... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 7 December 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that November 2015 was dull, wet and much warmer than average. ... This record highest maximum November daily temperature is shared with that recorded on 2nd November 2005. ... Taking the meteorological autumn months September, October and November together, Autumn 2015 was drier and warmer than average with about average sunshine. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 November 22 . Solar Flare from a Sharper Sun . Image Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/AIA , NASA . ... The scene is a color combination of images made at three different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light; 193 angstroms shown in blue, 171 angstroms in white, and 304 angstroms in red. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The last 10 days have been great days for SOHO, the space-based SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory. ... The Worlds Largest Ozone Hole . ... The ozone hole that has been a cause of concern in recent years has again reformed over Earth's South Pole. ... In the Center of the Dumbbell Nebula . ... Resolving Mira . ... October 1st was the 151st anniversary of the day Maria Mitchell swept the sky with her telescope and discovered the comet of 1847 (comet Mitchell 1847VI). ...

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At each observatory you need to run the obs.pl program. ... Once you have logged onto the recorder PCs, you need to cd to the directory where the data is being recorded then run obs.pl. If the recorder is currently been run via cdisko or other programs which use "recorder_server", then an alias "recdir" is setup which will automatically change to the correct directory. ... vlbi . ... In such cases you need to run obs.pl on the machine where the data is being recorded - see the note below. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...