... Over morning tea, some of your more observationally inclined colleagues suggested a way out of this bind: a new space telescope specifically designed to look for very high redshift galaxies, the real `first light in the universe'. The telescope will clearly have to work in the infra-red, but some people at NASA have come up with a clever design whereby a space telescope, equipped with a suitable sun-shield, can be passively cooled down to very low temperatures. ...

... Right Ascensions are tabulated in decimal degrees in the archive. This may be used with the column label RA, which conforms to the archive convention [ 5 ]. ... Fortunately, the MIDAS table commands will accept sexagesimal input (see the on-line HELP for CREATE/COLUMN and NAME/COLUMN ), in almost any human-readable form. By using the R11.6 format specification for the Right Ascension columns in the *.fmt file, existing ASCII tables can easily be converted to MIDAS table format. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... rgsrmfgen generates the response matrices. These are required by rgsfluxer for fluxing spectra, but their true value is seen in such sophisticated analysis packages as XSPEC, where a resolution of 3000 to 5000 incident energy bins (parameter rmfbins ) is recommended for good results. ... The default resolution is set high to avoid misleading the unwary, but lowering it to rmfbins =250 is highly recommended when fluxing is the only use intended. ...

Next: Population Synthesis of X-ray Up: Cosmic Rays and Evolution Previous: Supernova Explosions . Immediately after the discovery of pulsars, especially of the Crab pulsar,   it became clear that rapidly rotating NS are copious sources of relativistic particles. ... Figure 37: Evolution of magnetorotational energy of NS in elliptical and spiral galaxies. ...

... An estimate the rotation period of cometary nuclei is important for understanding and describing the physical processes of the cometary activity. Unfortunately, the measurements of the rotation periods of the comet nucleus depend on the model assumptions and it is one of the main reasons for the scatter of the estimates given in various articles for a given comet. ... Right: the image of the comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 obtained at the 6-m telescope. ...

Use on openSUSE =============== All of the recent development for XmCCD and XmTel has been on openSUSE systems. No recent version of Suse Linux includes Motif or fxload by default, so you will have to install them. ... For fxload, use the rpm from the appropriate openSUSE version (fxload has to be patched differently for each version). ... You could use 10.2 and create the needed kernel components, but for new installations version 10.3 appears to be a better solution. ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . ... Pick a set of FRS radios for communications one mile or less - At less than $10 per radio plus a sack of AA or AAA batteries, this inexpensive approach is prudent for the vast majority of events. ... GMRS is good for communications across town. ... Good ol' CB Radio has its place on the highways, but there really is no point in using it for event comms since FRS, MURS and GMRS exist. ... Star Party Radio Coordination Frequency . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Supernova 2006fp in UGC 12182 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2006fp in UGC 12182 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... This turns out to be a blue variable (in UGC 12182), and not a supernova. ... Image Credit . ... Wolfgang Kloehr image . 2006/09/09.076 . 17.4 . ...

Dear collegues, Unfortunately, Scale values, monthly tables of mean hourly values of components and Base values for 1932 there are not in IZMIRAN archives. Let's suppose, that upper curve is H component, second curve is D component and lower curve is Z component.

. In the foreground is our 10" scope. It needs a little maintenance. If you look closely you can see the "pliers and nuts" counterweight! Off in the back I had set up our 6" scope for some solar observing. It is a really nice scope but unfortunately, the drive motor turns it BACKWARDS! (If you are from the southern hemisphere and YOU have a scope that runs backwards... let's trade drives!!) .

Gliese . Our next planet is Gliese we landed on it 3 days ago and launch robots to investigate area around our ship. Although our central computer didn't find any signs of life we still hope to find some creatures. ... Our robots copied text and try to decipher it. But unfortunately they can't. So we send it to our central computer and it translated a headline. ... But it still can't translate whole text, so YOUR TASCK is to decipher the ancient text and send it to our central computer. ...

... In 1497 he moved to Rome, where he observed a lunar eclipse and gave lectures on astronomy and mathematics. "the Solar System was believed to have the Earth for the centre with the planets and Sun going around it" Copernicus came up with a theory called the Heliocentric hypothesis. For centuries the Solar System was believed to have the Earth at its centre with the planets, Moon and Sun moving around it. ... Copernicus wrote a short piece on his theory called `De Revolutionibus'. ...

. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks before dawn May 5. Unfortunately, a Full Moon will hinder the view. Astronomy: Roen Kelly

... One of the greatest challenges we face today as science educators is to engage non-science majors in the scientific process. ... Each 20-student section has a different academic topic from the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences -- our section explores The Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System. We present two unique, inquiry-based approaches that stimulate non-science undergraduate students to overcome their fear of science: . ... The extreme learning doesn t stop there. ...

. Information on the Lidar experiment . MEASUREMENT DATA . Unfortunately The Mars Polar Lander has been lost. No communication with it could be established. See the News

. The program "Mars" . In 1962 Soviet Union has sent the space probe to Mars, but, unfortunately, connection with the vehicle has stopped at rather early stage of flight. Soviet probe " Mars - 3 " was lowered to the south from Furrow of Sirens in December, 1971, but it transmitted the information only during 20 seconds with the ambassador of landing and find out something new then it was not possible.

... The technology needed to implement a Distributed Astronomical Data Archive (DADA) is available today (e.g., Fullton 1993). Query interface standards are needed, however, before the DADA information will be discoverable. ... These parameters would be used to index each dataset in each catalog. ... The technology is available today to perform cross-catalog queries, to fetch the data at the click of a mouse, quickly to add new observation catalogs, and to distribute the load across multiple machines. ...

... Design and Implementation of the 1 st Theremin Concert for Aliens . ... The idea and project of the 1 st Theremin Concert for Aliens were stated in the Arecibo Proposal "One-Dimensional Radio Message for Blind Aliens" (AP number Zaitsev000704074140) on July 4, 2000. ... There are two interconnected, inverse and direct, problems in concept of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) – Search for ETI by terrestrial intelligence (SETI) and Messages to ETI from terrestrial intelligence (METI). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Another method is to take very fast exposures of an object; in effect taking images faster than the seeing can blur the image. ... A third, relatively new method, is to try to detect just how the seeing is affecting the image, and actually warp the telescope mirror to compensate. ... The advantage of the second method is that it's easier to make many small mirrors than one big one. ...

... Gemini IV - June 3-7, 1965 . ... Gemini IV was also the first flight to be controlled by the newly built Mission Operations Control Room (pronounced MOKE-R) in Houston, Texas. ... And for more memories and experiences from more than 700 remarkable people involved in the space program over the last 50 years, read their oral histories available on the JSC History Portal: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm . ... Return to JSC Oral History Website . ...