... An ionospheric trough is a region of decreased F layer plasma density. ... It is quite typical to make a distinction between the sub-auroral troughs at mid-latitudes, and high-latitude troughs within the auroral region or polar cap . ... working for mid-latitude trough and some types of high-latitude troughs, like the polar hole . ... Collis, P. N., and I. HДggstrЖm, Plasma convection and auroral precipitation processes associated with the main ionospheric trough at high latitudes, J. atmos. terr. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

... The procedure of radiometer signal integration can be considered as a sort of reducing dimension of the initial sampling space, where the samples are the result of analog-to-digital conversion. ... The probability distribution of the signal and spikes is completely known. ... The quality of the considered algorithm could be also illustrated by Figure 2 . ... One could see the considered adaptive algorithm is preferable even by low degree of compression, because all spikes have been depressed. ...

GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40 Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40 NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40 The 30 Dor ... B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. ...

MAKING THE PROFILES . First of all you are expected to load a FITS file ("FILE"-"LOAD"). ... By pressing the middle button you copy the profile from the first profile window to the second one. ... An example: first integral can correspond to the profile of active region and second integral can correspond to the profile of quiet chromospheric region. ... The second profile (which is subtracted from the first one) you extract after clicking on "SUBTRACT"-"MARK QUIET PROFILE" and marking the region. ...

Next: 3.2. ... The Results. ... Figure 3: Colour-Magnitude diagram for 337 stars in NGC 6789. ... The CM diagrams of regions C,E and F (see Fig. 1 b ) are shown in Fig. 3 , where stars from region C are denoted by open circles, ones from the E are filled diamonds and stars from the region F are shown by dots. ... 3.2 . ... Most of the bright stars (I The diagram shown in Fig. 3 have not been corrected for interstellar extinction. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... We highly recommend to use Aero-Express train to get from the airports to Moscow (see also Moscow guide in Moscow where to go ). Space Research Institute (IKI) is located in the south-west region of Moscow. ... Moscow Metro Map . ... You should get off at Kalyzhskaya subway station using the southern exit. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

... Samara region . ... To enhance the prestige of engineering and technical professions and to start training personnel for aerospace companies of the region just from school-days - that is the goal of organizers of the tournament in mobile robotics "R2-D2" and their partners joined their efforts to implement the program "Formation of personnel potential for the aerospace industry through the development of technical creativity of children and youth in the field of robotics - R2-D2 Samara". ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph is one of the new instruments put on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in February of 1997. ... Imagine my surprise when I added the images together and saw that smudge turn into a beautiful spiral galaxy! ... Just from the picture it is hard to know how far away that galaxy is, but I guess that it is about one billion (1,000,000,000) light years away. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Displays the current status of the Dual Imaging Spectrograph (DIS) and allows you to change the configuration. Normally only the most common status is displayed and the configuration controls are hidden. ... Pushing the "Config" button displays configuration controls (each to the right of its corresponding item of status). Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... Turret : current position of the grating turret. ... Grating : name of the current grating. ...

... The air just sit there and doesn't get stirred. ... Normally, the air is hottest near the ground and gets cooler as you go up. ... If it weren't for the temperature profile, convection wouldn't occur: Because the temperature decreases with altitude, cold air sits on top of hot air, allowing convection. ... The air above the ground is hot, the air above the water is cold. ... The land cools down faster than the sea, so the air above the ground is colder than the air above the water. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... gradients dependencies on solar wind parameters and IMF; . ... fate of thermal plasma at the dayside magnetopause. velocity-dispersed injections of the thermal and superthermal ions from LLBL at cusp and cleft (lowest energy VDIS-2 events); . ... outer cusp processes, role of outer cusp indentation, plasma entry (laminar reconnection, turbulent diffusion, others), role of turbulent boundary layer; . how is the magnetosheath plasma heated near magnetopause and cusp? . ... cusp/cleft wave emissions. ...

... astro-ph . ... A Catalog of almost 3900 variable stars . ... Properties of Dust Grains in Planetary Nebulae - I. The Ionized Region of NGC 6445 . ... A model of the ionized region is constructed, using the photo-ionization code CLOUDY 90.05. ... The most likely conclusion is that grains are residing inside the ionized region of NGC 6445 and that the low temperature and flux of the grain emission are caused by the low luminosity of the central star and the low optical depth of the grains. ...

. Researchers have determined the location of the Saturn system's center of mass to within just a couple of miles (or kilometers), a factor of 50 improvement over previous knowledge. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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... Institute of Solid-State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russia . In an investigation of the resistivity anisotropy of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 - x single crystals with suboptimal oxygen content it is observed that the superconducting transition for the component c of the resistivity tensor is shifted to lower temperatures with respect to the transition for the component a b . ... 1998 American Institute of Physics. PACS: 74.72.Bk, 74.25.Fy, 74.62.Bf ...

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 . ...

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