Sentences with phrase «areas of sky for»

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

Deep - field surveys are intended to look at faint galaxies; they point at small areas of the sky for a longer period of time, meaning the total volume of space being sampled is relatively small.

NASA supports the Spaceguard survey to the tune of $ 4.1 million per year, but that sum of money is not enough to cover the cost of continually monitoring all areas of the sky for near - Earth objects.

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A critical lack of affordable housing and sky - high rent prices have made the San Francisco Bay Area unlivable for many artists, artisans, longtime residents, and even tech entrepreneurs.

One result of the process — which certainly Mark would not have encouraged, though his work started the development in that direction — is the sentimental, saccharine, sickly - sweet Jesuolatry that has mistaken strong emotion for an evidence of religion, has softened the ethical fiber and beclouded the whole theological sky of certain areas of Christianity.

Its ornate artwork of a beautiful night sky and a «tot area» with smaller toilets for little ones earned the Field Museum in Chicago the top spot in 2011.

«If they can turn up, start on the front foot, put pressure on that back four with the pace they've got as well on the wide areas - Danny Welbeck and Alexis Sanchez will be in the wide areas - then they could cause a few problems for Chelsea's defence,» Parlour, who was speaking on behalf of England team sponsor Vauxhall, told Sky Sports News HQ.

A leakage of gas from one of two gas fuel stations in the enclave around the Atomic Junction reportedly triggered fire, which extended to an adjoining Total Filling Station causing two explosions that sent fireballs into the skies.Hundreds of passengers, traders and residents in and around the Atomic Junction area fled their homes and workplaces for safety as the explosions lit the skies and caused severe heat waves.Electricity supply to most part of the area was cut off as some transformers were affected.

The search for neutron stars has intensified because of a relatively small area, low in the northern midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.

Weather patterns and a telescope's location, for instance, determine what areas of the sky it can look at and when.

Nemaungani sold the SKA committee on South Africa's clear skies (necessary for precision radio astronomy), the promised political support of its president and cabinet — who have passed legislation to strictly limit the amount of radio noise in the remote site area — and its expertise in engineering and infrastructure.

Just two weeks after Spahr's asteroid whizzed by, researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, given the task by the military of spotting enemy spy satellites, unveiled a novel approach for monitoring large areas of the sky using sophisticated software.

It's an accusation that has often been lobbed at Keith's main area of study: geoengineering Earth's climate to counteract warming by, for instance, injecting particles into the sky to reflect sunlight.

For example, the laser pulse is expected to stand steep in its temporal evolution just as Tokyo Sky Tree stands high to flat, instead of the Tokyo Tower, which spreads the scaffolding to the hilly area.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

A repeating burst was discovered in 2012, however, providing an opportunity for a team of researchers to repeatedly monitor its area of the sky with the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico, in hopes of pinpointing its location.

It enables an efficient search for very faint dwarf satellites over large areas of the sky.

Within minutes, they could determine the general area of the sky where the explosion would occur, point their infrared telescopes in that direction, and wait for the fireworks.

While climate data for the area are limited, August is one of the drier months of the year, with a 70 percent frequency of clear skies.

For their analysis, they used images from the survey that covered five patches of the sky covering a total area of around 2200 times the size of the full Moon [2], and containing around 15 million galaxies.

A volcano erupting and spewing ash into the sky can cover nearby areas under a thick coating of ash and can also have consequences for aviation safety.

But with 24 - hour lighting, particularly in urban areas, comes severe light pollution that blocks our view of the night sky — a view that for millennia human beings before us took for granted.

For instance, look at the recent use of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope to study gravitational lensings [in which the gravitational pull of galaxies and dark matter bends the light from more distant objects] in an area of the sky nine times the apparent surface area of the full moon.

Because Proxima Centauri is so close to Earth, the area of sky warped by its gravitation field is larger than for more distant stars.

This impressively detailed image of Orion A establishes a new observational foundation for further studies of star and cluster formation and once again highlights the power of the VISTA telescope to image wide areas of sky quickly and deeply in the near - infrared part of the spectrum [5].

They will stare at a particular region of the sky for between 27 and 351 days each, before moving on to another area.

For those living north of the Virginia launch site in areas like Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City, the light show could be dazzling in the lower eastern sky.

Astrophotography is a specialized type of photography for recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky.

14 The Hubble Space Telescope, searching for evolving galaxies in December 1995, focused for 10 continuous days on a tiny patch of sky, so small when viewed from Earth that a grain of sand held at arm's length would cover that area.

It shows an area of sky large 13,9 ° x 13,9 ° (for comparison, the full - Moon has an angular diameter of about 0,5 °).

It shows an area of sky large 9,3 ° x 8,5 ° (for comparison, the full - Moon has a diameter of about 0,5 °).

The accurate asteroseismic determinations now available for large number of stars in the Kepler fields can be used to check and calibrate surface gravities that are currently being obtained spectroscopically for a huge numbers of stars targeted by large - scale spectroscopic surveys, such as the on - going Large Sky Area... ▽ More Asteroseismology allows for deriving precise values of surface gravity of stars.

