Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute Explanation: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has been detecting so few neutrinos from the Sun that the Standard Model of fundamental particles in the universe may have to be revised. Pictured above is the SNO as it was being built. ... The most popular model for fundamental particles , known as the Standard Model , did not predict such schizophrenic neutrinos . ... The Sudbury Neutrino Detector . ...

... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... September Perseid meteors captured by the . ... Its occurrence provides astronomers with interesting new data about the hidden trails of meteoroids тАФ small bodies ranging in size from fine dust particles to objects of marble-size and larger тАФ in the solar system and their supposed sources: comets and asteroids passing through the inner solar system. ... The particular comet that created the September Perseids is unknown...

... For immediate release [1] . ... Following a tight schedule, the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) project forges ahead - full operative readiness of the first of the four 8.2-m Unit Telescopes will be reached early next year. ... Just a few days after having been mounted for the first time at the first 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT1), the first of a powerful complement of complex scientific instruments, FORS1 ( FO cal R educer and S pectrograph), saw First Light . ... ESO PR Photo 37a/98 . ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Numerical simulation of electromagnetic scattering by morphologically complex objects Janna M. Dlugach*, Michael I. Mishchenko** *Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine **NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today 21 ­ 25 September, 2015, St.Petersburg. ... Phase angle dependence of the degree of linear polarization for the center of the Jovian disk. ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 . ... These Tcl/Tk-based tools maintain and interact with a relational database of instrument characteristics. ... The toolkit has greatly reduced the amount of effort required from many UCO/Lick technicians, and has set new standards for quality and performance of the resulting instruments. ... This same metaphor is also being applied to instruments built for Lick Observatory. ...

. Strictly speaking, UNIX is not one single operating system, it is a family of operating systems. Different computer manufacturers produce their own versions of UNIX. Although these are mostly similar, there are small differences which can cause problems. The most obvious examples are the layout of the file system and the exact format of certain commands. History of the UNIX operating system . Modern variants of UNIX .

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... September . ... By admin September 24, 2012 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . Space debris on a one-way trip.( Image credit:Colin Campbell) . Here is how Colin describes how he captured this remarkable image: . ... It really was quite stunning, like a slow moving firework. ... Posted September 25, 2012 at 3:23 PM . ... Fireball of 21 September 2012 | ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle . ... The Tevatron results indicate that the Higgs particle, if it exists, has a mass between 115 and 135 GeV/c2, or about 130 times the mass of the proton. ... The final Tevatron results corroborate the Higgs search results that scientists from the Tevatron and the LHC presented at physics conferences in March 2012. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

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... Unlike the previous digital-only Messages, Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999, the TAM has complex, three-section structure with different forms of information. Section 1 represents coherent sounding radio signal with slow Doppler wavelength tuning to imitate transmission from Sun's center. ... Section 2 is an analog information and represents musical melodies, performed on the Theremin. ... There were seven musical compositions in the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. ...

National Space Agency of Ukraine and . ... The Second International Meeting on WARNING Mission . ... Space Research Institute of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences - National Space Agency, . ... The Head of Scientific committee of the Project “Warning” is DR V.G.Bar`yahtar, Academitian of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. ... Lviv Center Space Research Institute of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, . ... National Space Agency of Ukraine, Bozhenka St. 11, 252022 Kyiv-22, Ukraine. ...

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... Seminar archive . ... Seminar archive 2012 14 September . ... The VLT Survey Telescope: a year after its coming into operation" . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope located at the Cerro Paranal Observatory of ESO in the Chilean Andes. ... VST features an active optics system which guarantees an overall instrumental resolution of 0.5 arc-seconds over a field of view of 1 x1 , with only marginally elongated images. ... All seminars: . ...

XPA uses standard inet sockets to support communication between two or more host computers. ... See XPA Access Control for more information. ... To register access of this local xpa on the remote machine , use the xpaset and the - remote sub-command: [sh]$ ./xpaset -p xpa - remote ' remote _ machine :$ port ' + To register the local xpa access point on the remote machine with xpaget access only, execute: [sh]$ ./xpaset -p xpa - remote ' remote _ machine :$ port ' g Once the ...

... of the RadioAstron Meeting . ... Chairman Kulikov S.D. · Welcome . S.D. Kulikov (10 min) . Discussion of the Agenda (10 min) . Development and tests of the spacecraft “SPEKTR-R” and general time-line of the mission . ... Time-line of development of science payload . ... E. Fomalont (NRAO), P. Diamond (EVN), D. Jauncey (Australia), . ... E. Fomalont, W. Cannon, L. Girvits, S.F. Likhachev (30 min) . ... Technical and operation experience, and science results from VSOP mission . ...