... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 October 15 . Mysterious Changing feature on Titan . Image Credit: Cassini Radar Mapper , Cornell , JPL , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? ... Subsequent observations in 2014 found the object remained -- but had changed! ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Mystery Feature Now Disappears in Titan Lake . ... Credit Copyright: Cassini Radar Mapper , Cornell , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? Radar images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have been recording the surface of the cloud-engulfed moon Titan for years. ... In an image released last week, the mystery object seems to have disappeared in 2015 January. ... Publications with keywords: Titan . ... Soaring over Titan . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... space physics . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Sky this Week . ... Sky Events . Get to Know the Night Sky . Tour the Deep Sky . Sky Guide . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, Maryland . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Use the Gnome autoconf macros, or the gnome-config script, to reliably locate the Gnome libraries and header files. ... Include the standard INSTALL file describing how to compile and install the package; change the standard file to reflect anything specific to your application. ... Install a .desktop file so your application will appear on the Gnome desktop's menus. Install help files along with topic.dat files so the Gnome help browser can locate them. ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Marsfield headquarters . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... Brodrick, David (ATNF, Narrabri); Spratt, Gina (ATNF, Parkes); . ... John (ATNF, Parkes); Mader, Stacy (ATNF, Parkes) . ... Dawson, Brett (ATNF, Parkes); McIntyre, Vincent (ATNF, Marsfield); . ... Tony (ATNF, Marsfield); Schinckel, Antony (ATNF, Marsfield) . ...

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The objective of this course is to help you to understand some fundamental basic concepts behind the Java technology. The audience is assumed to have little or no prior exposure to Java and Object-Oriented programming. ... The topics will help you to understand how to use Java to create, access, and support Java applications and applets. ... Introduce object-oriented programming concepts and how they apply to Java programming. ... Extending A Class (Inheritance) . ... Hello World Applet . ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... Up: Web Services and Publications . ... This is being done natively in new Java-based applications while older applications are being wrapped to provide Web Service interfaces. ... Data access is via the network enabled NDF data access layer for the older, non-Java applications and via the new HDX layer (Giaretta et al. 2003) for the pure-Java application. ... Use of Web Services as a new messaging system will allow Starlink applications increased flexibility. ...

... Reconstruction of peculiar velocities of galaxies from large-scale redshift catalogues provides an exemplary application of optimal transport. ... U Frisch, S. Matarrese, R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevsky, A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe by optimal mass transportation , Nature, 417 (2002) 260-262 ( arXiv:astro-ph/0109483 ) . ... R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevskii, The Monge Amp re Kantorovich approach to reconstruction in cosmology , Physica D (2008) accepted ( arXiv:0712.2561 ) . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... Place of birth: Province (city/town), state, country . ... Passport data: 8.1.( ... Name of *.jpg file of photocopy of two main pages (double-page scan) of the passport (to be enclosed with the application) 9. ... 10.6. (for students) In what previous IAOs or APAOs participated (write years and Diploma, like: IAO-2003, 2nd Diploma) 11. ... GUVD 611, city Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Instrument Pipelines . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 05 Oct 2015 . ... New data products resulting from the VST Public Survey ATLAS are now available via the dedicated Phase3 query interface at the Science Archive Facility . ... Published: 31 Aug 2015 ....

... JavaScript version 1.3 provides the following new features and enhancements: . ... See the Client-Side JavaScript Guide for details. ... Changes to the Array object. ... The push method returns the new length of the array rather than the last element added to the array. ... Changes to the Date object. ... Added a day parameter to the setMonth method. ... Added the apply method, which allows you to apply a method of another object in the context of a different object (the calling object). ...

... We continue multicolor photometric CCD UBVRI monitoring of the peculiar red nova V838 Mon using CCD photometer and SAO RAS 1-m reflector . ... To understand these changes, one should take into account that before the explosion in 2002, V838 Mon was a system containing two B3V type stars, and brighter companion exploded. ... In the season of 2007-2008, B3V companion was captured by expanding remnant, but its variable radiation leaked through the cloudy structure of the remnant's envelope. ... 2008) ....

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Nearly four centuries ago, Galileo's simple observations of Earth's planetary sibling, Venus, buoyed the proponents of a Copernican universe. ... The Italian astronomer had settled into a new house in Florence and had begun to observe Venus, which in November 1610 would have appeared as an evening star, bright in the western sky after dusk. ... From these two observations, Galileo inferred that Venus must orbit closer to the Sun than does Earth. ...