... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ...

. First Announcement . Second Announcement . The Proposed Scientific Programme . Symposium Schedule . Views of Zvenigorod . Organizing Committee . V.Stepanov . stepanov@iki.rssi.ru . Space Research Institute of RAS . 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str . Moscow, 117810 . Russia Phone: +7 095 333 11 22 . Fax: +7 095 310 70 23 . Back to INTERBALL Homepage .

... EXPN DNO D A T E UT TIME FQ SOURCE CORR-Telescopes VT734 355-MO Dec 21 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT735 356-TU Dec 22 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT736 358-TH Dec 24 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT737 359-FR Dec 25 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT738 360-SA Dec 26 09:00-20:00 C 0528+134 Mitk-UD KA SH W018c 364-WE Dec 30 06:00-15:00 L 0552+398 Socr-VLBA W071n 6-WE Jan 06 10:00-17:00 L J0745+10 Mitk-AT HO MP UD SH KA W059e 7-TH ...

C.1 Observation Log Files . C.1.1 Observation Log File Contents (October 1994 version) . ... C.2 Retrieving Observation Logs . ... This Appendix describes the Observation Log Files, also known as OMS or jitter files. These files record pointing, jitter, and other Pointing Control System (PCS) data taken during an HST observation. ... Here we describe the contents and structure of the observation log files, how to retrieve them from the Archive, and how to work with the data they contain. ...

... Sun images . ... February : 2016 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:52 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... February . ... Posted on February 2, 2016 | No Comments Goodbye January blues, hello February fun! ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment If you look towards the west just after sunset this February you will see a very bright star in the darkening sky. ... 2 Comments The long dark nights continue through February, but this does give us a chance to see some interesting objects in our night sky. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... The Faulkes Telescope Project and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network had kindly given us the opportunity to use these telescopes and the observatory had booked us four sessions of controlling the telescope in order for us to make some observations on NEOs. ... Just before our first observing session on Friday, we were given a tour of the observatory building and its telescopes, by John McFarland...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), MAGION 5 (IB_MAG5), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . ... IB_MAG5) . ... NASA) . GEOTAIL . NASA, ISAS) . The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

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): . ...

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February 4, 2008 (Monday) Gabriella Sciolla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . ... This detector, which will be operated underground in 2008-2009, will allow us to set limits on spin-dependent Dark Matter interactions using a directional detector. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... return to top . ... This seminar will briefly review the role of axions in particle and astrophysics, and will describe the progress we have made in the experimental search. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...

... Main page News People . ... Master . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 27.02.2012 . ... MASTER-II Observatory, Kislovodsk (C41): 744 observations of 228 objects from January 22 2012 to February 4 2012 . MASTER-II Observatory, Tunka (C94): 505 observations of 198 objects from January 25 2012 to February 3 2012 . MASTER-II Observatory, Blagoveshchensk (D54): 207 observations of 98 objects from January 22 2012 to February 4 2012 . ...

... It is a magnificent telescope! Paulo thinking "What a funny game!" Yashwant Gupta and Paulo Freire climbing. ... We discovered a new pulsar, PSR J0514-4002, in the globular cluster NGC 1851! This pulsar has the most eccentric orbit known for any binary pulsar system (e = 0.89) ! All previously known pulsars in eccentric orbits had rotational periods of tens of milliseconds. PSR J0514-4002 has a rotational period of 4.99 ms! ... This is the first pulsar discovered with the GMRT! ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Triton: Neptunes Largest Moon . 4.03.2007 . ... Lunar Transit from STEREO . ... So, looking toward the Sun, extreme ultraviolet cameras onboard STEREO B were able to record a stunning movie of a lunar transit (aka solar eclipse), as the Moon tracked across the solar disk. Solar Eclipse from the Moon . ... Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 2170 . ... When stars form, pandemonium reigns. ... APOD: 2007 February 24- X rays and the Eagle Nebula . ... APOD: 2007 February 23- Dust and the Helix Nebula . ...

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... Mariner 10 Image of Venus . Target Name: Venus . Spacecraft: Mariner 10 . Produced by: Calvin J. Hamilton . Copyright: © Calvin J. Hamilton . ... This beautiful image of Venus is a mosaic of three images acquired by the Mariner 10 spacecraft on February 5, 1974. It shows the thick cloud coverage that prevents optical observation of the surface of Venus. ... This image is Copyright © by Calvin J. Hamilton . ... Views of the Solar System Copyright © 1997-2000 by Calvin J. Hamilton . ...

PRESS-RELEASE . about the launch of Progress M-63 logistics spacecraft . ... S.P.Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of principal Russian modules (Zvezda, Pirs, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...

Next: Data reduction Up: Spectral observations and data Previous: Spectral observations and data . All results presented below have been obtained by observations with the Russian 6m telescope, mainly in the snap-shot mode during 4 runs between December 1998 and February 2000. ... We used a grating with 300 grooves/mm (see log of observations in Table 2 ) and a long slit of 2 40. ... Additional data were obtained with a grating of 650 grooves/mm giving a dispersion of 2.4 ?/pixel. ...