Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Full Sky Aurora Over Norway . ... Credit Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer Explanation: Higher than the highest building , higher than the highest mountain , higher than the highest airplane , lies the realm of the aurora. ... Best Short Astronomy Videos: APOD editor to speak in New York City on Friday, January 6 . January . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: aurora . Publications with words: aurora . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 2, 1997 . A Complete Aurora . ... U. Iowa ), Polar , VIS , NASA . Explanation : Aurora frequently make complete rings around a pole of the Earth. ... A complete aurora l oval is normally hard to photograph because part of it usually occurs over a brightly sunlit portion of the Earth. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 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). ... This page shows a list of all images tagged with "Astrophotographic Library". [link] 1892 Brick Building Construction . Earliest source: "[Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, construction, ca. ... Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, construction, ca. ... Harvard College Observatory building under contruction] 1892 . ...

... John Butler reports that the HLF-supported programme of restoration of three historic telescopes and their domes has continued throughout the year, and that a growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/). ... The new dome for the 18-inch Calver Telescope is now fully operational and awaits the return of the telescope to Armagh later in 2005. ...

Railroad Tycoon (RRT) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Compiled and Edited by David Mitton Rev 1 Draft 9-Feb-1994 Scope & Disclaimer: Not a complete treatis on RRT or RTD. ... Microprose information - Game Limitations (README.DOC) - Known Bugs - Version info - Hints and Strategy books - "The Computer Cheats!" ... Read the Tech Supplement - Why only 32 stations? ... Railroad Tycoon (RRT) and Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (RTD) are exciting strategy games of empire building, operation, and market manipulation. ...

... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . ... Title: Rebuilding the Commonwealth Solar Observatory . Description: Rebuilding the Commonwealth Solar Observatory building commenced in May 2006, and is due to be complete by end of January 2007. The external appearance of the east, west and south aspects of the building will be returned as nearly as practical to the original 1920s design. ... CSO viewed from the entrance road, looking weтАж . ... 27 June 2006 . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Opening of Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA production design with Cambridge Consultants Ltd . ... Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology have historically been among the very strongest scientific disciplines in Cambridge. ... Paul Alexander, Head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Director of the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, is the leader of CambridgeБЂ™s involvement in the SKA: . ...

dfos = Data Flow Operations System, the common tool set for DFO . That initialization file sets up a standard set of global variables which must exist for dfos to run. ... The .dfosrc file contains one part of the instrument specific (or better: account specific) information needed by dfos. ... The set of links under 'Installation' collect a set-by-step installation scenario which makes sense only if the configuration files are filled reasonably. ...

. NEdit is a popular GUI-style text editor for Unix and VMS systems. These are answers to the most frequently asked questions to discuss@nedit.org. This information is also available from: . ftp://ftp.nedit.org/pub/ <current>/FAQ, . and from the NEdit web page at: . http://nedit.org . Where to get information . Diagnosing and reporting problems . Building . Customization . Features . Server mode and nc . Editing techniques . Bugs . About the NEdit FAQ

It has been a busy time farewelling old and welcoming new staff members. ... Debbie has joined us as a cleaner and Lodge assistant, while Eric will work on the antenna drives and other power control systems. ... Millimetre observing during January (summer!) term was restricted to four 12-mm proposals (one of which experienced rain) and various tests. ... During the May term, millimetre observations at Mopra will be jointly run by the ATNF and UNSW, with each allocated six weeks of observing time. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #2639 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 06/06/00 - 0000Z (UTC) 06/07/00 Daily Status Report as of 159/0000Z 1.0 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed STIS/CCD 8439 (Bias Monitor-Part 2 C8) The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (CCD) was used to monitor the bias in the 1x1, 1x2, 2x1, and 2x2 bin settings at gain=1, and 1x1 at gain = 4, to build up high-S/N superbiases and track the evolution of hot columns. ... The proposal completed nominally. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...