... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 2, 1997 . A Complete Aurora . ... U. Iowa ), Polar , VIS , NASA . Explanation : Aurora frequently make complete rings around a pole of the Earth. ... A complete aurora l oval is normally hard to photograph because part of it usually occurs over a brightly sunlit portion of the Earth. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Complete Aurora . ... 2.04.1997 . ... U. Iowa ), Polar , VIS , NASA Explanation: Aurora frequently make complete rings around a pole of the Earth. This particular " crown ", visible in orange near the top of this image , was taken by the orbiting Polar spacecraft about one year ago and released by NASA last month. A complete aurora l oval is normally hard to photograph because part of it usually occurs over a brightly sunlit portion of the Earth. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . ... Development of the Northern Eurasia land cover map based on medium spatial resolution satellite data. ... The research and development has been completed of the first in Russia and in the whole world high-speed digital streams decoder for space and satellite channels with extremely high noise levels. ... Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for...

I-GALFA Survey Coverage Complete . ... The upper figure shows positions in equatorial coordinates: right ascension and declination, which are like extensions of the Earth's longitude and latitude coordinates on the sky. The lower figure shows positions in Galactic longitude and latitude, where Galactic latitude = 0 is the Galactic equator, or the plane of the Milky Way, and the center of the Galaxy lies in the Galactic plane in the direction where the Galactic longitude = 0. ... I-GALFA Main | ...

Copies of the transparencies of the Joint Plenary talks from PPEUC can be found below. These are in the form of electronic versions of the talks where possible, or scanned versions of black and white photocopies of the transparencies otherwise. Each talk is stored as a single uncompressed postscript file. One exception is Professor Frenk's talk where the transparencies were scanned in colour. ... A Particle Physicist's View of the Early Universe Alvaro de Rujula (CERN) . ...

MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . ... PROGRESS M1-5 CARGO VEHICLE . ... The Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle launched on 24 January 2001 from Baikonur Cosmodrome following the completion of a three-day autonomous flight in a near-earth orbit to the MIR Orbital Complex, docked to it on the Kvant module side. ... At 7 hours 28 minutes 42 seconds Moscow Time the Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle-tanker was launched to the MIR Orbital Complex. photo-report . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Odessa is the city wherein George Gamow was born. ... It was too scanty and simple for Gamov to be just engaged in researches. ... The LOC in Odessa will try to do their best and make every participant feel extraordinary atmosphere of our city, its spirit of freedom and keen interest in the search for nonstandard . ... The pleasant sound of this word brings a warm smile to one's lips and rays of sunshine to the soul. It seems as if the city has always been on the shores of the Black Sea. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... Discussion Forums . ... SETI A Great Idea And A Complete Waste . Forum List | ... Post Message | ... SETI is a beautiful idea but it is a complete waste of time and money. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy that was completely formed within 480 million years of the Big Bang. How could gas and dust clouds condense into stars and organize themselves via gravity into an entire galaxy in less time than it takes the Milky Way to make two rotations? ... Galaxies like the Milky Way indeed could not have formed as a unit at such an early era after the Big Bang. ...

mirroring wdcmirror ( ftp.wdc.com :/ drivers / hdutil ) completed successfully @ Thu Feb 27 00:45:37 MSK 1997 mirroring wdcmirror ( ftp.wdc.com :/ drivers / hdutil ) completed successfully @ Sun Mar 16 16:18:45 MSK 1997 Got INDEX.TXT 1613 Got allstar.exe 220223 Got wdatide.exe 72687 Got wd_diag.exe 60960 Got wd_clear.exe 54968 Got coretst.exe 33949 ...

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... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... Saint-Petersburg is the 2n d largest city in Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Founded in 1703 by Tsar Peter the Great Saint Petersburg was the imperial capital of Russia until 1918. The meeting will be held in the Conference Hall of historical building of the Saint-Petersburg State University - Twelve Collegia. ... Conference program . ... Conference location . ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... We highly recommend to make hotel reservation as early as possible due to high season in Moscow. ... Short list of convenient hotels in Moscow is presented below. ... Hotel . ... Below is the list of hotels the way from which to the conference hall at IKI will be relatively simple and shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

HVAC Duct Work and Completion of Platform Destruction: Sept. ... Basin Pipe and Metal completed the destruction of the enclosure platform with nice results . ... These are various views of duct work on the lower level-west end. ... Top left-view of the duct work on lower level passing out the building to the utility breezeway. The other two views are of duct work on the lower level-east end. Duct work pass throughs on east end of lower level. ...

... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

. Note: This material is from a 1994(!) Talk about CCDs - the physics remains the same, only the detector size has increased since then. ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu