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... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Site Info . ... This page is basically a list of links to websites that either support or refute the claim that NASA never sent men to the Moon. I have my own detailed rebuttal of the Fox television program ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?'' in my Bad TV section . ... I plan on having a thorough debunking of this on this site eventually. ... Below are listed pages by both the conspiracy theorists and the debunkers. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER-Amur . ... Amb: . Dust: . ... Direct . 23s . ... 45s . ... observed area: . best limit: . Cameras . ... MASTER-Tunka . ... MASTER-Ural . master.kourovka.ru . ... MASTER-Kislovodsk . ... MASTER-Crimea . ... MASTER-SAAO . ... MASTER-IAC . ... MASTER-Argentina . master.sai.msu.ru:8080 . master.sai.msu.ru . ...

... If, like me, you want to really understand your system rather than just knowing how to use it, this document should be a good place to start. ... I hope some readers will undertake the best Linux learning exercise that I know of, which is building a system from source code. ... The instructions that used to be part of this document are now in a separate document ``Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code'', and can be found at From PowerUp to Bash Prompt home page . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2012 > Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop . ... ESO Data . ... The 3 rd Edition of the Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop is scheduled for spring 2014. The real-time control system (RTCS) is a crucial component for any astronomical adaptive optics (AO) system. ... As such, the workshop is aimed at real-time control specialists, instrument scientists and adaptive optics engineers. ...

Szyzyg, yep that's my internet alter ego, I use this name on any systems outside of where I work, Bulletin Boards, Muds, anything where I need a username. ... How do I pronounce Szyzyg? ... Hey I've just seen an episode of the X-Files called Szyzyg! ... Are the descriptions of Szyzyg accurate descriptions of yourself? ... Just click on Back at the bottom of this page and find out about Scott Manley. ... Sigue-Sigue Sputnik - I've never actually been called this but I've always loved the name. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The Barren Moon . ... The Largest Rock Known . ... NGC 5307: A Symmetric Planetary Nebula . ... This picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope was released last week. NGC 5307 is an example of a planetary nebula with a spiral shape. ... The layers of the Saturn Nebula give a complex picture of how this planetary nebula was created. ... Pluto: The Frozen Planet . ... The Hubble Space Telescope imaged Pluto and its moon Charon in 1994. ...

Function: CLSPFP Purpose: Checks local single precion floats whether they are legal floating point numbers. If not, they are replaced by BLANKs. Category: DATA File: floating.c Author: K.G. Begeman Use: INTEGER CLSPFP( FIN , Input/Output REAL ARRAY NF ) Input INTEGER CLSPFP Returns the number of BLANKS inserted because input reals cannot be represented. FIN Input/output array containing the reals to be checked. NF Number of reals in FIN. Updates: Oct 26, 1993: KGB, Document created.

New Millennium Is When? Articles | ... Calendar | ... Astronomy Net . ... E xcitement is building for the first day of the new millennium which begins on January 1, 2001, especially as we watch the digits roll over from 19 to 20 on January 1, 2000. M any people might wonder why the first day of the next millennium is January 1, 2001, not January 1, 2000. ... Because of the missing year zero, the second Millennium includes the year 2000 just like the first decade includes the year 10.. ...

... The exercises are now available on the web and in six booklets (100 pages in total), titled: . ... Exercise 1: Measuring the Distance to Supernova 1987A", . Exercise 2: The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars", . Exercise 3: Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula" and . Exercise 4: Measuring a Globular Star Cluster's Distance and Age". ... More exercises will follow in the future. ... Exercise 3 - Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula . ...

... Re : Need easy way to download whole KHG . ... For now, you can use web mirroring packages to create your own local mirror and read from there. Several such packages are available, and since I don't use any of them, I don't have details like names: can someone else who knows please post details? For the future, it would be nice if someone is interested enough in mirroring to write scripts for the KHG that allow you to read it off-line, but also allow you to respond. ...

not-minutes' for Fourth E-ALFA LOC meeting Thursday 29th April Present: Chris S., Bob B., Steven T., A. Deshpande, Jose A., Eva R., Myrna G., Mikael L., Erik M. Telecon: Karen O. Items from last minutes: Phone cards: Visitor Center is out of cards. Option: people can get them from the control room Jose' thinks that people should get the cards from the Control Room and it not really the VC place to figure these out. ... Done by Eva. ... Collection box: ACTION: Erik M - create collection box. ...

НОВОСТИ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ ИСТОРИЯ СТАНЦИЯ МИР ENGLISH . ... Мои публикации . ... Realization of the scale project, called to revive interest of Russians to a problem of space exploration, have started in Saint-Petersburg. ... The project utilizes reconstructed buildings of TzNII RTK and the adjacent territory of a public garden: it's made by the 'city inside the city' principle and includes many transport, trade, hotel, museum, business and entertainment structures. ... А.Железняков , 1997-2002. ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The first satellite launched into orbit was Sputnik€а 1 (meaning ?Traveller?), launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. ... Space Shuttle creeping to the pad to launch the Misty satellite into orbit? ... The Misty is not the only mystery in orbit, another potential covert satellite is known as Prowler. ... However there does seem to be enough substantiated sightings and evidence to suggest there are or perhaps were real mystery satellites orbiting the Earth. ...

... Proposed location of the new generation Russian VLBI network radio telescopes Kaliningrad St. Petersburg Zelenchukskaya (Zc) Badary (Bd) Ussurijsk Working frequency bands for the new generation Russian VLBI network S X Ka 2.2 2.6 7.0 9.5 27 33 F, GHz Data acquisition parameters 4 frequency bands : 512 MHz bandwidth x 2 polarisations or 1024 MHz bandwidth x 1 polarisation 2-bit sampling ...

... July 11, 1996 . Ganymede: A Really Groovy Moon . Credit: Galileo Mission Team , Galileo Spacecraft , NASA . ... As large ice-sheets shift on the moon's surface , parts of the surface buckle causing high ridges, deep furrows, and parallel grooves. ... The Galileo spacecraft has also just discovered that Ganymede has a region of orbiting charged particles called a magnetosphere - a first for any moon. ... APOD's Archive of Galileo at Ganymede . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Here are some images of Australian currency. ... Some of the notes below are printed on paper, others are printed on a thin, flexible polymer (i.e. plastic). The polymer notes are fairly new - The Australian Mint is currently in the process of replacing all paper money with polymer. ... The front design features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England, who is Australia's Head of State. ... This note is printed on paper, and is due to be replaced by a newly designed polymer note in 1996. ...