... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 23, 1996 . The Hills of Ganymede . Credit: The Galileo Project , NASA . Explanation : This computer generated 3D close-up view of Jupiter's large moon Ganymede was created using image data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. ... It is scheduled to return to Ganymede in April next year. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

. 20th of December 2015 . Climbing to the Parkes focus cabin . by Simon Johnston (CASS) . Our latest postdoc, Xinping Deng , puts on his protective gear and gets ready for the climb to the Parkes telescope focus cabin. Optical fibres have recently been installed to provide the downlinks for the Phased Array Feed. Photo credit: Tom Lees (CASS) . RSS feed generated by Page2RSS . | archive | about | today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | Mopra | VLBI | ASKAP | .

... Generations of Stars in W5 . ... 29.08.2008 . ... JPL-Caltech , NASA Explanation: Giant star forming region W5 is over 200 light-years across and about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia . ... New evidence indicates that successive generations of stars formed in the W5 region in an expanding pattern of triggered star formation . ... August 2008 . ... 2007 2008 . ... Publications with keywords: star formation - infrared . Publications with words: star formation - infrared . ...

... The first generation of imaging cameras FOC, WFPC I, and spectrographs FOS and GHRS suffer presently from OTA spherical aberration at the primary mirror. ... Finally, a third generation imaging instrument, the Advanced Camera (AC), is being proposed for operation around 1999 to replace the existing cameras, and to offer the benefits of new technologies - megasize CCD arrays of high sensitivity from UV to near IR wavelengths. ...

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... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... 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€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Discover the cosmos! ... 2000 December 29 . The Dark Horsehead Nebula . ... Image Processed by Al Kelly . Explanation: While drifting through the cosmos this magnificent interstellar dust cloud, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, has chanced to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named The Horsehead Nebula it is embedded in the immense complex of star forming gas and dust surrounding the Orion Nebula some 1,500 light-years distant. ... About APOD | ...

... The Russian Federation State Program "Physics of Condenced Matter", the "Superconductivity" division , Project code "Generation-2" . ... The multielement josephson structures are known to allow implementation of the unique properties of the Josephson junctions as electromagnetic waves sources with high change rate of generation frequency, working in the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength diapasones. ... Even the optimal type of the junction electrodynamic interconnection isn't chosen. ...

... AAS 221 . AAS 219 . AAS 218 . AAS215 . ... Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 215th meeting of the AAS ? The results presented here unfortunately do not reflect all the tweets from the meeting, but only those available via the Twitter Search API . ... For the period January 1, 2010 to January 8, 2010, I found there were 352 tweets that contained the #aas215 hash tag, and 895 that used the #aas hash tag. ... Here's the word cloud from the 1247 tweets: . ...

... Outreach . ... I'm a PhD student at the Australian National University's Mt Stromlo observatory and am part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) graduate program. I study the properties on nearby galaxies and investigate the evolution of the local universe. ... I run the RSAA Student Outreach Group which invites school children to participate in free astronomy outreach evenings. ... Copyright 2007 Emma Kirby. ... All Photos were taken by Emma Kirby unless otherwise stated. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... December . ... By admin December 9, 2012 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was born in 1923 and began his life-long interest in astronomy from a very early age. ... Demonstrating a good-natured wit, Moore impressed both viewers and programme makers. ... In 1965 Patrick Moore was invited to Northern Ireland to be the first director of Armagh Planetarium which was already under construction. ...

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. ...

... Zeta Functions 5, Program . Moscow, 1 - 5 December 2014 . ... Conference opening . ... Why do we introduce and study zeta functions? ... Coefficients of Zeta functions of the second Garcia-Stichtenoth tower as polynomial functions . ... Coffee break . ... Applications of Generalized Li's criterion equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis and Generalized Littlewood Theorem about Contour Integrals involving Logarithm of an Analytical Function to study the Riemann zeta-function zeroes location . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Robert Allan Ridley Parker (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Dr. Parker was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967. ... From March 1988 to March 1989 Dr. Parker was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. where he served as Director of the Space Flight/Space Station Integration Office. ... Dr. Parker retired from NASA on August 31, 2005. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:11:56 EST Subject: Mars Dust storms, lecture, TV, Bargain telescope Hi all, 1. ... Dr Donald Parker (USA) writes of his CCD images taken on December 13 (Ls = 315 degrees): "A significant dust storm has arisen to cover Chryse, Erythraeum M., Aurorae Sinus, Candor, with smaller clouds in northern Argyre and possibly Aram." ... Data from December 14-16 indicate a spreading of the dust to include part of Thaumasia." ... Bargain LIDL Telescope. ...

... Several composite flatfields (superflats) have been generated from all Eng. 4 flatfield observations. After removing the LED pattern, these superflats where used to identify OM bad pixels. These badpixels are real physical pixels, thus include 8x8 subpixels. ... Significant deviations from the median or average values were spotted and flagged as bad pixels. ... 8x8 subpixel negative deviation in slew flatfield . ... bad CCD pixel . any 8x8 subpixel deviation in slew flatfield . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... December Issue: World Changing Ideas . ... Тема: December Issue: World Changing Ideas . To view this email as a web page, go here. links.email.scientificamerican.com/servl.. ODAyMzY2Njk2S0 =0 . ... World Changing Ideas . ... Since 1845, Scientific American has chronicled ideas and inventions that have changed the world. ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ...

... AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2008, San Francisco, poster . Zotov L., Shum C.K, Singular spectral analysis of GRACE observations Climate, Statistics, and Satellites, a symposium in honor of Jerry North , June 8-10, 2009, Presidential Conference Center, Texas A University, talk . 2009 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Conference, 19-21 April 2009, Washington DC . ... Zotov L., Shum C.K., Singular spectrum analysis of GRACE observations, 9th Gamow summer school 17-23 August, 2009, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

... 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 . ...