... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on April 2, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Astronomy is a science that knows no borders. ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... February 5, 1997 . Running Red Rings Around Jupiter . ... Explanation : Jupiter has rings, too. Unlike Saturn's bright rings which are composed of chunks of ice, Jupiter's rings are darker and appear to consist of fine particles of rock. ... Quite visible are Jupiter's rings , bands and spots in the outer atmosphere . ... The origin of Jupiter's rings remains unknown , although hypothesized to be created by material scattered from meteorite impacts onto Jupiter's moons . ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Explanation: If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? ... Analemmas created from different Earth latitudes would appear at least slightly different, as well as analemmas created at a different time each day. The analemma pictured to the left was built up by Sun photographs taken from 1998 August through 1999 August from the Ukraine . ... July . August . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - analemma . ...

... The amount of energy encircled by an aperture used for stellar photometry will depend on both the aperture size, and also on any variations in the PSF with field position, time, etc. ... The differences in photometric magnitude between apertures with various radii (i.e. aperture corrections), and their mean and standard deviations for the F555W filter, are presented in Table 5.5 . ... Variations in the PSF with field position will, of course, cause a position dependence in the aperture corrections. ...

Region markers can be moved, resized, rotated, zoomed, deleted, and can change geometric type. ... For example, markers placed on astronomical catalog positions should be fixed so that one cannot accidentally move them off the specified position. ... Parameters can be fixed using the fix option of the regions public access point (for fixing classes of markers) or by means of a fix keyword in the definition of an externally loaded marker. ... In the command: echo "regions fix all -position -size" | ...

... Asteroids are awkward to photograph. Can you imagine how hard it is to spot one of these tiny, dark lumps of rock against the blackness of our night sky? ... Like Earth, asteroids move around the Sun. ... But astronomers don t give up easily, and asteroids are something they really want to study. ... The asteroid in this photograph is called Itokawa. It became famous in 2005 when a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa visited it and took some photographs including this one! ...

... The Sun rises higher in summer than in winter. ... Over the course of the year, the angle between the Sun and the zenith (straight up) varies by 47 degrees -- a fourth of the way across the sky. ... A solar incidence angle of 90 degrees means the Sun is on the horizon; an angle of 0 degrees means the Sun is directly overhead; negative angles, which occur only in the tropics, mean that shadows point toward the equator. ... Every day, the stars rise and set along arcs parallel to the celestial equator...

... Adjusting the Focus on the DIS Collimators . ... For both focus and the alignment of the dewar rotation it is useful to use the following spectrograph settings: . ... The current position of the dewar rotation should be marked on the dewar by a piece of tape which has been cut at the interface between the dewar and the fixed spectrograph tube. ... There are 3 actuators, labled A, B, and C, at the back of each dewar which can be used to piston and tilt the CCD. ...

What's New in Views of the Solar System . ... Mars Icosahedraon Added . ... Rotation Earth Movie . Europa Rotation Movie . ... Color Rotation Tethys Movie . Rotation Tethys Movie . ... Rotating Mars Movie . ... Animation: Io Rotation Movie . ... Rotating Moon Animation . ... Animation of Janus, The Rotating Moon of Saturn . ... Two excellent animations of Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were added on 9/3/97. ... A high-resolution mosaic image of Phobos , a moon of Mars, was added on 7/8/97. ...

... 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. ...

An introduction to the celestial sphere, describing its . apparent rotation and the special role of the pole star. ... This lesson plan supplements the web page listed below. Originally named "The sky above us" , it was split into two parts, each of which now has a lesson plan. ... Celestial sphere, constellation, zodiac, celestial pole, the Pole Star ("Polaris"), celestial equator, rotation of the Earth, planets [theodolite, equatorial axis]. ... What makes the Pole Star special? ...

Optics includes the surveys and adjustments to the reflectors as well as the pitch, roll, and focus measurements. ... 080515: platform/tiedown motion during vlbi cal scan . ... Surveying the primary reflector . Surveying the dome position from AO9 . ... year 2002:Td inches/platform inch, TdPos vs temp at platform focus position. dec03: platform corner height vs za when looking at tower. jan10: dynamic load on tiedowns from platform motion. 22feb10: fit tiedown tensions using 2008,2009 data . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . On Friday 15th February the recently discovered Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will make a close pass by the Earth. The asteroid will come within about 34,000 km (21,000 miles) of the centre of our planet at 7.26 p.m. That is, within the ring of geostationary communication satellites which orbit at some 35,800 km above the surface of the Earth. ... Last Revised: 2013 February 11th . ...

Program: TRACE Purpose: TRACE plots image values at user given positions as function of distance to a plot centre (in 2-d (sub)sets). Category: ANALYSIS, PLOTTING File: trace.c Author: M.G.R. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set (, subset): Only one subset is allowed. ... XYBOX= Give size of box around one pixel: [3,3] The resulting value at a selected position is an average of the pixels in the defined box around that position. ... POSITION= Give position x, y: Physical values are allowed. ...

. Over the last two years, we ve developed and run a set of four astrophysics MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), offered for free to anyone in the world who wants to take them. Around a quarter of a million students from 180 countries have enrolled in the courses - considerably more than have graduated from the ANU science it was founded. I ll present the lessons learned from this experience.

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... Astrophysics Group . ... FIRST . ... This site is an initiative by MRAO Cambridge to provide improved access for the UK to the images being produced from the FIRST survey. ... Note that a small image returned by this server will have different gridding and orientation from an image of corresponding position and size returned by the FIRST CUTOUT server at the main site. ... This site may evolve to provide more of the facilities available at the FIRST main site in due course. ...

Gleb OSHANIN (LPTL, Paris-6 Jussieu): Random walk generated by random permutations . ... We determine exactly the probability of finding the walker at position X at time moment l and show that this distribution converges to a Gaussian when l tends to infinity. ...

Positions of the carriage and focus, 2013. ... South . ... South+Flat reflector . ... Focus . ... 910 . ... 890 . March . ... Feed cabin N2. 02/2013: carriage 1131000 - old position; 2861000 - new location (when the adjusting device close to the center). ... found 18.02.2013 . ... 12516 from 7r (19.04) . ... 2863000 carriage . ... Positions of the carriage and focus, 2012. ... beginning of March - 898 mm . ...