Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Asteroid Itokawa imaged by the Hayabusa mission (Image credit: JAXA) . ... All I had to do is leave my name at a website (long gone now so I can?t link to it). My name is all over the Solar System. if you know where to look. ... The New Horizons probe will almost certainly outlive the Solar System, so the names on board will attain a curious semi-immortality. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 20.04.1998 . ... Credit: Phil Weisgerber ( TRW ), AXAF Team , NASA Explanation: Can you name this satellite? ... But after whom should the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) be named? If your submitted suggestion conforms with contest rules and is chosen, you will have named the most powerful X-ray satellite ever built, and may even win a prize. ... April . ... April 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: satellite . ... SIRTF: Name This Satellite . ...

... James Webb . ... The space-based observatory will be known as the James Webb Space Telescope, named after James E. Webb, NASA's second administrator. ... As a result, we're rewriting the textbooks today with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and, in 2010, the James Webb Telescope." ... The Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., manages the James Webb Space Telescope for the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. ...

... Gallery . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: CSO - Early 1960s . Description: NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... CSO - Early 1960s NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. Powered by Gallery 3.0.9 (Chartres) . ...

Next: Review of Financial Year Up: Staff Previous: Staff Contents . ... Three new PhD students arrived in late September and early October 2004 , namely Ms Antoaneta Antonova, who completed her first degree in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and will work with Gerry Doyle on coronal radio emission from brown dwarfs; Mr Timur Sahin, who completed his first degree in the Department of Physics, Akdeniz University , Antalya, Turkey, and will ...

Sixto GonzАlez ARECIBO, P.R. -- Sixto GonzАlez has been named director of Arecibo Observatory, the home of the world's largest and most-sensitive single-dish radio telescope. ... He is the first native-born Puerto Rican to head the observatory. ... Commenting on the appointments, Brown said, "All of us share in the desire to enhance the scientific purpose of the Arecibo Observatory and bring the excitement of its research program to the people who provide its support. ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Earliest source: "[Observatory women computers], 1891." ... A group photo of computers at Harvard together with Mary Anna Palmer Draper, aka Mrs. Henry Draper. ... 1891 . General: The women depicted in this photograph analyized stellar photographs and computed data at the Harvard College Observatory. [link] 1891 . ...

San Francisco, March 22, 2007) -- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today that James Manning has been appointed to the position of Executive Director. ... The ASP Board and staff are totally delighted that Jim is joining us. With his long background in the planetarium world and informal science education, plus his great experience working with NASA, he is just the right person to take over the leadership of the ASP," said ASP President Dennis Schatz. ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... George Lutz Observatory . ... The G.H. Lutz observatory is named in honor of George H. Lutz who was involved in the early stages of design of the Ritchey Chretien telescope system which is widely used today. ... For purchasing a telescope you may visit The Astronomy Yellow Pages on-line. ... In 1999 became the managing director and resident astronomer for our observatory along with managing an on-line mall "Loron's Astronomy Mall" FAQ's GEORGE H. LUTZ (1.) ...

... October 26, 1997 . Welcome to Planet Earth . Apollo 17 Crew , NASA . Explanation: Welcome to Planet Earth , the third planet from a star named the Sun . The Earth is shaped like a sphere and composed mostly of rock . ... Earth has a single large Moon which is about 1/4 of its diameter and, from the planet's surface, is seen to have almost exactly the same angular size as the Sun . ... Please enjoy your stay on Planet Earth. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... Asteroid DayУ?т??т??s Don Yeomans: Will asteroid 2013 TX68 strike Earth? ... As Earth was molten early during its formation, dense metals should have sunk toward the core, yet iron is found closer to the surface. Did asteroids and comets deliver some of these materials? ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2016 > AGN: what's in a name . ... Science Users Information . Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Different bands employ different methods to identify these sources but, most importantly, provide different windows on AGN physics. ... 1. the different types of AGN selected in the various bands . ...

Moore Observatory is located on the 200-acre Horner Wildlife Refuge in Oldham County, Kentucky. ... The observatory is named for Walter Lee Moore, Professor of Mathematics at UofL from 1929 to 1967. Dedication ceremonies were held on November 8, 1978 with introductions by Dr. John A. Dillon, Jr., then Vice President for Academic Affairs at UofL. The Moore Telescope dedication was made by Dr. John F. Kielkopf, who is the observatory's director. ... Dr. Moore . The 21-inch Moore Telescope . ...

... aiscam@finesse . ... Install Appropriate Filters and Edit filters.txt file . Edit filters.txt file on aiscam@finesse in /home/aiscam/config . ... aiscam: filter -ini ; initializes filter information . aiscam: filter -r ; lists filters installed . aiscam: filter 4 ; moves filter wheel . ... aiscam: fpzero -w 4044.4 -1591.47 ;set fpzero with wavelength and central z . ... aiscam: file dark ;set filename for dark exposures . ... aiscam: file bias ;set filename for biases, no time needed . ...

... Pushchino Observatory of the P.N.lebedev Physical Institute RAS . Russia . ... Saint-Petersburg State University . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS . ... Research institute of applied mathematics and mechanics of Tomsk State University . ... Pulkovo Observatory . ... Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg State University . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy . ...

... A data set contains a science frame and all its associated calibration frames. In order to archive a maximum of efficiency the CCD package uses a simple and straightforward naming convention: the names of the data sets are identical to the names of the science frames. ... By combining the calibration frames of a particular exposure type ( e.g. bias) the user can create a master calibration frame. ... Below follows a listing of calibration frames that currently can be handling in the CCD package. ...

... Media Files . ... There are media files (ppt, pdf of presentations shared by authors) on this page. ... Alexander Gusev (SAI), Boris Artamonov (SAI) . ... Maidanak Observatory by AZT-22 1.5m telescope observations (poster) . PDF [2.3€аMB] . ... PDF [692.6€аKB] . ... PDF [704.7€аKB] . ... Some results after 10 years of site testing at Concordia . ... Giant Magellan telescope site testing summary (poster) . ... Peter Scheglov - pioneer of site testing in the Central Asia (poster) . ...

... Most objects in the Dal Model have a name, and an owner (usually referred to as the parent). ... The colon character is used to separate the names of datasets, blocks and columns, but the % character is used before an attribute name. e.g. "set:tab:col%att" is the fully qualified name of the column-attribute with name "att", whose parent column has name "col", whose parent table has name "tab", whose parent dataset has name "set". ...