... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 October 27 . Close To Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . Explanation: Scroll right and fly close over asteroid Eros! ... The car-sized Near Shoemaker spacecraft is now on its way to a higher, more stable orbit about 200 kilometers above asteroid Eros . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact . ... Credit: NASA Explanation: On February 20th, 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed into the Moon . ... Two kilometers across, with 4 meter sized objects visible, the picture is of an area in the Sea of Tranquillity north of the Apollo 11 landing site. ... Publications with keywords: impact - Ranger program - spacecraft - Ranger 8 - Moon . Publications with words: impact - Ranger program - spacecraft - Ranger 8 - Moon . ...

... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . ... ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. ... Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.) ... A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.) ... Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.) ... Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.) ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 10, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 30, 2011 | ... 2 Comments The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organisation for astronomy which is supported by fifteen countries. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... A small, newly-discovered asteroid named 2008 TC3 is approaching Earth and chances are good that it will hit. ... Monday, 6 October 2008 23:47 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... September/October 2006 . ... Only two planets have orbits that carry them between Earth and the Sun, and Mercury?s occasional passages across the Sun?s face have punctuated critical times in the evolution of our knowledge of the Universe. ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . ...

... S. G. Pugacheva. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, 13 Universitetsky pr., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Universitetskii pr. ... S. G. Pugacheva and V. V. Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, 13 Universitetsky pr., ...

... OOF . ... OOF Index . ... OOF software . ... Fits up to fifth order . ... These are experimental data currently being analysed, not final documentation of research. ... Only fitting for Zernike orders up to and including 3rd to concentrate on finding possible off-axis aberrations. ... The results below show that when fitting for all Zernikes up to and including fifth order, the output maps vary greatly between pixels. As above, but fitting up to fifth order Zernike polynomial. ...

... October 6, 15:00 15:40 . ... PDF [2.3б MB] October 6, 15:40 16:30 . Warren Skidmore (TMT), Reed Riddle (TMT), Angel Otarola (TMT), Sebastian Els (TMT), Tony Travouillon (TMT), Matthias Schoeck (TMT), R. Dahl (ISIS), D. Naylor (ISIS), R. Querel (ISIS) . The results of the characterization of precipitable water vapor (PWV) in the atmospheric column carried out in the context of identifying potential sites for the deployment of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) are presented. ...

Mathilde . ... On June 27, 1997 the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... On June 27, 1997 NEAR made a spectatular 25 minute flyby of Mathilde which resulted in more than 500 images of a dark, crater-battered little world that dates to the beginning of the solar system. ... This first image of asteroid 253 Mathilde, returned by the NEAR spacecraft just before 10:00 AM EDT on June 27, 1997, was taken from a distance of 1800 kilometers (1120 miles). ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... MRO Support Facility . Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Current telescope status . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Meetings . ...

. The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft took this image of the surface of Eros as it made its closest approach to the large asteroid. When the picture was taken, the spacecraft was only 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) away. For scale, the boulder just below and right of center is 50 feet (15 meters) across. NASA/JHUAPL

Maidanak Laboratory is a part of Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University. ... Observations are conducted with 1.5 meter RC telescope AZT-22 of Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan). rus . ... maidanak lab home page . ... at Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 2000). ... Because of technical reasons, we had to use three different CCD cameras in our observations, Pictor-416 camera in 1995, Pictor-416 and TI 800 x 800 cameras in 1997 and 1998, and ST-7 camera in 1999 and 2000. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... Michael Collins (BGEN, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... SPECIAL HONORS: Presented the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969 and recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, and the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini VII mission. ... Collins served as command module pilot on Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969--the first lunar landing mission. ... This is the only version available from NASA. ...

Publications in Russian . V. Gorshkov. ... View text . V. Gorshkov, M. Vorotkov. ... Gorshkov V.L., Miller N.O., Vorotkov M.V. Manifestation of solar and geodynamic activity in the dynamics of the Earth's rotation. ... Gorshkov V., Shcherbakova N. On recent geodynamics of the Eastern Baltic Sea region. ... Chandler Wobble in Variations of the Pulkovo Latitude for 170 Years. Solar System Research, 2011, Vol. ... Early Latitude Observations at the Pulkovo Observatory. ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . GRB workshop 2009 . ... M. Barkov (Space Science Institute, Russia) . G. Beskin (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... T. Fatkhullin (SAO RAS , Russia) . ... V. Komarova (SAO RAS , Russia) . I. Khrykin (SFU, Russia) . ... A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS , Russia) . ... V.V. Sokolov (SAO RAS, Russia) . T.N. Sokolova (SAO RAS , Russia) . O.V. Verkhodanov (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Chairman – Gregory Beskin . ... Spectral and photometric monitoring of distant SNe in SAO RAS. ...

The pupil mirror array for NIFS was successfully manufactured in early October 2001 by Labor fuer Mikrozerspanung (LFM) of the University of Bremen. The monolithic array of 29 toroidal mirrors are diamond machined in an aluminum bar. ... White light interferometric image of the central element of the pupil mirror array. Pupil mirror array. Pupil mirror array in it storage container. ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...