Locating Uranus and Neptune in the constellation Capricornus for fall 1999 Alpha Theta Beta Rho Pi Omicron Sigma Key: Magnitudes 3 4 5 6 7 8 Uranus (mag 5.7) Neptune (mag 7.9) Shown for 5-Oct-99, but positions wont change much until mid-November Using binoculars, you should be able to locate Uranus and possibly Neptune using the chart above, even from the light polluted suburbs of Boston. ... Once you find Sigma, look further in the same direction and youll see Neptune. ...

... To demonstrate how a black hole might be formed. ... two balloons (small, round size) two large-mouthed glass jars refrigerator marking pen . ... Prepare two separate jars, with balloons inflated inside each one. ... The balloon in the freezer shrank when the, inside gas pressure decreased, gas pressure is proportional to the gas temperature. ... 1) At room temperature, the pressure of gas inside the balloon pushing out balances the pressure of air outside the balloon pushing in. ...

. Feed cabin No.1 . The main complex of radiometers is mounted in VHF cabin located under secondary mirror. Figure 1. The equipment for collection of data and control of radiometric complex and the observer are located in the LF cabin. Figure 2. Inside view of HF cabin .

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

Summary of SPHERE performance at NIH Ralf Siebenmorgen (PS) and Markus Kasper (PM) SPHERE performs in the NIH similar to what was achieved in Grenoble. ... IRDIS The IR and V filters are well mounted and the positioning accuracy is within a 1% pixel tolerance. ... The IRDIS detectors have a read-out noise 9.4 e-, a gain of 2e-/ADU and the dark current is <0.5e-/pixel/s. The instrumental background is still high. ... Centering of the pupil is achieved at an accuracy of 0.1% of the pupil diameter. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . Monthly Sky Notes . ... NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of Saturn's moon Helene on June 18, 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) . ... Your email address will not be published. ... Email * . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... A planetary nebula with a simple symmetry familiar to telescopic sky gazers, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. ... But they are found in a region of space where galaxies tend to gather, on the eastern side of the nearby Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Cocoon Nebula Wide Field . ... In this crowded starfield covering over 2 degrees within the high flying constellation Cygnus, the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. ... Milky Way Over the Bungle Bungles . ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

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Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Science . ... Tom Kaye, an amateur astronomer from the Chicago, Illinois area, installed his Tau Boo campaign equipment at our facility in mid-February, 2000. ... The custom unit fed the starlight to an optical fiber that transmits the light to a bench spectrograph located in the Winer machine shop. ... The daily results from mid-February, 2000 to early March, 2000 are shown on the left. ...

fitcircle - find mean position and pole of best-fit great [or small] circle to points on a sphere. fitcircle [ xyfile ] -L norm [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -S ] [ -V ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] fitcircle reads lon,lat [or lat,lon] values from the first two columns on standard input [or xyfile ]. ... Then two locations are found: the mean of the input positions, and the pole to the great circle which best fits the input positions. ... If no file is specified, fitcircle will read from standard input. ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

As a result of preceding actions the File opening dialog box appears and user is suggested to open the file with observations (the file may be created for the first time). ... To see the list of files with desirable extension in chosen folder define the type of extension with the help of File type drop-down list at the bottom of the dialog box. ... The name of the file will appear in File name dialog box. ... In case you want to open the file with new name, type it in the File name dialog box. ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... AIR POLLUTION MONITORING . AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL OF ATMOSPHERIC AIR . ... The automatic station of ecological control (ASEC) is designed for continuous automatic measurement of pollutants mass concentrations in atmospheric air and for monitoring of meteorological parameters. ... There are two modifications of automatic station of ecological control (ASEC): . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

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This document explains some of the directives provided by the core server which are used to configure the basic operations of the server. ... Process Creation . Network Configuration . ... User . ... A single control process is responsible for launching child processes which listen for connections and serve them when they arrive. ... The User and Group directives are used to set the privileges of the Apache child processes. ... The child process creates multiple threads to serve requests. ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...