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The accommodation fees for the X APAO : . ... Team fee: 360.- Euro/team . ... Euro/person . ... Euro . ... Team fee: 450.- ... Euro/person/day . ... The fees are to be paid cash the first day of accommodation (or in very special cases in advance by bank transfer). National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the XI APAO. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Surveys and Catalogues . ... The main 7C survey at 151 MHz with resolution 70У?70Тљcosec(declination)Тљarcsec 2 (EWУ?NS) covers a large part of the northern hemisphere above declination 30ТА, excluding the Galactic plane.There is now a final unified non-redundant catalogue for this main survey in ASCII format together with a CDS-style ReadMe file, both available by ftp from MRAO. ... Regions surveyed at resolution 70У?70 cosec(dec) arsec 2 , ftp accesses standardised data: ....

2009-05-20 O.Hainaut There are many steps between the data coming out of a camera on a professional telescope and the final image that appears in magazines or on our web sites. ... preliminary: from the telescope to Photoshop. cleaning: remove the artifacts remaining in the image . ... In each filter, several images are acquired. ... Fig 1: a raw image (click for full scale) . ... At this stage, the images are still in FITS, the astronomical format, with one FITS file per filter. ... The final image. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 12 - 18.11.2012, Forecast on 19 - 26.11.2012, Carrington Rotations 2130 (04,86.11.2012) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN WAS REMAINED ON THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... FLARE ACTIVITY WAS AT THE HIGH LEVEL ON NOVEMBER 13, THE AVERAGE LEVEL ON NOVEMBER 12 AND 14 AND THE LOW LEVEL - 15 - 18.11. BY DATA SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS WAS OBSERVED BY 49 CME ONE OF WHICH WAS THE "PAR- TIAL ГАЛО III" TYPE AND 3 - THE "PARTIAL ГАЛО II". ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Missions Archive . ... News . ... News archive . Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... On May 26 & 27, 1998, about 50 participants met for the workshop ``NICMOS and the VLT'' in Pula, Sardinia, Italy. ... The workshop took place at a time when the expected remaining lifetime of NICMOS was about 7 months, and the first call for proposals for VLT was about 3 month away. The timeliness of the workshop was underlined by the fact that first light for the VLT occurred in the midst of this meeting, which has not been anticipated at the time the date for the workshop was set. ...

... Observational Zoo of Binaries with Compact Stars . Evolutionary Scenarios of Binary Systems . ... Special Cases: Supernova Explosion and the Common Envelope . ... Evolution of Magnetic Rotators . ... Mixing types of E-P-A binary systems with non-zero orbital . ... Ejectors in Massive Binary Systems . ... Other Candidates for Ejecting Stars in Binary Systems . ... Cosmic Rays and Evolution of Binary . ... Sky in Gravitational Waves . ... Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binary Stars . ...

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. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Shirokovsky . ... The meteorite fell on the frozen Shirokovsky reservoir situated on the Kosva River near the village of Shirokovsky and the cities of Ugle-Uralsk and Kizel. ... Two slices were transferred to the Vernadsky Institute for study and research. ... M.A. Nazarov, Vernadsky Inst. ... Furthermore, the Shirokovsky samples do not contain typical accessory phases of stony-iron meteorites, and the accessory phases are completely atypical for all meteorites. ...

... Brian Schmidt is a Laureate Fellow at The Australian National University's . ... Brian Schmidt joined the staff of the Australian National University in 1995, and was awarded the Australian Government's inaugural Malcolm McIntosh award for achievement in the Physical Sciences in 2000, The Australian Academy of Sciences Pawsey Medal in 2001, the Astronomical Society of India's Vainu Bappu Medal in 2002, and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship in 2005. ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... The GnomeApp Widget . Menus and Toolbars with GnomeUIInfo . ... This chapter describes Gnome's features for creating your application's main window, complete with menus and a toolbar. All Gnome applications, excluding a few with special needs, use the GnomeApp widget for their main window. GnomeApp is a subclass of GtkWindow ; it extends the basic toplevel window with convenient menu and toolbar handling. ... Figure 1. ... GnomeApp Constructor . ...

... Archives . ... Completeness ? ... Abstract (abridged to the first paragraph) We have extended and improved the statistical test recently developed by Rauzy for assessing the completeness in apparent magnitude of magnitude-redshift surveys. ... specifically independence of the spatial distribution of galaxies within a survey ? ... Moreover, we have also introduced a new test statistic, Tv, defined in terms of the cumulative distance distribution of galaxies within a redshift survey. ... Chandra Blog ...

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... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... acquiring practical habits and skills of performing all the flight operations envisaged for a flight participant; . maintaining and honing professionally required qualities and skills for a successful activity in conditions of effect of adverse factors of a space flight, as well . ... preparing for the activity outside the spacecraft; . ... preparing for professional activity in conditions of effect of the space flight factors; . ...

... 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. ...

Larry Fiscelli and Shu-i Wang (UC), plus Mark Klaene and Jon Davis (APO) installed the echelle mount this morning. ... Prior to the start of installation, hatch covers are removed, pieces are unpacked, and the telescope mount is readied. The main truss (there are two) which help support the instrument. ... Larry finds the main truss supports are obstructed by the floor hatch angle. ... Pictured is the x/y motion gimbels installed on the main trusses. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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