... One of the more amusing ones is the mysterious ability to balance eggs on end at the Vernal Equinox (curiously, no such claims are made at the Autumnal Equinox). ... Every year, without fail, some TV station broadcasts a news segment showing local school children standing eggs on end on the first day of spring. ... If you can stand an egg on its end on the Spring Equinox, surely you can on the Autumnal Equinox as well! ... At any day of the year, grab a carton of eggs and try to stand each one. ...

... Two weeks ago, the BATSE instrument on the orbiting NASA Great Observatory Compton detected unusually bright flashes of gamma-rays from a point deep in the southern sky. This gamma-ray burst was also recorded by the orbiting Beppo-SAX satellite , which downlinked an accurate position followed by the world's largest optical telescopes. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: gamma-ray burst - unusual - optical transient - gamma ray . ... Solar Flare in the Gamma ray Sky . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. May 26, 1999 . GRB 990510: Another Unusual Gamma Ray Burst . ... The type of powerful explosion that caused this gamma-ray burst is not only still unknown, but found to be fading in an unusual way . Tomorrow's picture: The Expanding Universe . ... About APOD > . ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... fran†зais . Deutsch . ... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... But did you know that half these points of light is not one star, but two or more circling around each other! ... Usually, sibling stars are quite far apart taking months, years or even centuries to circle around each other. ... Before long these stars will face a catastrophic end in one of two possible ways: as violent supernovae explosions or as an even more energetic gamma ray burst . ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... Magnetic field lines similarly describe the structure of magnetic fields in three dimensions.They are defined as follows. If at any point on such a line we place an ideal compass needle, free to turn in any direction (unlike the usual compass needle, which stays horizontal) then the needle will always point along the field line (drawing below). Field lines converge where the magnetic force is strong , and spread out where it is weak. ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

17th of March 2015 . The ASKAP HI All Sky Survey . by B rbel Koribalski (CASS) . WALLABY is the "ASKAP HI All-Sky Survey" , a precursor for future, much deeper SKA Phase 1 Phase 2 neutral hydrogen (HI) surveys. ... 2012 ). ... The WALLABY team consists of ~80 researchers from around the world, led by B rbel Koribalski (CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science) and Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA/ICRAR). For a brief overview of WALLABY see Koribalski (2012) . ... today * ATNF | ... ASKAP | ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

... Current APO Weather . ... Search Site . ... Information for New Users . ... Technical Staff pages . Night Logs and Mailing Lists (maintained by APO) . ... Technical Documents and Database Search . ... Observer's Documentation and Procedures . ... Problem Reporting and APO Technical Documents Database Search . ... APO Drawing/Document Management Procedures . ... APO Technical Documents Database Search . Home Astrophysical Research Consortium . ... Mail Lists (maintained by APO) . ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... Magician . ... These books are wonderful. The most strong (in my opinion) is Magician while others are less impressing while still making a great reading. Many great things of primary importance happen in Magician , and it is a must-read to get the best understanding of what happens in Midkemia . ... However, as it becomes clear at the end of the Rise of A Merchant Prince , there's another force in play, and we (excluding Raymond Feist, of course) do not know yet what is it. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... What causes spikes around stars in pictures, and how can I prevent them? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Since I have added MANY NEW pictures, The page started getting a VERY LONG load time. ... When the page you choose finishes loading, simply click on any picture to see a full size image. Believe me, the full size is worth it on most of them. The full size pictures average around 50 K in size so it shouldn't take too long. ... The Fall of 1999 . The Member's Christmas Party 1999 . The Home School Star Party Spring 2000 . ... The Dome Painting Party - Spring 2000 . ...

First at each page there a short heading describing the adapter. After that there is at each page there is one or more pictures of the connectors, usually there's two connectors. ... This means that I don't know what kind of connector it is or how it looks. To the computer) . ... Holes (female connectors usually) are darkened. ... The first is a female connector and the send a male. ... Below the pictures there is texts that describes the connectors. ... 9 PIN D-SUB FEMALE to the Computer. ...

My wife and I went to Mohican State Park the weekend just before our first anniversary (April 7th). That Saturday, we went hiking and took some pictures. It was a good hike, with some difficult parts. my wife holding the camera . a crevice with a tiny waterfall, that opens up into a big valley . the tiny creek flowing into the crevice . more crevice . ... my wife taking a (non-digital) picture . another tiny waterfall flowing over a wide cliff . ... the lake by our lodge . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

The azimuth has an encoder on each side of the encoder rack gear. encoder 1 is on the dome side and is used for pointing the telescope. encoder 2 is on the ch side and is used to measure the bending of the azimuth arm. A reference scribe mark has been placed at 270 degrees on the ring girder. ... The correct position for the pointer on the reference mark is whereever it was when the last pointing model was made. ... az encoder error . ... new encoder in position (.jpg) .3 mm left of center mark . ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...