... News . ... Year of Pluto . ... New Horizons is about to pass Pluto at 9 miles per second. Why won't it stop? ... New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto just before 8 a.m. on July 14 puts it some 7,770 miles (12,500 kilometers) away from that world's surface. ... Currently, the New Horizons spacecraft is traveling away from the Sun quite fast, about 9 miles (~14 kilometers) per second. If it burned all the hydrazine in its tank, it would accelerate by only about 1/8 mile per second (1/5 km/s). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

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... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

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... Телескопостроение, оптика (Модераторы: I.A.R. , Ivan7enych ) ? Интервью с Thomas M. Back . ... CN: Who does the lens figuring for your TMB scopes? Why did you choose them? ... Their master opticians do the final hand figuring, that is so important for sharp and high contrast images. ... They make their own glass, curve generate, polish, figure, multicoated all glass surfaces, and finally make a custom temperature compensated cell, that has been a proven performer over the last 9 years. ...

Race to the Planets Family Event Sample Agendas Family ASTRO Leader Kits and Guides are designed to contain enough materials and activities for two full family events. ... What's Next: As families leave, make sure they know about the date and time for your second Race to the Planets session and that you'll want to know how they did playing the "Surfing the Solar System" game. ... If there are any planets visible in the night sky, a nice follow up to this family event is a planet observing session. ...

... There are some photos from Kanheri Caves made by Juergen Stuber . ... Juergen: "It is in the north of Mumbai, about 40 km from TIFR . ... Juergen: "There were about ninety caves, but most were small and didn't have statues. ... Alexei: "It was a big surprise for me that Buddhism is an exotic religion in India, as in Moscow. Buddhism is said to be widely spread only in the North India. The main religious in India are Hindu, Jainism, Islam, Christianity. ...

... Telescopes . ... LS Series . Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... ETX Series . ... Back Cell Adapter - ETX to SCT Thread . ... Allows accessories that require a SCT thread to be attached to the ETX series of telescopes, including focal reduces and off-axis guiders. ... Allows accessories that need SCT threading to be attached to ETX series . ...

. True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . Images show regions used to extract spectra . Regions with red strikes are excluded . Background was subtracted from a region around or close to the SNR. Back to G189.1+03.0C Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . Main Page | Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR .

... In laboratory the design and a manufacturing techniques mirror aspherical optics are developed ("fokon", ellipsoid, aspherical mirror).Such optical elements are made of widespread aluminium alloys on the standard equipment without use diamond turning. ... Using: optical blocks of not image optical devices for transitions, collimation, focus (concentration) radiations in a wide spectral range from UV to IR. Focusing and collimation of light; . ... circle aperture/ring aperture; . ... Back Forward . ...

... The main direction is discrete complex analysis, additional directions are rational classification of embeddings and classification of circular surfaces. I. Discrete complex analysis. ... One of our past results was application of discrete complex analysis to description of all polygons which can be tiled by squares (with Prasolov, 2010). ... The first planned result is convergence of discrete harmonic functions on general lattices to a harmonic function when the lattice becomes finer and finer. ...

... 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 ) . ...

... Back in Black - студийный альбом австралийской рок-группы AC/DC, выпущенный в 1980 году. ... Цвет: синий . Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . ... Размер RU: 54 . ... Платье MadaM T. Цвет: синий. Сезон: Весна-лето 2016. ... В книге представлен теоретический и практический материал для проведения интегрированной образовательной деятельности с детьми в соответствии с требованиями общеобразовательной про-граммы дошкольного воспитания 'Детство' и ФГОС ДО. ... Цвет: разноцветный . ... Цвет: мультиколор. ...

THIRD CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES SECOND RUSSIAN VISITING CREW "AHDROMEDA" PROGRAMM IMAGES VIDEO . ... SECOND RUSSIAN VISITING CREW . ... The prime crew: Viktor Afanasiev, Commander; Konstantin Kozeev, Flight Engineer and Claudie Haignere, Flight Engineer. The back-up crew: Sergei Zaletin, Commander; Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya, Flight Engineer. Holding the discussion between the State Committee and Technical Management members and the prime and backup crews. ... UNIVERSAL SPACE PLATFORM | ...

Next: GOCG Post-Observation Products . ... Reconstructed Orbit . JPL MMNAV Reconstructed Orbit . ... The JPL MMNAV files will be made available on the JPL MMNAV FTP site in directory [RAstron.ODDATA.JPLICV.TRACK] (note the capital letters). back to top . ... What: X-band Doppler tracking data will be transmitted in near real-time from the DSN GTS to the JPL MMNAV team and from the Pushchino GTS to the ASC navigation team, and post-pass (via FTP) from the GBTS to the JPL MMNAV team. ...

. €а . ETHOS 1 . €а . €а . €а . €а . €а . Narrow-band images of 300 second duration each were obtained with the FORS2 instrument attached to ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile, on 19 June 2010 (H Alpha+83 - red, OIII+50 - green, and OII+44 filters - blue). The full TIFF file is here . Credit and Copyright: B. Miszalski, R. Corradi, H. Boffin et al. Very Large Telescope image of ETHOS 1 . Back to main page . This page created by Henri Boffin on 15 December 2010. €а . €а

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Right Ascension (ICRF/Tycho-2) J2000 at the central epoch of obs. (hours, minutes, seconds) (Obligatory parameter) . ... proper motion in RA (*cos(DE)) (ICRF/Tycho-2). (mas/yr) . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. ...

... LOC will arrange transportation of Conference participants from the Kazan airport to the hotels. ... According to the rules, everyone has to go through passport control and customs upon arrival at their first stop in Russia (in the most cases it is Moscow). ... If you have a direct flight to Kazan then passport control will be in Kazan. ... First eROSITA International Conference: Mapping the Structure of the Energetic Universe 17-20 Oct 2011, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) . ...