... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... For immediate release . ... Brown Dwarfs (BDs) play a special role in this context. ... Recent observations with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) of a "young" Brown Dwarf in a multiple stellar system are taking on a particular importance in this connection. ... This small object is known as TWA-5 B and with a mass of only 15 - 40 times that of Jupiter, it is near the borderline between planets and Brown Dwarfs, cf. the explanatory Appendix to this Press Release. ... ESO PR Photo 17a/00 . ...

... Earth, Clouds, Sky, Comet . ... Does a comet's dust tail always orbit behind it? ... Hale-Bopp and Andromeda . ... Which is closer: the comet or the galaxy? ... Presently, for denizens of the Earth's northern hemisphere, this bright comet is certainly a lovely and inspiring sight -- visible here crowning the sky above Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy on March 20. ... Undaunted by the artificial glow from one of the most famous urban skylines on Earth, comet Hale-Bopp shines above the city of New York, USA. ...

... Title : Depths of Hell Filename(s) : DEPTHS.WAD Updated Text File : 31st Jan 1998 Completion Date : 31st Jan 1998 Release Date : 31st Jan 1998 Author : Ryan Mallen Email Address : gmarts@auslink.net Misc. ... It is a very smooth, enjoyable and challenging single player level. ... Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : No New Graphics : No New Music : No Demos Replaced : No * Construction * Base : New level from scratch Editor(s) used : DCK Build time : Very long. ...

... Archives . ... ArXiv] Three Classes of GRBs, July 21, 2007 . Quote of the Week, July 26, 2007 . ... The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR6) is available at http://www.sdss.org/dr6 . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

Next: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... VLBI Tape Management . VLBI Tapes . ... When: As soon as the correlator is satisfied with the correlator output. back to top . ... What: Each correlator will maintain a data base including the status of all VLBI tapes under its control. ... The correlators will distribute tapes to mission elements based on the Observation Summary File produced by the RSOG ( Observation Summary File ) to ensure each element has enough tapes to support SVLBI observations. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

Drawing and Part Configuration Management and Release Procedures: . ... Context: This procedure is intended for use by APO Telescope Drafting and Engineering personnel for the development, release and maintenance of telescope related models, drawings, and other controlled documents to facilitate the sharing of information between the various institutions and personnel that have need of technical information and engineering files regarding APO telescope design and development. ... Release Procedure: . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Press Room . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Press Releases . ... Astronomy magazine editors are here to help enrich media and blogger coverage of meteor showers, space missions, and night-sky events. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Fundamental core Alfven mode ~20Hz Fundamental crust shear mode ~10 ­ 40 Hz Strong coupling leads to non-trivial dynamics. ... Initial crustal displacements decay in <second What happens then? crust · Global modes are strongly damped when inside Alfven continuum (L.06,07, Gruzinov 08) · cf. ... Crustal modes Alfven continuum (edge and gap modes) Tangling: effective shear modulus, discrete modes' grid Mass loading in the core (superfluidity, proton fraction) Transient QPOs Successes: 1. ...

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... Kernel . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . The kernel's handling of device interrupts has been massively reworked in the 2.6 series. ... If no interrupt handler for a given IRQ has been registered, the kernel knows that any interrupt on that number is spurious. ... If your interrupt handler recognizes and handles a given interrupt, it should return IRQ_HANDLED . ... can also be used; handled should be nonzero if the handler could deal with the interrupt. ...

... Walton, N. A., Lawrence, A., & Linde, T. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 601 . ... It is using the iterative process, with eight iterations, with each successive iteration release building a working system comprising increasing capabilities. ... For a more detailed description of a number of the components of AstroGrid, see elsewhere in these proceedings: MySpace (Davenhall et al. ... 2004...

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... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

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About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

SAI VO . ... ConeSearch . ... Access . ... CrossMatch your data with CAS catalogs . How to access the SAI CAS services . Catalogs access ( wsdl ) . ... Third release of DENIS data (20 September 2005) . ... The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset . The DR5 data release of SDSS . Data release 6 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey catalogs . ... The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC2) . Third U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC3) . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...