... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. September 11, 1999 . The Annotated Galactic Center . ... Constellations near the galactic center include Sagittarius , Libra , Scorpius , Scutum , and Ophiuchus . ... Open star clusters include M6 , M7 , M18 , M21 , M23 , M24 , M25 . Globular star clusters include M9 , M22 , M28 , M54 , M69 , M70 . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

. New features in release 1.3 of UNIXhelp include: . Hierarchical structure for improved performance . Additional material on mailers and Unix variants . Hyperlinked manual pages using man-cgi . Simpler local customisation . Acknowledgements .

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Comedi Documentation . ... comedi_get_version_code -- Comedi version code . ... int comedi_get_version_code (comedi_t * device); . Returns the Comedi kernel module version code. A valid Comedi device referenced by the parameter device is necessary to communicate with the kernel module. ... This function is of limited usefulness. ... If the application needs to know of the existence of a particular feature, an existence test function should be written and put in the Comedilib source. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

Observational data on solar activity is a basement for investigation of processes that take place on the Sun and interplanetary space, with data of long-term observations being of special importance. ... Subsection "Sunspot groups" is the catalogue of all sunspot groups that were observed in the given year. ... For every day of observation of the group the area of the group, the area of the largest spot (both areas - in millionths of solar hemisphere) and number of spots in the group are presented. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

V.G. Petukhov . LOW-THRUST TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION. ... The optimal control problem is reduced into boundary value problem by means of maximum principle. ... planetary solar and nuclear electric propulsion mission optimization (both rendezvous and flyby) for variable specific impulse problem; . low-thrust trajectory optimization (variable specific impulse problem) within the frame of restricted problem of three bodies, including transfers to the libration points and mission to the Moon; . ...

... Uniformity of size and appearance of all the illustrations of the same type should be strictly observed. ... The numbers of curves, straight lines, etc., should be written in italics without any brackets both at an illustration and in text. ... In inscriptions, when the parameters of a curve are listed, the numbers of curves and notations of the parts of an illustration (a, b, etc.) should be placed in brackets prior to the corresponding parameters (a dash is not used). ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Constellations near the galactic center include Sagittarius , Libra , Scorpius , Scutum , and Ophiuchus . Nebulae include Messier Objects M8 , M16 , M17 , M20 and the Pipe Nebula . Open star clusters include M6 , M7 , M18 , M21 , M23 , M24 , M25 . Globular star clusters include M9 , M22 , M28 , M54 , M69 , M70 . ... Publications with keywords: star cluster - nebula - Galactic Center . Publications with words: star cluster - nebula - Galactic Center . ...

... The package includes a new ``hybrid'' symplectic integrator capable of handling close encounters, described at the conference: The Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , Namur, Belgium (Chambers 1998). ... NRC Research Associate, NASA/Ames Research Center , Moffett Field CA, USA, planetary accretion, formation of the asteroid belt and extra-solar planets. ... G.Laughlin and J.E.Chambers (2002) Astronomical Journal, , in press. ... American Astron. ... Home page of planet hunters Marcy and Butler ....

... Chilingarian, I., Melchior, A.-L., Zolotukhin, I. 2010: Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , accepted to MNRAS (arXiv:1002.2360) . ... K-Corrections in the optical and near-infrared , Analytical approximations of K-corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , photometric properties of galaxies , K-corrections approximation redshift and one observed colour , transform observed spectral energy distributions (SED) , software to estimate K-corrections , ...

Mercury magazine is now digital only, with all of the same articles and features that appeared in the print version. The magazine will be formatted to download and include space for advertising. Our readers are directly involved in the mainstream of astronomy research and education. ... 86% are involved in astronomy education at some level . ... 1/4 page . ... Additional work includes resizing of ad material, reformatting or correcting electronic files and correction of advertiser errors. ...

... Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corp. ... Meade Autostar Supplementary Software Downloads . ... To upgrade your Autostar first click on the link below to download the Autostar Update (ASU) Client Application for Windows. ... The most recent versions of AutoStar Update automatically check for the newest versions of the AutoStar Updater and download it if necessary. ...

... Progress in the development of the 1996 release of the IDL Wavelet Workbench (WWB) is shown. The WWB is now improved in several ways, among them are: (1) a smarter GUI which easily directs the user to the possibilities of the WWB, (2) the inclusion of more wavelets, (3) the enhancement of the input and output modules to provide a better interface to the input and output data and (4) the addition of more analysis methods based on the wavelet transform. ... More analysis routines are now available. ...

Russian . ... Very Early Universe: inflation, generation of primordial perturbations, preheating . Very Early Universe: inflation, generation of initial perturbations, preheating . Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: anisotropy and polarization . ... Dark Energy and Dark Matter models . High Energy Astrophysics: accretion discs, cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts . ... Astrophysics of black holes and wormholes . ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... StarCalc Home Page - Downloads . ... File . StarCalc (English version) . ... With minimal configuration, version 5.72 of StarCalc includes the next interfaces: "Horizon", "Horizontal coordinategrid", "Equatorial coordinate grid", "Constellation boundaries", "Constellation lines", "Constellation names", "Star proper names", "Bright Star Catalog", "Deep-sky objects", "Sun", "Moon" and "Planets and satellites" . Plugins for StarCalc . ... Interface to NGC 2000 (plugin + catalog file) . ...

... The catalog contains SAO number; the right ascension and declination with a B1950.0 equinox and epoch; annual proper motion and its standard deviation, photographic and visual magnitudes; spectral type; references to sources; the Durchmusterung (DM) identifier if the star is listed in the Bonner DM (BD), Cordoba DM (CD), or Cape Photographic DM (CP); component identification; The Henry Draper (Extension) (HD or HDE) number; and J2000 positions and proper motions. ...