Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 20, 2012 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . To coincide with the television programme, Armagh Planetarium held a special night on Wednesday 18 January with the fantastic amateur astronomers from the Northern Ireland Amateur Astronomy Society (NIAAS) joining us. At the fore of night sky observing.... the NIAAS (Image credit: NIAAS) . ... Image credit: Julie Thompson, Armagh Planetarium) . ...

... Stars Without Galaxies . ... Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers exploring the Virgo Cluster of galaxies have now found about 600 red giant stars adrift in intergalactic space. ... NGC 869 NGC 884: A Double Open Cluster . ... Most star clusters are singularly impressive. But open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884 are doubly impressive. ... Many stars form in clusters. Two types of star clusters are visible in our Milky Way Galaxy: open clusters and globular clusters. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The length of the shadow depends on the height of an object (like a mountain or a human) and how high up the Sun is. ... We can calculate the length of the shadow if we know the Sun's angle above the horizon and the object's height. ... The Earth spins 360 degrees in 24 hours, which means it spins 1 degree in 4 minutes; that in turn means the Sun moves 1 degree every 4 minutes in the sky. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Chapman, R. and Brandt, J.: The Comet Book: A Guide for the Return of Halleys Comet (1984, Jones and Bartlett) ? ... Branley, F.: Comets (1984, T.Y. Crowell) ? good picture book for students in grades K-3. ... Schatz, D.: The Comet Cometh: An Activity Book for the Return of Comet Halley ? ... Glenn, W.: "Halley's Comet Makes a Comeback'' in The Science Teacher Jan. 1984, p. 38. ... To construct a model of an Alien Being that could exist on another planet or satellite in our solar system. ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... 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 . ... Mars returns to glory . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

... Abstract Fetch from the kernel pool the double precision values of an item associated with a body. ... It's an error to supply an output array that is too small to hold all of the values associated with the requested kernel variable. Detailed_Output dim is the number of values returned; this is always the number of values associated with the requested kernel variable unless an error has been signaled. values is the array of values associated with the requested kernel variable. ...

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For vi , a line is the string of characters between two <RETURN> characters. Although vi will automatically wrap the text onto a new line when it reaches the right-hand side of the screen, it does not insert a <RETURN> character. ... Adding a <RETURN> at the end of every line ensures that the appearance of the text on your screen corresponds to vi 's understanding of how text is structured. Setting the wrapmargin option automatically inserts a <RETURN> character whenever vi wraps text. ...

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SUBROUTINE TAP_ESYMB ( IZ, SYMBOL, STATUS ) . Return the element symbol. SUBROUTINE TAP_ENAME ( IZ, NAME, STATUS ) . ... FUNCTION TAP_EMASS ( IZ ) . Return the mean atomic weight of an element. FUNCTION TAP_ZELEM ( NAME ) . ... FUNCTION TAP_AELEM ( NAME ) . ... The mean atomic weight of the element associated with the given name is ! ... The element name associated with the given atomic number is ! ... The atomic number ot element associated with the given name is ! ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev is the leading enterprise of Russian rocket and space industry in the filed of manned space flight programs; responsible for building the ISS Russian Segment, its being integrated into the station and operational use, including building and operation of the main segment modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), as well as manufacture, commissioning and operational use of Soyuz TMA, Progress-M space vehicles. ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

... cfr 1256.7 . ... Plots were made of the total power vs time and azimuth for the 3 12 second periods using the 1256.7 Mhz signal. 256 channel spectra were computed (49.6 usecs) for the all the data . total power was computed for 1.1 Mhz about each of the two radar frequencies. total power vs time for the 3 rotations (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... the radar blanks for 1.421 seconds when pointing at AO. total power vs radar azimuth for the 3 rotations (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... Top: 1256.7 Mhz pulse . ...

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... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...