... A World Explorer . ... Credit: NASA , JPL Magellan Project Explanation: Ferdinand Magellan was a world explorer. ... NASA's Venus probe, the aptly named Magellan spacecraft shown above in an artist's conception, provided a global view of the poorly known surface of Venus - just as Magellan's expedition provided the beginnings of a global perspective of the Earth. ... Placed in a polar orbit, Magellan's many circumnavigations resulted in a detailed radar mapping of 98% of the Venusian surface. ...

... May 7, 1996 . The Clouds of Neptune . Credit: H. Hammel ( MIT ) and NASA . Explanation: These Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images reveal glimpses of the dynamic atmosphere of Neptune , the Solar System's most distant gas giant planet . ... These three pictures, taken during October and November 1994 when Neptune was only 2.8 billion miles distant, show the planet's characteristic aqua-blue colored atmosphere highlighted by pink, high altitude clouds and streaked with dark bands. ...

... 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" . ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

Tutorial 3 CHAPTER 2 : Support for Archival Research at STScI The Data System Operations Branch (DSOB) of STScI is responsible for the management, scientific and technical oversight, and operation of the HST archive. ... DSOB maintains two archive host computers, STDATA and STDATU, for use by off­site archival researchers. ... DSOB maintains an archive hotseat to assist off­site astronomers in their archival research. ... 6 Chapter 2: Support for Archival Research at STScI ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: W.M. Napier, Senior Research Contents . Dr John Butler has carried out activities in the following main areas: . ... Bag?, has started a project on the link between solar activity and cosmic rays on clouds and their possible influence on the Earth's mean temperature. ... The proceedings of the meeting were edited by C.J. Butler and J.G. Doyle and published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in their conference series. ...

... Stromlo before the 2003 fires . ... The gardens at the Director's ResidenceтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Title: The gardens at the Director's Residence on Mt. Stromlo often provided the setting for observatory visitor-receptions . ... Stromlo often provided the setting for observatory visitor-receptions Pricilla Bok walks a guest around the gardens which in 1957 reflected former Director Richard Woolley's botanical designs. €й Copyright Helen Bailey Bayly. ...

... Preparation of Russian transport spacecraft Soyuz TMA-7 with Expedition-12 (ISS-12) prime crew and a space flight participant of visiting crew (VC-9) for launch to the International Space Station is continued. The spacecraft prime crew (V. Tokarev, W.McArthur, G. Olsen) and backup crew (M. Tyurin, D. Williams, S. Kostenko) passed training during which cosmonauts provided a fit check of individual seat liners, leak and serviceability check of spacesuits, operation with radio equipment. ...

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http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / AstroStat / slog /2008/ google - sky / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / AstroStat / slog /2008/ google - sky /comment-page-1/#comment-192 vlk Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:23:30 +0000 http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / ... The readers of this slog are very much recommended to explore the Google sky. ...

... deceit is distributed with the following Perl functions that can be used to fill the dataset with data from text files. rows . ... fillColumn . The function signature is as follows: the first argument must be the variable col , the second the name of a text file from which the data is to be extracted, the third argument an integer denoting from which column in the text file data should be extracted. ... Vector columns in the text file are delimited by the separator character. ...

... 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. ...

... Access key help . Search . Email & phone search . ... Astrophysics Group . Astronomers . ... Arcminute Microkelvin Imager . Software for Astrophysics . ... On these pages you can find out about some of the facilities we make available to the astronomical community. 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ... Accessibility ...

Duty astronomers at the Compact Array are rostered from ATNF staff and students to provide support to observers at Narrabri for periods of one week at a time. The duty astronomers are required to assist observers prepare observing schedules, help set up the Compact Array at the start of an observing run, diagnose and attempt to solve problems that arise in the course of the observations and help observers with the initial analysis of their data. ... www.atnf.csiro.au/observers/tidbinbilla . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Living the тАЬDreamтАЭ, the Dream Chaser; a mini Shuttle? Image credit: NASA) . The main objectives of the Dream Chaser program as described by its makers is to provide a passenger and cargo transportation system into Low Earth Orbit which will in turn help service and maintain the International Space Station. ... The Dream Chaser would be launched by an Atlas V rocket. Image Credit: NASA.) ... Dream Chaser test flight. ...

... September 9, 1999 . Comet Hale-Bopp Over the Superstition Mountains . ... Explanation: Four years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered out near Jupiter falling toward the inner Solar System . ... Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed in 1997 behind the Superstition Mountains in Arizona . Clearly visible are the comets white dust tail that shines by reflected sunlight, and the blue ion tail that shines by glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

... 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. ...

... GAMMA RAY BURSTS . with guest Dr. Dale Frail from National Radio Astronomy Observatory . ... Gamma-Ray Bursts . A Collection of Resources to Get Behind the Headlines . Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & ASP) . ... This is a fine introduction to violent events in the universe by a noted astronomer, with a good section on gamma-ray bursts. ... On the Swift mission and what it is teaching astronomers about gamma-ray bursts. ... http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/bursts.html . ...

... A small yet powerful planning and scheduling toolkit has been built for the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS ) Small Explorer spacecraft. ... The simple design, minimal resource requirements and easy extensibility of the SWAS planning and scheduling toolkit should make it useful for other space astronomy missions. ... The relatively severe time and manpower constraints for the development of the SWAS Planning and Scheduling toolkit have forced it to remain small and simple. ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...