As the Universe expands, gravity pulls on the Universe, and slows the expansion down over time. As we look to great distances, we are looking back in time. If we can measure how fast the Universe is expanding in the past, and compare it to how fast it is expanding now, we can see the total gravitational effect of all matter in the Universe. Here we plot the distance between two galaxies as a function of time. ... Universes with lots of material . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Contents . ... Sidereal time . ... Mean longitude of the Moon, mean elements of the Moon's orbit and equator . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Sun . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Moon . ... Matrix elements for conversion to CIRS . ... Conversion of mean time to sidereal time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ... Conversion of sidereal time to mean time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ... Conversion of mean time to sidereal time (with accuracy 0.001 s and 0.0001 s ) . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... The goal here is to make a publication quality image of the sky with the coordinates labelled in the standard Right Accession/Declination units. ... Use the PGTBOX function which knows how to label the coordinate box in time units . ... тАЬINTтАЭ To draw tick marks and label them (тАЬIтАЭ so that the ticks are inverted, i.e., going outside the box) . ... Ensure that the matrix representing the coordinate system of the image is correct when calling PGIMAG . ...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

... Classes . ... Constellation Class Reference . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . Get observer-centered equatorial coordinate at the current equinox The frame has it's Z axis at the planet's current rotation axis At time 2000-01-01 this frame is almost the same as J2000, but ONLY if the observer is on earth. ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... Get observer-centered hour angle + declination (at current equinox) It is the geometric position, i.e. More.. ...

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... Classes . ... coordConv::PVTCoord Class Reference . ... PVTCoord ( Coord const &coord, Eigen::Vector3d const &vel, double tai) . PVTCoord ( Coord const &coord0, Coord const &coord1, double tai, double deltaT) . PVTCoord ( PVT const &equatPVT, PVT const &polarPVT, PVT const &distPVT= PVT ()) . PVTCoord ( PVT const &equatPVT, PVT const &polarPVT, PVT const &distPVT, double equatPM, double polarPM, double radVel) . ... Definition at line 13 of file pvtCoord.h . ...

... Астрософт (Модератор: tlgleonid ) > . Celestia или как там ее . ... Right drag: orbit the selected object . ... Ctrl + Left drag: adjust distance to selection . Shift + Left drag: change field of view (e.g. => telescopic view) . Wheel (middle button) click: toggle field of view between 45 degrees . ... Chase selected object (orientation is based on selection's velocity) . T : Track selected object (keep selected object centered in view) . ... Ctrl+P : Mark selected object . ...

Coordinate Systems used for spacecraft trajectory description: . ... The HGI coordinates are Sun centered and inertially fixed with respect to an X-axis directed along the intersection line of the ecliptic and solar equatorial planes. ... Cometocentric (solar) Ecliptic Coordinate System (CSE) . ... CSE coordinate system for the SC POSITION: axis origin at comet center, X-axis to the SUN, Z-axis to ecliptic north pole, (X,Y)-plane is parallel to the ecliptic plane. ...

... StarCalc Home Page - Downloads . ... File . StarCalc (English version) . ... With minimal configuration, version 5.72 of StarCalc includes the next interfaces: "Horizon", "Horizontal coordinategrid", "Equatorial coordinate grid", "Constellation boundaries", "Constellation lines", "Constellation names", "Star proper names", "Bright Star Catalog", "Deep-sky objects", "Sun", "Moon" and "Planets and satellites" . Plugins for StarCalc . ... Interface to NGC 2000 (plugin + catalog file) . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Structure of the Orrery . ... The Human Orrery is the latest addition to the grounds of Armagh Observatory and provides a unique investigation of planetary motion. ... The first orrery was conceived by English clockmaker and inventor George Graham (c.1674-1751) around 300 years ago. This initial model only showed the earth-moon system which orbits our Sun. ... Structure of the Human Orrery . ... The First Point of Aries . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... How did early astronomers determine the distance form earth to the sun, and what method is used today to determine distances in space? ... Since Huygens knew the Sun-Venus-Earth angle (from the phases), and he could directly measure the Sun-Earth-Venus angle (simply by measuring Venus' apparent distance from the Sun on the sky) all he needed was to know the distance from Earth to Venus. ...

... 2006: . The distributions of radial ages and chemical compositions of the stellar population for several elliptical galaxies were measured from the BTA observations down to the record (to date) distances from the nucleus. ... Photometric distances were measured and peculiar radial velocities were determined for 3000 spiral galaxies from the 2MFGC catalog, compiled at the SAO RAS based on the 2MASS infrared sky survey. ... Archive . ...

... Science User Portal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that constitutes one of the first steps in the cosmic distance ladder. ... The light that travelled from the star to a dust grain and then to the telescope arrives a bit later than the light that comes directly from the star to the telescope ," explains Kervella...

ON THE IMPACT OF THE GALACTIC ABERRATION ON VLBI-DERIVED PRECESSION MODEL Z.M. MALKIN Pulkovo Observatory Pulkovskoe Ch. ... Corrections to adopted precession rate are usually computed from the linear trends in long-term time series of celestial pole offset (CPO), which are the differences between the measured and the theoretical coordinates of the celestial pole. ... CONCLUSIONS We have estimated the impact of GA on parameters of precession-nutation model derived from VLBI observations. ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

UNIVERSAL COORDINATES TRANSFORMER . EPOCH1: . EQUATORIAL COORDINATES FOR EPOCH1 . ... rad . ... EPOCH2: . EQUATORIAL COORDINATES FOR EPOCH2: . ... ECLIPTIC COORDINATES FOR EPOCH1 . ... ECLIPTIC COORDINATES FOR EPOCH2 . ... GALACTIC COORDINATES . ... Type initial epoch (epoch1), final epoch (epoch2) and needed coodinates (equatorial a 1 , d 1 for epoch1, ecliptic l 1 , b 1 for epoch1 or galactic l,b) and press corresponding "SUBMIT" (if EPOCH2=EPOCH1, EPOCH2=EPOCH1+10). ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... BASIC PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION . STATE OF ASEC DEVELOPMENT . AIR POLLUTION MONITORING . ... OF MEASURING CHANNELS . ... unit of measurement . ... Nitric oxide (NO) concentration, . ... power measured by ASEC . ... In particular, RSC Energia finalizes its work on measurement systems designed to measure dust, volumetric activity of radioactive gases and aerosols and other environmental parameters. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Almost all DSOs require a telescope to see in any detail at all, though some can be detected with just binoculars, and a few can be barely seen with the unaided eye. ... DEGREE: Distances on the sky (sometimes called the celestial sphere) are measured in angular degrees rather than inches or feet. ... The magnification is the focal length of the telescope divided by the focal length of the eyepiece. ... Short focal length eyepieces are also termed high power, long focal length are low power. ...

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