... NASA's Strategic Plan now mandates that they "involve the education community in [their] endeavors to inspire America's students, create learning opportunities, enlighten inquisitive minds," and "communicate widely the content, relevancy, and excitement of NASA's missions and discoveries to inspire and to increase understanding and the broad application of science and technology." ... Yet on the whole, I cautiously recommend the packages to teachers. ... Handouts from the ASP Education Meeting . ...

... Subscribe Contact Site Map . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This video shows the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has used ESO's Very Large Telescope to create a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Exhibition of the creative work of the participants of the international project " Beautiful places - open hearts" 2001-2002 . We kindly invite you to admire creative work of pupils from all over the world, to assess their creativity, to read their verses, to look at their drawings and their visiting cards, and write to them letters! We invite you to take part in the international educational projects of the Centre of Education in 2002/2003. Zelenogorsk, Russia . ... Washington, USA . ...

Keep the size of the tarfile to a minimum by excluding files that can be recreated from files contained in the tarfile. Examples are: .o (object) files that can be recreated by compiling the program source code.dvi files produced by processing TeX and LaTeX source files.ps (postscript) files generated by drawing and publishing packages. After you have created a tarfile, you can then reduce its size by using the compress command. ... This will create a file called project.tar.Z . ...

I. Installation . ... AMPLE package distributive (created with program InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++) has been downloaded on FTP server of IAA RAS as archive Ample.zip. ... Note: If the window "file download" appears, select Open... switch button, then press OK button. ... The shortcut for AMPLE will be linked with this folder, and auxiliary files will be created here during AMPLE work. ... When running AMPLE all auxiliary and new configuration files are created in the WORK folder. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Use of microsatellite technology in aerospace education by the example of BAUMANETS microsatellite project . ... Launch is scheduled for March 2006. ... Over 20 students graduated from BMSTU and found work in leading Russia s and international aerospace companies. ... Meanwhile, modern labor market in aerospace shows increasing requirements towards quality of university education. ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . ... Can Black Holes Create Space Time? ... Quasar jet streams (QJS) have been exhibiting Faster than light motion since they were first discovered by radio astronomy a long time ago. ... But what if Black holes were creating Space time, what if a relationship between matter energy and space time exists, in a conundrum what can matter exist in, it can exist in side of it's self, how about this as a hypothesis, can black holes create space time? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Marc White . ... Postdoctoral Research Fellow , The Australian National University . ... 2009 - 2014 . PhD, Astronomy Astrophysics , The Australian National University . ... 2005 - 2008 . BSc (Honours) in Physics , The University of Western Australia . ... 2008 - 2009 . ... Vacation Scholar , Astronomy Group, School of Physics, The University of Western Australia . ... System Administrator Programmer (IT Officer), Research School of Astronomy Astrophysics, The Australian National University . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Building CASA . ... Introduction to SCons . I have designed a prototype implementation of a build system for CASA based on the SCons tool. ... This system is experimental and not the official way of building CASA. ... The main version of the code for this build system is contained in a bzr branch, together with the remainder of the CASA system. ... Build: . ... To debug the SCons build process: . ... A prototype build system for CASA using SCons . ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

... Then he fought at the 2nd World War for 4 years. ... Y. Ziman began to work on the problem of Earth imaging from space. ... In 1972 he founded the department "Earth Research from Space", created the magazine with the same name and the "Intercosmos" working group. ... Today Y. Ziman works in the field of the Earth remote sensing, space flights navigation support, introduction of space technologies into the aerial survey practice and transfers experience to young scientists. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... How much energy is there in a 20 mph wind? . 20 mph wind =10 m/s .0006 * 10 3 = .0006 * 1000 = .6 KILO watts per square meter . ... In your back yard the average wind speed is 10 mph which yields 100 watts per square meter. ... 4 3 = 64 if a 10 mph wind gives you 100 watts per square meter then a 40 mph wind gives you 64 times more power per square meter 6400 watts per square meter . total power = 6400 watts per square meter * 2 square meters = 12800 watts = 12.8 Kilowatts this is a lot! ...

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

... I attend school 1413 11A grade. This is my first attempt to create such kind of project, so please don't take to serious all my mistakes - they are made because of unexpirience. ... Some materials of this site were taken partly from English textbooks ("Enterprise", "First Certificate Star", "Fast Track to FCE"), partly from newspapers, magazines and Vredno.ru , and other facts are written after stories and emotions of experienced friends . ... Designed by Kat , 2002 gora-ru@mail.ru ...

... The project assumes creation of an international space observatory - the interferometer "Earth - Space - Space" in order to perform of astronomical investigations in millimeter, submillimeter and infrared regions with extremely high sensitivity (to a few nanoJanskies units of flux density in continuum spectrum) and extremely high angular resolution (to a parts of microsecond of arc or, possibly, nanosecond). ... radio-interferometric channels of the system "Space - Space", region 0.2 - 3 mm; . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... Development . arXiv.org Search . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... We are working on the following projects, which we consider as of BETA quality: . ... PLASTIC interface to SAI CAS . ... We created a simple PLASTIC-ized interface to SAI CAS for communication between ConeSearch and any other plasticized VO tools , such as locally-running TOPCAT , The Aladin Sky Atlas. ... SAI MSU | ...

Since XmCCD uses Motif, the libraries and include files must be available. ... By default it will create a directory xmccd-#.# with the command tar -xvzf xmccd-#.#.tar Set your current working directory to xmccd-#.# cd xmccd-#.# ... For "ls -l" you should see something like this -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 281883 Mar 10 01:08 xmccd Move xmccd to a directory in your search path such as /usr/local/bin mv xmccd /usr/local/bin xmccd will use ds9 for image display if it is present. ...