... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

... From the observed direction of interplanetary magnetic field lines, we believe this field comes from the Sun, carried by magnetic field lines dragged out by the solar wind . ... That is why magnetic field-line loops tend to keep back the solar wind, unlike the outward-bound lines in the "coronal holes" between them. ... The magnetic field at all these points is already so weak that the solar wind overpowers it and shifts its field lines, while its own motion--radially outward--remains unchanged. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

Mal Ruderman (KIPAC, Stanford) . What do we see when we look at the surface of a neutron star from a great distance? ... The new point that is made is a consequence of near-relativistic electron-positron flows expected in the near-magnetosphere's of "young" (not older than about a million years) neutron stars. Because of cyclotron resonance scattering by these pair-flows on surface X-ray and UV emission, we do not see unprocessed suface emission. ...

In the PROJECT we are using the following peculiar . features of RATAN-600 . ... Brightness temperature sensitivity being equal to the antenna temperature sensitivity .. ... Receiver system .. ... Using aperture averaging effect. dual- beam and dual (multi-) frequency filtration, we demonstrated full filtration of the atmosphere noise down to the receiver noise at all scales of acoustics peaks ( Fig.1 , Fig 2 ). ... We select this frequency as the central one in our project. ... Antenna surface . ...

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

... Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Time Requested this semester: Hours Next Semester: Hours already used for this pro ject: Additional Hours required to complete pro ject: Minimum Useful Time: Expected Data Storage: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Pulsars 34 68 0 45 less than 100 GB Spectral Indices of Millisecond Pulsars Although millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are extremely important for several experiments, the spectra of these pulsars have not been measured often. ...

... Tirgo Page . ... Lunar occultations . ... Last modified on November 12, 1998 by A. Richichi . ... Many observatories around the world will follow these events, with the purpose of obtaining accurate measurements of the angular diameter of this red giant, from the recording of the lightcurve during the disappearance (or reappearance) behind the limb of the Moon. ... 6 November 1998: both disappearance and reappearance recorded under very good conditions at the TIRGO observatory by A. Richichi . ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

... The purpose of the meeting was to review the current status of project development and to discuss working plan for international cooperation on the stage of preparation to the launch. 22 foreign specialists participated in the meeting representing Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and USA. ... To define personal content of proposed working groups and to develop plan of their activity for 2003 year (15 November 2002, chairmen of working groups). ...

... It currently contains the following tools  readrmf, to view one or more rows of an RMF dataset  getcalresponse, which displays the response information directly from the CAL, for a single row (expected to be removed in favour if calview.  readimage, which converts one of more rows of an image into columns in a new table (for use with the FTOOL dmprmf).  comparermf, which compares the RMF generated by rmfgen with that stored in the CAL. This is used to validate the RMF. ...

Организаторы: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Лаборатория Понселе) , Михаил Цфасман (CNRS, Лаборатория Понселе, ИППИ РАН) , Алексей Зыкин (Лаборатория Понселе, ГУ ВШЭ) . О конференции . Общая информация . ... Практическая информация . ... We show that when averaging over $q$ in certain ranges, specific values of $a$ give rise to greater or smaller amounts of primes in the progressions $a \bmod q$, depending on the arithmetic properties of $a$. Страница Лаборатории Понселе . ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

Hallerstrasse 6 · CH-3012 Bern · Switzerland ISSI Call for Proposals 2015 for Johannes Geiss Fellowship The International Space Science Institute is an Institute of Advanced Studies located in Switzerland. ... Purpose ISSI has approved the introduction of the Johannes Geiss Fellowships (JGF). ... ISSI has a visitor programme, funds post-doctoral fellows, and encourages the participation of young scientists in the International Teams. ... Financial support requested from ISSI. ...

... The 2008 SAO Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the 2008 CfA . Postdoctoral Fellowship Program are now accepting applications online. ... Christine . Christine Crowley, Coordinator . Fellowship Program . ... Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street, MS 67 Cambridge, MA  02138 . ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

MROI Science Combiner Downselect Workpackage Definition INT-407-PMG-nnnn rev 0.2 10 July 2006 John Young jsy1001@cam.ac.uk Cavendish Laboratory JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/ Magdalena New 801 Socorro, Ridge Observatory Mexico Tech Leroy Place NM 87801,USA http://www.mro.nmt.edu Objective To define the scope, deliverables, and milestones for the science beam combiner downselect work package. ... The work package ends once the downselect has been made. ...