2015 . ... A priory National teams of countries consist of winners and prizewinners of National Astronomy Olympiad take part in IAO. ... Как правило, каждую страну на IAO страну представляет команда, составленная из победителей и призеров национальной астрономической олмпады. ... In the case of absence of a National team from a country, organizers of IAO may permit any provinces, regions, cities of this country to form the team representing the country. ... National team may consist of: . ...

... Armagh Observatory astronomers report the publication of the first stunning celestial images obtained with the 11-metre multi-national Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) . ... Exactly five years after groundbreaking, the SALT project has released its first colour images, marking the achievement of 'first light' and the successful debut of full operation for SALTICAM, a $600,000 digital camera designed and built for SALT at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) . ...

... Day unto day uttereth speech, . ... When the Sun is near the horizon, shortly after sunrise or before sunset, a vertical pole or post casts a long shadow. ... On the other hand, the direction of south where the Sun is "highest" above the horizon does not change, and neither does that of north, of the shortest shadow of the day. ... In winter, the Sun's path is shortest, and so are the days. ... After that days get shorter again as sunset and sunrise migrate south again. ... The Sun and Seasons . ...

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... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) will take an active part in the work of space activities of the United Nations organization (UNO). ... The road map shape on inclusion of Samara University into implementation of the UN Program on Space Applications was outlined at the roundtable discussion with the University teachers and specialists and at the meeting with SSAU Rector Yevgeniy Shakhmatov. ...

... It s caused by sunlight reflecting off dark cosmic dust in the Solar System. ... By combining the power of four very large telescopes into one super-telescope, astronomers have given themselves the ability to peer closely at almost 100 distant stars. And they discovered ghostly zodiacal light glowing around nine of them exactly as we see it in our own Solar System! ... In fact, out of almost 2000 planets that have been discovered around distant stars, only around 20 have been photographed! ...

... NB The next 2 columns will only be present if the parameter usecat has been set to true . ... QUALITY FLAGS Each source has an associated ``quality flag''. ... 0 1 Source lies above one or more bad pixels . ... 5 32 Source lies near to another bright source . ... For example, a source with a bad pixel and lying on or close to a read-out streak would have bits 0 and 1 set and thus have a quality flag of 3. QFLAG The quality flag for each source in each filter obtained from the input source-lists. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... HERE IT IS THEN, If this is true, ALL I can imagine is that we are inside the outward expanding ball of the big bang explosion that the inside wall (Our night sky), is mirror like, that reflects everything eg. ... Try Ned Wright's cosmology page (though a lot of that is tough going), the USENET newsgroup sci.astro FAQ page , or even the sci.physics FAQ page . ...

... And night unto night revealeth knowledge; . ... They noticed that the stars in that celestial canopy, the "firmament," maintained fixed patterns-- constellations --night after night. ... Like a globe, the sphere of the sky has two points around which it turns, points that mark its axis --the poles of the celestial sphere. ... The axis around which the Earth spins points in a certain direction in the sky, and that is also the direction of the pole star (or more accurately, the northern celestial pole...

... Established in 1996, the goal of the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project (JSC OHP) is to capture history from the individuals who first provided the country and the world with an avenue to space and the moon. ... Alphabetical List A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z Administrators Aviatrix Herstory Ballistics JSC OHP ISS OHP NACA OHP Experts OHP Space Shuttle Program Earth System Science NASA at 50 STS Recordation Chilean Miners Rescue Shuttle-Mir OHP SCA-SRB OHP C3PO OHP . ...

... Perform basic two-dimensional image reduction. Reject cosmic rays from CCD data. Process the contemporaneously obtained wavecal data to obtain the zeropoint shifts in the spectral and spatial directions. ... Subtract science image from wavecal . ... For each image in the science file, this task selects the wavecal in the wavecal file that is closest in time to the science image, and it copies the keyword values for the spectral shift from that wavecal header to the science header. calstis12 . ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... It can be run with the following command, where ?config.in? is a file containing the configuration parameters described in the next section. ... Parset parameters understood by ccontsubtract are given in the following table (all parameters must have CContSubtract prefix, i.e. CContSubtract.dataset ). ... A number of other parameters allowing the user to narrow down the data selection are understood. ... Parameter . ... Data set file name to work with. ...

... comedi_dio_config -- change input/output properties of channel . ... int comedi_dio_config (comedi_t * device, unsigned int subdevice, unsigned int channel, unsigned int direction); . The function comedi_dio_config() configures individual channels in a digital I/O subdevice to be either input or output, depending on the value of parameter direction. ... Depending on the capabilities of the hardware device, multiple channels may be grouped together to determine direction. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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... Серия: Country . ... Размер: 50x17,5x15,5 см . ... Цвет: фиолетовый . ... Тип: балконный ящик . ... Цвет: черный . ... Размер EU: 41 . ... Кеды Zona3. ... Объем - 1,5 л. Вес - 0,33 кг (размер S/M) и 0,34 кг (размер M/L). ... Цвет: Зеленый . ... Цвет: синий . ... Размер INT: 40 . ... Материал: Натуральная кожа , Размер: 136x95 . ... Цвет: Темно-синий . Размер INT: 176/16 лет, . ... Цвет: серый . Цвет: Черный . ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... Jupiter's moon is the home to many powerful volcanoes so active they are effectively turning the moon inside out. The above time-lapse sequence is a composite of images taken during two space missions that approached the violent moon: Voyager and Galileo. ... On the 7th of October, 1959 (7/X/1959), the Soviet interplanetary station which has come to be called "Luna 3" successfully photographed the far side of the moon giving denizens of planet Earth their first ever view of this hidden hemisphere. ...

... Launch Date: 1959-09-12 . Launch Site/Country: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), U.S.S.R. Launch Vehicle: Modified SS-6 (Sapwood) with 2nd Generation (Longer) Upper Stage . ... Luna 2 was the second of a series of spacecraft launched in the direction of the Moon. The instrument package reached the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. The first spacecraft to land on the Moon, it impacted the lunar surface east of Mare Serenitatis near the Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus craters. ...