... 2000 December 30 . A Year of Resolving Backgrounds . ... Explanation: No matter which direction you look, no matter what type of light you see, the sky glows - but why? ... In microwave light , the BOOMERANG and MAXIMA-1 missions resolved with new clarity the seemingly uniform microwave background . ... Pictured above , a map spanning ten degrees of the microwave sky resolves the microwave background into hot and cold spots, as indicated in micro kelvins . ... About APOD | ...

... Credit: Dan Bush ( Missouri Skies ) Explanation: If you've been outdoors near sunset, then you've probably noticed Venus low in the west as the brilliant evening star . Sometimes mistaken for a tower light near the horizon, Venus is the third brightest celestial beacon, after the Sun and Moon, in planet Earth's sky. ... As this season's evening star, Venus will be at its most brilliant tonight, but as December progresses the bright planet will begin to fall out of the western sky. ... December . ...

... We construct a composite quasar spectrum from 149 HST FOS spectra of 80 quasars with mean redshift . ... The continuum longward of 1000? can be modeled as a power law with . ... The break in the power--law index is a feature expected in Comptonized accretion--disk spectra. ... The spectral features in the sub--Ly region of AGN spectra provide critical insights into the physical processes around the central engine, and they become accessible to IUE and HST at intermediate redshift. ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... December 2007 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . Monograph Publications . IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents . ... November/December 1998 . ... The study of this debris has intrigued astronomers for more than 300 years. ... Sci-Fi in the Classroom: Making a "Deep Impact" on Young People's Interest in Science, Leroy W. Dubeck and Rose Tatlow . ... publications . ...

... December 27, 1999 . Solar Moss . Credit: TRACE Project , NASA . ... The false-color TRACE image above was recorded in extreme ultraviolet light on October 18. It shows the solar moss associated with hot magnetic plasma loops arching above one of the Sun's active regions . ... Solar moss isn't found growing only on the Sun's north side, but as a rule seems to lie above the photosphere or visible surface, in the transition region of the solar atmosphere. ... About APOD > . ...

December 16, 1997 . ... An example of the EUV chain revealed by the modified SOHO/EIT images. A complex EUV (195 A) chain or thread of December 16, 1997, consisting of several quasi-straight-line fragments between points 1-2-3-4-5 and covering a large part of the solar disk. ... A comparison of the large-scale chains and threads on two pairs of the modified SOHO/EIT (195 A; inverted) and He I (10830 A; normal) images. ... SOHO/EIT, 195 A, December 15-17, 1997 GIF Animation (1.07 MB) . ...

... Duchamp | ... Top | Duchamp is a solution to this problem of three-dimensional source finding. ... A list of the detections and their properties, as well as the input parameters that were used. [text file] . ... It can be downloaded in source format, in a gzipped tar archive. ... Changes from the previous version can be seen here (this file is included in the tar archive), while the archive files and documentation from the previous release versions are here , if you are really interested. ...

... Sun-aligned arcs are auroral features found within the polar cap , as opposed to the auroral oval where the more typical arcs reside. First global image of this phenomenon was reported by Frank et al. (1982); it consists of luminous belt reaching across the polar cap from noon to midnigh (that is why it is also called theta aurora; terms transpolar or polar cap arc are also known). ... Res., ... Antisunward decay of polar cap arcs, J. Geophys. ... The Creation of Theta-Aurora, by JHU/APL . ...

A Christmas Carol Featuring Ghosts · Past · Present · Future Eric Torrence 1/9 December 2004 The Ghost of Christmas Past 7 Preliminary Analyses Presented Very impressive showing, broad physics interests 14 AWG readers, 21 RC members,.. ... Eric Torrence 3/9 December 2004 Ghost of Christmas (near) Future We are trying to get two Moriond Tau talks (one EW, one QCD) Publications of Tau04 results would be a natural reason to argue for these talks CWR must start no later than Feb. 11th! ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Home . ... There simply isn't space to cover all of glib's features in this book. ... Here's a brief list of features not already mentioned: . ... G_VA_COPY copies a va_list in a portable way. ... Convenience/portability routines to get the user's home directory, get the name of a /tmp directory, and similar tasks. ... If you need some generally-useful routine that's not in glib already, consider writing it in glib style and contributing it to the library! ...

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... Last decades alongside with realisation of six International (all-the-world) Science Olympiads ( http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/ ) on some continents were founded and began to be conducted regional international olympiads, in particular: . ... Asian-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad - since 1989. ... Last years a few organisers of the National Astronomy Olympiads in Asian countries and team leaders coming to the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) , stated wishes to strengthen a role of Asia. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This month Jupiter the largest of all planets, remains visible in the sky after sunset, not setting until after 11pm.€а On the evening of 12and 13 December the bright star-like object close to the Moon will be this gas giant planet. ... Rising this month is the great winter constellation of Orion the Hunter who will remain in our night sky through until March. ... Tweets that mention Wonders of the December Sky | ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

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XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... Meta Index / Home Page / Miscellaneous Algorithms Omdetect has a simple extended-source validation function to recognise scattered-light features and ignore them. The algorithm works by assuming a scattered-light feature consists of a number of connected pixels with values significantly above the background interspersed with pixels not significantly above the background and arranged in a random fashion throughout the source region. ...

... They have buttons to get a help window and close the window in the bottom left corner and often some other buttons in a similar style in the bottom right corner. ... Each CIMA-style window has a set of buttons in the lower left corner. ... Accept : Apply the options selected and then close the window . ... Current : Restore all options The 'Accept' and 'Apply' buttons both apply the selected options; the only difference being that 'Accept' will close the window while 'Apply' will leave it open. ...