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 . ...