... Positioning his camera and tripod on planet Earth, near Maricopa, Arizona, USA, astrophotographer Joe Orman created this trailing display of the ongoing sky-full-of-planets on May 3rd. He initially captured the grouping in a 20 second long time exposure recording the positions of the bright planets and stars. ... A well-known example, the Cone Nebula within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264, was captured in this close-up view from the Hubble Space Telescope's newest camera. ...

... The Chinese would certainly not have invented the magnetic compass. ... Chemically and mineralogically, the lodestone is magnetite, a massive type of iron ore, an oxide of iron, a mineral related the the brown stuff coating the magnetic disks and tapes used by computers. ... But even then, just resting a few million years in the Earth's magnetic field would produce no magnetization. ... Still, as Gilbert observed, in a long iron rod that magnetism was channeled to the ends, where it could be noted. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... gSatTEME Class Reference . Sat position and velocity predictions over TEME reference system. ... Set compute epoch for prediction. ... gVector љ . ... Get the TEME satellite position Vector. ... Get the Geographic satellite subpoint Vector calculated by the method compute SubPoint. ... gVector Satellite position vector meassured in Km. x: position[0] y: position[1] z: position[2] . ... gVector Satellite Velocity Vector measured in Km/s x: Vel[0] . ...

... Contacts . 2009: . ... We finalized the development of a facility for observations (including remote observations) of the star-shaped objects with the temporal resolution of 1 micro second. ... For contacts: G.M.Beskin ) . RATAN-600 Multi-Octave Frequency Range Overlapping Finalized. We finalized the multi-octave overlapping of the RATAN-600 frequency range from 0.75 to 18GHz with the frequency resolution of 1% using the parallel spectrum analysing complex. ... Archive . ...

... First of all, I should say that you cannot guarantee user-mode processes to have exact control of timing because of the multi-tasking nature of Linux. ... However, for most applications using I/O ports, this does not really matter. To minimise this, you may want to nice your process to a high-priority value (see the nice(2) manual page) or use real-time scheduling (see below). ... Linux 2.x kernels have soft real time support; see the manual page for sched_setscheduler(2) for details. ...

... Skalnatґ Pleso 43, 1 ­ 2, (2014) e Mini-MegaTORTORA ­ multichannel system for wide-field optical monitoring with high temp oral resolution V. Sasyuk1 , G. Beskin2 , S. Karp ov2 , S. Bondar3 , A. Perkov3 , E. Ivanov3 , E. Katkova3 and A. Shearer4 2 Kazan Federal University, Russia Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 3 Insttitute for Precise Instrumentation, Russia 4 National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Received: November 4, 2013; Accepted: ?? ...

. Currently . student of the 5th course of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . Field of research interest . Network software developing, Image processing. Position . Laboratory assistant of Space Research Institute . Department Number . 902 (Space Monitoring Information Support) . Postal Address . Space Research Institute . Russian Academy of Sciences . Profsoyuznaya St. 84/32 . Moscow, RUSSIA . Postal Code . 117810 . Telephone Number . +7(095) 333-53-13 . E-mail . ugine@d902.iki.rssi.ru .

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 . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . ... This Multi-Processing Module (MPM) implements a non-threaded, pre-forking web server. ... Apache httpd always tries to maintain several spare or idle server processes, which stand ready to serve incoming requests. ... Maximum number of idle child server processes . ... The MaxSpareServers directive sets the desired maximum number of idle child server processes. ... The MinSpareServers directive sets the desired minimum number of idle child server processes. ...

... Image created from the following: 120 images of Clear filter, 20 of RGB. each of 60 second subframe. 10 Haplha of 120 second subframe. Combined Red and Halpa to get a red/haplha mean image and then processed normally through CCDStack with finishing process through Photoshop CS 5. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

I/146 Positions and Proper Motions (Roeser+ 1988) ================================================================================ Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions Roeser S., Bastian U. =1988A .. ... 449R ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Positional data; Proper motions Description: PPM North gives J2000 positions and proper motions of 181,731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. ... The mean epoch is near 1931. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Supernova simulations reveal new processes . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

MAKING THE PROFILES . First of all you are expected to load a FITS file ("FILE"-"LOAD"). ... By pressing the middle button you copy the profile from the first profile window to the second one. ... An example: first integral can correspond to the profile of active region and second integral can correspond to the profile of quiet chromospheric region. ... The second profile (which is subtracted from the first one) you extract after clicking on "SUBTRACT"-"MARK QUIET PROFILE" and marking the region. ...

... The disc accretion process is an essential component of star and planet formation theories. ... Much of the detailed knowledge of the physical processes involved in disc accretion have been gained through observations of nearby ( Z ) of the local environment are thought to affect PMS disc accretion rates, and disc evolutionary timescales. ... I measure the accretion rates of these PMS stars using the intensities of the U /H band excess measured through either optical spectra or imaging. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Simulation of Code and Doppler GPS & GLONASS Observables and Feasible Positioning Algorithms for Universitetskiy-Tatyana Satellite . ... Algorithms of complex processing can give more accurate navigational results than algorithms which use observables of GPS only or GLONASS only. ... The algorithm of the modeling of observables has several steps. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...