... Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... Mission Definition . Ask anyone on the street to give an example of a planet, and they'll consider you a bit dim. ... Finally, if you ask "What is the exact scientific definition of 'planet'?", it turns out that nobody can answer it, because there really isn't one. ... The word itself means "wanderer" in Greek, and other cultures generally have words for "planet" with a similar meaning. So why isn't that good enough for us today? ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... solar system . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Tour the Solar System . ... The Sun's Heartbeat . ... Mission suggests Sun and planets constructed differently . Although the differences in oxygen and nitrogen are slight, the implications could help determine how our solar system evolved. ... Data revealed differences between the Sun and planets in oxygen and nitrogen, which are two of the most abundant elements in our solar system. ...

... NIC-FPS is an instrument combining the capabilities of a near-infrared imaging camera with a cryogenic Fabry-Perot etalon currently under development at the Center for Space Astrophysics and Space Astronomy , University of Colorado with support from Rice University , Ball Aerospace and the Astrophysical Research Consortium. It is scheduled to begin operations on the ARC 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory in 2004. ... For full frame images, the FITS file will result in a size of: . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Buzz Aldrin, Ph.D. (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Aldrin was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. ... At Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, he served as an aerial gunnery instructor. ... Since retiring from NASA, the Air Force, and his position as commander of the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1972, he authored an autobiography, "Return to Earth". ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Weather Stations . Professional Series . ... Professional Weather Station #TE827W. This full function Weather Station displays temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind chill, wind direction, rainfall, Moon phase, records and charts 24 hour barometric pressure history. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... Polar plumes appear in images of the Sun's corona as faint linear enhancements in radial directions emanating from the North and South polar regions during the period of minimal solar activity. ... What are polar plumes? ... Even if plumes seems to be in rigid body rotation with the solar magnetic field, classic inversion with Radon transform is unable to reconstruct such 3-D structure due mainly to transient phenomena. ... We address points 2) and 3), solved with projective techniques. ...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... StelCircleArcRenderer Class Reference . Provides functions to draw circle arcs using StelRenderer . ... drawGreatCircleArc (const Vec3d &start, const Vec3d &stop, const SphericalCap *clippingCap=NULL, void(*viewportEdgeIntersectCallback)(const Vec3d &screenPos, const Vec3d &direction, void *userData)=NULL, void *userData=NULL) . ... Create a circle arc renderer to draw multiple circle arcs . ... void(*)(const Vec3d &screenPos, const Vec3d &direction, void *userData)љ . ...

... Class . ... METHOD . ... java.lang.Object ij.LookUpTable . public class LookUpTable . ... LookUpTable (java.awt.image.ColorModel cm) . ... createGrayscaleColorModel (boolean invert) . ... drawColorBar (java.awt.Graphics g, int x, int y, int width, int height) . ... Constructs a LookUpTable object from an AWT Image. public LookUpTable (java.awt.image.ColorModel cm) . ... Method Detail public int getMapSize () . ... public static java.awt.image.ColorModel createGrayscaleColorModel (boolean invert) . ...

The first near-infrared IFU spectrograph was the 3D instrument , constructed by the Max Planck Institut f r Extraterrestrische Physik. ... An effective slit width of 0.1" was chosen in order to probe to spatial scales approaching the 0.07" diffraction-limited image core size expected from the Gemini adaptive optics system at 2.2 microns while maintaining an acceptable field-of-view. ... The field mirror array then feeds the spectrograph collimator mirror (seen at left in the above figure). ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . Rocket Systems . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Definition of space-time dependences of density, temperature, ion composition of local nonuniformities of the ionosphere occurring as a result of the onboard liquid rocket engine operation. ... ROCKET SPACE COMPLEXES . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Next: The STScI NICMOS Calibration Up: No Title Previous: CONICA: The high resolution . The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline . Introduction . ... Dark Current Subtraction . ... Input Data . ... Scalar Background Subtraction . 2-D Background Subtraction . ... Status and Goals of the NICMOS Calibration Plan . ... Photometry . ... Photometric Performance of NICMOS . ... NICMOS Photometry. ... ST-ECF Grism Spectrum Software for NICMOS Grism Data . ... Analysis . ... STScI NICMOS Software . ...

... Exams and Homework . ... Local Astronomy Stuff . ... Quantum Cosmology (only for the brave) . MAP's Web Site (excellent) . Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial (better than excellent) . ... A good page of links . ... Excellent Overview of the Early Universe . ... Some good Internet tutorials on Cosmology . ... First Homework Assignment (due Jan 28) . Second Homework Assignment (due Feb 11) . Third Homework Assignment (due Mar 01) . Last Homework Assignment (due Mar 15) . ...

... 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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... Научная панорама ? миссия arxiv:0709.4288 Космический аппарат The New Horizons . ... миссия arxiv:0709.4288 Космический аппарат The New Horizons (The New Horizons Spacecraft) . ... Здесь мы объединяем их, начиная со статьи с описанием самого аппарата. ... Еще одно описание миссии, но с несколько другой точки зрения. arxiv:0709.4428 - The Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) on the New Horizons Mission. http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/169.html#arxiv/0709.4288 . ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...