... 2015 December 5 . Kepler Orrery IV . Video Credit Copyright : Ethan Kruse (University of Washington) . Explanation: The exoplanet hunting Kepler mission's total for candidate and confirmed multiple planet systems stands at 1,705 worlds in orbit around 685 distant stars. Put all of those exoplanet orbits on the same scale and follow their relative orbital motions to get Kepler Orrery IV . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

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) . ...

These notes summarize an informal HDF-S session at the Joint ESO/Australia workshop ``Looking Deep in the Southern Sky,'' which was held in Sydney, Australia, on 10-12 December 1997. ... AAT: 1 night imaging in broad and narrow (20 Angstrom) bands on HDF-S + environs using the Taurus tunable filter. ... NTT: HDF-S + surrounding region to be imaged under the auspices of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS). 15 x 15 arcminute field of view imaged in U, g, r, I, J and K. 13 nights allocated for Sept/Oct 1998? ...

... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... December : 2015 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 December 2015 to 28 December 2015 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . December 06, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances . ... December 08, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . ... December 21, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G2 (moderate) . ... December 16, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) 2 December 2015 - 28 December 2015 . ...

At 6:36am local time on Saturday, December 8, Puerto Rico began scanning deep space again. A skeletal crew of beleaguered Arecibo Observatory staff, following nearly two weeks of around-the-clock preparation, re-fired the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope, and the planetary radar. ... The first observations used the planetary radar to probe an asteroid, known as 3200 Phaethon. ...

... Star Colors in Orion . ... What determines a star's color? ... Red stars are cool, with surface temperatures of around 3,000 kelvins (K), while blue stars are hotter and can have temperatures over 30,000 K. Our own lovely "yellow" Sun's temperature is a comforting 6,000 K. Hanny s Voorwerp . ... More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dark stellar nurseries in which they formed. ... Apollo 14: A View from Antares . ...

... Armagh Observatory reports that December was much colder, sunnier and drier than average. The mean monthly temperature was тАУ0.3 degrees Celsius (31.4 degrees Fahrenheit), about 5.4 Celsius below average, making December 2010 the second coldest December in Armagh since records began around 1795. The three coldest Decembers in Armagh are now those of 1878, 2010 and 1796 , with average temperatures of -0.5 C, -0.3 C and 0.6 C respectively. ...

... 27 May-1 June, 1993 (6 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Calamai + Richichi . ... Log (OK) . 28 June-4 July, 1993 (7 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Richichi + Stecklum . Photometry (OK) . ... 20-27 December, 1993 (8 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Leinert + Richichi . ... 18-24 February, 1994 (7 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Richichi + Stecklum . ... 16-21 July, 1994 (6 nights) Calar Alto, 2.2m. Calamai + Richichi + Stecklum . ... 12-16 January, 1995 (5 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Richichi + Stecklum . ...

Meade Forum Message . ... Meade Equipment Discussion | Post . ... Re: Thankyou . ... Post Message | ... I am of the thinking that a 5mm eyepiece would be to much for the telescope right now and would rarely get used, besides if you get a 2x barlow the 10mm would effectively become a 5mm eyepiece but with a bigger exit lens. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

. The Enclosure is On!: December 21, 1999 . The day is VERY cold and flurries are just about to start, and the enclosure is rolled over the telescope! . Note all the room in the ceiling!! . And the 'piece de resistance' is walking around the telescope and getting around the doghouse. Everyone set up a cheer and now French can go and sleep at his own house tonight. More pictures to follow tomorrow.

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... Doug's Home Page . ... In the examples below we show a number of ways that data can be moved back and forth between S-Lang and Perl . ... Source code typeof : "undef"; __END__ __SLang__ variable foo = Any_Type [3]; foo[0] = "a string"; foo[1] = 23; define getfoo(x) { return foo[x]; } message( "In S-Lang:" ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[0]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[0])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[1]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[1])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[2]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[2])) ); . ...

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. ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... to the International Space Station . ... Technical management is chaired by N.N. Sevastyanov, President of RSC Energia, General Director for manned space complexes and Technical Manager for flight tests. ... The vehicle and ISS Russian Segment flight is under control of the Lead Operational Control Team (LOCT) working in the Mission Control Center in Moscow (MCC-M), (Flight Director is V.A. Soloviev, Vice-President of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Deputy General Designer). ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around the planet Jupiter, this morning began the first scheduled return of data from its companion atmospheric probe that parachuted into the jovian atmosphere last Thursday. ... Forty minutes of data collected by the probe stored in the orbiter's onboard computer memory will be radioed to Earth over the next four days and presented to Galileo scientists for analysis. ... Space History Galileo . ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...