The drawing presented in Figure 6 suggests a cryo-mechanical design based on a cylindrical vacuum shell, with total size dictated by total length of the optical system and wheels diameter. ... internal support structure for cold optics and detector; . cold optics, focal masks and filter wheels; . ... The detector, in thermal contact with the cold plate, will have an active temperature control, with an RDT sensor and a heater, both connected to an independent temperature controller. ...

Design Parameters and Efficiency of a Space System for Warning about Small Celestial Bodies Approaching the Earth along Collision Trajectories . ... tracking of an earlier detected hazardous celestial body (HCB) for synchronous-basic position measurements. The space telescopes (ST) would be placed at a long distance (such as 5 10 7 km) from the Earth to provide for detecting small (100 m) celestial bodies when they are moving to the Earth from the sunward direction. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... TESIS . ... position: Head of the XRAS Laboratory, TESIS Main Designer and Instrument Manager . ... address: LPI, main building, room 177 . ... tel. (499) 132-65-96 . ... address: LPI, main building, room 173 . ... tel. (499) 135-80-81 . ... address: LPI, main building, room 275 . ... address: LPI, main building, room 173a . ... address: LPI, main building, room 174 . ... address: LPI, main building, room 179 . ... address: LPI, main building, room 180a . ... address: LPI, main building, room 178 . ...

... 14 & 15 July 2008: from Babylon to the Big Bang - a History of Astronomy . ... This is a collaboration between the project P.I. in the Centre for Astronomy at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Dr. Ray Butler) and researchers in the University of California at Santa Cruz (Prof. Jean Brodie), the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh (Dr. Dougal Mackey), and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts (Dr. Jay Strader). ... Closing date: Friday 18 July 2008. ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

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. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Listed Since July 15, 1998 . ... 520) 326-3600 . ... 520) 326-0880 . Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... hstpolima: Reduce linear polarization data for HST instruments (currently FOC, NICMOS and WFPC2 are supported). ... Images for the three Stokes parameters (I,Q and U), the linear polarization and position angle and their error images are output. hstpolpoints: Reduce linear polarization data for HST instruments for a set of circular apertures. ... There is a web page http://www.stecf.org/software/impol/ briefly describing the package and giving example polarization maps for HST and model data. ...

Home - News - Download - Documentation - Search - FTP . About NEdit . ... Get NEdit . ... Macros . ... Browse on Line . ... Insert all pages in the NEdit.org skin. Insert closing HTML tag is corrected by Reuben Thomas to make sure that the macro works wherever the current cursor is positioned. ... New Add string to line start macro. ... Remove string from line start added. ... Change LaTeX environment added. ... Open/Save files on remote host added. pgp5 shell commands shell script improved. ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ClassљIndex . ... Skybright Class Reference . Compute the luminance of the sky according to some parameters like sun moon position or time or altitude etc.. ... setDate (int year, int month, float moonPhase) . ... Set the moon and sun zenith angular distance (cosin given) and precompute what can be This function has to be called once before any call to getLuminance() More... љ . ... cos(angular distance between moon and the position) . ...

Routines can now be called with keyword arguments and can use default arguments, that means that some arguments can be given with keywords instead of position and some do not have to be given at all, in which case a standard or default value is used. ... IMPLICIT NONE INTERFACE SUBROUTINE SOLVE (A, B, N) INTEGER, INTENT (IN) : : N REAL, INTENT(OUT) : : A REAL, INTENT(IN), OPTIONAL : : B END SUBROUTINE SOLVE END INTERFACE REAL X ! ... You will use keyword arguments and default arguments so that . ...

Interball-Tail Magnetic field measurements . Magnetic field measurements on-board the Interball Tail Probe are carried out by the FM-3I and MIF instruments. ... FM-3 M2 magnetometer failed in February 1996, FM-3 M1 and MIF are working until now. Data presented here are the combination of the data of all magnetometers. First of all FM-3 M1 data are used, if they are absent, MIF data used and if data of both magnetometer are absent, FM-3 M2 data presented. ...

This image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, next to its parent star. The observations were made using NACO, the adaptative optics instrument for the VLT in infrared light, and using a technique called differential imaging, which improves the contrast between the planet and its dazzling host star. ... The exoplanet appears at the lower left. The blue circle is the size of the orbit of Neptune in the Solar System. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit†йs . des reportages . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Mercure et V†йnus ensemble †а l'ouest du Soleil . ... Voir V†йnus †а l'ЉУil nu ne pose aucune difficult†й : c'est l'astre le plus brillant du ciel si l'on excepte la Lune et le Soleil. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 6.05.1998 . ... Credit: W. H. Jackson , U.S. Library of Congress , WTC Collection Explanation: Did observatories exist before telescopes ? One example that still stands today is the Beijing Ancient Observatory in China. ... May 1998 . ... 1997 1998 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: Observatory - ancient . Publications with words: Observatory - ancient . ...

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SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... 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 . ...