... 2005 December 9 . December Moon Meets Evening Star . ... Explanation: If you've been outdoors near sunset, then you've probably noticed Venus low in the west as the brilliant evening star . ... As this season's evening star, Venus will be at its most brilliant tonight, but as December progresses the bright planet will begin to fall out of the western sky. By early next week, December's Moon will have moved on to meet another bright planet overhead -- Mars . ... About APOD | ...

These notes summarize an informal HDF-S session at the Joint ESO/Australia workshop ``Looking Deep in the Southern Sky,'' which was held in Sydney, Australia, on 10-12 December 1997. ... AAT: 1 night imaging in broad and narrow (20 Angstrom) bands on HDF-S + environs using the Taurus tunable filter. ... NTT: HDF-S + surrounding region to be imaged under the auspices of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS). 15 x 15 arcminute field of view imaged in U, g, r, I, J and K. 13 nights allocated for Sept/Oct 1998? ...

... 1024 x 768 x 256 display mode is distorted. ... VESA LB Video card with S3 805 chip, 1MB RAM. ... The problem seems to be that SVGA.EXE shipped with Warp generates an SVGADATA.PMI file that does not properly "program" this particular type of S3 card. ... This generates the Warp version of \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI that you need as a base for later steps . ... Edit \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI and replace the 1024 x 768 x 256 mode configuration with the equivalent section from \OS2\PMI\OLD\SVGADATA.PMI . ...

CIMA configuration files offer You a conveniant way of saving CIMA set-ups to files. ... Then instead of making this selections interactively when You are observing, You can just load and apply the configuration files. ... Any other set-up will be ignored! ... In that case, You are forced to use the 'Load only' option to load the configuration file, inspect the selected set-up carefully, apply the set-up (with the 'Accept' or 'Apply' buttons) and then save a new version of the configuration file. ...

... Credit Copyright: Dan Bush ( Missouri Skies ) Explanation: If you've been outdoors near sunset, then you've probably noticed Venus low in the west as the brilliant evening star . Sometimes mistaken for a tower light near the horizon, Venus is the third brightest celestial beacon, after the Sun and Moon, in planet Earth's sky. ... As this season's evening star, Venus will be at its most brilliant tonight, but as December progresses the bright planet will begin to fall out of the western sky. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Our group includes both theoreticians and observers working on problems related to many different aspects of star formation. You can learn more about us by following the links provided here below. We will try to keep these pages updated as frequently as possible, however do not hesitate to contact us directly if you encounter problems while browsing or do not find the specific information that you are looking for. Click on the following for more information . Our Group . ...

... The IAA's Observing Night + Leonid Watch at Delamont Country Park on Saturday night started well, following a good weather forecast, with crystal clear skies very little light pollution. ... But ever the optimist I set the alarm for 03.45 to allow time to get up out to a dark site if it did clear. ... The Leonids were spectacular - I had almost forgotten just how fast they are: even one streaking halfway across the sky takes less than 1/4 second! ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... The GW from coalescing compact binaries composed of NS and BH are the best understood of all astrophysical GW sources. A conservative lower limit to the event rate of galactic binary neutron star coalescence of about 1 per 100000 year follows from double pulsar   statistics studies (Narayan et al. ... In Figure  47 we show the rates of coalescence of binary WD and NS in a model elliptical galaxy   consisting of stars, depending on time elapsed since the (assumed instantaneous) star formation. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Style Examples . Wiki styles | ... PmWiki uses WikiStyles for styling text with color and other attributes. PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... In addition, an author can define a style "shortcut" by using the define= property. For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

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... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... December : 2015 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 December 2015 to 28 December 2015 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . December 06, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances . ... December 08, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . ... December 21, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G2 (moderate) . ... December 16, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) 2 December 2015 - 28 December 2015 . ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Andrew S. W. Thomas (Ph.D.) . nasa Astronaut (FORMER) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE:б  Dr. Thomas was selected by NASA in March 1992 and reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992.б  In August 1993, following one year of training, he was appointed a member of the astronaut corps and was qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on space shuttle flight crews.б  . ... MARCH 2014 . ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... September . ... Posted on September 27, 2010 | ... This new Hubble Space Telescope image shows that M66 seems to have been through the mangle. ... You can find out in this issue of Astronotes) . ... No Comments Dark matter and its part in the evolution of the Universe is revealed by new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Newer Entries . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space...