... The Moon (1) . ... At any time, only half of the Moon's surface is visible from Earth, but librations allow us to "peek around the edges." ... Just as the rotation axis of the Earth is inclined by (90њ?23.5њ) to the Earth-Sun direction ( drawing above , from section #3 "Seasons of the year"), so the rotation axis of the Moon is inclined by about (90њ?6.5њ) to the mean Moon-Earth line. ... When it speeds up, the rotation of the Moon-Earth line around the Earth (measured in degrees per hour) is faster...

... Find the three stars of his belt and follow the line they make up the sky and you will meet Aldebaran, the brightest star in Orion?s neighbour, Taurus the Bull . ... A K5 III red giant about 350 times as luminous as our Sun, it appears as a red-orange magnitude 0.9 object in our sky. ... The name Aldebaran is derived from the Arabic for тАШthe FollowerтАЩ as the ancient Muslim astronomers saw it as trailing behind the Pleiades star cluster across the sky. ... Posted April 2, 2014 at 8:03 PM . ...

The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) The M74 group is a gas-rich galaxy group located at roughly 10 Mpc and is similar in makeup to the Local Group. M74 dominates the surrounding region and is accompanied by several dwarf galaxies, some of which are star-forming. ... We have decided upon a drift mapping approach to scan the entire region. We have defined 5 constant declination scans 5 in length, separated by approximately one full ALFA footprint. ... START TIME (AST) . END TIME (AST) . ...

Next: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Contents . During 1998 Dr Gerry Doyle was involved with three PPARC PDRA research grants, and was also a co-organiser of two international conferences (the COSPAR Symposium `Activity Observed in the Sun and in Similar Stars', and the Armagh Cool Star Workshop `Solar and Stellar Activity: Similarities and Differences'). He was Associate Scientist with the CDS and SUMER instruments on SOHO. ...

The WFPC2 camera configuration and filter set require a substantial number of apertures for full utilization of its capabilities. All possible aperture and filter combinations are given in Table 3.14 . Each camera has an associated 'optimum' aperture close to the geometric center of its field-of-view (FOV). ... The aperture designations are WF2, WF3, WF4, and PC1 for the individual cameras and WFALL for the three-WFC combination. ... CCD . ... Optimum center WF2 . ... Optimum center WF3 . ...

... Dust Storm Over Northern Mars . ... HD70642: A Star with Similar Planets . ... Astronomers have discovered a planetary system more similar to our own Solar System than any known previously. ... Mt Anatahan Erupts . ... Anatahan has not erupted in recorded history. ... Centaurus A: X-Rays from an Active Galaxy . ... Astronomers were not disappointed, as Centaurus A's appearance in x-rays makes its classification as an active galaxy easy to appreciate. ... Aurora Over Cape Cod . ...

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... The schedule assigned id (example: AS05) for your observing program. ... Use the time you started using the telescope including when you started taking calibrations. The time you opened for on sky observations can be entered later in the activity log. UTC End Time: . ... Focus Log: . ... The focus position can be obtained under the Telescope column of the System Status in ACP or from the run log. ... When all fields are filled out press this button to email the log to the ARCSAT and community. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Classes . ... Nebula Class Reference . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getCloseViewFov (const StelCore *core=NULL) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

Titan . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's surface . ... Later that year, it will release the European-built Huygens probe for a descent through Titan's atmosphere. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 October 27 . Close To Eros . Credit: NEAR Project , JHU APL , NASA . Explanation: Scroll right and fly close over asteroid Eros! ... The car-sized Near Shoemaker spacecraft is now on its way to a higher, more stable orbit about 200 kilometers above asteroid Eros . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Although they all formed from similar material, it is a mystery why the planets closest to the Sun Mercury, Venus and Earth are so different. Astronomers hope to learn more about how they were created by studying asteroids, which are pieces of rock that were surplus to requirements in planet building. A team of astronomers has been observing an asteroid called Lutetia that is 100 kilometres wide. ... Meteorites are much smaller than asteroids and range in size from marbles to basketballs.) ...

... Status . ... Roof State . CLOSED . 2457488.173634 . 0D:3H:27M:34S . Roof closed at 2016.04.09 16:10:02 . Roof Position . ... Weather State . ... 0D:21H:8M:0S . ... Roof Control (Software) . ... 2457458.425995 . 29D:21H:24M:9S . ... Roof Control (Hardware) . ... Roof UPS State . ... GPS State . Engineering Page Winer Graphical Data Server Page(s) . Time of Last Reboot: 29 Days, 21h:26m:00s . ...

... Indiana Jones is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. ... There's the intrigue of the megaliths of Stonehenge, the ancient pyramids of Egypt, the earthen figures of Britain and Peru, and the bloody rituals of the Maya. ... To make sense of these great structures and sophisticated concepts, archaeologists and astronomers have pooled their talents. ... People could use these alignments to synchronize their calendars or track the exact path of a celestial object. ... Maya glyphs of Venus. ...

Here user should specify the origin of coordinate system (observer's position). In case of rectangular coordinates it can be center of any major planet or the Sun or any minor planet. ... For spherical coordinates the origin of coordinate system can coincide only with the center of the Earth or with any point on the Earth surface. ... a)by code of observatory in the list of observatories maintained by Minor Planet Center (see IX. Observatories ). b)by introducing name of observatory. ...

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