This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. The most recent ESO observations of bright Comet Hyakutake have shown rapid changes in the innermost coma, within a few hundred kilometres from the cometary nucleus. This result has only become possible because of the unusual combination of a bright comet being near the Earth, together with the excellent imaging quality of the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ... Go to the ESO Homepage for Comet Hyakutake . ESO/La Silla | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 13.04.1998 . ... Credit: Learmonth Solar Observatory , IPS , USAF , NOAO Explanation: Our Sun changes every day. ... Dark spots that might appear on the image are usually sunspots , dark magnetic depressions that are slightly cooler than the rest of the Sun's surface. ... Over the next few years the average number of sunspots and plages will increase until "Solar Maximum" occurs in 2001. ... April 1998 . ... 1997 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - sunspot . ...

... Jitter is usually very small in magnitude and random in effect, and is not expected to lead to systematic throughput changes. ... However, such a change should lead to an obvious decline in the strength of the comparison lines at one end of the spectrum relative to the other and not an overall decline in counts. No such effect is seen (the counts decline evenly from one end of the spectrum to the other). ... The value changes steadily, but not by enough to account for the changes in counts seen. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

This animation shows a binary star being lensed by a binary lens. ... The sharp changes in the size of the lensed images of the stars lead to sharp changes in the brightness of the stars, which can be analyzed to determine many parameters about the objects doing the lensing, even though they are not bright enough to be seen. ... The graph shown above gives the predicted and observed brightness of a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud being magnified by a binary lens. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | ...

Next: Scattering properties Up: Polarization properties (transmitted radiation) Previous: Linear polarization: wavelength dependence . Traditionally, the main problem considered in connection with circular interstellar polarization is the meaning of the wavelength where changes the sign . ... This is also demonstrated by Fig. 19 (lower panel) which shows the wavelength dependence of the factors of linear and circular polarization for particles of magnetite as was done by Shapiro ([ 1975 ]). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 14 January 1999, 0950 UT (RR) . Term 'global change' is used to describe the changes of the large scale weather systems on Earth , and especially the surface temperature increase, by man-made increase of atmospheric CO 2 . ... It is the last point that is of importance for space physics, since it is possible that also the changes in Sun 's activity could be causing some changes in terrestrial climate. ... Space Physics Text Book of Oulu ...

... 01.10.2008 (VNY) Added some run-time messages . 09.11.2007 (VNY) Restoring the omgsource flag when extracting the target spectrum: in the case when omgrism is called from the interactive tool omgsource the target spectrum shouldn't be extracted (fixing the SSC-SPR-3702) . ... 15.04.2007 (VNY) More improvements in the field spectra extraction . ... 15.07.2004 (VNY) The target spectrum is placed in the first position in the output file with spectra (SSC-SPR-3356) . ...

... Description: SUBROUTINE PGCTAB(L, R, G, B, NC, CONTRA, BRIGHT) INTEGER NC REAL L(NC), R(NC), G(NC), B(NC), CONTRA, BRIGHT Use the given color table to change the color representations of all color indexes marked for use by PGIMAG. ... In the following, the term 'color table' refers to the input L,R,G,B arrays, whereas 'color ramp' refers to the resulting ramp of colors that would be seen with PGWEDG. ... CONTRA (input) : The contrast of the color ramp (normally 1.0). ...

... April 13, 1998 . The Sun Changes . ... Explanation: Our Sun changes every day. This recent picture was taken in a very specific red color called Hydrogen-Alpha . Dark spots that might appear on the image are usually sunspots , dark magnetic depressions that are slightly cooler than the rest of the Sun's surface. Bright spots that might appear are usually plages , active regions that are slightly hotter than the rest of the Sun's surface. ... About APOD > . ...

. You can also use the hhstore command to remove the stored authorisation for a host whenever you change your password. For example: hhstore -r festival . This removes any access authorisation that you might have stored for the host "festival". Use of the -r option indicates that you want to remove the current authorisation for a host.

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

... B.1 New functionality . ... B.3 Semantic changes from CSS1 . ... CSS2 builds on CSS1 and all valid CSS1 style sheets are valid CSS2 style sheets. The changes between the CSS1 specification (see [CSS1] ) and this specification fall into three groups: new functionality, updated descriptions of CSS1 functionality, and changes to CSS1. ... Several internationalization features, including list numbering styles , support for bidirectional text , and support for language-sensitive quotation marks . ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

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. Sitemap . Contact . Search . Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . by . Enric Pall . Big Bear Solar Observatory . A colloquium presented at Armagh Observatory on 2006 February 1st. The slides from this presentation are available in the following formats. HTML in your browser . PDF file - 14MB . Quicktime movie - 9MB . Macromedia Flash - 9.7MB . MS Powerpoint - 12MB . Last Revised: 2009 December 17th .

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! ... Luckily nature has left a wide range of clues about evolution for us - at every scale of the universe - which we can uncover with some good astronomical detective work. a) Changes in the Solar System . ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... The Universe: An Overview | ... The Changing Universe - Changes in the Solar System - Changes in Stars - Changes in the Universe | ...

... Here are some general thoughts about the role of Mark5 recording in pulsar experiments. Pulsar work with the Mark5 Backend: Advantages: Flexibility: Set frequency time resolution after observations, enabling multiple analyses of the data. ... We can use the Mark5 recorders to gauge stability of the other pulsar timing backends: at multiple telescopes, and multiple epochs). ... The properties of these features changes as the scattering medium changes on day-month time scales. ...