... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... JavaScript version 1.3 provides the following new features and enhancements: . ... See the Client-Side JavaScript Guide for details. ... Changes to the Array object. ... The push method returns the new length of the array rather than the last element added to the array. ... Changes to the Date object. ... Added a day parameter to the setMonth method. ... Added the apply method, which allows you to apply a method of another object in the context of a different object (the calling object). ...

... Mysterious Changing feature on Titan . ... 15.10.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Cassini Radar Mapper , ASU , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? Radar images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have been recording the surface of the cloud-engulfed moon Titan for years. ... Subsequent observations in 2014 found the object remained -- but had changed! ... Publications with keywords: Titan . Publications with words: Titan . ...

Next: SAOTk: Tcl/Tk Widgets for Imaging and Data Visualization . ... Xguiphot is a new GUI driven interactive aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. Xguiphot as a new aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. ... On task startup Xguiphot requests a list of images, a list of objects files, a list of output files, initial values for the algorithm parameters, and the name of the GUI definition file. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 March 7 . Mystery Feature Now Disappears in Titan Lake . ... Explanation: What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? ... In an image released last week, the mystery object seems to have disappeared in 2015 January. The featured false-color image shows how the 20-km long object has come, changed, and gone. ...

These routines are meant to provide high level definition and processing of command lines. ... Create a control panel object. panel_create_group . Create a panel to contain a group. panel_add_item . ... Pop last pushed control panel object from control panel stack. panel_process_command_with_stack . ... Register a function to be called when a panel item changes. panel_PROTO_decode_func . ... This routine will create a control panel object which is a container for a group of items. ... flag . ...

... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... What is the baseline for determining the magnitude scale of celestial objects? Why do brighter objects have negative numbers? ... He called the brightest 1st magnitude and the faintest 6th magnitude. ... Also, to assign a magnitude to the brightest planets, the Moon, and especially the Sun, scientists would have to work with negative numbers. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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... Records were made this January when the RadioAstron satellite was joined by ground-based telescopes, forming a radio telescope 220,000 km across тАУ roughly 20 times larger than the Earth. RadioAstron , a Russian orbital telescope of 10 meter diameter, joined with ground-based observatories to resolve objects 50 times smaller than is possible with the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Images: . The RadioAstron spaceantenna observes a celestial radio source simultaneously with ground-based dishes. ...

... Reference Documents RD1 Technical Requirements: Fast Tip-Tilt /Narrow-field Acquisition System (INT-403-ENG-0003) ­ rev 2.2, May 20th 2010 RD2 FTT / NAS Conceptual Design Report (MRO-TRE-CAM-0000-0102) Acronyms and Abbreviations FTT FLC FOV GUI ISS Fast Tip-Tilt First Light Camera Field-of-View Graphical User Interface Interferometer Supervisory System NAS NMT TBC TBD UT Narrow-field ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Description Status of See design at RD2 CoDR Sec. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Weekend Visits to the ALMA OSF . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), was inaugurated at an official ceremony on 13 March 2013. ... This video is a record of the live streaming that took place on that occasion. ... As no network or browser is 100% stable, we strongly recommend using a download manager (like Free Download Manager or the command line tool aria2 ). ...

... You can "attach" arbitrary string-pointer pairs to a GtkObject instance, in effect adding a new data member. ... GtkWidget* button = gtk_button_new(); GtkWidget* label = gtk_label_new(_("Foo")); gtk_object_set_data(GTK_OBJECT(button), "my_label_key", label); . ... void gtk_object_set_data (GtkObject* object , const gchar* key , gpointer data ); . void gtk_object_set_data_full (GtkObject* object , const gchar* key , gpointer data , GtkDestroyNotify destroy ); . ... Object Finalization . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Development of Organizational Structure . Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... The experiment further develops a sequence of visual observations of the Earth surface started earlier at the Mir station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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. ...

Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

Download 1.1 Beta Now! ... Separate object manipulation mode added (also still available with Control Key). ... Tom's TkDraw is currently in beta release. It is my own personal drawing program and original Tcl/Tk project which I started more than ten years ago. ... Limited support for images was just added, and is great for tracing an image, or adding some annotations to an image (for instance drawing a route onto a map without actually altering the map image). drag, reshape, and resize objects . ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

ATMoB "Messier Marathon Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in an all-night Messier Marathon. ... For each Messier object observed, check the space in the "Seen" column on the attached Messier Checklist and note the time and method of observation. ... Challenge Levels: Beginner Intermediate Master Observe and record information on 25 Messier objects in the attached worksheet. ...

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