Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... New Shepard taking off (image credit: Blue Origin) . ... This is a reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing two-part suborbital space vehicle. The two sections of New Shepard are a pressurised crew module or capsule for six passengers (with its own launch escape system) and a propulsion module (or booster rocket) propelled by a Blue Origin BE-3 liquid propellant rocket motor. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... About 10% of the time is allocated to moving the telescope to the zenith and exchanging the spectrographic cartridges. ... Focus telescope (open-loop)* . ... TOTAL TIME (seconds) . ... This assumes two 60 second arc exposures and two 55 second readouts. ... Otherwise, the arc exposure will likely consist of a 30 second integration followed by a quick 28 second readout, half the normal time. ... The flat-field exposure can be read out with a quick 28 second readout, half the normal time. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

During the run on YY Gem in March 1988, two modes of operation of the Tinsley photometer on the 60-cm University of Hawaii telescope on Mauna Kea were used: firstly UBVRI broad-band photometry with a relatively course time resolution of several minutes which was suitable for observation of the eclipses and spot modulation, and secondly, continuous U-band monitoring with a time resolution of approximately 6 seconds which was suitable for observations of flares. ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

Underdetermined sets is a new type of data structures (terms) developed in Actor Prolog . ... The point is that an underdetermined set can include some indefinite rest (a tail) like a list in usual Prolog . At the same time, the order of elements of an underdetermined set can be arbitrary one and it does not affect results of unification of underdetermined sets. Moreover, Actor Prolog guarantees that a rest of an underdetermined set never contains elements that are explicitly given in the set. ...

... LOC has reserved rooms for Conference participants in the two four (****) class Hotels in the center of Kazan-city, 15 minutes walking from the Conference Venue. Shalyapin" Hotel, http://shalyapin-hotel.com , e-mail for room reservation: reservation@shalyapin-hotel.ru (use COSMOS word at subject line), phones : +7(843)-231-10-00 , +7(800)1000-780 . ... First eROSITA International Conference: Mapping the Structure of the Energetic Universe 17-20 Oct 2011, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) . ...

Database Browser . ... Database Browser: Why? ... query the database . ... Database Browser: Overview . ... A generic database browser component for database browsing applications. ... Set of classes defining a generic GUI application to browse generic databases. ... It should be possible to display database data according to some programmer defined formats (e.g. target coordinates are now stored in the tables as integers and should be displayed as <degrees / hours>:<minutes>:<seconds>). ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The on-line prediction procedure is based on the Newton interpolation formulae for a uniform distribution of the variable with first, second and third argument powers restrictions (Kurkin V.I. , Polekh N.M., Tchistyakova L.V. MAF operative prognosis for oblique ionosphere sounding// Issledovaniya po geomagnrtismu, aeronomii i phisike Solntsa. ... Prediction MUF calculation for the next 15 minutes; . ...

April 2, 2007 15:37 UT Mt. Kent CDK20 with STL6303 and UBVRI filter set 10 second exposure Combined IVB bands into one image with ds9. Cropped 877x1057 scale 0.0001493 degrees per pixel or 0.54 seconds of arc FOV 7.8x9.5 minutes of arc