... Siding Spring Observatory by day - Tim WetherтАж . Siding Spring Observatory 2.3 m (looking up aтАж . ... Title: Siding Spring Observatory 2.3 m (looking up at the secondary mirror) . Description: NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... Siding Spring Observatory 2.3 m (looking up at the secondary mirror) NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

... Credit Copyright: STS-110 Shuttle Crew , NASA Explanation: What does the developing International Space Station (ISS) look like now? After delivering and deploying a crucial first backbone-like component last week, the Space Shuttle Atlantis took an inspection lap around the space station . ... Construction began on the ISS in 1998 and the core structure should be in place before 2005. ... Publications with keywords: ISS - space station . Publications with words: ISS - space station . ...

SONG: ( Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman Woke up this morning, started to sneeze I had a cigarette and a cup of tea I looked in the mirror, what did I see A nine stone weakling with knobbly knees I did my knees bend press ups touch my toes I had another sneeze and I blew my nose I looked ...

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... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > Instrumentation Development > Integration Cryo-Vacuum . ... Integration Cryo-Vacuum . ... MAD . ... Semented Mirror . ... Paranal Instruments . ... ESO Departments . ... July 2010 . ... October 2008 . ... Jan 2008 . ... Our department has been involved for many years in the first generation VLT instruments. ... MAD first MCAO ever . ... This visitor instrument was fully integrated uder the responsibility of the integration and cryo-vacuum department...

... mar05: filter bank installed but left in wide band mode. 05apr05: 10db amps placed in pixel 2a,2b path in front of the filter bank. 08apr05: 10db amps placed in front of filter bank for all alfa pixels. 12apr05: 6db attenuators placed before 10db amps. 25apr05: 10db amps are now only in the OH filter bath. ... This allowed the search of the data taken by P2030 (100Mhz bandwidth, cfr 1420Mhz, 64usec samples) between 01feb05 and 01may05 for signals of the aerostat radar. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1064 PERIOD COVERED: 0700 EST Daily Status Report as of 031/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed GHRS/2 5196 (GHRS SMOV Side 1 High Voltage Turn On) The High Resolution Spectrograph (Side One) was was turned on using its high voltage for early calibrations tests. ... 1.2 Completed WF/PC-2 5549 (GHRS Side 2 Dark Noise Monitor - Cycle 4) The WF/PC-2 was used to make internal tests for routine monitoring of detector dark noise. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

The ntpq and xntpdc utility programs can be used to debug reference clocks, either on the server itself or from another machine elsewhere in the network. The server is compiled, installed and started using the command-line switches described in the xntpd page. ... First, use the pe and as commands to display billboards showing the peer configuration and association IDs for all peers, including the radio clock peers. ... The most useful are the clockstat and commands described in the document page. ...

... Procedure . ... Nobody may go up on the PSS unless they have emptied out all of their pockets and are not carrying anything that could fall and damage the mirror. ... M1, properly crated, with the lifting spider in the center. ... Common Corrector, properly crated, with corrector cover installed. ... Using the crane, hoist the common corrector mounting ring into position on the PSS. ... Attach the crane hook to the common corrector cover (with common corrector attached) using 3-point suspension. ...

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... Make a new empty directory; you'll need about 6 megabytes; . ... Customize "host.html" as described below (optional); . ... Send some mail to me ( billa@znet.com ) with the URL of your new copy so I can update the mirror list; also let me know if you would like to receive email notifications of future updates. ... Several of the mirror sites are using the "mirror" package to keep their copies of TNP up to date automatically instead of waiting for me to send these notices. ... Mirrors .. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

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Next: The Lynxx Tools Up: Data Processing Previous: Data Processing . Each program allows the operator to get a quick look at the data and do some processing. The ST-4 and ST-6 have the same basic tools, so only the ST-6 tools will be described here. Most of the tools are under the display menu. When an image is displayed in analysis mode, data can be roughly analyzed. Any process done under display will only alter the display and not the image itself. ...

... The data passed to this function * is printed to stdout. */ void callback( GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data ) { g_print ("Hello again - %s was pressed\n", (gchar *) data); } /* another callback */ gint delete_event( GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data ) { gtk_main_quit (); return FALSE; } int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { /* GtkWidget is the storage type for widgets */ GtkWidget *window; GtkWidget *button; GtkWidget *box1; /* This is called in all GTK applications. ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is pictured here docked to the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. It's going to be hard to top this mission," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said. ... The crew got phone calls from two world leaders. ... Commander Eileen Collins and the crew of the STS-114 mission, Jim Kelly, Charlie Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas and Soichi Noguchi of Japan, landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at 7:11 a.m. CDT on Aug. ...

... I used Ѕ inch thick Appleply plywood throughout. ... The mirror box is a little unusual. ... The original design uses a fiberglass tube to connect the mirror base plate to the top ring to form the mirror box. ... I decided to build the mirror box like a standard secondary cage instead, using aluminum tubes with push-in inserts. ... All three tubes are retained at the mirror box and the secondary ring using nine, 1-inch thick Appleply clamps, three at the secondary and six on the mirror box. ...