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... HST . ... APT . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Documents . ... After you have brought up APT you will see a "Help" menu on the top menu bar. From here you can also bring up the documents that will help you to learn APT. Phase I: You can bring up Phase I Specific APT Training Materials to learn about using APT to submit your Phase I proposal. ... These are the same documents you will find on the HST Website. ...

... Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Passes the Earth . ... Explanation: Rarely does a comet pass this close to Earth. Last week, dedicated astrofilmographers were able to take advantage of the close approach of crumbling 73P / Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 to make time-lapse movies of the fast-moving comet. ... Fragment B of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 became just barely visible to the unaided eye two weeks ago but now is appearing to fade as the comet has moved past the Earth and nears the Sun. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 . ... COMETS | ... Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a close approach to Mars in October 2014. ... During the close Mars approach, the comet likely will achieve a total visual magnitude of 0 or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... A Close Pass of Saturns Moon Dione . ... When making its closest pass yet of Saturn's moon Dione late last year, the robotic Cassini spacecraft snapped this far-ranging picture featuring Dione, Saturn's rings, and the two small moons Epimetheus and Prometheus . ... Future events in Cassini's continuing exploration of Saturn and its moons include tomorrow's flyby of Titan and imaging the distant Earth passing behind Saturn in June. ... Earth Waves at Saturn . ... Earth and Moon from Saturn . ...

... Posts tagged ?close? ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... 1 Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... General comments . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Alfred Inselberg on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The ATMoB is a group of about 300 individuals in the greater Boston area. In addition to telescope making, our club members are involved in star, comet, and planetary observing. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . ... Mark Watney an astronaut on the Ares 3 mission to Mars is left stranded following a storm. ... However being a bit of an outer-space junkie, I did notice some problems with the plot. ... Without a character like Mark Watney, this book would have been a scientific look at survival on Mars; instead what we have is a realistic look at an intelligent human being stranded on Mars. ...

Classroom Activity: Making a Rainbow . ... When white light from the Sun or a light bulb passes through a prism, the light splits into its component wavelengths. ... Red, blue, green colored filters - if possible, cut 1x4-inch pieces of the filters for each student . ... Many students have the misconception that filters somehow dye the light a certain color. ... Younger students can draw the rainbow and make up a mnemonic for remembering the order of the colors (such as, ROY G. BIV). ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > MOONS passes its Preliminary Design Review . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... The Multi-Object Optical and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (MOONS), has officially passed the major milestone of Preliminary Design Review (PDR). ...

... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

... Things to see in the morning skies, from Terry Moseley, IAA : . ISS IN MORNINGS: The International Space Station is making a series of morning passes at the moment - see www.heavens-above.com Look out for it when it passes close to.. BRILLIANT MORNING STAR VENUS: Venus is still the brightest object in the morning sky. ... Photo: Four planets photographed by Paul Evans on 8 October 2009, from Larne . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Book Store . ... My book has been getting a fair share of positive reviews , but it has now garnered a negative one. I should have expected it: it's from a mailing list about UFOs. ... Note added May 21, 2002 : It was brought to my attention by several people that in the article below, I say that amateur astronomers "never" report UFOs. ... My point remains: if amateurs watch the sky far more than laymen, then they should see far more UFOs. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Packing Widgets . ... Remember each of these * widgets is being packed into a vbox, so they'll be stacked * vertically. */ gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX ( box1 ), separator, FALSE , TRUE, 5); gtk_widget_show (separator); /* Create another new label , and show it. */ label = gtk_ label _new ( gtk_hbox_new (TRUE, 0); ); gtk_misc_set_alignment (GTK_MISC ( label ), 0, 0); gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX ( box1 ), label , FALSE , FALSE , 0); ... Packing Using Tables ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

... A plot macro is a set of commands that you can execute together by invoking the name of the macro; in effect, it is a plot subroutine. ... You can make a macro in 4 ways: . ... The rule to remember if you do this is that the name of the macro must be the first thing on a line of the file, and should be followed by SM commands. ... Similarly, the right and left arrows advance the cursor one character right and left, respectively. within a line, keys will work just like the history editor . ...

MAKE ME AN ISLAND Different eyes, different size, different girls every day. Different names, different games took my breath clean away. But I'm changed, rearranged, I'm enlightened and how you have caught me, you have taught me and I'm different now. Take me and break me and close all your windows and doors. Shut me off, cut me off, make me an island, I'm yours. Take me away from the world, take me away from the girls. Take me and break me and make me an island, I'm yours. ...

... The documention and the test harness have also been updated. ... Version 1.3 30/07/ 1999 ---------------------- The following SPR has been fixed SSC-SPR-1132 backcorr ( version 1.2): dummy template .cc break build on Digital Unix (+fix) Submitted on 29th July 1999 by Achim Bohnet (ach@mpe.mpg.de) Closed 30th July 1999 Version 1.2 10/07/ 1999 ---------------------- Following the tests performed by Dean Hishaw, the following SPRs have been raised and are now closed in the ...

... You will need an X server program for Windows (such as Exceed, available for institutional use from Computing Service Sales for a small licence fee); and also an SSH client, such as PuTTy . ... The X server should be configured to start up in passive mode, accepting connections from the local host only. ... Select Security, set "Host access control list" to "File", select "Edit" and add the single line "localhost" . ... Run putty.exe. ... Start PuTTy, and make sure that SSH is the selected protocol....

... The proper procedure to set up the wind baffle and enclosure to be powered by the emergency generator in the event that both commercial and site emergency generator power is lost. ... The enclosure should be open with telescope in an un-stowed position. ... Wind baffle (WB) control power switch ; Location : ?; ... Enclosure power switch box ; Location : ?; ... Change the WB manual pendent connector in WB control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed...