... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 August 22 . Earth at Night . Credit: C. Mayhew R. Simmon ( NASA / GSFC ), NOAA / NGDC , DMSP Digital Archive . ... Can you find your favorite country or city ? ... Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe , the eastern United States , and Japan . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Earth at Night . ... 22.08.2004 . ... Credit: C. Mayhew R. Simmon ( NASA / GSFC ), NOAA / NGDC , DMSP Digital Archive Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city ? ... Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe , the eastern United States , and Japan . ... August . ... Publications with keywords: Earth - light pollution . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Facilities . ATNF facilities . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

... He made observations of a supernova (literally: nova= "new star") in 1572 (we now know that a supernova is an exploding star, not a new star). ... Brahe's meticulous observations showed that the supernova did not change positions with respect to the other stars (no parallax). ... This was early evidence against the immutable nature of the heavens, although Brahe did not interpret the absence of parallax for stars correctly, as we discuss below. Brahe made careful observations of a comet in 1577. ...

... They have been used to describe the content of the 105 columns available in the different VizieR tables. ... We present different applications of UCDs: selection of catalogues, based on their content; identification of catalogues having similar fields; automated data conversion allowing direct comparison of data in cross-identifications. ... Metadata for the VO: The Case of UCDs 71 Figure 2. Example of statistics on the different column names and units used in all VizieR tables for one UCD. ...

... Contact: Huib van Langevelde, Director Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe +31 521 596 500 langevelde@jive.nl www.jive.nl Arpad Szomoru, Head of Technical Operations and R D Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe +31 521 596 500 szomoru@jive.nl www.jive.nl Michael Lindqvist, Astronomer Onsala Space Observatory +46 31 772 55 08 michael.lindqvist@chalmers.se www.chalmers.se/rss/oso-en Kristine Yun, EXPReS Public Outreach Officer Joint Institute for ...

Next: Public Understanding of Science, Up: Technical Research Summaries Previous: New Approaches to Risk . ... Michael Smith has been analysing new infrared data collected from 11 PPN and PN by Chris Davis (Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii) to search for clues as to how the objects evolve. ... Georgi Pavlovski studied the properties of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds and its effect on the molecular cloud properties and their chemical evolution. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

Family ASTRO was initially developed to expand the ASP?s flagship program Project ASTRO?, which has partnered thousands of volunteer amateur and professional astronomers around the country with classroom teachers and students in their communities. ... Since then, we?ve trained not only many Project ASTRO partners, but also hundreds of other educators across the country to use our series of Leader Kits and Take-Home Activities to lead fun, hands-on Astronomy Events in their communities. ...

... STScI-PRC01-04 HUBBLE'S ULTRAVIOLET VIEWS OF NEARBY GALAXIES YIELD CLUES TO EARLY UNIVERSE Astronomers are using these three NASA Hubble Space Telescope images to help tackle the question of why distant galaxies have such odd shapes, appearing markedly different from the typical elliptical and spiral galaxies seen in the nearby universe. ... Light from these galaxies travels great distances (billions of light-years) to reach Earth. ... These stars emit mostly ultraviolet light. ...

Poster for the 2005 HST Calibration Workshop (Baltimore, October 2005) http://etacar.umn.edu ( Above: ) Part of a typical STIS/CCD spectrum of Car. ... We mentioned some of these problems in an article in the Spring 2004 STScI Newsletter, and you can find details in our "Technical Memos" at: http://etacar.umn.edu/treasury/techmemos These specifically concern STIS/CCD, but some have broader applications. ... Figure 2: The ERR array in pipeline-processed STIS data, see "Subtleties concerning noise." ...

Modules | Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 . ... Many of the documents on these Developer pages are lifted from Apache 1.3's documentation. While they are all being updated to Apache 2.0, they are in different stages of progress. ... Converting Modules from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.0 . ... Integrating a module into the Apache build system . ... Some notes on Apache module development by Ryan Bloom . ...

... Generally, astronomical data archives are open to public. ... The data format?so called FITS. Yet, ASCII format catalogues are available (for example, VizieR , http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR) . ... Here, I attach an email from 2006 Astrostatics Summer School at PSU , who kindly answer to my question on how to read files in FITS format. ?????????????from Patrick . ... The tool you want in this package is called dmlist , with a syntax like this to dump the data to an ASCII file: . ...

... CPO AND FCN MODELS COMPARISON In -- -- -- -- -- practice, three CPO and two FCN models are available for user's choice: OPA/ IERS C04 CPO series ( IERS AR 2007 , ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/ iers /eop/eopc04 05/) NEOS/ IERS CPO series ( IERS AR 2007 , ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/) Pulkovo ZM2 CPO series (Malkin 2007 , http://www.gao.spb.ru/english/as/persac/index.htm) OPA/ ... All the CPO and FCN models are results of approximation of CPO time series observed by VLBI. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... Views of the Solar System is maintained at several different sites on the Internet. ... This is the primary site for "Views of the Solar System." ... This site is maintained by Lee Burnside ; see also their home page . ... You are permitted to set up a Views of the Solar System mirror site as long as you follow the following guidelines: Views of the Solar System may be distributed on the World Wide Web as long as it is used for non-profit applications and the pages are not modified. ...