... 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 . ...

STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... STIS offers the capability to perform spectroscopic observations with occulting bars located in the long slits, and imaging observations with occulting bars in the coronagraphic mask 50CORON . ... The 52X0.2F1 aperture is the same physical slit as 52X0.2 with the target centered on the smaller of the two occulting bars (i.e., 0.5 arcseconds), instead of at the center of the 52X0.2 long slit. ... 52X0.2F1 . ... Correcting Fringing for the 52X0.2F1 Aperture . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Sundial that Shows Solstice . ... Only then will the Sun be located just right for sunlight to stream through openings and spell out the term for the longest and shortest days of the year. And that happened last week and twice each year. ... As seen from Fr s n island in northern Sweden the Sun did set a day after the summer solstice. ... IC 2574: Coddington s Nebula . ... WR 134 Ring Nebula . ... Milky Way Above Easter Island . ... Jupiters Rings Revealed . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry . ... Parkes | ... VLBI . ... Square Kilometre Array overview . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... 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 . ... How long will the Sun live? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

The sections <Directory> , <Location> and <Files> can contain directives which only apply to specified directories, URLs or files respectively. Also htaccess files can be used inside a directory to apply directives to that directory. ... The order of merging is: . ... If multiple <Directory> sections apply to the same directory they are processed in the configuration file order. ... Using the options in question is only possible inside a <Directory> section (or a .htaccess file). ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Description Unfortunately the periodic HK parameters in the ODF are stored in table columns with very concise non-descriptive names such as E605 [ 3 ]. ... Therefore hkgtigen (via a corresponding service in the CAL) implements a name mapping scheme that allows the user to specify the HK parameters (see task parameters parameters and overrideparameters ) with long descriptive names while the ODF access is transparently performed with the short ones. ...

_CoolerMode{ Camera_CoolerMode_Off = 0, Camera_CoolerMode_On, Camera_CoolerMode_Shutdown }; enum Camera_Interface{ Camera_Interface_ ISA = 0, Camera_Interface_PPI, Camera_Interface_PCI }; enum Camera_SensorType{ Camera_SensorType_CCD = 0, Camera_SensorType_CMOS }; const long MAXCOLUMNS = 16383; const long MAXROWS = 16383; const long MAXHBIN = 8; const long MAXVBIN = 255; // Number of write only registers const ...

... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

... Compute FFT from the input QPOE file . ... output files: rp90_ftp.tab, rp90_pwr.tab . ... Time required for a 10 5 bin transform is 2-3 minutes. xt fft .fftcoeff=no # don't generate a long list of coefficients xt fft . power _thresh=7 # set the significance threshold xt fft input source file (table or time-sorted qpoe file ): rp90_sti.qp root name for output files [rrot_ fft (ftp,pwr).tab]: rp90lng background qpoe file : cr input table column heading: src number of ...

... ao 12meter . ... from google maps . yiye avila's tower . ... google maps/earth . 922 meters . tower east of . yiyi's tower on . ... 870 meters . radio redentor tower . fm 104.1 . ... fm 102.9 (hq) . ... gustavo tua's tower . ... smaller tower about 100 meters east of 102.9,104.1. This has the 430 Mhz birdie with the 10 sec period. i took this from google maps (i think got the tower). route 10 scenic overlook . ... Used to look at hq, radio redentor towers. colmado Torres . ...

Getting to Moscow from the airport: There are three international airports in Moscow: Sheremet'yevo , Domodedovo , and Vnukovo . All three are connected to Moscow through a high-speed railway, called Aeroexpress , with moderately priced tickets (320 rubles, approx. ... The point of arrival is a rail terminal, which is connected to a subway station: Byelorusskaya for Sheremet'yevo, Paveletskaya for Domodedovo, and Kievskaya for Vnukovo. The map of Moscow Metro (subway) is found in Wikipedia. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 November 27 . The Long Shadow of the Moon . Credit: Image courtesy J. Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC , NASA . Explanation: The long shadow of the Moon fell across the continent of Antarctica on November 23rd , during the second solar eclipse of 2003. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... APPLY/DISPERSION in out [y] [coef] . Apply the dispersion relation to a 1D spectrum and generates a table . BATCH/LONG . ... CALIBRA/FLUX in out [resp] . Correct an image for the instrumental response function . ... Wavelength calibration of 1D and long-slit spectra . ... LINADD/LONG in w,bin [y] [mtd] [mode] [line] . ... PLOT/CALIBRATE [mode] . ... Plots a 1D spectrum in table format, as supplied by APPLY/DISPERSION . ... RESPONSE/LONG [plot] [fit] [deg] [smo] [table] [image] [visu] . ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...

. This diagram illustrates how text shadow may be used to create an "eclipse effect." . The string "ECLIPSE" is shown in white uppercase letters. Each letter has a gray surrounding shadow extending on all sides of the letter stems. Return to image.

... Astrophysics Group . ... The Astrophysics Group is now based in the new Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, which is located close to the Institute of Astronomy off the Madingley Road to the west of Cambridge city centre. ... The Cavendish Laboratory itself is on J.J. Thomson Avenue on the University West Cambridge site across the Madingley Road. ... If eastbound towards the city, look for a long traffic island with a right-turn break through signposted J.J. Thomson Avenue . ...

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