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 . ...

... 2014 February 3 . Lunar Time Lapse Panorama including Yutu Rover . ... Explanation: Where has the Yutu rover been on the Moon? ... Because it uses solar power , the mechanical Jade Rabbit goes into sleep mode to endure the two-week long lunar night. Pictured above is a digitally created time-lapse composite panorama showing the region surrounding the Chang'e 3 lander , capturing the desk-sized rover in three positions. ... Organize Your Universe: Free APOD 2014 Calendar in PDF format . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Fundamentals of Aperture Antennas and Arrays . ... Summary: The types of aperture antennas covered in this book include the main types of horns, reflectors and arrays as well as microstrip patches, reflectarrays and lenses. ... Also included is an introduction to arrays on non-planar surfaces, which is of importance for applications that involve curved surfaces such as in aerodynamics or for making aperture antennas unobtrusive. ... today * ATNF | ...

. Image created by Miruna Popescu, showing some of the objects displayed in the Armagh Observatory's Human Orrery. Original images from NASA were used.

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... News . ... NASA's New Horizons detects Pluto surface features, including possible polar cap . ... New Horizons scientists interpreted the data to reveal that the dwarf planet has broad surface markings some bright, some dark including a bright area at one pole that may be a polar cap. ... These latest New Horizons images allow the mission science team to detect clear differences in brightness across Pluto s surface as it rotates. ... NASAт??s New Horizons nears historic encounter with Pluto . ...

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East Dubuque,Illinois, USA . Greetings from our East Dubuque School to Zelenogorsk. ... Our classes are in the high school link. ... East Dubuque is a small town of about 2,000 people. ... Our high school here in East Dubuque is also pretty small, it only has about 190 . ... I go to school in east Dubuque IL This is a very small town . ... I am now 16 years of age, and a junior at East Dubuque High School. ... I am a senior at East Dubuque High School. ... people in the town of East Dubuque. ...

Next: Summary Up: Design Previous: Logical View . The screen design is part of the user interface development, and is a result of the storyboarding described in Section . ... This provides a good overview of how the user interface development had to be broken down to meet the design requirements. The Menu Bar is located at the top of the screen, and provides access to several functions available throughout the design session. ... The Palette of Objects is located in the upper right. ...

... Most people will tell you the Sun is yellow, but if you could fly out into space and look at our star without going blind, you d actually see that it looks white. ... Our Sun appears yellow to us because of the Earth s atmosphere (the gases that surround our planet). ... This picture is an artist s illustration of one of the most rare and awesome stars in the Universe a yellow hyper-giant . ... Cool fact: This yellow hyper-giant is the 12th largest star to be found in the entire Universe! ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this magnet object POV file . This is a small horseshoe magnet, painted red. ... The real magnet has a small circular dent on one side, with the letter G on it (I have used the POVray logo here). ... On the real magnet, all of the letters are hard to read, becuase they were cheaply cast, or because the paint is gloppy and obscures the letter. ... The magnet has a height of 0.9925 units. ... WARNING: This POV object is based on a real object. ...

The participants have to be familiarized in advance with the site of the round during the daytime in the case the round (part of the round) organized during the night. In the case the round have a task with a telescope (except for observations with the already adjusted and guided telescope) every participant has to be familiarized with that actual telescope, on which one the participant will work during the round . ... APAO 2005 Irkutsk , IAO 2006 Bombay, APAO 2006 Vladivostok, IAO 2007 Crimea, . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

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... The photography of the underlying surface can be directly transmitted to Earth in the course of a live communications session via ham radio. ... Conducting real-time radio communications sessions from on-board ISS RS to exchange digital images. ... Conversations of the space flight participant of Visiting Mission 15 with ground users, taking place in the course of real-time ham radio communications sessions, as well as video images uplinked/downlinked to/from ISS in real-time via ham radio. ...