... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 December 9 . Comet Lovejoy Over a Windmill . ... Explanation: Lovejoy continues to be an impressive camera comet. Pictured above, Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) was imaged above the windmill in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire in southern France with a six-second exposure. ... Budget Universe: Free APOD 2014 Calendar in PDF format . ...

The ATNF -Parkes-Swinburne Recorder ( APSR ) Willem van Straten Andrew Jameson and Matthew Bailes Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology Grant Hampson and Dick Manchester The Australia Telescope National Facility Second ATNF Gravitational Wave Workshop 13 December 2007 Outline · Baseband Recording and Processing Systems · Hardware Specification · ...

... APOD: 2008 January 2- A Galaxy is not a Comet . ... Credit Copyright: Emiel Kempen Explanation: This gorgeous galaxy and comet portrait was recorded on December 30th, in the skies over Hoogeveen, The Netherlands. The combined series of 60 x 60 second exposures finds the lovely green coma of Comet 8P/Tuttle near its predicted conjunction with the Triangulum Galaxy . Aligning each exposure with the stars shows the comet as a streak, slowly moving against the background stars and galaxy. ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

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... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on November 15, 2012 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments Audiences flocked to see James CameronтАЩs €аepic movie Avatar, the story of a disabled human who gets a chance to live a new life as a 3m tall blue-skinned humanoid [ ] . ... 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. ...

... An estimate the rotation period of cometary nuclei is important for understanding and describing the physical processes of the cometary activity. Unfortunately, the measurements of the rotation periods of the comet nucleus depend on the model assumptions and it is one of the main reasons for the scatter of the estimates given in various articles for a given comet. ... Right: the image of the comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 obtained at the 6-m telescope. ...

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... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/27/2012 17:02:33 . ... This comet is passing through the Ursa Major constellation (December 2012) and is shining at about 7th magnitude. While not viewable with the naked eye, it has been observed by ATMoB members at the Clubhouse with 80mm binoculars and in telescopes as small as 4.25-inches. 30 images x 30-second subframes, Total= 15 minutes. ... ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 23 December 2012. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Imaging Basics . ... Subaru Telescope's image captures the intricacy of Comet Lovejoy's tail . ... Image of Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) captured by the Subaru Telescope's Suprime-Cam December 3, 2013. ... A team of astronomers from Stony Brook University in New York, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), and others used Suprime-Cam, Subaru Telescope s wide-field, prime-focus camera, to capture an image of the intricate flow of Comet Lovejoy s (C/2013 R1) ion tail. ...

... the average spectra was computed for each band. the rms/mean by channel was computed for each band. ... The rfi mask was used to compute the total power for each band. ... interim correlator 9 level sampling, 1 second spectra, 25 Mhz bw, 1024, centered at 1385. take data for 4200 seconds. rms/mean computed over the 4200 seconds and then a mask was created using a linear fit to rms/mean. total power was computed using the above mask. the spectrum of the total power was also computed. ...

To write a successful HST proposal it is useful to have some insight into the process by which proposals are reviewed and selected. ... How the New Cycle 9 Review Process Worked , December 1999, pp. 21-22. by Meg Urry [ cmu@stsci.edu ], Head of the STScI Science Program Selection Office. ... Evolu tion of the HST Proposal Selection Process: Changes for Cycle 9 , Meg Urry, June 1999, pp. ... There were five key changes in the proposal review process for Cycle 9. ... Cycle 10 Announcement Page . ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...

... new: . ... Python 2.6.2 + most up-to-date modules (December 2009) . ... pyQC script structure . ... The current installation of python and its associated modules on our DFO machines is extremely old (i.e. python 2.4.2 was released in Sept. ... The new python executable lives in: /qcdp/bin/python . ... The first figure shows the execution times for the old python installation, while the second figure shows the execution times based on scripts running the python 2.6.2 installation with the new modules...

U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20392-5420 July 23, 1998 No. 64 TIME SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT SERIES 14 UTC TIME STEP 1. The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) has announced the introduction of a time step to occur at the end of December, 1998. ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) will be retarded by 1.0s so that the sequence of dates of the UTC markers will be: 1998 December 31 23h 59m 59s 1998 December 31 23h 59m 60s 1999 January 01 0h 0m 0s 3. ... Time Service Dept., ...

The INTERBALL space mission ( INTERBALL-1 with its subsatellite MAGION-4 in orbits with an apogee of 30 Re, and INTERBALL-2 with its recently reactivated MAGION-5 subsatellite in orbits with an apogee of 4 Re geocentric) continue to conduct important measurements in the solar wind, magnetosheath, magnetotail, magnetopause and above the auroral region. ... Plasma Boundaries in Near-Earth Space . ... Now we announce that online ABSTRACT submission is available at the SYMPOSIUM home page . ...

Russian . Main . News . ... Minutes of the Telecon on January 17, 2012. ... News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site up to September 15, 2011 (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to September 3, 2011. News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to August 18, 2011. ... Second version of the RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook ( in Russian )is placed on the project site . ...