... ISC Kosmotras . ... Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Being the 8th commercial launch for Dnepr, this is also its first 'return to flight' mission since the failure encountered on July 27, 2006 during liftoff from Baikonur. In parallel with the successful completion of its first launch campaign in 2007, ISC Kosmotras continues preparations for the next two Dnepr launch missions scheduled to fly from Baikonur and Yasny launch bases. ... Dnepr Program . ...

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NIFS is being rebuilt following the January 2003 bushfire by Auspace Ltd. in collaboration with the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. ... NIFS with the Auspace team. NIFS mechanism assembly. ... Home * Brief Description * NIFS OCDD * NIFS FPRD * CoDR Documentation * CoDR Presentations . CDR Documentation * CDR Presentations * System Design Notes * Manuals * Performance Predictions * Picture Gallery * Publications * Team Members . ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 11 May 1998, 2030 UT (RR) . The recovery phase ends the substorm . See, e.g., Opgenoorth et al. 1994). ... Pulsating auroras are very typical in the morning sector; also black aurora may be related to the recovery phase. Magnetosphere returns into the pre-substorm state . ... Opgenoorth, H. J., M. A. L. Persson, T. I. Pulkkinen, and R. J. Pellinen, The recovery phase of magnetospheric substorms and its association with morning-sector aurora, J. Geophys. ...

... Just one: a very stringent requirement on the relative positions of Earth and Mars at the time of launch. ... Suppose the spacecraft which has landed on Mars is a robot , which collects a sample and immediately takes off again for its return trip. ... Since Earth and Mars constantly change their relative position, it stands to reason that if we sufficiently delay the return trip, Earth will move from position (2) relative to Mars to position (3), at which time the return trip can begin. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... 6.03.2001 . ... Credit Copyright: AMOS, AEOS ; Courtesy Compton GRO Science Support Center Explanation: On 2000 June 4, the 17-ton Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory returned to Earth after 9 years in orbit -- ending its remarkable voyage of discovery. ... March 2001 . ... 1999 2000 . 2001 2002 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: orbit - satellite - compton - gro . Publications with words: orbit - satellite - compton - gro . ...

... A bright flare-up of emission (>1000 Jy) was found in OH-maser source during tests of 18cm receiver in observations with Kalyazin 64-m radio telescope (August 2004). ... Appendix (The list of used acronyms) ASC Cold Plate DC Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Instutute cooled LNAs and antenna feed hermetic device container (part of payload ); it contains Formatter, Rb oscillators, synthesizer, control unit and is placed under dish DM Device Module = DC + H-maser EGSE ...

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" . ...

... Get Object Information Returns: <string># Returns a string containing the current target object's name and object type. ... Returns: Nothing. ... LX200GPS AutoStar ґ Performs no function Select deep sky Library where D specifices 0 - Objects CNGC / NGC in Autostar LX200GPS 1 - Objects IC 2 ґ UGC 3 ґ Caldwell (Autostar LX200GPS ) 4 ґ Arp (LX200 GPS) 5 ґ Abell (LX200 GPS) Returns : 1 Catalog available 0 Catalog Not found LX200GPS AutoStar ґ Performs no function always ...

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... Chapman, R. and Brandt, J.: The Comet Book: A Guide for the Return of Halleys Comet (1984, Jones and Bartlett) ? ... Branley, F.: Comets (1984, T.Y. Crowell) ? good picture book for students in grades K-3. ... Schatz, D.: The Comet Cometh: An Activity Book for the Return of Comet Halley ? ... Glenn, W.: "Halley's Comet Makes a Comeback'' in The Science Teacher Jan. 1984, p. 38. ... To construct a model of an Alien Being that could exist on another planet or satellite in our solar system. ...

... The generalized aperture program is designed to simulate the effects on the incident photon stream of physical obstructions, such as thermal baffles and pre- and post-collimators. ... The philosophy behind the aperture program is that a geometrically complicated aperture may be modeled by a combination of geometrically simpler apertures. ... The generalized aperture program takes a list of assemblies and apertures created by the front end, and compares each input photon to the apertures, in turn. ...

PRESS-RELEASE . ... The Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft has returned to Earth the commander and flight engineer of the 15th expedition of the International Space Station (ISS), as well as the space flight participant Malaysia?s national Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor who in the period from October 12 to October 21 2007 worked under the 13th visiting expedition program (VE-13). ... The Flight Director is RSC Energia First Deputy General Designer V.A. Soloviev. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mars returns to glory . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

INFORMATION ON UPDATED EPHEMERIDES OF MINOR PLANETS SERVICE Due to rapid growth of number of the numbered minor planets the EMP data turn out to be substantially incomplete or out of date by the time they are used. ... The package computes positions of minor planets by the formulae of elliptic motion using sets of osculating elements obtained in advance for a number of non-uniformly distributed moments of time. ... In so doing coordinates and masses of perturbing planets are taken from DE 405. ...

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...

Updates On this page you will find a list of the updates most recently made to the Bright Supernovae web pages. ... 2016/04/07 . Created entries for 2 CRTS supernovae . Updated the entries for Gaia16ajv (Type Ia) 2016/04/06 . Created entries for AT2016blv (Mag 16.8 in 2MASX J13031054-2159149 ), AT2016blt (Mag 18.0 in ESO 271-G26) 4 PS1 supernovae . ... Created entries for Nova M31 2016-03c? (= PNV J00424914+4116401 Mag 17.9 in M31) 5 CRTS supernovae 50 PS1 supernovae . ...