... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

Two major reasons: the number of stars isn't really seven (it's many more), and they all have different brightnesses, so that you see more or fewer of them depending on viewing conditions. The brightness of stars is measured on the magnitude scale, where the most prominent stars in the sky are around 1st magnitude, and the faintest you can see with your eye are about 6th. ... I think this makes it quite likely that the list will be truncated at Taygeta, giving six visible stars. ...

This module provides an environment variable with a unique identifier for each request. ... The unique identifier is even unique across multiple machines in a properly configured cluster of machines. ... On Unix machines, Apache creates several children, the children process requests one at a time. ... To distinguish time we will use a Unix timestamp (seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC), and a 16-bit counter. ... The actual ordering of the encoding is: time stamp, IP address, pid, counter. ...

... Stars . ... Straight away the three stars in his belt will grab your attention, followed by the glittering white star Rigel in his left foot and the bright orangish star Betelgeuse in his right shoulder (assuming Orion is standing facing us and not with his back to us). ... Orion Belt?s with the stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. ... In short, Orion was a big, loud giant of a man and indeed a mighty hunter, he also inherited some aquatic superpowers from his father who was the sea god Neptune. ...

... As modern observatories evolve to production units delivering data products and calibrated scientific data to the end users, new challenges arise in assessing the quality of data products. ... Taking the analogy of speed control on a motorway we can describe the system as a device (radar) collecting measurements of the system performance (passing cars). ... One of the direct applications of quality control is the verification of instrument performance based on the analysis of calibration exposures. ...

... Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Leo I . ... Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies dominated by our Milky Way Galaxy and M31. ... The Sun Today . ... The above picture was taken on May 15, but a similar picture of the Sun actually taken today can be found here. ... Comet Hyakutake and a Solar Flare . ... During the closest approach to the Sun of Comet Hyakutake on May 1, SOHO photographed the comet. ... Hubble's Constant And The Expanding Universe (II) . ... Our Universe is expanding....

... The first task assumes the searching for chemical composition and sizes of particles which give the wavelength dependence of the extinction efficiencies close to the observed dependence of . Figure 7: Wavelength dependence of the extinction efficiency factors for homogeneous spherical particles of different sizes consisting of astronomical silicate and amorphous carbon. The dashed segment shows the approximate wavelength dependence of the mean galactic extinction curve at optical wavelengths. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... Discussion Forums . ... Math? ... Post Message | ... We assume that a intelligent race would use math and that math is the universal language. ... To assume that math will be the ultimate means of communication is a bit premature. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... It is assumed that you have available a calculator which can derive sines and cosines, and also has functions sin -1 and cos -1 which given sinA or cosA can find the angle A, in the range 0 to 180 degrees. A triangle ABC has a right angle C and two sharp angles A and B. The triangle's sides AC and BC on both sides of the right angle C are given as: . ... a) When a beam of light hits the surface of a flat piece of glass, it is generally bent by some angle. ... AP cos? = x sin? + y cos a . ...

... 4.4 Imbedding HTML in a Document . In the following discussion of SPECIAL processing
, I will assume that rtftohtml has not been customized. If it has, the text styles used to create special effects may be different. ... Normally, if your RTF document contained the text "<cite>hello</cite>", the translator would output this as: "&lt;cite&gt;hello&lt;/cite&gt;". ... If, however, you want the <cite></cite> to be interpreted as HTML markup, you must format the tags using Hidden and Shadow. ...

... Take a particularly simple signal: a cosine wave. ... Now, we are going to stretch and shrink the wavelet along the time axis (we assume the data is in the time domain), and at each time compare the shape of the signal to that of the wavelet. ... Figure 3: The wavelet (dotted line) is translated rela tive to the signal (solid line). ... Figure 4: The dashed line plots the `match' between the wavelets (dotted line) and the signal (solid line) as a function of time. ...

... The general term for these waves is "Electromagnetic Waves". ... ASTR1001 Wavelengths · Electromagnetic waves, while all travelling at the same speed, can have different wavelengths (the distance between the crest of one wave and the next). ... Red Light: Wavelength 700nm Green Light: Wavelength 550nm Blue Light: Wavelength 400nm Ultra-Violet Light: Wavelength 300nm ASTR1001 The Electromagnetic Spectrum · Electromagnetic waves can have any wavelengths at all: anywhere from picometres to light-years....

TEMPERATURE OF REGOLITH IN COLD TRAPS ON THE MOON A.A. Berezhnoi Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow, Russia The hypothesis of the existence of the lunar ice in cold traps was stated in (Watson et al., ... Arnold, 1979) estimated the mean temperature on the surface of lunar cold traps as 40-90 K. We plotted the dependence of regolith mean temperature on depth for these two values of mean temperature on the surface (see figure 1). ... Arnold J.R. Ice in the lunar polar regions, J. Geophys. ...

M. S. Raghunathan Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, India msr@math.tifr.res.in On the first Betti numb er of compact lo cally symmetric spaces This talk is a survey about the first Betti number of a compact locally symmetric space X . ... Y. Matsushima studied first the case when all factors of X have rank (=dimension of a maximal totally geodesic flat sub manifold) 2. ... This expectation has proved to be correct in a large number of cases, the first results being due to Kazhdan. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

... At the summer date, at the chosen time, the Sun is high in the sky. at point S, while at the winter date, it is low in the sky, at point W. The shadow of the gnomon is always in the plane containing the Sun and the points A and B. If AB is a thin line, the shadow will also be a thin line, the intersection of this plane with the base of the sundial. ... Summer or winter, the shadow is therefore along the same line, the intersection of the above plane and the base of the sundial. ...

... Laboratory . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . ... Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow region, 142190 Russia . e-mail: karp@izmiran.ru . ... Since the MIT shape strongly depends on magnetic activity, quiet conditions (1 <= Kp <= 3) were selected to study the MIT shape diurnal variations; i.e., very quiet and slightly disturbed conditions were not considered. ... DEPENDENCE OF THE MIT SHAPE ON MAGNETIC ACTIVITY . ...