... 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. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact . ... Credit Copyright: 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. ... Publications with keywords: impact - Ranger program - spacecraft - Ranger 8 - Moon . ...

... January 29, 1998 . The Earth-Moon System . Credit: NEAR Spacecraft Team , JHUAPL , NASA . Explanation: This evocative mosaic image of the Earth-Moon system was recorded by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft earlier this month. ... During this recent flyby of the Earth-Moon system , the NEAR spacecraft used Earth's gravity to deflect it towards its ultimate destination, the Asteroid 433 Eros. It is scheduled to arrive at Eros in January 1999. ... About APOD > . ...

... File format . ... The p12mProg is the AO control program for the 12 meter telescope. ... the time from the tick, till when we complete the status read from the device. ... P12M_STAT_BLK struct (read from controller via group read at tick) . ... azimuth master 32bit status word . ... dbl . ... azimuth error read from controller. ... azimuth velocity read back from controller deg/sec . ... elevation position read back from controller. stBlk.elErr_D . ... elevation velocity read back from controller . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

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1950: Jan 30--Feb 3: Lows were 0,-3,5,-2,-3 . 1962: Jan 20--23: Lows were 12,13,6,8 . 1962: Feb 24--27: Lows were 25,23,18,19 . 1974: Jan 7--9: Lows were 11,12,10 . 1989: Feb 4--8: Lows were 7,4,8,7,8 . Record cold for January: -4 on January 27, 1957 . Record cold for February: -3 on February 3, 1950 . 1935: Jan 24--26: Highs were 65,64,64 . 1968: Feb 27-29: Highs were 68,68,71 . 1969: Jan 4--6: Highs were 63,62,62 . ... To the Weather Page . ...

Next: MARK5 and EVLBI Up: Recording Systems. ... These are specified in the SCHED station catalog with the paramters CONTROL , DAR , RECORDER and DISK . The first element is the control system -- what software (and hardware) is used to control the recording system. The options that SCHED can handle for wide band VLBI observations are VLBA and VEX. ... The new control system will initially just control the new data aquisition system and recorder. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

... 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. ...

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