... A Colorful Lunar Corona . 14.06.2015 . ... The effect is created by the quantum mechanical diffraction of light around individual, similarly-sized water droplets in an intervening but mostly-transparent cloud. M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy . ... Shortly before Mars' June 2015 conjunction, the Curiosity Rover celebrated 1000 sols on the red planet. ... The Medusa Nebula . ... Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres . ... Galaxy NGC 7714 After Collision . ... NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula . ... 2015 2016 . ...

... Launch a new Ds9/SAOtng process 2. ... Load an image into a running Ds9/SAOtng process 4. ... Parameter Mand Type Default Constraints startviewer no boolean true falsejtrue If startviewer is set to true imgdisplay attempts to establish a communication link between itself and an active Ds9/SAOtng process upon invocation. ... all following commands are ignored in this case. withimage le no boolean false falsejtrue A boolean switch determining whether a new image should be loaded into Ds9/SAOtng. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

I would like to propose two new features for the axes annotation in the GMT. 1st: In astrophysics, we often work with great ranges of values (many orders of magnitude). ... However, GMT 3.2 allows to plot annotations for log10 axes every integer log10 value or even more frequently. The proposed patch allows to specify large steps for the log10 axes, in the form illustrated by an example below. 2nd: 10^0 instead of 1, and 10^1 instead of simply 10 do not look beautiful. ... The patch is here. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Querying by Example Astronomical Archives F. Pasian and R. Smareglia Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, 34131 Trieste, Italy Email: pasian@ts.astro.it Abstract. ... The basic user query would simply be the submission of an input image, either 1­D or 2­D; the system should allow retrieval of archived images similar to an input one on the basis of some ``resemblance parameter''. ... the QUBE User Interface. ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

FEATURES OF THE HYDROGEN DISTRIBUTION AROUND LUNAR CRATERS PROCLUS AND KEPLER. ... In result of analysis of the data Lawrence and Feldman constructed the hydrogen distribution on the lunar surface [1]. ... However, the authors shown, that EN flux data features may be explained by other element abundance in the lunar soils, namely: Si, Ca, Gadolinium (Gd), Samarium (Sm) and Fe. ... Using of the Feldman's interpretation of the Lunar Prospector data [8], we constructed hydrogen distribution map (Fig.1). ...

... Apollo 15 brings back 4 billion-year-old moon rock . ... Scott said. ... During the crew?s three spacewalks, Scott and James B. Irwin spent almost nineteen hours exploring the moon and covered 17.5 miles of lunar terrain in the lunar rover. ... For more information on the crew training, traverses, and experiences of some of the instructors for Apollo 15, read some selected oral history interview excerpts available on the JSC History Portal: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/special_events/Apollo15.htm...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Regularity and chaos for planetary orbits in binaries D. Benest Observatoire de Nice, Nice, France 1. ... Previous papers showed that stable planetary orbits, around either the lightest or the heaviest component of several nearby binary systems, exist up to distances from their primary of the order of more than half the binary's periastron sep­ aration. ... Chaos: bounded or sticky? It is now well­known that planetary dynamics may include some proportion of chaos. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Mercury . ... Observing . ... MESSENGER spacecraft begins orbit around Mercury . ... NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9:00 p.m. EDT March 17. ... At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers from Operations Center received the anticipated radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and successful insertion of the MESSENGER probe into orbit around the planet Mercury. ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

... Shuang Ma 7006 2.4GHz Remote Control High Speed Racing Boat Ready to Run . ... Type: RC Boats . Features: Radio Control . ... Remote Control: 2.4GHz Wireless Remote Control . ... Control Distance: >100m . Boat/Ship Power: Built-in rechargeable battery . ... RC Boats . ... Package Contents: 1 x Racing Boat, 1 x Transmitter, 1 x Charger, 1 x User Manual . ...

Geophysical rocket R-11A . ... Rocket R-11A has been designed to take measurements of atmospheric pressure at different altitudes from 60 to 160 km, define optical properties of upper atmospheric layers, measure concentration of positive ions, record a number of the container collisions with micrometeorites. Rocket P-11A was first launched from the Novaya Zemlya in October 1958. The rocket reached an altitude of 103 km. ... SEA LAUNCH . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Program: . ... There are twenty one math courses and two theoretical computer science courses. Besides math and computer science courses, a Russian language course, courses in Russian history, history of science and Russian literature (in English) are offered. ... However, we are aware that most students in the Math in Moscow program do not have as much math problem solving experience as Russian students of the same age. ... One "Math in Moscow" course transfers as three or four semester hours. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...