... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

The BOKZ family instruments have been designed for precise determination of spacecraft triaxial attitude control parameters in real time based on images of the arbitrary starry sky segments. ... Since 1999 twenty one star instruments of the BOKZ family have been launched to the nearterrestrial orbits onboard the International Space Station and ten Russian spacecraft of various types. The development of three more modifications – BOKZ-л, BOKZ-л24 Х BOKZ-2л is completed. ...

THE 1999 PROJECT . The 1999 Martian Mission project is a further development of the 1988 project. It uses the results of design, research and testing activities that took place at RSC Energia since 1988. As compared with the previous project, changes were introduced into solar array panels which became modular, into lander shape where lifting body was replaced with a "discus", and into the number of the landers, with two landers - a manned lander and a logistics lander - instead of one. ...

The Cartwheel Galaxy . This false-color composite image shows the Cartwheel Galaxy as seen by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's far-ultraviolet detector (blue); the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in B-band visible light (green); the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared array camera at 8 microns (red); and the Chandra X-ray Observatory's advanced CCD imaging spectrometer-S array instrument (purple). ...

... 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. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Support of activities at the Radio telescope General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication of ... 9.4 GHz band. ...

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). ...

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... 400mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: images the sky on the entrance slit. ... The optical system maintains image quality along the slit length so that each row of the image is a spectrum of that spatially selected region of the sky. 180mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: collimates the light from the slit. ... The auxiliary optical platform on WISPI now accomodates a short focal lens and a guiding/imaging video system that may use sub-pixel corrections to provide feedback to the tracking drive motors. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... When Galaxies Collide (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope) . In the southern sky constellation of Corvus (the Crow), we see the Antennae Galaxies (alias NGC 4038 and 4039). ... Your email address will not be published. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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Astrophotography Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... Electronic Camera? ... Post Message | ... If you put the camera on the scope with no film, open the back and set the shutter speed to 4 seconds. Will the shutter fire and the mirror come up so that you can see through the camera into the scope? ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

... In essence, you have an equatorial telescope mount for your camera to track the stars anywhere in the sky. ... Astronomy Camp for All Ages . Astronomy Campers use the research telescopes and equipment at the mountain-top observatories on Mt. ... At night, Campers observe celestial objects under a dark sky using the 40-inch and 60-inch telescopes on Mt. ... A complement of computers allows Campers to analyze data using professional languages and to simulate astronomical phenomena. ...

Instruments and Methods 129 Multi-element MMIC focal array for radio telescope V.B. Khaikin1, E.K. Ma jorova1 , Yu.N. Parijskij1, M.D. Parnes2 , R.G. Shifman2 , V.A. Dobrov2 , V.A. Volkov2, V.D. Korolkov2, S.D. Uman2 , N.A. Esepkina3 , and S.K. Kruglov3 The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences Karachai-Cherkessia, N.Arkhyz, 357147, Russia, E-mail: vkh@brown.nord.nw.ru Svetlana", Rezonance", Ascor", 194156, Engels pr. ... Four-element sub-array prototype is shown in Fig.2. ...