... Ranger 8 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight. The spacecraft carried six television cameras, an optical earth sensor and high-gain antenna for optimum communications, and solar panels to provide power, as well as additional engineering equipment. ... Sufficient video bandwidth was provided to allow for rapid framing sequences of both narrow- and wide-angle television pictures. ...

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Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

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• Walter Stibbs signs the page containing his picture for Kim Rawlings

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 29, 1996 . Julius Caesar and Leap Days . ... Explanation: Today, February 29th , is a leap day - a relatively rare occurrence. Advised by Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes , Roman dictator Julius Caesar , pictured above in a self-decreed minted coin, created a calender system in 46 BC that contained one leap day every four years. ...

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• APOD: 2002 February 3 - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
• APOD: 2000 February 20 - The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies
• APOD: February 17, 1999 - Hickson Compact Group 40

... Inside the Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... Moon Venus Mars Skyline . ... Taken on February 20, five different exposures made in rapid succession were used to created this tantalizing telephoto image. ... Venus, named for the Roman goddess of love, and Mars, the war god's namesake, came together by moonlight in this lovely skyview, recorded on February 20 from Charleston, South Carolina, USA, planet Earth. ... Which is older -- the rocks you see on the ground or the light you see from the sky? ...

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4th of February 2016 . Tucana 150 degr 2 field with ASKAP-BETA . by Ian Heywood (CASS) . The fourth refereed science paper to use data from the BETA telescope presents a three-epoch continuum survey in the constellation of Tucana, overlapping with the Spitzer-SPT Deep Field. Each of the three 12-hour runs, observed over the course of a week, covers 150 square degrees using the full bandwidth between 711 - 1015 MHz. ... Reference: Heywood, Bannister, Marvil, et al. ... today * ATNF | ...

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Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

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• Rhiannon Zoe Nolan Howell 1997 February
• Jasper Finn Nolan Howell December 2002 - February 2003
• The Pleiades

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

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• The composition of a star that should not exist | ESO
• The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula* | ESO
• Gegenschein above the VLT * | ESO

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... February 2003 . ... If you trace a well-worn path between the same deep-sky objects every time you observe, see how your favorites compare with those chosen by Astronomy.com visitors. by John Shibley . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

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• February 2006 resources | Astronomy.com
• February 2006 | Astronomy.com
• The week in pictures: January 26 т?? February 1, 2013 | Astronomy.com

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

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• The XTE Data Finder (XDF)
• ADASS 2002 Conference Proceedings
• ADASS 2003 Conference Proceedings

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

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• Lecture Series 2012-2013 ? Amateur Astronomers Association of New York

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... Some links from press coverage and other websites referencing IYA2009-Ireland. ... I n the last day of the International Year of Astronomy ( early evening of 31 December 2009), the Moon had the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland and the UK for 40 years: the Moon was 8% covered by the Earth's shadow. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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• David Asher home page
• Miruna Popescu Exhibition
• Armagh Observatory

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

13. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions

14. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston

15. Vernadsky Ukrainian Research Station in Antarctida

16. Campaign 2, February 2000

17. Campaign 2, February 2000 (continue)

18. Casio QV-* Camera info

19. Making HST Pictures: Illustrations

20. The Galaxy Gallery: Messier Objects