... July 30, 1999 . The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact . Credit: NASA . ... Rapidly transmitting a series of pictures to ground controllers, its camera recorded this one at an altitude of about 11 kilometers, 5 seconds before impacting the lunar surface. ... Its very successful mission in lunar orbit complete, the Lunar Prospector is scheduled to crash into a crater near the Moon's south pole in an effort to confirm the presence of water-ice by studying the impact's debris cloud. ...

... The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact . ... Credit: NASA Explanation: On February 20th, 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed into the Moon . Rapidly transmitting a series of pictures to ground controllers, its camera recorded this one at an altitude of about 11 kilometers, 5 seconds before impacting the lunar surface. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: impact - Ranger program - spacecraft - Ranger 8 - Moon - Луна - лунная поверхность - космические корабли . ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 30, 1999 . Solar Shock Wave . Credit: Barry Reynolds (Perth, Australia) and the SOHO - EIT Consortium . ... On planet Earth, observer Barry Reynolds photographed the expanding shock front (left) in the light emitted by hydrogen atoms at the solar surface. ... About APOD > . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... September . ... Posted on September 24, 2010 | No Comments Sub-orbital space tourism took a step forward on Monday 22 March 2010 when Virgin Galactic?s first spaceplane, VSS Enterprise, took to the air for the first time. ... Newer Entries . 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. ...

... Major news, from Terry Moseley: "Irish amateur astronomer Dave McDonald has just discovered an asteroid - the first one to be discovered in Ireland for 160 years! ... He said to me afterwards "Now I'll just have to discover one myself!" ... The only other asteroid ever discovered in Ireland was 9 Metis, by Andrew Graham at Markree Observatory in Co Sligo, on 25 April 1848. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 13.8 billion years ago the most important event in history took place the Universe exploded into life in the Big Bang. In the first moments after the Big Bang, the Universe was extremely hot and foggy. ... These are still by far the most common materials in the Universe. ... What has been unclear until now, is how these raw materials could clump together into grains of cosmic dust without being destroyed by the harsh environments in which they are created. ...

... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 10: Overheads andOrbit Time Determination > 10.2 NICMOS Exposure Overheads . 10.2 NICMOS Exposure Overheads . ... Overhead times for changing cameras are given in Table 10.2 . The values in Table 10.2 include the time to perform the Small Angle Maneuver (to change from one camera to the other) and the time for Instrument reconfiguration (to change PAM position in order to refocus the Cameras). ...

Computer Ephemeris. Second order reduction quantities. Explanations. This page consist of four little tables. First and second tables contains J a (in 0.000001 s ) and J d (0.0001") for nothern declination, third and fourth contains the same information but for southern declination. Each table have 13 informational columns headed with right ascension values, and some amount of rows, labelled with date. ...

Euro-Asian Association of Astronomy Teachers . e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru . The Second Euro-Asian Congress . of Astronomy Teachers . Hope to be in the late 2004 or 2005. ... Attention for European astronomers: . Congresses of "Friendly" European Association for Astronomy Education: General Assembly 2004 . URL of this page: http://www.issp.ac.ru/astro/eaata/2s'ezd_e.html (last update 16.04.2004) . ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

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... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... In principle, two observers on the ground can tell, by comparing the position of the same auroral arc against the background stars. ... The display stretches across Canada; just below it, in the middle of the picture, are the lights of Chicago, next to Lake Michigan. ... The Canadian scientific satellite Isis-2 (1971) carried an auroral imaging camera and discovered the diffuse aurora, a broad ribbon around the auroral oval, too spread-out to be noticed from the ground. ... Auroral Acceleration . ...

There has been ripple in the lband wide bandpass near 1400 Mhz during the a1861 run of may04 and during the a1914 run in aug04. ... The first two sbc were polA, polB at 25Mhz while the last two sbc were polA,polB at 12.5 Mhz. When they observed above 1370 Mhz, the 1320 hipass and 1370 hipass wave guide filters were installed. ... Project a1914 used the 1st two sbc for polA and polB at 25 Mhz. ... Fig 1. (on/off-1) degK vs frequency with offsets for plotting. ... The bumps at 1381 Mhz are gps L3. ...