... Contemplating the Sky . ... Last night was a good one for midnight meditators at many northerly locations as meteors from the Perseid meteor shower frequently streaked through. The Perseid meteor shower has slowly been building to a crescendo but should continue to be rewarding tonight and into the week. ... Why is spiral galaxy Centaurus A in so much turmoil? ... A Perseid Meteor . ... Earth at Night . ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 from VLT . ... NGC 2997 is a grand design spiral galaxy. ...

... Magnetic fields, subatomic particles, etc., traveling in different directions fill the universe. Do they deflect or otherwise affect one another? If so, isnт??t the information we get from them distorted? ... Neutrino astronomy, which is still in its infancy, is attractive because neutrinos interact so weakly with matter that few of these distorting effects occur. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 August 6 . Muon Wobble Possible Door to Supersymmetric Universe . ... Explanation: How fast do fundamental particles wobble? ... The unexpected wobble rate may indicate that this sea houses virtual particles that include nearly invisible supersymmetric counterparts to known particles. ... About APOD | ...

The sections <Directory> , <Location> and <Files> can contain directives which only apply to specified directories, URLs or files respectively. Also htaccess files can be used inside a directory to apply directives to that directory. ... The order of merging is: . ... If multiple <Directory> sections apply to the same directory they are processed in the configuration file order. ... Using the options in question is only possible inside a <Directory> section (or a .htaccess file). ...

... The plug-plates of SDSS project are responsible for locating the optical-fiber plugs spatially and for defining the plug tilt with respect to the surface of best focus. ... Previous attempts to match the SDSS plug-plates to the surface of best focus were conducted using only the bending fixture. The analyses performed indicated that by adding a central constraint to the plug-plate deformation process, the plates could be made to match the surface of best focus within an acceptable range of error. ...

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... 430 plots . ... 430 dome . 430 rcvr dome and carriage house centered at 430 MHz. interim correlator: . ... the old optical lab (or photometer lab) is on 110V Power from Building 1. several incandescent lights . ... seq: off, off . ... seq: on . ... A dotted purple line was made where it looked like rfi was coming from this location. spectral results 430 dome, all locations vertical scale .04Tsys (.ps) ( .pdf ) . spectral results 430 dome, all locations vertical scale .2 Tsys (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ...

... What is there beyond the edge of the universe? ... This is often illustrated by newspaper headlines: "Scientist sees face of God, confirms Big Bang model" (a reference to results from the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite), "Is the cosmos younger than some of the stars it contains? ... The Lone Universe . ... We cannot reproduce it; we cannot take another one and see what happens to it; we cannot compare it to anything else, as astronomers routinely do with planets, stars, and galaxies. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... It is necessary to select a topic interesting from scientific point of view and simple enough to allow students understand and participate in all stages of experiment from measurements via data analysis to physical inference. ... Solar modulation effects and physical characteristics and analysis of the major solar events are possible only by joining data from space-born and surface particle and radiation detectors. ...

... The first of the equations defines the position of the spectral orders, m , in the raw image, while the second equation gives, for each order, the dispersion relation in one dimension. ... where the coefficients are computed using least squares techniques on a grid , i.e. sample number and line number of points located within the spectral orders of the image. These points in the grid are found automatically by an order--following algorithm, normally using the FLAT or STD image. ...

Understanding Europa's Radiation Environment and How it Influences Landing Site Characterization G.W. Patterson, L.M. Prockter, C. Paranicas Applied Physics Laboratory Introduction · The surface of Europa is weathered by charged and neutral particles, micrometeroids, and photons. ... Background · Criteria for characterizing potential landing sites [e.g., Figueredo et al., ... 2004) Background · Criteria for characterizing potential landing sites [e.g., Figueredo et al., ... Figueredo et al., ...

... NASA Lunar Orbiter . ... The Lunar Prospector is designed for a low-polar orbit investigation of the Moon, including mapping of surface composition and possible polar ice deposits, measurements of magnetic and gravity fields, and study of lunar outgassing events. Data from the 1- to 3-year mission will allow construction of a detailed map of the surface composition of the Moon, and will improve our understanding of the origin, evolution, current state, and resources of the Moon. ...

... We proposed that information retrieved from the local surface photometric behavior of the Moon could be used for guiding the remote sensing analyses of specific geological targets. ... The value of the difference of intensities mentioned above may be used as a photometric parameter I of the local surface roughness. ... 7] Apollo 11 Prelim. ... Figure 5 represents the diagram of relationship between photometric roughness parameter and local thorium content in different lunar regions. ...

The efficiency of interaction of radiation with a particle and hence its optical properties depend on the particle chemical composition, size, shape, structure, etc. ... Particle size expressed in units of the wavelength of incident radiation, together with chemical composition, most strongly affects the optical properties of a scatterer. ... There are many methods to solve the light-scattering problem for a homogeneous spheroid (our survey of the light-scattering methods see here ). ...

Next: A Universal Diagram for Up: ``Ecology'' of Magnetic Rotators Previous: The Corotation Radius . The interaction of a magnetic rotator with the surrounding plasma to a large extent depends on the relation between the four characteristic radii: the stopping radius, , the gravitational capture radius,   , the light cylinder radius,   , and the corotation radius,   . ... Hence, the classification of the interaction regimes may well mean the classification of magnetic rotators. ...

... LOCATION . ... The administrative centre, the library, scientific laboratories, computer center, hotel and apartment houses of an observatory are located in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhiz , which is situated in 25 kms to the south from a village Zelenchukskaya. ... It is desirable to come on conference by the following types of transport: . ... During the conference period it is supposed to conduct a public meeting of the section "Sun" with discussion of results of the researches made in 2005. ...

The antenna element Ravi ATNF, Narrabri 1. ... Miriad works out the radio Parabolic reflector: A parabolic reflector adds all the fields from a surface = aperture at a focal point. ... Feeds are `compact' and `corrugated' horns The inner profile is curved The inner surface has grooves Cross-section of a horn Sub-reflector 28 main-reflector Feed horn O `optical axis' The feed horn adds all the rays that come from the 28 deg. wide sub-reflector. The feed down-weights rays that come off-axis. ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 5 June 1998, 1100 UT (RR) . Mercury is the closest (0.39 AU) planet to the Sun . ... It has, e.g., an exceptionally high density, a magnetosphere with unknown origin, and no permanent atmosphere or ionosphere . ... The magnetosphere - solar wind interaction must lead to the development of a magnetospheric current system, and magnetospheric substorms take place. ... The substorms are very short-lived, only couple of minutes. ... 1998). ... 103 , 9113-9119, 1998. ...

ST ScI Preprint #1355 . Authors: Lionel Siess, 1,2 Mario Livio 1 This paper extends our previous study of planet/brown dwarf accretion by giant stars to solar mass stars located on the red giant branch. The model assumes that the planet is dissipated at the bottom of the convective envelope of the giant star. ... We propose that the IR excess and high Li abundance observed in 4-8% of the G and K giants originate from the accretion of a giant planet, a brown dwarf or a very low-mass star. ...