... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Sequence of four video frames captured at 01:05 BST at Armagh Observatory on the night of the 24/25th July 2013, showing the onset, development and demise of the sprite. ... Unlike common lightning discharges, which often jump between clouds or between the clouds and the ground, sprites are associated with similarly powerful electrical fields that occur high above the clouds of the EarthтАЩs atmosphere. ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Call for Proposals for Cycle 24 > Appendix D: Internet Links . ... http://www.stsci.edu/hst/proposing/apt . ... http://www.stsci.edu/hst/HST_overview/documents/uir/UIR_Parallels.pdf . ... http://archive.stsci.edu/ . ... Guide to the NASA Office of Space Science Education & Public Outreach Evaluation Criteria : . ... http://science.nasa.gov/about-us/science-strategy/past-strategy-documents/space-science-enterprise-plans/ . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... The 30 year Shuttle programme will be commemorated with this Mission Patch which won first prize in a competition organized by NASA. ... The mission patch for the very first Shuttle flight. ... Columbia ?s first missions were test flights. ... Though the Space Shuttle programme will soon come to an end its legacy will live on in the work of the satellites it has launched into orbit around our planet and beyond into outer space. ...

Through Thick and Thin In this Thread, we will discover how a given amount of light changes in intensity when the area it shines on changes.We will also make a final observation about the change in light and heat that happens when we tilt towards or away from the Sun. This explains why things seem less warm during the winter months, when the section of Earth we live on is tilting away from the Sun. ... Different amounts of the paper get covered with light when the flashlight or paper is tilted. ...

Balloon or Ground-based? Boomerang VSA CBI EBEX Sub-orbital CMB Experiments 15 EXPTS 10 EXPTS MUCH OF THIS DATA FROM: HTTP://LAMBDA.GSFC.NASA.GOV/PRODUCT/SUBORBIT/SU_EXPERIMENTS.CFM Multipole Range: Ground Multipole Range: Balloon Multipole Range: Balloon HIGHER MULTIPOLE EASIER FROM THE GROUND Multipole Range: Ground l < 100 50% OF GROUND-BASED EXPT. COVER L<100 Multipole Range: Balloon l < 100 100% OF BALLOON-BASED EXPT. ... HIGHER REWARD? ...

... Our next meeting will be November 9th at 8 PM in Peyton Hall. ... Orion Launch Abort System Stops in Philadelphia A full scale mock-up of the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS) is hitting the road for a cross country trek of several museums and science centers. ... Ken Kramer November 2010 Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton SnippeTs Planets NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star....

... 7 July 2007 Last month's meeting featured a great panel discussion on light pollution with NELPAG experts, a switch from our single-speaker meeting. ... It is membership renewal time again, and we have a new Membership Secretary, Dave Siegrist. ... This is also a good time to help the club further its education and public outreach mission in our communities and at the clubhouse by making a donation to the general fund or other funds. ... Virginia Renehan, President ~ This Month's Meeting.. ...

... M111 Jan 2008 . ... New Members . ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74-kilobyte ?hard drive.? ...