A Hole in Mars . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL , U. Arizona Explanation: What created this unusual hole in Mars? The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. ... Analysis of this and follow-up images revealed the opening to be about 35 meters across, while the interior shadow angle indicates that the underlying cavern is roughly 20 meters deep. ...

... From Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory, and Greer Ramsey, Armagh County Museum . The National Museums Northern Ireland and the Armagh Observatory announce the launch of the exhibition "Portraits of Astronomers", at 8.00pm on Thursday 19th November at Armagh County Museum . ... Among the invited guests will be Lucinda Douglas-Menzies who took the images and whose book and exhibition is a fitting tribute to the United Nations International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:16 . ...

... This appendix describes how to use the JavaScript console to evaluate expressions and display error messages to the user. ... Displaying Error Messages with the Console JavaScript 1.2 and earlier versions. ... You can specify whether to automatically open the console when a JavaScript error occurs or to display a dialog box for each JavaScript error. ... To open a dialog box each time an error occurs, add the following line to prefs.js : user_pref("javascript.classic.error_alerts", true); . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Opening of Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA production design with Cambridge Consultants Ltd . ... Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology have historically been among the very strongest scientific disciplines in Cambridge. ... Paul Alexander, Head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Director of the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, is the leader of CambridgeБЂ™s involvement in the SKA: . ...

... 2004 March 31 . M39: Open Cluster in Cygnus . ... Spanning an angle larger than the Moon , M39's relatively few stars lie only about 800 light years distant toward the constellation of Cygnus . ... Open clusters, also called galactic clusters , contain fewer and younger stars than globular clusters . Also unlike globular clusters, open clusters are generally confined to the plane of our Galaxy . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Archives . ... Discontinuation of weekly [arXiv] series . ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... Images may be Opened and Closed with different structure elements. ... Tags: close , dilate , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , erode , Morphological operator , open , set theory . Category: Imaging , Jargon | ...

... Invoking a CGI Program . ... To open a document in your browser, use a URL that specifies an absolute or relative location for the document. An absolute location has the form: . ... To open a local file in your web browser, use a URL that has the form: . ... mailto: address For example: . ... http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/cgi/overview.html To specify a URL that invokes a CGI program, specify the location of the CGI program, followed by a query string which contains the arguments for the program. ...

... News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Visitor list . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Narrabri Open Day and Opening of New Visitors Centre Displays . ... A public Open Day will be held at the Australia Telescope Narrabri Paul Wild Observatory on Saturday 29 July 2006 from 11am - 4pm. ... An Opening of the New Visitors Centre displays will be held for invited guests earlier in the day. ... CSIRO Visitors Centre Narrabri . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... We will be open from 7pm-9pm with a screening of our Digital Theatre show тАЬBeyond the Blue: A Stargazing JourneyтАЭ at 7.30pm. This Theatre show is a tour around the night sky as seen from Ireland at this time of the year. ... This open night is ideal for anyone starting out in astronomy or wanting to learn more about the night sky and donтАЩt forget to wrap up warm!* ... Cost: Free . ...

... Opening of Canberra Astronomical Soc's nтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Title: Opening of Canberra Astronomical Soc's new telescope.11-Dec-2004 . Description: Meade Instrument Corp (USA) and the Binocular and Telescope Shop (Sydney) donated a Meade LX200 GPS telescope to CAS to replace telescopes and instruments lost in the fires of 18 Jan 2003. ... After delivery to CAS the Meade was housed inтАж . Views: 1012 . ... CAS Grand Opening, Christmas 2004 . ...

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To open a connection to the ftp server on a remote host: ftp> open castor Connected to castor.ucs.ed.ac.uk. 220 castor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. Name (castor:erpl08): erpl08 331 Password required for erpl08. ... This shows the user opening a connection to their account on the remote host "castor". ... To open a connection to an "anonymous ftp" server on a remote host: ftp> open info.cern.ch Connected to nxoc01.cern.ch. 220 nxoc01 FTP server (Version 5.20 (NeXT 1.0) .. ...

As a result of preceding actions the File opening dialog box appears and user is suggested to open the file with observations (the file may be created for the first time). ... To see the list of files with desirable extension in chosen folder define the type of extension with the help of File type drop-down list at the bottom of the dialog box. ... The name of the file will appear in File name dialog box. ... In case you want to open the file with new name, type it in the File name dialog box. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Arecibo is joining 16 other telescopes around the world to form a 'global telescope' to celebrate the start of the International Year of Astronomy. The observations, coordinated from the Netherlands, will follow three quasars for a 24-hour period. Arecibo will join the observations on January 15 between 11 am and 1:15 pm and between 5 and 8 pm (Puerto Rican time). ... Information on activities in Puerto Rico during the International Year of Astronomy can be found at Astronomy2009pr.org . ...

This is the homepage of Andrew Fruchter, an astronomer on the staff of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Here you can look at an HST images of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies. ... Therefore, substantial information on the fine scale structure of objects can be obtained by offsetting the pointing of the telescope between exposures and then combining these "dithered" exposures into a single image. ...

... Next: Star Finding and Up: Image Restoration and Previous: Multiresolution and Astronomical . ... Design improvements continue to be made in the filter developed using mathematical morphology principles for the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) images. The purpose of this filter is to eliminate Galactic cirrus emission from extragalactic fields. ... With an appropriate normalization, the filter curve was applied to each pixel in the image to remove the Galactic cirrus. ...

... Observatory . ... Science Users Information > Libraries > About the Libraries . ... Science in Garching . Science in Santiago . ... Libraries Catalog . ... ESO Library Garching . ... The Library Catalog contains records of all library items and provides access to electronic publications. ... If you prefer to browse through the books on the library shelves, you might wish to get information about the classification system used by the ESO Libraries on the start page of the library catalog . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . region (region-6.2.2) [xmmsas_20030110_1802-5.4.1] . Meta Index / Home Page . Errors . ... Error opening input source list . ... Error opening region description output file . ... Parameters . bkgregionfile . ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2003-01-10 ...