I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

Next: A box, to include Up: To produce a region Previous: To produce a region . select cursor and circle . When in the image window, the mouse now has a box shape with an arrow at the upper left corner. The mouse buttons act as follows: . LEFT - to move the center of the circle at the position of the arrow point. ... RIGHT - idle. center the circle at the point source by positioning the arrow point and clicking on the LEFT mouse button. A circle will appear at the arrow position. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Around the World in 80 Telescopes . ... Credit: ESO / 100 Hours of Astronomy Explanation: Want to go on an extraordinary voyage? Today you can, by watching Around the World in 80 Telescopes . ... The Gemini North Telescope (Hawaii, USA) and the large observatories at the summit of volcanic Mauna Kea are scheduled for the first stops in the program beginning April 3 at 09:00 UT . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy Begins . ...

Sydney, December 3 4, 2009 . ... The following participants have registered for the workshop: . Hayley Bignall (ICRAR / Curtin University) . ... Mark Calabretta (ATNF) . ... Miroslav Filipovic (University of Western Sydney) . ... James Green (ATNF) . Christopher Hales (University of Sydney / ATNF) . ... Deanna Matthews (La Trobe University / ATNF) . Greg Madsen (University of Sydney) . ... Tara Murphy (University of Sydney) . ... Quentin Parker (Macquarie University / AAO) . ...

Motif and X-Windows . It is possible to execute a Motif application on a computer around the corner or around the world and redirect the input and output for the application to your workstation. There are files located on the Science Cluster to help you position and display windows from a remote VMS system. ... Copy two command files: . ... From one of the workstation windows, have the remote system execute the x command file and create the display on your workstation by using this command: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

This lecture is based on the end of chapter 2 in the text . You will be introduced to this in labs, but feel free to install and play with it yourself: link is http://www.vpython.org/ .

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... 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. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. October 21, 1999 . Follow The Spots . Credit: Louis Strous ( LMSAL ), SOHO - MDI Consortium, ESA , NASA . ... Just follow the sunspots . ... It shows the Sun's visible surface for most days of August 1999 so that the same sunspots appear many times as the solar rotation carries them across the face of the Sun . ... About APOD > . ...

UFO Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... Any Idea What I Might Have Seen? ... Post Message | ... Posted by Michael Robbins on September 17, 2003 16:12:49 UTC . ... I continued to look in the area and about 45 to 60 seconds later, it appeared again. ... Does anyone have any idea what I might have seen? ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... Alberto Castro-Tirado (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain) . Ram Sagar (India, Nainital, Manora Peak, ARIES) . ... Valdimir Sokolov (SAO RAS) . Timur Fatkhullin (SAO RAS) . ... GRBs and the importance of GRB observations in the INTEGRAL SWIFT Era (Castro-Tirado, 30'+ 5' for questions) . Recent GRB observations at SAO (Fathkullin, 30'+ 5' for questions) . GRB research in India (Sagar, TBC, 20'+ 5' for questions ) . ...

... To overlay the sourcelist srclist.ds generated previously by eboxdetect on an image image.ds the following command can be used: . srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds . ... To overlay circles of radius 0.01 degrees, use the following: . srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds sourceradius=0.01 . ... srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds sourceradius=0.01 withregionfile=true regionfile=regions.txt . ...

Arecibo is joining 16 other telescopes around the world to form a 'global telescope' to celebrate the start of the International Year of Astronomy. The observations, coordinated from the Netherlands, will follow three quasars for a 24-hour period. Arecibo will join the observations on January 15 between 11 am and 1:15 pm and between 5 and 8 pm (Puerto Rican time). ... Information on activities in Puerto Rico during the International Year of Astronomy can be found at Astronomy2009pr.org . ...

Last modified on November 25, 1996 by A. Richichi . Performance of the 1.23 mirror / November 1996 . Dear FIRPO friends, this is a report after my direct experience with the 1.23 mirror, and after Leonardo has reduced most of the photometry collected by VC/ChL in September. ... However, what is worrying is that I got the feeling that it is now much more difficult to find the sources in the eyepiece of the main mirror. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Asteroid 2010 SO16 and the Earth follow similar orbits around . the Sun. ... out a horseshoe shape in space, taking 175 years to go from . ... Asteroid 2010 SO16 takes 175 years to make the trip from one end of the horseshoe to the other. ... Currently, three other horseshoe companions of the Earth are known to exist but, unlike 2010 SO16, these linger for a few thousand years at most before moving on to different orbits. ...

This artistтАЩs impression shows exoplanet HD 189733b as it passes in front of its parent star, called HD 189733A. HubbleтАЩs instruments observed the system in 2010 and in 2011 following a large flare from the star (depicted in the image). Following the flare, Hubble observed the planetтАЩs atmosphere evaporating at a rate of over 1,000 tons per second. ...

... get out of the dumpster . ... get your keys from him . go get on your bike and ride . punch out the biker . ... hide in the yard (near left side) . ... put meat in a car . ... get fake ID's . ... open chest (use tire iron) . ... get hover unit from smashed car (use tire iron) . ... steal box of bunnies . open bunny box on field . ... go back to souvenir booth; get another box . open box #2 . ... open floor safe (use one of the part numbers) . ... get on your bike (far left of plane) . ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...