... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... M27: Not A Comet . ... Jupiter s Great X Ray Spot . ... The Solar System's largest planet, gas giant Jupiter, is famous for its swirling Great Red Spot. In the right hand panel above, the familiar giant planet with storm system and cloud bands is shown in an optical image from the passing Cassini spacecraft. ... Such a ray was caught in spectacular fashion above the Florida Everglades two years ago. ... Although the phase of this moon might appear familiar, the moon itself might not. ...

... Data archive . Observing . Currently search mode observations can be carried out using the PDFB3 , PDFB4 , BPSR and the analogue filerbank. ... J1412+0224_R; P 14:12:00 +02:24:00; d4_cfg srch_256_512; d4_frq 1369.0; d4_tcyc 10; rcvr MULTI; tobs 60; mode srchset; sr4_nsblk 2048; sr4_btc 1.0; sr4_nbit 8; sr4_nprod 1; sr4_tsmp 1000 . ... The first column J1412+0224_R and J1412+0224 gives the name of the calibrator source and of the pulsar (or candidate position) . ... Group . ... Pulsar Groups . ...

... MAXLEN parameter specifies maximum length of the number considered as a 'good' integer. ... If REJECTLONG = FALSE (default), than dictionary returns prefixed part of integer number with length MAXLEN . ... This is a dict_tmpl.c file. # include postgres.h # include utils/builtins.h # include fmgr.h #ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC PG_MODULE_MAGIC; #endif # include utils/ts_locale.h # include utils/ts_public.h # include utils/ts_utils.h typedef struct { int maxlen ; bool rejectlong ; } ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . The Geminid meteor shower is the last, and one of the best, major meteor showers of the year. ... Shower meteors appear to come from a point in the sky known as the radiant. ... The number of meteors that may potentially be observed during the maximum of the shower on the evening of the 13/14 December, and from a clear, dark site with no light pollution and little moonlight, can range up to as many as 100 or more per hour. ...

... Arithmetic Functions . Random Numbers . String Conversion . Searching and Sorting . ... There are 4 basic integer functions: . int abs(int number); long int labs(long int number); div_t div(int numerator,int denominator); ldiv_t ldiv(long int numerator, long int denominator); . ... In practice no functions produce truly random data -- they produce pseudo-random numbers. ... The stdlib.h provides 2 useful functions to perform general searching and sorting of data on any type. ...

... make sure all targets begin with a letter (this is important for MOSS) - Run TRANS and Links (if needed) . ... NOTE: There may be an error during the search for Guide Stars due to "insufficient memory". ... Due to the nature of the moving objects proposals and the calculations that may be required, especially for fast moving objects like asteroids or comets, GS Request may fail due to insufficient memory. ... Move the cursor out of all windows, press the left mouse button and choose "Guide Stars". ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... rfi seen in p1693 data . P1693 is the 327 Mhz pulsar search project. ... Below is a table of strips that julia would like done during the cable repair . I've added some columns of az,za to use and what has been done. I've used az=332.0840 for the computations. ... 332.0840 . ... 17:30-21:30 . ... pdevs2 . ... pdevs3 . ... done . ... pdevs4 . ... p1693 runs after cable repair . ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

K-band Arcetri Obscured Supernova Search . What is the KAOSS Project? W hat is the KAOSS Project? Some recent surveys aimed at detecting Supernovae (SNe) in the optical have found that starburst galaxies do not show evidence for an enhanced SN rate, with respect to quiescent galaxies (Richmond et al. ... A similar result was obtained by Navasardyan et al. (2001) who looked for SNe in interacting galaxies, finding no evidence for correlations between SN rate and galaxy properties. ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS01 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW), Doug Branton (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Undetermined Pre-MAP students ... In addition, since typical white dwarfs are roughly Earth-sized, the transit of an Earth-sized planet can cause changes in brightness on the order of several tens of percent for durations on the order of one minute (Agol 2011). ...

... ASRAS HOME . Radio Astronomy . ... About ASRAS . ... Our Observing Site . ... 2015 Mees Tour Guides . ... We're offering Regular Tours (a presentation on astronomy geared to a general audience, followed by a tour of the observatory and (hopefully!) observing of several objects, which may include the Moon, planets, nebulae, star clusters and perhaps galaxies), and Kids' Tours (a more interactive presentation specially aimed at youngsters plus the observatory tour and observing) as in prior years. ...

... The grid of values can be built around any parameter by explicitly giving the center point of the grid (in response to the model descriptor prompt). ... Please choose the grid axes: model componet number for the first axis (1): cr first axis parameter (norm|index|temp|galacticNh|intrinsicNh): temp half range of first axis parameter (0.4): 0.25 number of steps in the first axis (1:) (7): 5 model component number for the second axis (1): 2 second axis ...

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... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Out-Of-Focus (OOF) Holography . The observed beam maps are shown in the first row of the table below. ... The analysis was done in the usual way. ... A sample OOF observed data set (top row) and the results of analysis with increasing number of Zernike polynomials used to parameterise the aperture: . Observed beams . Example of an OOF analysis for the GBT . Observed data and analysis . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

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The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...