... On the left is a normal star field containing the constellation Orion. ... A Star Where Photons Orbit . ... Enceladus orbits Saturn between the smaller Mimas and the larger Tethys. Enceladus is composed mostly of water ice and has the cleanest and purest ice surface in the Solar System. ... The Crab Nebula resulted from a star that exploded - a supernova. ... The outer layers of the star were thrown violently into space, while the inner core collapsed to form a neutron star. ... Water World . ...

... January 5, 1997 . Too Close to a Black Hole . ... Explanation : What would you see if you went right up to a black hole ? ... On the right is the same star field but this time with a black hole superposed in the center of the frame. The black hole has such strong gravity that light is noticeably bent towards it - causing some very unusual visual distortion. In the distorted frame, every star in the normal frame has at least two bright images - one on each side of the black hole . ...

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. ...

Fall 1999 . ... Dave Hartsel talking with my wife, Sarah . John Boggs is enjoying a nice look through Max's 4" . ... Mike Grilley (me) Talking with our illustrious President, John Boggs. I took this picture of my wife, Sarah, opening up the observatory. (she doesn't know it's here, Shhhhh) . ... In June of 1999 Dave Hartsel, my wife Sarah and I went to Apollo 99. ... My wife Sarah and Dave at Apollo '99 . Sarah at Apollo '99 . Dave at Apollo '99 . ...

... Two years ago, the Clementine space probe snatched this picture of the Moon as lit not by direct sunlight, but by reflected sunlight from Earth. ... Out With the Tide . ... Tides occur because the gravitational force between two bodies decreases with distance. ... The imbalanced gravitational pull of the Moon causes the oceans to be slightly non-spherical, creating two high tides and two low tides. ... In return, the Moon exerts a gravitational force on the high tide, causing Earth to rotate slower....

... You can boot Linux either from a floppy or from the hard disk. ... When booting Linux from a floppy disk, the boot sector contains code that just reads the first few hundred blocks (depending on the actual kernel size, of course) to a predetermined place in memory. On a Linux boot floppy, there is no filesystem, the kernel is just stored in consecutive sectors, since this simplifies the boot process. ... For example, when I boot, I it looks like this: љ љ љ љ LILO boot: Loading linux. ...

... Any moves, combos, errors, or other information is greatly appreciated. ... Rolling Moves : Roll Clockwise = P Then D/F (keep hitting D/F to keep rolling) Roll Counter Clockwise = -not known yet- -Projectile Throw : -None- = -none- Back to List of Characters --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiko - Punch Moves : Two Handed Lunge = F + P 2-hit Combo = B , B + P Toss = B + P ( close ) - Kick Moves : Mid Kick = F + K Crescent ...

... 17mar10: allowable za range, tiedown tensions for mar10 . ... We have at least 20 kips of td tension on each corner . ... A constraint for our pointing model is that the carriage house is at stow (8.835 degrees). ... Bottom: With the dome at za=8.4, the carriage house can travel from 0 to 20 degrees za and stay within the 3000 kip-feet limit. ... run the dome from 6 to 10 degrees za with the carriage house at stow (8.835). run the ch from 0 to 20 degrees with the dome at 8.4 degrees za. ... dome . ...

For all keywords that contain a red and a blue value, the blue value comes first. ... The full pathname, but without the trailing "b.fit" and "r.fit", that would be given to the next exposure if the basename argument is not given to the expose command. ccdHeaters=float,float . ... bluelambda2=float [M] . The center wavelength for the given grating: the 1 or 2 indicates the grating bay. The bluelambda and redlambda keywords match one set of these, depending on the position of the turret. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

Observatories 1 --- | ... Mills Observatory . ... The observatory building . ... One of the conditions of the transfer was that the Observatory would move to a better site, so ROE moved from the (increasingly smoggy) City Centre to Blackford Hill, about 2 miles south. ... Rumour has it that the site (which is pretty close to being below sea level, a novel idea for an observatory) was chosen based partly on the sunshine records being kept by the town clerk in nearby Bexhill (Florida for the english). ...

... The Dish's elevation drive close up . Photo by Shaun Amy (CASS) . The Parkes Observatory occasionally holds Open Days, providing the best opportunity to get a very close look at our giant 64-m telescope. The photo above was taken during the Open Day in September 2007 by Shaun Amy. A tour group inspects the counterweight and elevation drive motors from the azimuth track. Throughout the year our Parkes Visi