optical properties of composite and porous interstellar grains, Astronomy and Astrophysics , 429 , 371-381, 2005. ...

We have designed the laboratory model of static Fourier spectrometer for onboard usage for spectral study of atmosphere and ionosphere. The gain of model is to simulate onboard FS which will not have any moving elements (all its optical elements will be mounted at fused quartz monolithic construction), to compare experimental results with theoretical estimations and to measure MTF of CCD array. ... This fact connected with low frequency response of CCD array due to small format of it. ...

... Line radiative transfer in C 18 O, HCO + , and CS lines is considered in a spherically symmetric chemo-dynamical model of a starless core, evolution of which is driven by the ambipolar diffusion. Theoretical line profiles are compared to observational data on the well-known L1544 core, which is one of possible candidates for collapsing protostellar clouds. ... Comparison between modelled and observed spectra suggests that L1544 has flattened structure and is observed at some inclination. ...

... Institute of Solid-State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432 Russia . Received June 15, 2000) . Temperature dependences of the resistivity tensor components ab and c were measured for YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 - x single crystals with different oxygen contents. The resistivity anisotropy c / ab was found to grow exponentially with decreasing temperature. ... PACS: 74.25.Fy, 74.72.Bk ...

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Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas) HEA- 2007 , IKI, Moscow Missing baryons in inter-cluster gas Afshordi, et al, 2007 , astro-ph/0612700 35% +/- 8% Sample of 260 clusters WMAP SZ 3yr data Compared with 11 simulated clusters Assumed: Universal NFW profile Self-similarity Isothermal gas Possible explanations Observed stellar mass in galaxies: ~ 10% (Lin, et al, ... Simulations indicate that the effect is small (Dolag, et al, 2004) Can account for ~1-2% missing mass at most ...

October 14, 2010 =============== Address BUGS In bisque/mks: add Home on startup -- currently must be homed with the joystick reverse tracking direction in southern hemisphere check southern hemisphere mappings In order of priority -- Make a guide and manual available. Provide a method of determining best pointing correction parameters. ... Fully test pointing corrections on a system capable of arc second accuracy. ...

... DГЕs que les scientifiques ont eu la possibilitГї d'atteindre des tempГїratures et des densitГїs comparables Г celles rГїgnant au cЕ'ur des Гїtoiles, ils n'ont pas pu s'empГ?cher d'imaginer faire descendre dans leurs laboratoires les astres qu'ils ne connaissaient que par la lumiГЕre - pour les Гїtudier en dГїtail et pour comparer ces objets simulГїs avec la violence des incendies nuclГїaires qui s'allument dans les galaxies. ... Une situation qui n'est pas sans poser problГЕme. ...

CURRENT SHEET ENERGETICS, FLARE EMISSIONS, AND ENERGY PARTITION IN | SIMULATED AND OBSERVED SOLAR ERUPTIONS | ... We investigate coronal energy flow during a simulated coronal mass | ejection (CME), and compare observable characteristics of the simulation| |to observed eruptions. ... in the energy equation. ... flowing out the sides of the current sheet, the energy flowing out the | lower tip of the current sheet, and the energy flowing out the upper tip| |of the current sheet. ...

. Comment on J1842+7946 . Comparing the brightnesses of the two main features seen in our 5 GHz image with higher frequency VLBI images available in the literature (at 8.4 GHz from the USNO database and at 15 GHz by Kellermann et al. (1998)), one can conclude that the NW component has a steeper spectrum since the SE one becomes relatively stronger as the observing frequency increases. VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...