Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The relative average abundance in our Solar System appears higher than can be made in the early universe, in stars, and even in typical supernova explosions. ... Comet Garradd and the Coat Hanger . ... Sweeping through planet Earth's night sky, last weekend Comet Garradd (C/2009 P1) visited this lovely star field along the Milky Way in the constellation Vulpecula. ... Stars born.. M6: The Butterfly Cluster . ... Comet Garradd Passes Ten Thousand Stars . ...

To give a relative path to a file below your current directory: pwd (prints the current directory) /home/eucs/jane (the full pathname to the current directory) ls -l presentation/docs/oview.html (lists information on the file) . ... To define a file that is in another directory: pwd (prints the current directory) /home/eucs/jane/presentation/docs (the full pathname) cd ../illustrations (use relative pathname) pwd (check the current directory) /home/eucs/jane/presentation/illustrations . ...

... The IRAF environment provides three coordinates systems: . physical: image pixel coordinates used in the reference (original) image. logical: image pixel coordinates, relative to the current section and size of the image. ... 22:13:53.7 44:28:53.9 - the usual representation of RA, Dec . ... Logical, physical and world coordinate systems are all supported in the PROS software, and regions can be specified with any combination of them. ... c 22:13:53.7 44:28:53.9 8 . ... physical: 6930 9390 240 . ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... Adjusting the Focus on the DIS Collimators . ... For both focus and the alignment of the dewar rotation it is useful to use the following spectrograph settings: . ... The current position of the dewar rotation should be marked on the dewar by a piece of tape which has been cut at the interface between the dewar and the fixed spectrograph tube. ... There are 3 actuators, labled A, B, and C, at the back of each dewar which can be used to piston and tilt the CCD. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Need All Claims Be Tentative? ... Here is an issue: does a particular representation correctly match the pattern it is claimed to represent went viewed by method 'x', within the limits of precision given by the definitions of the original pattern, the representation, and the method of viewing (x)? ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Precision increase for the theory of relative motion of a satellite's pair K. V. Kholshevnikov Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University, and Institute of Applied Astronomy, St.Petersburg, Russia Modern higher--precise theories of motion of special Artificial Earth Satel­ lites (geodetical, navigational) consider all forces which one may describe with at least 30% precision, including so exotical ...

Загрузить программу (~10 MB). ... Программа izmccd предназначена для высокоточной астрометрической обработки числовых изображений небесных объектов. Программа позволяет получать как измеренные, так и экваториальные координаты малых планет, комет, спутников больших планет, визуально-двойных звезд и других объектов, а также идентифицировать уже известные малые планеты и найти на числовых изображениях движущиеся объекты. ... Программа является бесплатной. ... Автоматическая обработка, один объект. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on March 18, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 11 Comments тАЬIs there life on Mars?тАЭ This must be one of the most-asked questions in astronomy. €аIn this article I am going to look at the historical background to this question. ... Posted on February 28, 2011 | ... 170 Comments Apollo 18 is a SF/Horror movie presented as newly-found film footage taken by the fictional crew of a lost 1970s lunar landing mission.€а The Apollo 18 film uses real NASA [ ]...

... SATELLITE: An object that revolves around a planet. ... SIDEREAL DAY: The length of a planet's rotation period relative to the stars. SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun and all the objects that are held in its gravitational field and move around it. ... SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION: The position of a planet when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth (thus making in invisible). ... TRANSIT: The movement of an object between the Earth and the Sun and showing on the surface of the sun as a black dot. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University improved its position in the third annual ranking of higher education institutions in Russia. ... Besides Samara State Aerospace University entered the top twenty of the national higher education institutions, as their graduates are in demand by employers. ... Samara State Medical University also rose from the 57th to the 49th place in the ranking of higher education institutions. ...

SAI, graduates year 1982. ... Note: when just a 7-digit phone number is shown, it refers to a phone located in Moscow (international access 007-495). "+" in front of a number means that you must dial an international access code first (or just press "+" on your mobile phone keypad). ... 939-1672(work); . ... Ataev Sasha . 1-(703)-536-8881(home) (USA); . ... Bychkov Sergey . ... 1-(410)-740-8205(home), +1-(301)-286-2150(work) (USA); . ... 1-(412)-767-0332(home), +1-(412)-608-9339(mobile) (USA); . ...

Rastorguev А.S. "Astronomical Distances" (Lecture course for postgraduates, 2009-2016) . Part 1. ... Trigonometric parallaxes of stars. Moving clusters distances. ... Photometric distances: general approach. Normal stars as "standard candles". ... Main Sequence fitting or distance scale of star clusters. ... Moving photospheres technique. Cepheid distance scale and P-L relations. RR Lyrae distance scale. ... Globular clusters luminosity function. ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... 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 . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . ... ETX-90AT and Autostar Frequently Asked Questions . ... Which of the Autostar alignment procedures is recommended for viewing celestial objects right out of the box? When using Autostar, how important is leveling the telescope and pointing it to true north before alignment in the Alt/Az or Polar modes? ... Meade ETX-90EC Astro Telescope . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Next: The Stopping Radius Up: ``Ecology'' of Magnetic Rotators Previous: A Gravimagnetic Rotator . We shall assume that the rotator is surrounded by an ideally conductive plasma with a density and a sound velocity at a sufficiently far distance from the rotator. ... The following classification   of magnetic rotators     is based on the essential characteristics of the interaction of the plasma surrounding them with their electromagnetic field. ... leading to a spindown   of the rotator. ...