... SMIS : Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory . Russia's Weather : State Meteorological Center Weather Forecast . Space Weather service : ACE real time solar wind data and simple geomagnetic activity forecast. ... World Fire Web : Space Research Institute (IKI) node . Sputnik : Joint project of SRC Planeta, Rosgidromet and Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Today's Space Weather : Presented by the Space Environment Center . ... Back to the Space Research Institute Home Page ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Survey Telescopes . ... Astronomers using ESOтАЩs world-leading HARPS instrument have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the Sun-like star HD 10180. ... The newly discovered system of planets around HD 10180 is unique in several respects. ... All very massive planetary systems are found around massive and metal-rich stars, while the four lowest-mass systems are found around lower-mass and metal-poor stars [5] . ... ESOcast 20: Richest planetary system discovered...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... 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 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you thought our tour of the solar system ended with Neptune and Pluto, you are setting your sights way too low. The planets of the solar system mark time relatively close to the Sun compared to interstellar space. Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind-numbing 260,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

ASC-FITS-2.0.1: ASC FITS File Designers' Guide (Rots and McDowell) (1999 Jun) . ASC-FITS-REGION-1.0: FITS region document (McDowell and Rots) (1998 Mar) . ... CXC-DM-001 Introduction: Data Analysis with the Chandra Data Model (2001 Oct) . ... 1998 Feb 26: SDS-1.0: Data Product List: obsolete . ... 1998 Mar 09: SDS-10.0: (ASC-FITS-REGION-1.0) FITS region document: see ASC-FITS-REGION-1.0 . 1998 Feb 09: SDS-11.0: FITS function document (superseded by ASC-FITS-FUNCTION-1.2) . ...

... Reference Data for Calibration and Tools . ... There are two independent directories which contain the spectra of ultraviolet and optical standard stars. The CALSPEC directory contains the composite ultraviolet and optical absolute calibrated reference spectra of the HST standards. ... Details of the CALSPEC data, along with another supplemental CALSPEC directory, are contained in the above web page. ... Another directory of supplemental calspec data is available and detailed on the calspec page. ...

... Initially SAI Supernova Catalogue was presented in the form of filebased system. ... The current version of SAI Supernova Catalogue presents data on supernovae together with data on their parent galaxies. ... The main source of data for the galaxies was LEDA database. ... In some cases our data were compared with the ones from the Asiago Supernova Catalogue and from List of Supernovae at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, but the compilation of our Catalogue is carried out independently. ...

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... Block diagram of the PDFB3 /APSR system currently under development by the ATNF and Swinburne University. ... apsr_1024_2048 . ... srch_1024_512 . ... srch_256_1024 . ... pdfb3_1024_64_2048 . ... pdfb3_2048_256_2048 . ... pdfb3_2048_256_1024 . ... pdfb3_2048_256_512 . ... pdfb3_1024_256_2048 . ... pdfb3_1024_256_1024 . ... pdfb3_1024_256_512 . ... pdfb3_512_256_2048 . ... pdfb3_512_256_1024 . ... pdfb3_1024_512_2048 . ... pdfb3_2048_1024_512 . ... pdfb3_512_1024_2048 . ... pdfb3_256_1024_2048 . ...

The Astronomy Net . Articles | ... Forums . ... Planets | ... The list below is a live snapshot of where the planets and moon are located right now. ... The links in the left hand column take you to a mirror of the excellent NinePlanets web site where you can read about each planet and much much more. The latest news includes the fact that Pluto is no longer classified as a planet. ... Pluto is now classified as a 'dwarf planet' which includes Ceres and soon to be many others. ... 100 . ...

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... Activities | ... Collaborations | ... The main objective of laboratory #235 is development of imaging array detectors for different applications (including radio-astronomy, safety and security systems). We develop ultra-sensitive detectors (bolometers) and detector arrays, planar antennas and tuning circuits, refractive and reflective quasi-optical systems focusing millimeter and sub-millimeter wave irradiation on the detectors. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelLocaleMgr Class Reference . Manage i18n operations such as message translation and date/time localization. ... The time display format. ... voidљ . ... QStringљ . getAppLanguage () const . Get the application language currently used for GUI etc. ... Get the format string which describes the current time format. ... Set the time format from a format string. ... Get the format string which describes the current date format. ... const QString &љ . ...

The TCC supports the following coordinate systems: . ICRS: the current RA/Dec standard. The default date of observation is J2000. ICRS is FK5 J2000 (for all practical purposes) but has no date of equinox . ... The date specifies both the date of equinox (usually J2000) and the date of observation . ... The date specifies both the date of equinox and date of observation . ... Warning: the following coordinate systems are rarely used (except Mount for parking the telescope). ...

... Voyager Spacecraft Introduction (This Page) . ... The twin Voyager spacecraft, over the course of a dozen years, drew back the curtain on nearly half of the solar system . From launch in 1977 through the spectacular parting shots in 1989 of Neptune at the outer reaches of the solar system, this pair of gangly, instrument-laden spacecraft explored four planets -- Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus and Neptune -- as well as tens of moons, and the rings and magnetic environments of those planetary systems. ...

... We describe a new library (AST) which provides a flexible high-level programming interface for handling world coordinate systems in astronomy and for producing graphical output. ... Relationships between coordinate systems are represented within AST by objects called Mappings. ... While Mappings represent the relationships between coordinate systems, the coordinate systems themselves are represented by objects called Frames. ... Like all objects, a Frame also provides methods. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Diagrams showing the familiar inner Solar System, outer planets and Kuiper Belt (plus Pluto), Sedna?s orbit and the beginning of the Oort Cloud (Image credit: NASA) . ... At its closest to the Sun, Sedna is about 76 AU from our star, at furthest some 937 AU.€а Sedna and VP113 are believed to be escapees from the Oort Cloud. ... Almost certainly, in the years to come astronomers will find more large worlds between the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. ...