ARMAGH PLANETARIUM MAKES HISTORY Armagh starts the video revolution Under the directorship of Terence Murtagh, the team at Armagh was constantly introducing new technologies to enhance the audience's experience. Terence Murtagh recognised the possibility of exploiting the new technology of video projectors to provide the show's special effects, eliminating entirely the need for dozens of slide projectors. ... At first the images appeared in grey boxes on the dome, totally spoiling the illusion. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... ISS 45/46 . ... check for the following onboard the ISS RS: a capability to demonstrate the action of physical laws of dynamics of reactive and gyroscopic forces on ellipsoid (Letauschaya Tarelka device) rotating in the unsupported medium in microgravity, with video record of its behavior in the station module; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... For moving objects such as asteroids, comets, or planets, it is useful to include ephemeris information, both to provide predicted coordinates for planning observations, and to allow accurate airmass calculations in the reductions. ... These times can be given either as Modified Julian Dates ( ), or as ordinary date strings like 1995 Jan 23.0 . To allow good interpolation, include two ephemeris entries before and two after the interval of observations. ... UT date --- column label: DATE . ...

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... Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... Mission Definition . Ask anyone on the street to give an example of a planet, and they'll consider you a bit dim. ... Finally, if you ask "What is the exact scientific definition of 'planet'?", it turns out that nobody can answer it, because there really isn't one. ... The word itself means "wanderer" in Greek, and other cultures generally have words for "planet" with a similar meaning. So why isn't that good enough for us today? ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

... 03.32 AM - the first impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre-descent orbit. ... maximal distance from earth surface - 219 km . minimal distance from earth surface - 188 km . ... 05.00.24 AM - the second impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre- descent orbit. ... 08.08 AM - the final third breaking impulse is performed using a combination of the Progress M1-5 main engine and eight thrusters to deorbit Mir OC. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Or..why don't the planets orbit the sun in the same plane as the sun orbits the galactic center? ... The writer suggested that the angular momentum of the stars was related to the original cloud that collapsed to form them and not the galaxy angular momentum. ... As I understand the answer to 902372110.as, if the stars orbit is not related to the galaxy spin, then I would expect the stars to orbit the galaxy at a multitude of random orbits and no disk to form. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

... Electric Forces . 19.Motion in a Circle . ... In the absence of forces, motion in a straight line and constant velocity continues indefinitely. ... Each rotation the stone covers a distance . ... Since its velocity v equals the distance it moves in one second, one finds . ... while the actual motion brings it to some point D on the circle, whose center will be denoted by O. In the absence of forces, motion in a straight line and constant velocity continues indefinitely. ...

Старый форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... Z. Silagadze - 00.00.0000 00:00 . Bohmian mechanics . x203a; x203a; x203a; в ответ на: Глупости или фантастика? ... Насчет интерпретации КМ a'la David Bohm -- кто знает . ... Bohmian mechanics and the quantum revolution. ... http://ru.arXiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9512027 . Bohmian mechanics and the quantum revolution.: http://ru.arXiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9512027 . вернуться на форум ] . ... Bohmian mechanics Z. Silagadze, 00.00.0000 00:00 . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . ... Frequently Asked Questions: Meade ETX-Series . ... Which of the Autostar alignment procedures is recommended for viewing celestial objects right out of the box? When using Autostar, how important is leveling the telescope and pointing it to true north before alignment in the Alt/Az or Polar modes? ... Is there a problem with the telescope? ... top . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

... EPHFILE is used to specify the location of the JPL ephemeris file. This is only needed if SCHED is being asked to calculate the position of one or more objects using the ephemeris. ... For example, if SCHED is defined to mean /users/cwalker/sched , the base area under which all sched stuff is kept (substitute your local directory), then one can specify the ephemeris file with EPHFILE = $SCHED/catalogs/newfile.eph , if that were where it is (it isn't!). ... Usage: Only one value used, the last. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... 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 . ... Weird Object: Pulsar Planets . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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Program to display an object's position in real time} {Set the delimiter to % so we can use , in prompts} set_delimiter(%) {On first pass, get the name of the object etc.} if (s1=.) set_string (s1%Sun) display _title(+++ Real-time Positions +++) write_string (Possible objects are:) new_line write_string (Sun, Moon, name of a planet, parabolic or elliptical) new_line new_line ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...