The following figures show the behaviour of the efficiency factors Q ext , Q sca , Q abs as well as albedo and asymmetry parameter g for porous particles. ... These optical characteristics are compared with results of Lorenz-Mie calculations for corresponding n -layered spheres. ... factors . Qext(x) . Qsca(x) . ... Qabs (x) . ... albedo (x) . ... Henning, Modelling the optical properties of composite and porous interstellar grains, Astronomy and Astrophysics , 429 , 371-381, 2005. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... 505 Connector Cable Set . Operating Instructions for use with the Meade? Autostar? ... The #505 Connector Cable Set provides access to three Autostar operations: . ... 2: #505 Connector Cable Set connects between two Autostar handboxes. (1) 3-foot cable. ... If you have a question concerning use of the #505 Connector Cable Set, call the Meade Instruments Customer Service Department at (949) 451-1450, or fax at (949) 451-1460. ... Autostar Downloads . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... Location /server-info> . ... You may wish to use mod_authz_host inside the <Location> directive to limit access to your server configuration information: . ... In particular, this module can leak sensitive information from the configuration directives of other Apache modules such as system paths, usernames/passwords, database names, etc. ... For example, http://your.host.example.com/server-info?config will show all configuration directives. ?<module-name> . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Sun vs Super Moon . ... To make it, the Full Moon on May 6 was photographed with the same camera and telescope used to image the Sun (with a dense solar filter!) on the following day. ... And for some the New Moon will be surprisingly easy to compare to the Sun, because on May 20 the first solar eclipse of 2012 will be visible from much of Asia, the Pacific, and North America. ... Publications with keywords: full moon - perigee - apogee - solar eclipse . ...

The first character in each record (line) of formatted output defines a carriage control character to the lineprinter, often called ASA-character, for a previous name of the US Standardization Organization ANSI. ... When using VAX/VMS for output first on a file, which is to be printed later on paper, it is advisable to use the extension .DAT . ... You use the compiler switch -vms f77 -vms prog.f and get the control characters removed from the screen output. ...

... B=Command, 12AB=Azm, comma, 4000=Alt. ... Example: if the desired position is 220°, then POSITION_24BIT = (220/360)*224 = 10,252,743 Separate POSITION_24BIT into three bytes such that (POSITION_24BIT = PosHigh*65536 + PosMed*256 + PosLow). Exampe: PosHigh = 156, PosMed = 113, PosLow = 199 Send the following 8 bytes: a. Azm Slow Goto: 80, 4, 16, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 b. Alt Slow Goto: 80, 4, 17, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 The number 35 is returned from the handcontrol 4. ...

Celestron Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... Post . ... Hand Control CGE 1400 . ... Post Message | ... On hand control display I receive the message "No respond 16" and "No respond 17", . I don't know if the Hand control or the telescope is damaged. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Pierr Simone Laplas.) For his bright intellect and an outstanding achievements in several sciences (astronomy, physics, mathematics) Laplas was called "a French Newton". He became a consistent follower of Newton and rut a task before himself of explaining the planets motion, the movement of their satellites, the ocean rising tides in the Earth and a complicated motion of the Moon. Laplas showed that the planets inequalities should be periodical (based on Newton's gravitation principal). ...

... Submitted by Paul Benni on 11/27/2013 18:38:14 . Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy (November 8) . Morning image (Nov. 8) of Comet Lovejoy. ... C8 EdgeHD SCT with Hyperstar (f/2.1) and ST-8300C ccd. Image is uncropped from the Hyperstar setup. Compare to my Comet ISON image with the same image scaling. Interesting how much brighter and larger Comet Lovejoy is now compared to ISON. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... Soyuz TMA spacecraft being a modification of Soyuz spacecraft for operation in the frame of the ISS Project were developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia staff in cooperation with the subcontractors of the Russian rocket and space industry, and have been flying since November 2002. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, V.V.Tsibliev, Head of RGNII of Yu. ... www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss10/res.html , . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... Asymptotic Studies of Solar and Stellar Dynamo Waves . Firstly, we describe main concepts of the mean field dynamo-theory. Then we formulate position of the dynamo wave problem following Parker (1955) ideas. Using analogues between this and quantum mechanics theory we use the semiclassical approach for WKB asymptotic study of traveling dynamo waves. ... In addition, we outline prospects of application of this theory not only for the solar but for stellar dynamos. ...

N. A. Vavilov Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, State University of Saint-Petersburg St. Petersburg, Russia nikolai-vavilov@yandex.ru Calculations in exceptional groups Let be a reduced irreducible root system, R be a commutative ring with 1. ... The Steinberg group St(, R). ... 2] R. Hazrat, N. Vavilov, K1 of Cheval ley groups are nilpotent, J. Pure Appl. ... 6] N. Vavilov, An A3 -proof of structure theorems for Cheval ley groups of types E6 and E7 , Int. J. Algebra Comput. 17 (2007), no. ...

Deriving the sine or cosine of an arbitrary angle takes a bit more math than is covered here. ... Note first of all that a right-angled triangle contains two angles. ... Because the side opposite to A is the one adjacent to (90њ- A), it follows that the sine of one angle is the cosine of the other, and vice versa: . ... Consider the triangle PQR (drawing) with all three angles equal to 60њ. ... If we want the angle A to grow in equal steps of 15 o , we still need the sine and cosine of 15њ and 75њ. ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ClassљList . ClassљIndex . ... BarFrame Class Reference . A title bar control used in windows derived from StelDialog . ... As window classes derived from StelDialog are basic QWidgets, they have no title bar. A BarFrame control needs to be used in each window's design to allow the user to move them. ... To use the default Stellarium style for title bars, the BarFrame object of a given window should be named "TitleBar". ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... Byte-by-byte Description of files: star -S1.txt , star -S2.txt, star -S3.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations 1- 4 I4 --- YYYY Year of the date 6- 7 I2 --- MM Month of the date 9- 10 I2 d DD Day of the date 13- 14 I2 h h Hour of the day 18- 24 F7,2 d JD* Julian day of the date , JD*=JD-2450000.5 28- 31 F4.1 degrees M-S Apparent distance between ...