... It isn t often that astronomers look into space and see another pair of eyes staring back at them, but that s what we have here. These aren t the eyes of an alien, but a pair of galaxies nicknamed The Eyes because they look like a pair of white eyeballs glowing in the dark! ... At first view, the galaxies don t look a lot like eyes in this photo, but that s because this picture was taken with a very powerful telescope called the Very Large Telescope. ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis@sai.msu.su .

... Long-Term Predicted Orbit . ... MBC OD Results . ... What: The ASC navigation team (in collaboration with MBC and JPL MMNAV) will generate a long-term predicted orbit which will be used by the RSOG to generate the long-term schedule. ... What: The MBC and JPL MMNAV navigation teams will work together to generate a predicted orbit for the spacecraft that will be used to generate the SRS file. ... What: The MBC and JPL MMNAV team will separately produce predicted orbit files for the GTSs. ...

... 6-50, 8-00, 8-40, 9-20, 9-45, 10-05, 10-20, 10-25, 10-38, 11-00, 11-35, 11-50, 11-55, 12-25, 13-00, 13-30, 13-55, 14-15, 14-45, 15-25, 15-35, 16-00, 16-45, 17-15, 17-45, 18-50 . ... Ispravnaya: 6-10, 8-45, 12-00, 13-20, 16-45, 18-30 . ... Nalchik: 6-12, 8-00, 9-29, 11-15, 11-31, 11-50, 12-00, 12-38, 13-00, 13-15, 13-41, 14-50, 15-45, 16-08, 16-35, 17-00, 17-30, 18-30, 18-35, 18-52, 18-55, 19-35, 21-00, 23-00 . ... Vladikavkaz: 9-29, 12-00, 13-00, 14-50, 15-45, 17-30, 18-30, 23-00 . ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... 400mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: images the sky on the entrance slit. ... The optical system maintains image quality along the slit length so that each row of the image is a spectrum of that spatially selected region of the sky. 180mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: collimates the light from the slit. ... The auxiliary optical platform on WISPI now accomodates a short focal lens and a guiding/imaging video system that may use sub-pixel corrections to provide feedback to the tracking drive motors. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... August 24, 2005 . ... That says Mars will be closer to the Earth on August 27th than it has in 5000 years, and it may be 2267 until it gets this big again? ... Mars won't be closest in August, it won't be as big as the full Moon, and it was actually closer back in 2003. ... It's a near-exact duplicate of an email sent around the internets back in 2003, August 2003 , to be exact, when Mars really did have a close apparition with the Earth. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope . Mario Motta and Scott Milligan . ... For the May meeting I was hoping to show a completed telescope, but it always takes twice as much time to make over 400 parts than you think. ... A new design that has near zero aberrations (no Newtonian coma, for example), made from all spherical surfaces, and would help me build the optics, including fabricating the main mirror. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . [ News ] . [ Satellite data ] . [ SMIS ] . [ ] . NOAA 14, 1997.04.16 10:37 GMT . St.Petersburg . Pseudo-colour image. Red - channel 3, Green - channel 2, Blue -channel . St. Petersburg . August 1996. True-color composition from NOAA 12 and NOAA 14 AVHRR Channel 3 data using images acquired at different times of a day. Back to SMIS Home Page .

... Unlike the previous digital-only Messages, Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999, the TAM has complex, three-section structure with different forms of information. Section 1 represents coherent sounding radio signal with slow Doppler wavelength tuning to imitate transmission from Sun's center. ... Section 2 is an analog information and represents musical melodies, performed on the Theremin. ... There were seven musical compositions in the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. ...

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 . GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)? (http://eros NULL .usgs NULL .gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info) . ... You are currently browsing the Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии blog archives for August, 2012. ... Наши публикации . ... Публикации за 2010 . Публикации за 2011 . ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... August . ... August, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... Первый полет выполнил в 1912 году. 20-21 июня 1926 года на борту воздушного шара Гельвеция (Helvetia) поднялся на высоту 4 500 метров. К маю 1931 года выполнил уже 12 полетов. 27 мая 1931 года вместе с Паулем Кипфером совершил первый в мире полет в стратосферу на высоту 15 781 метров на стратостате FNRS-1 (первый полет этого стратостата). 18 августа 1932 года вместе с Максом Козинсом совершил полет в стратосферу на высоту 16 201 метров на стратостате FNRS-1 (второй полет этого стратостата). ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...