... 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. ...

The beam pattern and the polarization characteristics . of the radio telescope RATAN-600 . The Mueller matrix elements was computed via formulas [1]: . ... The BP were computed by the aperture method, proceeding from the fild distribution in the aperture of the primary mirror. The components of the main and cross-polarization components of the electric field in the vertical aperture of the primary mirror was computed in Frenel diffraction approximation. ...

Next: RSOG Pre-Observation Products . ... Mission Elements . ... The main mission elements (ME) are: . The RSOG, based at ASC, which is responsible for the science operation of the RadioAstron Mission. ... The Main Ballistic(Navigation) Center (MBC) belonging to Lavochkin Association coordinates preparation and exchange of orbit determination and orbit reconstraction ptoducts. ... Experiment codes of five characters are used in naming GRT related files. ... RSOG . ... Corr (GTS?) ... Corr (RSOG?) ...

... Made with Swarovski Elements - известный бренд, специализирующийся на производстве одежды и аксессуаров, украшенных кристаллами Swarovski. ... В нашей акции представлена богатая коллекция кожаных женских сумок, инкрустированных кристаллами.Артикул: 00_92_BLUE_JEANЦвет: синийСостав: 100% натуральная кожаОсобенности: кожаная сумка с двумя ручками на молнии, украшенная кристаллами Swarovski. ... Тип: Сумка . ... Сумки . ... Тип гриля: Электрический . ... Полезный объем духового шкафа: 66 . ...

... Total solar eclipse 2008 live from Novosibirsk On August 1, 2008, a total solar eclipse was being visible in Russia. ... The solar eclipse in Novosibirsk started at 9h41m UT and finished at 11h45m UT. ... Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS eclipse expedition team made 3 channels live Web-cast of the eclipse from Novosibirsk in collaboration with . ... Total phase . ... It's preferably to install on computer VLC media player free program for Web-cast live receiving. ...

... Russian-French Laboratory "J.V. Poncelet" . ... Victor P. Maslov : Ultrasecond quantization of a classical version of superfluidity in nanotubes . 10:40-11:00 . Coffee break . ... S. Gaubert and S. Sergeev : Cyclic projectors and separation theorems in idempotent semimodules over the max-plus semiring . ... G.L. Litvinov: Interval analysis for algorithms of idempotent and tropical mathematics . ... E.M. Beniaminov: Quantization as approximate description of a diffusion process (in Russian) . ...

Next: ISO-SWS Data Analysis . Up: Data Analysis Applications . ... The ISDC Data Access Layer (DAL) is an ANSI C and FORTRAN90 compatible library under development in support of the ESA INTEGRAL mission data analysis software. ... Thus, the INTEGRAL data analysis system must be capable of supporting distributed data sets composed of many individual files and exhibiting one to many and many to many associations between the individual data structure elements. ...

WDC-A Digital Exchange Format for One-Minute Geomagnetic Data (Update August 1993) 1. The logical record length is 400 coded characters containing header information, blank spaces, and data for one element for one hour. ... Each logical record contains header information and data in the following format: North polar distance, longitude, year, month, day, hour, element, observatory code, blank spaces, 60 data values, and an hourly mean. ... ORG is the origin of the data. A = Alaska Chain. ...

... The engine operates with all three propellants (lox, kerosene, hydrogen) in the booster mode (mode 1) and transitions to bipropellant operation (lox, hydrogen) for the latter portion of the trajectory (mode 2). ... In mode 1 operation the hydrogen enhances the combustion of the kerosene to provide to tripropellant specific impulse levels higher than obtainable with separate combustion of the fuels. ... mode 1) . ... DASA, Munchen, February 1994, приведены следующие параметры двигателя РД-701 : . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... Other Sites . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Last Update August 21, 2005 . Listed Since August 21, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... A real goldmine for amateur and professional astronomers. We should have more of such site around. ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Page specific variables . ... Page variables have the form {$ variable } , and can be used in page markup or in certain formatting strings in PmWiki. ... Prefixing the variable name with an asterisk (*) means the variable reflects the value related to the target page or main page. ... Namespaced} - spaced page name, as in "Page Variables" . ... Defines new Page Variable of name $CurrentSkin, which can be used in the page with {$CurrentSkin} (also for Conditional markup ). ...

Next: Specifying Pixels in Up: MIDAS Data Structures Previous: Specifying Keywords . The MIDAS table file system is described in detail in chapter 5 of this volume. Here we just explain briefly how to access the various elements in a table file. To do so, it is necessary to specify the table name , the column and the row . ... table,column,row = value , e.g. to set the element in the 3rd row of the column labeled :XREF in the table lola.tbl to 1.234 , use lola,:xref,@3 = 1.234 . ...

... Contents . ... Sidereal time . ... Mean longitude of the Moon, mean elements of the Moon's orbit and equator . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Sun . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Moon . ... Matrix elements for conversion to CIRS . ... Conversion of mean time to sidereal time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ... Conversion of sidereal time to mean time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ... Conversion of mean time to sidereal time (with accuracy 0.001 s and 0.0001 s ) . ...

Rocket R-5 . ... The rocket R-5 engine was provided with a special extension nozzle that enabled to increase a flight range up to 1200 km. ... Prior to carry out flight tests at the 2 NII-88 affiliate division, firing bench tests of rocket R-5 were run. ... A launch range of all 7 rockets was 1185 km. ... With a 37% increase in the R-5 launch mass its firing range increased two times as compared to R-2, masses of fore bodies being practically equal. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... X-Ray Structural Analysis . ... The course introduces the basic principles of diffraction analysis of crystal atomic structure and the basic concepts of state-of-the-art atomic crystallography. ... X-ray crystal diffraction. тАЬGeometricalтАЭ theory of diffraction by three-dimensional scattering center grating. ... Systematic X-ray reflection extinction related to Bravais lattice type, screw axis, glide-reflection planes. €аFourier synthesis as a method of crystal atomic structure analysis. ...

... The sections below are meant to refresh your memory about some basic ideas in algebra and trigonometry. Even if this material is completely new to you, with enough motivation and persistence you should be able to understand it. ... M-1) Basic ideas . ... M-5) Deriving Approximate Results . ... M-8) How to tell sines from cosines . M-9) Deriving sines and cosines . ... M-11) Deriving sin( a+b ), cos( a+b ) . ... Last updated 24 August 1998 ...

... Visibility of Small Solar-System Bodies . Asteroids) in 2009 : . ... Distance (AU) . ... Jan. 12, 2009 . ... 8.8 m . ... is at opposition on July 4, 2009 . ... Apparent . ... from Sun (AU) . ... is at opposition on September 21, 2009 . ... middle distance between Earth and Sun, equal 149.6 millions km. ... Mean Distance: . ... a configuration of the Sun, Earth and a planet in which the apparent geocentric longitude of the planet differs by 180 from the apparent geocentric longitude of the Sun. ...

... Get summary info for the files (can take a while!) nsum = masfilesum('',sumI,fnmI=fnmiar) print ,'Retrieved header information for ',nsum,' files.' if (nsum NE nfiles) then print ,'WARNING: number of file headers does not match number of files!' sumfound = sumI cont = 1 if (dosrc AND cont) then begin print ,'Matching srcname = ',srcname filefind = where(strmatch( sumfound .h.object,srcname,/fold_case)) ; sumfound .h.object EQ srcname) if ( ...

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