The Bringer of Peace V enus is the second planet from the Sun and the sixth largest. ... S ince Venus is an inferior planet, it shows phases when viewed with a telescope from the perspective of Earth. ... T he pressure of Venus' atmosphere at the surface is 90 atmospheres (about the same as the pressure at a depth of 1 km in Earth's oceans). ... Craters on Venus seem to come in bunches indicating that large meteoriods that do reach the surface usually break up in the atmosphere. ... Earth .. ...

... 2007 June 16 . Lunar Orbiter Views Crater Copernicus . Credit: NASA , U.S. Geological Survey . ... The mosaic of 93 kilometer wide impact crater Copernicus features central peaks rising above the crater floor and rugged crater walls. Note : As of today, June 16 , the APOD editors have enjoyed presenting images from space missions, major observatories, and professional and amateur cosmic tourists alike for twelve years . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 16.06.2007 . ... Credit: NASA , U.S. Geological Survey Explanation: To prepare for the Apollo landings , five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched during 1966 and 1967 to gather detailed images of our fair planet's large, natural satellite . ... Note : As of today, June 16 , the APOD editors have enjoyed presenting images from space missions, major observatories, and professional and amateur cosmic tourists alike for twelve years . ... June . ... June 2007 . ...

... Dione's icy surface includes heavily cratered terrain, moderately cratered plains, lightly cratered plains, and whispy material. The heavily cratered terrain has numerous craters greater than 100 kilometers in diameter. ... Much of the heavily cratered terrain is located on the trailing hemisphere , with the less cratered plains area existing on the leading hemisphere . ... Because Dione is relatively small, an impact causing a 35 kilometer (21 mile) crater could have spun the satellite. ...

... News . ... NASA's New Horizons detects Pluto surface features, including possible polar cap . ... New Horizons scientists interpreted the data to reveal that the dwarf planet has broad surface markings some bright, some dark including a bright area at one pole that may be a polar cap. ... These latest New Horizons images allow the mission science team to detect clear differences in brightness across Pluto s surface as it rotates. ... NASAт??s New Horizons nears historic encounter with Pluto . ...

... WFC3 Data Handbook > Chapter 5: WFC3-UVIS Sources of Error > 5.5 Image Anomalies . ... Ghosts appear as images of the pupil formed from the light of a bright target in, or near the UVIS detector FOV. ... Further details concerning these ghosts may be found in WFC3 ISR 2007-09. ... Specifically, in full-frame, unbinned UVIS readouts, the CT level is ~2x10 -4 of the source when the target is in quadrants A or C and about 8x10 -5 when the target is in quadrants B or D ( WFC3 ISR 2009-03 ). ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... Atmosphere Class Reference . ... More... #include < Atmosphere.hpp > . voidљ . computeColor (double JD, Vec3d _sunPos, Vec3d moonPos, float moonPhase, StelCore *core, float eclipseFac, float latitude=45.f, float altitude=200.f, float temperature=15.f, float relativeHumidity=40.f) . ... Get fade in/out duration in seconds. ... getFlagShow () const . ... getFadeIntensity (void) const . ... Definition at line 40 of file Atmosphere.hpp . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...

The coordinates, diameters, altitudes and morphological features of all the craters of Mars exceeding 10 km in diameter, totaling 19 308, are compiled. ... The catalogue is intended for use by investigators of Mars, students, in comparative planetology and in the selection of craters for naming. ... 1 one terrace . 2 many terraces . ... 6 many hills and one ridge . 7 one hill and many ridges . ... 1 one crater . 2 many craters . ... Sample craters of different morphological categories . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...

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Modules | Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 . ... This document describes some of the major changes between the 1.3 and 2.0 versions of the Apache HTTP Server. ... On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. ... Also, new calls have been added that provide additional module capabilities without patching the core Apache server. ... New module in Apache 2.0. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > ALMA > European ALMA Regional Centre . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... The central node is located at ESO Headquarters in Garching bei MУМnchen and carries the responsibility for all the core ARC activities as well as the coordination of the additional science support provided by the regional nodes and centres of expertise . ...

... A significant amount of effort was devoted to the question of the properties and observability of meteors in the atmospheres of Venus and Mars. ... The work on meteors in the atmosphere of Venus complements earlier work by Christou (Planetary & Space Science, 47, 1475, 1999) which investigated the possibility of meteor showers on Mars. ... Figure 4: Comparison of Mutual Events Data obtained from Armagh Observatory (red dots) and Nyr?l? Observatory, Finland (green dots), on 15 March 2003. ...

Next: A New Field-Matching Method for Astronomical Images . ... While there are numerous libraries of publicly available IDL routines, one major drawback has been the lack of an image-display program optimized for viewing astronomical images. ... It works equally well under the Unix, Linux, Windows, and MacOS versions of IDL, and includes features such as interactive control of color stretch, zoom, and image scaling; image blinking; and creation of publication-quality PostScript output. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1998ey in NGC 7080 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. ... Ron Arbour discovery image 12/5.816/98 . ... Ron Arbour image 12/10.791/98 UT . ... cf. vsnet-chat 1503 . ... The new object, SN 1998ey, locates at R.A. = 21h30m00s.56, Decl. = +26o43'24".2 (2000.0), which is about 18" west and 20" north from the nucleus of the host SBb galaxy NGC 7080. ...