The oral histories on this Website are the transcripts from audio-recorded, personal interviews with many who pioneered outer space and the Moon, and with those who continue the excitement of space exploration. ... If available, the Biographical Data Sheet provided background information for the Oral Historian to prepare for the interview. ... Loren J. Shriver Oral History Interviews . December 16, 2002 . HTML . PDF 264K . ... PDF 296K . ... PDF 94K . Biographical Data Sheet . ...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

... 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 | ...

... IYA 2009 FREE TO ENTER COMPETITION: deadline extended . Due to a late surge of interest, the closing date for this competition has been given one FINAL extension - . to 15 December 2009. ... Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:10 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... W401, W402 ... codes are for AO4 experiments. ... EXPNO SOURCE FRQ Corr DOY DY: DATE UT RANGE #TEL TELESCOPES VS01s J2225-04 C Pent 337 Sa:Dec-02 07:00 - 13:00 7 HH UD SH MP CD HO VS09p J2320+05 C Pent 343 Fr:Dec-08 10:00 - 18:00 8 HH NT TR CD UD SH MP W001e J2358-10 C Pent 345 Su:Dec-10 09:00 - 14:00 8 HH NT AT TR HO UD MP VS06k W022a9 J1230+12 L Socr 354 Tu:Dec-19 08:00 - 17:00 15 VLBA GO EB UD SH W040a7 J1230+12 C Socr 355 We:Dec-20 08:00 - 13:00 13 AR VLBA Y W023b4 J1219+05 L ...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), Auroral probe (IB_AUR), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. ... Orbital ASCII files | ... four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL . Tail Probe . ... ASCII files . ... Auroral probe . ... NASA) . ... NASA, ISAS) . ... The four spacecraft . ... INTERBALL mission | ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on December 3, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments A spectacular multi-coloured fireball was witnessed in Ireland and Scotland by dozens of people on the evening of 29 November 2015. ... 1 Comment Is this a new dawn for suborbital travel? ... 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. ...

XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... RPM Package Available For XEphem 3.4? ... Post Message | ... Any chances that an RPM package might be available for XEphem 3.4? ... Re: RPM package available for XEphem 3.4? - admin - December 11, 2000 - 12:51 UTC . Re: RPM package available for XEphem 3.4? - ckulesa - December 20, 2000 - 03:35 UTC . Re: Re: RPM package available for XEphem 3.4? - lemmy - January 2, 2001 - 22:44 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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... Available at http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/CIE/publ/abst/15-2-86.html . ... Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217.html. ... HTML 4.0 Specification", D. Raggett, A. Le Hors, I. Jacobs, 8 July 1997. ... Available at ftp://ftp.internic.net/rfc/rfc1700.txt. ... Available at ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1808.txt . ... Available at ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2070.txt . ... Available at ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2119.txt . ... Available at ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2318.txt . ...

... Comet Lovejoy over a Windmill . ... Pictured above, Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) was imaged above the windmill in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire in southern France with a six-second exposure. ... Comet Lovejoy should remain available for photo opportunities for northern observers during much of December and during much of the night, although it will be fading as the month progresses and highest in the sky before sunrise. ... Publications with keywords: comet . ... Close Comet and the Milky Way . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... News and . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... HST Spectroscopy STIS/GHRS/FOS | ... Change of Supported Apertures for E230H Exposure Time Incorrect in Interrupted STIS Exposures CALSTIS 2.0 Released Improved Cosmic Ray Rejection Parameters for STIS New STIS Reference Files CCD Hot-Pixel Alert for STIS Spectroscopic Observations STIS Fringing Tutorial Now Available GHRS `poffsets' Task not Reliable for Weak Data FOS Paper Products Now Support Spectropolarimetry ...

... L-Wide . ... Receiver History . ... Available Filters: . ... Use with e.g. filter 5) NOTE 2 1120-1220 3 1230-1470 4 1550-1820 5 1100-1800 6 1360-1470 7 1320 hipass NOTE 8 1180-1280 9 1280 hipass (ext Output unit. ... Consequently, the calibration for data collected using the hipass 1320 and the hipass 1370 filters only will be mis-calibrated (i.e. by using the opposite polarisation calibration data). ... It is now possible to select any bandpass filter that is not in the 1320 hipass band. ...

SDSS CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES . ... Construction Punch List: December 27, 1999 . Detail Views of Roof Attachments: December 22, 1999 . ... HVAC and Hoist Work: December 13, 1999 . Moving the Loft: December 6, 1999 . ... Quick Shots of Loft Installation: December 6, 1999 . ... Loft Preparation for Installation: December 1, 1999 . Moving Loft for Prep Work: November 29, 1999 . ... Construction Tarp Installation; Part 2: November 5, 1999 . ... HVAC Installation; Part 3: October 7, 1999 . ...

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NASA's Galileo spacecraft, now in orbit around the planet Jupiter, this morning began the first scheduled return of data from its companion atmospheric probe that parachuted into the jovian atmosphere last Thursday. ... Forty minutes of data collected by the probe stored in the orbiter's onboard computer memory will be radioed to Earth over the next four days and presented to Galileo scientists for analysis. ... Space History Galileo . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 17, 1996 . Mariner's Mercury . ... Explanation: Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains the most mysterious of the Solar System's inner planets. ... The only spacecraft to explore Mercury close-up was Mariner 10 which executed 3 flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975, surveying approximately 45 percent of its surface. ...

... ABOUT ST-ECF . ... The various applications for handling Hubble data that had been collected in the layered IRAF package "stecf" have been moved into STSDAS in December 2010 and will be released as part of STSDAS starting from version 3.13 on (scheduled for the beginning of 2011). IMPOL - HST Imaging Polarimetry Reduction Package . SPECRES - Spectroscopic Restoration Tools . ... NICTOOLS - NICMOS GRISM Tools; discontinued . SLITLESS - a Slitless Spectroscopy Quick-look Tool; discontinued . ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...