... Phil Creed . ... Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... Prizes . ... Phil's "Home" Astronomy Club is the Wilderness Center Astronomy Club (http://www.twcac.org). ... This year, Phil will be hosting Astronomy Bowl , an exciting question-and-answer game that'll both enlighten and challenge the mind--for both the players and the audience. ... ASTRONOMY BOWL at Hidden Hollow! ... ASTRONOMY BOWL is the alternative for those that'd like to win a prize but never get that smile from Lady Luck come Raffle Time. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has captured this unusual view of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away. ... While bringing to light a rich background of stars and galaxies, the telescope's infrared vision also reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are mostly obscured in visible images of the Helix. €а Credit: . ...

... This colorful view of the western sky at sunset features last Wednesday's slender crescent Moon. ... Centered on North Star Polaris, this 4 degree wide field of view covers part of a complex of relatively unfamiliar, diffuse dust clouds soaring high above the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is almost hidden from view behind the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. ...

After seeing some of the nice loking underwater scenes from 'Titanic' I wanted to try to do some of my own, Part of the problem with making it look realisting is the fact that the submersible would have to carry all the lighting for the scene, so most of it would be hidden. The atmosphere helps this a geat deal since the backscatter from lights in the far side of the hull give the sub a sillouette which clearly defines its shape. ... Sub descending past us into the depths of the Ocean. ...

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... Posts tagged ?XEphem? ... Google Sky is good for a quick look ?what?s that you just saw over there??, but not for anything more than that. ... But there are a number of astro visualization programs that can (so to speak) beat the pants off Google Sky with one hand tied behind the back. ... Tags: Celestia , Google , Google Sky , Stellarium , virtual observatory , VO , XEphem . ... 2 Comments . ... Entries RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Armagh Planetarium Events News of events at Armagh Planetarium . ... Education . ... Written by AP_admin on February 29, 2016 in Family Events . ... Over five weeks, the course takes a season by season look at the stars in their constellations and the mythology surrounding them.б We will look at how to spot satellites and planets too. If you want to discover the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Stargazing the Night Sky? ... 2016 Armagh Planetarium Events. ...

... A2496 Date Received: 2009­Mar­13 13:34:47 Technical Page Proposal Type: Urgent General Category: Astronomy Sub­Category: Spectroscopy Observation Category: Extragalactic Total Time Requested: 75 Hours Minimum Useful Time: 1hr Proposal Title: A 720--800 MHz Line Search in Arp220 and ''Arp 200­look­alike'' Galaxies ABSTRACT: We propose extending our Arecibo cm­wavelength line searches of Arp ” 220 and ``Arp ” 220­look­alike'' galaxies (Projects A2234 and A2334) using the campaign 720­820 MHz receiver....

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Category: DISPLAY File: gdilib.c Author: K.G. Begeman Description: The available routines are: GDI_BLANKCOL Sets the colors for BLANKS values. GDI_CINFO Gets info about the color tables of the display. ... GDI_COLGET Obtains color Look Up Table from the display. ... GDI_GDSID Sends GDS set name and subset level to SERVER. ... GDI_GINFO Obtains info about the graphics planes. ... GDI_IINFO Obtains info about GDS image loaded in SERVER. GDI_IINFO2 Obtains info about GDS image loaded in SERVER. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 March 8 . Looking Through Abell 68 . ... Explanation: Want to use a cluster of galaxies as a telescope? ... In accordance with Einstein's theory of general relativity, the cluster gravitational mass, dominated by dark matter, bends light and creates magnified, distorted images of even more distant background galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . We really look forward to having star parties so we can enlighten our visitors with astronomy and what can be seen with a telescope. Last Update August 28, 2005 . Listed Since August 16, 2002 . ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... But like recurring tide she comes on to you And looks as though she's looking for a man Honey , Don't make yourself so available My pride's in my pocket, but I can be reasonable Still, all in all, I forsee my own fall But I've climbed too far to drop, so stop I know it's your ego puts the smile on your face Because you know you got your options open She's a beguiling snake and she'll keep what she takes But when she leaves you, I'll be the one coping ...

In 1995 Eugene set an annual rainfall record by recording, officially, 65.56 inches of rain. ... The mean annual rainfall for Eugene from the 25 year period 1970-1994 was 51.5 inches with a dispersion of 8 inches. ... Wettest Years: . ... Below are the official NWS corrected rain totals for the year 1996. Although these are now "official", I go on record here by saying there is no way I believe that Eugene, Oregon received 101 inches of rain in 1996. ... January: Old = 14.74; corrected = 14.48 . ...

Next: Course Material and On-line facilities Up: Programming in C Previous: Books . This course aims to teach a sound basis of C PROGRAMMING. We will start with basic ideas and hopefully extend these to include some advanced features of C. We will particularly look at how C uses pointers, references low level memory and bytes and how it interfaces with the operating system. Course Material and On-line facilities . ... Wed Sep 14 10:06:31 BST 1994 ...

Next: Intensity Transformation Tables Up: IP8500 display Previous: Using Image Memories . Look--up tables or LUTs are the tables that map the data in the image memory into colours on the display when the system is used in pseudo--colour mode. Commands exist to load LUTs into the image display, to modify LUTs interactively and to read back LUTs from the image display. ... MODIFY/LUT - interactively modify a look--up table . ... DISPLAY/LUT - show the look--up table as a colour bar . ...

... CV & PUBLICATIONS . ... FACEBOOK PAGE . ... These are my RSAA pages, with the usual collection of bits and pieces. I started out on a course towards a career in astronomy many years ago when I was 9, when I first looked at Betelgeuse through a homemade telescope made from spectacle lenses and a cardboard tube. ... After my BSc (Hons) in physics, instead of astronomy, I decided to head off into upper atmosphere physics. ... See publications page for details.) ...

... I spent most of the day trying yo get drizzlepac to build, with a lot of help with Megan. It builds now, but still fails most of its tests. ... I finished writing calc_pixmap, which creates an image mapping the pixels of one image into another and then wrote the first test case, which I am trying to get to run. ... I have finished the first set of unit tests and am trying to get them to build. ... I wrote the C and Python code to wrap the unit tests and the Python test case to invoke it. ...

Y ou don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. ... Refer to Sky Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever. ... Jupiter . ... Mars . ... For $200 you can get a far better optical instrument than Galileo or Newton had. ... Date . ... William Herschel . ... O f course, the solar system has more than just planets and moons. ...