The pointed observations will be used for deep surveys of selected sky areas and systematic observations of important astronomical targets.

Within the area of the sky covered by the starcloud, there are two further, less conspicuous clusters: Collinder 469 close to the lower right end of comet - like looking dark nebula Barnard 92 (sometimes nicknamed «Black Hole»), and Markarian 38 or Biur 5 (for Biurakan observatory) south of Barnard 93.

With stunning views of the local (and wider) area on offer and a glass sky walk for brave people, this attraction provides a chance for couples to share stories about the places they can see while having quality time in a new and exciting addition to the city.

The pack includes: Display banner - A long banner for a display with pictures Father Christmas - A large picture of Father Christmas for your displays Display lettering - Large letters to spell out «Father Christmas» decorated in red and whte stripes Number line - A number line to 50 on Christmas doors Alphabet line - An alphabet line on Elves Story words - Word cards with words relating to the story - great to include in your writing area Counting cards - Cards from 1 - 10 with different numbers of drinks to count Speech bubble worksheets - Various worksheets to fill in the speech bubbles Word mat - An A4 word mat with pictures to help when writing about the story Face masks - Colour and black and white face masks of Father Christmas and Elves to use for story telling and role play Father Christmas model - Make a model of Father Christmas using split pins Playdough mats - Various colourful mats to use with play dough for counting and Christmas Matching pairs - A colourful matching pairs game to make and play Colour Elves - Different coloured elves with the colour name Worksheet - Design a new drink for Father Christmas Christmas tree game - Spin the spinner and collect different decorations for your tree Banner - A long «Happy Christmas» banner for your classroom decorated with holly leaves Worksheets - Various worksheets to draw different parts of the story, to draw your food and drink for Father Christmas and to design a sleigh for Father Christmas Game - Deliver all the presents in your sleigh first to win the game Maths worksheets - Various worksheets with counting, addition, subtraction and symmettry Design a decoration - Design a new decoration for your Christmas tree Decorations - Various Christmas decorations to cut out and colour Game - Roll a die and cover the numbered star in the night sky - plus a version to use two dice and add the numbers together and cover the number Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.

Sky's has been serving their unique marinated tacos in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles for 26 years and I can not wait to return to sample their shrimp nachos.

Moynihan Train Hall includes a) creation of a new sky - lit train hall on the concourse level of the Farley Building, b) back of house support space for Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the two «anchor» rail tenants, including ticketing, baggage areas and waiting areas, c) loading access for the rail tenants and for the United States Postal Service (USPS) who will continue to occupy space in the Farley Building, d) exterior restoration, and e) systems and infrastructure improvements.

The large glass roof open sky system is available to crown the spacious interior - optionally with four, five, six or seven variable seats - as is a rail system for the cargo area of up to 2,035 liters in size.

This week, the weather for the Northwest Connecticut area is forecasted to include highs in the 60s and 70s with partly cloudy skies with some chances of showers.

Moreover, due to its unique geographical position in the middle of the Mediterranean basin, Basilicata is an excellent «open sky» laboratory for testing sustainable solutions adaptable to other Mediterranean areas.

On the whole, the mortgage payments we estimated for parts of New Jersey were far more realistic than the sky - high expenses we saw in many areas of nearby New York.

The prize includes accommodation for two persons sharing for 3 consecutive nights in a 5 - star luxury suite, conservation entry fee, a Big - 5 guided quad bike OR horseback safari for two, unlimited self drive game drives, game walks and cycle safaris, breakfast, lunch and romantic 3 - course dinners in our dining area, lapa boma, bush boma or under the starry sky, welcome drink, bottle of complementary sparkling wine OR wine and surprise evening turndowns.

Though the Palm Springs area is well - known for its stunning sunsets, a new photo of the evening sky posted on Instagram by photographer Nathaniel... Read More

Head on down for the nightly fire show at 11 pm, then stick around for international DJs, who mix tunes for each of the bar's three areas: the beach dance floor (right on the sand beneath swaying palm trees), the Palapa Lounge (which plays progressive dance to a mostly European crowd) and the Sky Bar, which offers a more relaxed, ambient vibe.

We specialize in providing peerless venues for magical events and our properties offers many beautiful options ranging from stunning roof top terraces that overlook some of the world's most iconic skylines to sparkling ballrooms perched overlooking the ocean to beautiful outdoor areas that can be transformed into one - of - kind alfresco event areas that will have your guest marveling at beautiful starlit skies and share - worthy sunsets.

Take in the majestic views with Gatlinburg Sky Lift, go the top of Crockett Mountain for views of the magnificent vista and the downtown area.

Visitors can also take advantage of the well - considered outside braai areas for a true Kalahari sand - and - clear - sky - experience, huddling close to the fire in the crisp cold after sunset during winter.

The region is renowned for the clarity of its sky and freedom from the light pollution which is why the area was declared a gold - level International Dark Sky Reserve in mid 20sky and freedom from the light pollution which is why the area was declared a gold - level International Dark Sky Reserve in mid 20Sky Reserve in mid 2012.