Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... I took some quick images of the Moon just by putting an Ipod Touch to the eyepiece of the telescope. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... Image credit: Colin Johnston & Julie Thompson/Armagh Planetarium) . ... I am looking forward to sharing the sky with our visitors when our monthly Open Nights return in October (date to be confirmed). ...

... Mars: Cydonia Close Up . ... Credit: Mars Global Surveyor Project , NASA Explanation: The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has returned another close-up of the Cydonia region on Mars. Orbiting over clear Martian skies at a range of about 200 miles, the Mars Orbiter Camera looked down on features known as the "City" on Mars and produced a high resolution image covering a swath around 1.5 by 15 miles at a pixel size of about 8.2 feet. ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Although the comet itself never comes dangerously close to the Earth, the particles of dust that it has shed during its many past passages through perihelion found their way into the Earth's atmosphere, appearing as meteors in the cold December sky. ... Animation 1 . ... An Ursid meteor captured by the Armagh Observatory's NE-facing meteor camera in the early morning of 23rd December. ... Meteor Showers Online . ...

ALBUM: UNSTILL LIFE Author: Anne Clark @ SONG : THE MOMENT Late april Late evening Powder blue sky cools and fades to a neutral tone of grey No hue No reflections Silhouettes - skeletons of steel take shape on the horizon iron takes the places of air each breath tasting bitter warm like blood Night descending in phosphorous little drops into my eyes sharper than the moment my stomach tightens as in acceleration cars or at the certainly of sex and doesn't pass This is where the ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Editorial: Climbing a Little Closer . ... In the late 1950s, my uncle Morgan and his best friend, Gerald, were using my uncle's small telescope to look at the night sky. ... Sputnik spurred them like so many others to build ships to climb into the sky, to join that chilly, violent Universe that embraces our little warm droplet of life. ... Yet they climbed higher each successful shot. ... Trying to climb higher. ...

These routines are meant to provide a generic and simple to use descriptor management facility (ie. event processing on pipes, connections and terminals). NOTE: THIS PACKAGE IS WORK IN PROGRESS. ... Manage a file descriptor for events. dm_unmanage . ... Multithreading Level: Unsafe . ... fd : The file descriptor to manage. info : The initial value of the arbitrary pointer associated with the managed descriptor. ... fd : The file descriptor. info : A pointer to the arbitrary information pointer. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 March 1 . Cassini Closes in on Saturn . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Are they gone? ... The mystery revolves around strange shadow-like spokes that appeared on Saturn's large B-ring , the large middle ring in the complex system of particles that orbits Saturn . ... About APOD | ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this magnet object POV file . This is two objects, one is the magnet, and the other is the paint around the magnet. ... The real magnets I based this on had thick paint, and several of them had chips around the edges. ... This is shown in the top magnet in the picture above. The magnet body is 0.75 units in diameter, and protrudes 0.22 units in the -Z direction from the "wall". ... WARNING: This POV object is based on a real object. ...

... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...

... The most spectacular view however is from space, where large areas of aurora can be observed simultaneously, even the entire polar cap. ... Such pictures often show a continuous ring of aurora around the polar cap (picture above), caused mostly by electrons leaking out along magnetic field lines, from the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetic tail. ... Field lines from the auroral oval are believed to lead to the plasma sheet. ... A near-Earth circular polar orbit has many uses. ...

. I got the code which does partial updates to work. And I modified the code of the different drizzle kernels to loop over the whole image rather than a single line. Search . Pages . Front Page . Weblog . Recent posts . Archive for 2014 . Archive for December . Commands . Edit Post .

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. ...

... To check the pointing, i did some calibration scans around noon. ... The tracking algorithm makes things worse when we loose tension in a tiedown ( it continually tries to push the platform higher, but there is no tension to release in the cable.. this tilts the platform). ... had td12 around 7.4 inches pulled down. should have been pulled more to increase the tension. lost tension td8 at start, . ... had td12 at 7.4 inches again. platform close to focus, but lost tension . ... td4 : use cable 2 . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Here Am A Even More Clearer Repsonse! ... Post Message | ... I am "well behind" in so many of my tasks that . ... It is more true in physics than in biology. ... Most everyone takes mathematics as a recipe book for solving problems (think about some Aurino's comments on E )." ... 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" . ...

2.5m Preflight Check . ... Preparations for Science: . ... If not already done, set Az and Alt brakes. Check that nothing is around/on the telescope which would interfere with altitude or rotator motion. Make sure nothing is in the path of the rotating racks, or on/around Az drive disk. ... Re-apply Alt brake when done. ... Make an Alt move. Combine motion test with drive surface checking/cleaning to allow access to entire surface.* ... Set Alt brake. ... Set Az brake. ... Axial A 1.9315 . ...

Comets are small, fragile, irregularly shaped bodies composed of a mixture of non-volatile grains and frozen gases. ... Most become visible, even in telescopes, only when they get near enough to the Sun for the Sun's radiation to start subliming the volatile gases, which in turn blow away small bits of the solid material. ... Nearly 100 known comets have periods (the time it takes them to make one complete trip around the Sun) five to seven Earth years in length. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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