Target: Venus . The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. Each one contains three separate modules: one lander and one balloon-carried atmosphere probe to be dropped off at Venus in June, 1985, and one major package of instruments which will continue on to encounter Halley's Comet in March, 1986. ... Venus and Earth: A Comparison . Earth . ... in Earth days) . ... 243 Earth days . ...

... Observing . ... Voyager instrument cooling after heater turned off . ... In order to reduce power consumption, mission managers have turned off a heater on part of NASAт??s Voyager 1 spacecraft, dropping the temperature of its ultraviolet spectrometer instrument more than 41ТА Fahrenheit (23ТА Celsius). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Microsymposium 40, abstract 28, 2004 (A4 format) HIGH PURITY GE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER ON JAPANESE LUNAR POLAR ORBITER SELENE. ... GRS consists of three parts; gamma-ray detector (GRD), compressor driver unit (CDU) and gammaray and particle electronics (GPE). ... It is retained at ~80K, by means of a mechanical cryostat. ... The asymmetric shape makes it efficient to veto gamma-rays from the SELENE vehicle and leakage photons from the Ge detector, as well as to avoid charged particles. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

New Eyes for the Hubble Space Telescope . ... Credit Copyright: STS-82 Crew , NASA Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope 's second servicing mission has been completed. Every few years, the telescope is visited by a Space Shuttle to allow astronauts to switch old instruments for new. This time, the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph and Faint Object Spectrograph were replaced by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph . ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 10 февраля 1998 (1998-02-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: NASA Says Lunar Ice Rumors Wrong Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 февраля 1998 (1998-02-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Lectures at JPL on Near-Earth Asteroids Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 февраля 1998 (1998-02-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Images Of Mars '98 Landing Zone Reveal Strange New Terrain Привет всем! ...

The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer . Articles | ... NPOI, Page 3 . Optical fibers on the beam combiner table guide the combined starlight to the electronics room. ... Electronics Lab . The scope of control necessary to make something like an Optical Interferometer work is immense. ... The instrument must process data fast enough to track air disturbances and correct them. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... for Cosmic Ray Observation is situated in Irkutsk (Russia). ... Real-time (preliminary) cosmic ray data in Irkutsk . ... Online Cosmic Ray and Atmospheric Pressure Data Base . ... Real-time data Uncorrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) -- since 05.2001 . Real-time data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 min - 1 year) --- since 09.2001 . Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- since 06.2001 . Final data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- From 01.1975 To 07.2004 . ...

Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute Specification 2.5 m telescope with enclosure version 7.6 |Number|Item description, type |Quanti| | ... 1000 |2.5 m mirror telescope system |1 | ... lightweighting) must provide the short time of | ... stations (ports) must be provided. ... 1006 |Nasmyth focal stations must be provided with a deployable| | ... must be provided. ... Telescope control system and environment conditions | ... 2005 |Camera shutter must provide unvignetted CCD field, | ...

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... The value of tile-size, NW , may be thought of as a sixth coordinate axis in the chirplet transform parameter space - TF-area. Including this sixth coordinate axis provides us with a hierarchical (multi-resolution) CCT. ... Various 2- D slices through the multiresolution CCT may correspond to useful tilings of the TF plane with true parallelograms (true to the extent that the DPSS define a truly rectangular region in the TF plane). ...

December 2007 Astronotes 1 2007 in pictures from ENVISAT By Wendy McCorry, Science Communicator These images were taken by ENVISAT, the European Space Agency's Earth Observation spacecraft ­ the largest of its kind ever built. ... Clockwise from top left: ENVISAT's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) captured this image of tropical cyclone Gamede sweeping across the Indian Ocean on 23 February 2007. ... ENVISAT captured this image of the wildfires in Southern California on 22 October. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

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... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

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