NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Comets . ... Observing conditions were favorable at Arecibo July 5-15 2001, and observing time for both spectroscopy of 18-cm OH lines and S-band radar observations were arranged. The comet nucleus was observed to split into two pieces on April 30. ... Because the comet passed within 0.25 AU of the Earth in early July, when it was visible from Arecibo Observatory, it was fairly well suited to radar observation. ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

fileinput . ... Helper class to quickly write a loop over all standard input files. ... for line in fileinput. input (): . ... Functions filename (), lineno () return the filename and cumulative line . number of the line that has just been read; filelineno () returns its . ... been read, returns the line number of that line within the file. filename () . ... Before the first line has been read, returns None. input (files =None , inplace =0 , backup ='' , bufsize =0 , mode ='r' , openhook =None ) . ...

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... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev is the leading enterprise of Russian rocket and space industry in the filed of manned space flight programs; responsible for building the ISS Russian Segment, its being integrated into the station and operational use, including building and operation of the main segment modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), as well as manufacture, commissioning and operational use of Soyuz TMA, Progress-M space vehicles. ...

Positions of the carriage and focus, 2013. ... South . ... South+Flat reflector . ... Focus . ... 910 . ... 890 . March . ... Feed cabin N2. 02/2013: carriage 1131000 - old position; 2861000 - new location (when the adjusting device close to the center). ... found 18.02.2013 . ... 12516 from 7r (19.04) . ... 2863000 carriage . ... Positions of the carriage and focus, 2012. ... beginning of March - 898 mm . ...

Blog . ... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . Book Store . Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... I just came back from "Superman Returns", the long-awaited sequel, kinda, of the Superman movie series of the 1980s. The movie was OK; I would say it was fun and all but hardly the equal of the original with Christopher Reeve. ... So let's find the nearest phone booth so we can go up, up, and review! ... My review of "Superman Returns" . ... Check out my book "Bad Astronomy" . ...

LOC Web-site, Crimea . The 12 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Simeiz (Crimea) on September 29 - October 7, 2007. The IAO in 2007 returned to Europe after two times been held in Asia; and it was the fourth time the Olympiad held in Crimea. ... There were 23 teams participated in the XII IAO: . ... I.V.Salnikov (Simferopol', XII IAO-2007 and IX IAO-2004 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...

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... public class WindowManager . ... This class consists of static methods used to manage ImageJ's windows. ... static void . ... Adds the specified window to the Window menu. static boolean . ... Returns a reference to the active image or null if there isn't one. static ImageWindow . ... Makes the image contained in the specified window the active image. static void . ... Returns the first image that has the specified title or null if it is not found. public static void addWindow (java.awt.Frame win) ....

... Among these objects, the newly discovered Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO's) outside the orbit of planet Neptune (also known as Trans-Neptunian Objects) are of particular interest, but the meeting was also concerned with distant comets and some of the small moons of the outer planets. ... The Kuiper Belt is a zone outside the orbits of Neptune and Pluto in which icy solar system objects were expected to be present; the first was found in 1992. ... ESO Press Photo 41/98 . ... Send comments to <ips@eso.org> ...

For vi , a line is the string of characters between two <RETURN> characters. Although vi will automatically wrap the text onto a new line when it reaches the right-hand side of the screen, it does not insert a <RETURN> character. ... Adding a <RETURN> at the end of every line ensures that the appearance of the text on your screen corresponds to vi 's understanding of how text is structured. Setting the wrapmargin option automatically inserts a <RETURN> character whenever vi wraps text. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

This WWW form allows the user simplified access to images produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). This service determines which NVSS image is desired based on a celestial position and returns either the image directly or a Web page with a link to the file. ... The NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS file) server can be used to obtain images with other geometries.) ... Web browsers use external viewers to display files like FITS images which they do not understand. ...

... The proper procedure to set up the wind baffle and enclosure to be powered by the emergency generator in the event that both commercial and site emergency generator power is lost. ... The enclosure should be open with telescope in an un-stowed position. ... Wind baffle (WB) control power switch ; Location : ?; ... Enclosure power switch box ; Location : ?; ... Change the WB manual pendent connector in WB control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Conferences . ... Borysenko S.A. A program to discover comets. ... 6th Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, April 27-30, 1999, Kyiv Borysenko S.A. First results of dynamical spectroscopy of comet Halley. ... 8th Open Young Scientists Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, April, 2001, Kyiv Borysenko S.A. Solar activity in November-December 1985 and its effect on the fast variations in the spectral lines of comet Halley ....

News archieve . ... The YSC congratulates you with New Year! ... The representatives of the YSC made a presentation there and video presentation as a workshop report as well. ... We suggest you taking part in our annual summer students workshop "Space development: theory and practice." ... 26 July, 2006, Wednesday . ... The 9th International Students Workshop "Space development: theory and practice" was carryed out by Youth Space Center (BMSTU) with the support of the Russian Federal Space Agency. ...

... DevHlp_Security This devhlp allows to open a file for read access in the Init routine of a BASEDEV . ... returned: size of file SYIOpenFile ends Valid at INIT time only. ... This routine uses the corresponding function of the miniFSD , not normal file I/O, thus access is restricted. ... Although the size argument of the data structure implies, I'd recommend to better not read more than 32K at a time. ... DL = 044h This function will return the table of security helper functions for file access. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...