... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 December 31 . The Sky in Motion . Credit Copyright : Video: Till Credner , ( The Sky in Motion.com ) . ... Consider one appropriate for 2009, the International Year of Astronomy ; just look up -- experience, learn, and enjoy the changing sky. ... Note : APOD Editor to Speak in New York on Jan. ... About APOD | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 17, 1996 . Mariner's Mercury . ... Explanation: Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains the most mysterious of the Solar System's inner planets. ... The only spacecraft to explore Mercury close-up was Mariner 10 which executed 3 flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975, surveying approximately 45 percent of its surface. ...

... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... ERS-2 has a fixed repeat cycle of 35 days, and follows ERS-1 tracks with one day's delay. ... Swath width is 102.5 km (telemetered), spatial resolution is about 25x25 m. The Advanced SAR (ASAR) instrument is carried by ESA's ENVISAT satellite launched on 1 March 2002. ... Swath . ... Spatial Resolution...

... The calibration of astrophysical spectra in wavelength based on calibration lamp data suffers from different kinds of uncertainties. Besides inaccuracies in the observational phase, common data reduction practice adds ``pixelation'' errors, due to the fact that the centering method does not use the correct PSF. These model mismatch errors depend, for a given feature, on the sub-pixel location of the line center (David & Verschueren, private communication). ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

... Pwyll: Icy Crater of Europa . ... The impact crater Pwyll (a name from Celtic Mythology) is thought to represent one of the youngest features on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. ... A Star Cluster Through Hale-Bopp's Tail . ... Comet Hale-Bopp continues to look impressive. ... Comet Hale-Bopp is being observed by many different telescopes. ... As Comet Hale-Bopp spins, parts of the comet's surface shoot away in jets. ... The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa has shifted. ... It's Comet Hale-Bopp...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

... The question which method of the detection of features in the test statistic is the most sensitive, is of considerable importance for all practical TSA applications. ... A power of the test statistic is the probability that is accepted for the given Y : . ... Then, all statistics based on models with 3 parameters have similar values of the test power: power spectrum, Scargle statistics, fit of a sinusoid, AOV(3) statistic and PDM(3) statistic with corrected probability distribution. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared spectroscopy has been obtained for 15 carbon-rich protoplanetary nebulae (PPNe) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and for two other such stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Of these 17 PPNe, the unidentified 21 ѕ®m feature is strong in 7 spectra, weak in 2 spectra, and very weak or questionable in 4 spectra. ... The remaining two objects show typical carbon-rich PPNe spectra with no 21 ѕ®m features. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... December 2005 resources . FROM THE December 2005 ISSUE . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

A Christmas Carol Featuring Ghosts · Past · Present · Future Eric Torrence 1/9 December 2004 The Ghost of Christmas Past 7 Preliminary Analyses Presented Very impressive showing, broad physics interests 14 AWG readers, 21 RC members,.. ... Eric Torrence 3/9 December 2004 Ghost of Christmas (near) Future We are trying to get two Moriond Tau talks (one EW, one QCD) Publications of Tau04 results would be a natural reason to argue for these talks CWR must start no later than Feb. 11th! ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . Magazines . Mercury Magazine . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... November/December 2005 . Mercury is a bi-monthly membership magazine. ... Remarks by the 2005 recipient of the ASP?s Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for a lifetime of achievement in astronomy. ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . November Sky Map | ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

XMM-Newton Timing Monitoring Antonio Martin Carrillo Tutor: Marcus Kirsch July 24, 2006 Antonio Martin Carrillo 1 Overview XMM-Newton Pulsars Crab pulsar Relative time accuracy 2 epoch folding Conclusions Next steps Antonio Martin Carrillo 2 XMM-Newton · Launched in December 1999 · 3 independent CCD cameras called EPIC (European Photon Imaging Camera) · 2MOS and 1PN ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This month Jupiter the largest of all planets, remains visible in the sky after sunset, not setting until after 11pm.€а On the evening of 12and 13 December the bright star-like object close to the Moon will be this gas giant planet. ... Rising this month is the great winter constellation of Orion the Hunter who will remain in our night sky through until March. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the December Sky | ...

... Wavelet analysis works most convincingly on complicated data sets. ... These wavelet maps promptly represent an overwhelming amount of information, that must be reduced in order to be useful. The reduction can take two basic different forms, and countless variants. In the sift-and-discard approach, features of interest are enhanced and the rest is removed from the wavelet maps: applications such as denoising or event identification are representative. ... Mon Nov 13 10:51:25 EST 1995 ...