... Take-Home Activities (for Families and Friends) . If you have questions about Family ASTRO, see our Frequently Asked Questions for Educators and Astronomers page , or our Frequently Asked Questions for Families and Friends page . You can also email us at: astro {at} astrosociety.org . Return to About Family ASTRO Page . Return to Getting Involved Page . Return to Family ASTRO Home Page . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope to be added to ESOтАЩs Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ... It is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to sky surveys in visible light. The VST was designed and built by the INAFтАУOsservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy as part of a joint venture between INAF and ESO. €а . ... VLT Survey Telescope . ...

The chances of the Earth suffering a collision with a cometary body may be higher than previously thought, according to new research by astronomers Bill Napier and Chandra Wickramasinghe. ... With about 1 percent of incoming comets ending up on relatively short-period Earth-crossing orbits, it is expected that several thousand dormant comets could be currently posing a potential threat to our planet. ... Bill Napier via the Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DG. ...

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK FOR 2005 (in Russian) . Preface . In the тАЬAstronomical YearbookтАЭ (AY) the ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, major planets and stars computed with the maximum precision in accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are published. ... N.I. Glebova; . ... The seasons values, the phases of the Moon, the planetary configurations, the data for the eclipses of the Sun and Moon (N.I. Glebova, M.V. Lukashova) are placed on a site . ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

... Bakhshiyan . ... MV- and E-optimal design of experiments: theory and simplex algorithms . ... A mathematical analogy between a L-and MV-optimal experiments design and an ideal linear correction of system parameters is established, Optimality conditions are derived on the basis of this analogy and effective algorithms for solving these problems are designed. ... The E-optimal problem is reduced to the generalized linear programming problem with M+1 by constraints, where M=m (m+1) /2. ...

... 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. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

Applications using HyperLeda . ... Search by name | ... HyperLeda is designed as a tool for researcher and is used by many astronomers who acknowledge HyperLeda in their scientific articles. HyperLeda is also used or cited in several other applications such as articles of popular astronomy, web sites, databases or catalogues, software. ... Cartes du Ciel (Patrick Chevalley) is a freeware program for amateur astronomers. Jeff Burton extracted from HyperLeda catalogues for Cartes du Ciel . ...

Next: Software tools and preliminary design of a control system for the 40m OAN radiotelescope . Up: Control System . Previous: The WFCAM instrument software . ... Rather than re-invent the wheel, the software system to control the instrument has taken existing software packages and re-used what is appropriate. ... The integrated design--now known as the NEWFIRM Observation Control System (NOCS)--is shown in figure 2 and an explanation of the modules and current status is given in the table 2. ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...

... Russian KOI8 . Scientists of Laboratory of radio astrophysics develop algorithms and software. ... design of statistical estimations methods of average and smoothing; . fitting algorithms design; . development of the data processing system FADPS (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System); . design of visualisating and interactive data reduction programs for initial observational data ( fgr (Russian KOI-8) ) and continuum radio sources spectra (spg); . ...

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Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... Launch Vehicles and Spaceships . We have two rockets used to launch manned spaceships : . ... VIR 2000 will be employed with the SIRIO 2000 spaceship. ... It can carry 960,000 pounds into several planets orbit or launch a 180,000 pound payload on several planets journey. VIR 2001 will be employed with the SIRIO 2001 spaceship. ... They test many of the techniques required for landing men on different planets , such as rendezvous procedures and leaving and re-entering and orbiting a spaceship. ...

Space vehicle "Apollo-11". ... The main aim is to carry the cosmonauts on the Moon, there are also pilotless flights and the spacemen's flights around the Earth, the "Apollo" modification were used to carry the cosmonauts on the orbit station 'Skylab' and joined with the Soviet spaceship "Sojus-19" on the programme APAS . ... The first was N. Armstrong in "Apollo-11", E. Aldrin (1969) ( см. D. Irvin on the Moon ). The maximum time of the being in the Moon is 75 hours ("Apollo-17", 1972). ...

Supernova Gallery The purpose of the Bright Supernovae web pages is to provide a place where people can find reference images of Supernovae. ... This is an RGB color image of Supernova 2003gs in NGC 936 Credit: Pablo Canadia . Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... This is an LRGB color image of Supernova 2003cg in NGC 3169 Credit: Pollux observatory . ... Credit: Nick Suntzeff Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... Credit: AURA/NOAO Image Library . ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...