At the end of December 2004, the CCD was removed from the telescope and returned to Spectral Instruments in Tucson. The existing thick chip will be replaced with a thinned chip and the readout changed from 2-channel to 4-channel. ... Additional changes being made during this period include the installation of a compress air drier, collimating camera and cloud monitoring camera. Back to Recent News List . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... Previous: Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS . ... Astronomers can use the ADS to maintain their publication lists; a simple http link can bring a current bibliography at any time. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abs_connect?author=hazen,m. &aut_syn=YES&nr_to_return=all . ... To have a complete bibliography via ADS one needs but to add the missing articles into ADS. ...

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 . ...

JSC History . ... NASA History . History-NASA Centers . ... JSC Space Center Roundup Archive . The Roundup , the official newspaper of the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, has been published since November 1, 1961, by the Public Affairs Office. ... Select a year 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Roundups . ...

... 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 . ...

polimodel -- Produce model linear polarization and position angle images . ... Whether to apply random errors to output polarization and position angle values. seed = "" [integer] . ... This task produces a model linear polarization image and corresponding position angle image from an input image assumed to represent intensity (Stokes I parameter). ... A threshold for the input image can be defined such that polarization and position angle are not computed for input values less than this threshold. ...

Crews of the Space Station "Mir" . ... First main crew on the Station Mir. ... Soyuz TM-2" . ... Second main crew on the Station Mir. ... Third main crew on the Station Mir. ... Fifth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Sixth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Tenth main crew on the Station Mir (175 days). ... Twelfth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Thirteenth main crew on the Station Mir (179 days). ... Copyrigth ї The People's Charity Foundation for the Preservation of the Space Station "Mir", 1999 . ...

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

... 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 . ...

... Winter 2003 . ... We also invoke abelian flavour symmetry to explain the order of magnitudes of the R-parity violating parameters and investigate whether this scenario is compatible with the data. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... return to top . ... These measurements rely on the unique features of the SLD experiment, especially the high resolution CCD vertex detector, the micron size beam spot, and the Cherenkov Ring Imaging Detector used for particle identification. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall ...

... 7.03.2001 . ... Credit: 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 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: orbit - satellite - compton - gro . Publications with words: orbit - satellite - compton - gro . ... Compton Observatory In Orbit . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI VO Wiki . ... Program Access . SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... DSS Mirror . ... We provide an implementation of IVOA standard Simple Image Access Protocol interface to our DSS mirror. Service metadata is available here . Currently, we provide the atlas service only, which returns the list of original DSS images intersecting the requested sky area. ... SAI MSU | ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

To see the manner in which position of planets and their coordinates vary with time click on icons with arrows Right or Left in menu bar. ... The current moment of time and object coordinates are therewith displayed. ... Clicking on icons with symbols of sun or crescent leads to appearance of images of the Sun or the Moon in that point of the sky which correspond to their coordinates in current moment unless it lies within not displayed region; see below). ...

... Planetarium Staff . ... Freedom of Information . ... The Armagh Planetarium website has been enabled to use BrowseAloud software. ... See the following instructions on how to increase the size of the text on any web page you are viewing. тАв Press ' Ctrl ' and ' + ' to increase the text size, ' Ctrl ' and ' - ' to decrease the text size. ... For information on changing the text size in older browsers and on different operating systems visit the BBC My Web My Way site for Windows, MAC and Linux . ...

While engaged in the forenoon of Thursday, September 1, in taking my customary observation of the forms and positions of the solar spots, an appearance was witnessed which I believe to be exceedingly rare. The image of the sun's disk was, as usual with me, projected on to a plate of glass coated with distemper of a pale straw color, and at a distance and under a power which presented a picture of about 11 inches diameter. ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. ...

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... Various map projections are provided, with the option to draw and annotate the map boundaries. ... CYLINDRICAL PROJECTIONS : -Jc lon0 / lat0 / scale (Cassini) -Jj lon0 / scale (Miller) -Jm scale ( Mercator - Greenwich and Equator as origin) -Jm lon0 / lat0 / scale ( Mercator - Give meridian and standard parallel) -Joa lon0 / lat0 / azimuth / scale (Oblique Mercator - point and azimuth) -Job lon0 / lat0 / lon1 / lat1 / scale (Oblique Mercator - two points) -Joc ...