IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . MISSION PROGRAM . Since the launch of core module on February 20, 1986, till March, 23, 2001 Mir Orbital Complex (Mir OC) was in operational use on orbit under the Flight Test Program of the module-based permanently manned Mir station. A total of more than 100 launches of different spacecraft and modules (including the US Shuttle launches) were performed under the Mir Complex Mission Program. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... In order to successfully graduate from the University and receive a diploma, a student must pass exams in all required courses and in some elective courses, and then must write and defend a thesis. ... In order to become a student at the IUM, one had to take a written mathematical entrance exam in the end of June or in the beginning of September. ... Non-matriculated students who successfully complete the exams for the first semester become official students of the University. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

a. Decide on the root directory where your software is going to go.... [/home/friday] , for example. b. In your .cshrc file, define . setenv OSROOT /home/friday . ... Holder for object libraries . ... Holder for shared source code (f77 include files) . ... Collect the appropriate tar files from Simon's Software Store . ... build - extract fortran from the source library, compile source, pack object code into object libary . ... clean - remove source and object files from library folder . ...

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Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium powers stars, but fusion requires a lot of energy. Where does this energy come from? ... You re in good company: This question also stumped the physicists who first tried to understand nuclear fusion in stars. In a star s core, all atomic nuclei have been separated from their electrons, so each hydrogen atom is really just a proton and thus holds a positive charge. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit Copyright: Cenk E. Tezel and Tun Tezel ( TWAN ) Explanation: If you went outside at exactly the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? ... Yesterday, the Winter Solstice day in Earth's northern hemisphere, the Sun appeared at the bottom of the analemma. ... Pictured is such a total solar eclipse analemma or Tutulemma - a term coined by the photographers based on the Turkish word for eclipse. ...

... I HAVE decided that there are too many members in the club with uncomfortable or unpronounceable names. ... His topic will be "Tales of Clubhouse Grindings". ... SATURDAY OPEN CLUBHOUSE SCHEDULE April 1 CLOSED Forecast - snow April 8 CLOSED Forecast - snow April 15 CLOSED Forecast - snow April 22 CLOSED Forecast - snow April 29 CLOSED Forecast - snow THE CLUBHOUSE will be closed for observing for the month of April due to the Farmer's Almanac weather prediction of a snowy April. ...

... During and after the project, the student response was tremendous. ... I invite you to view what the class did with the terraforming project. ... These pages contain only portions of the entire project, since some of the presentations were purely verbal, and I was remiss in collecting all the speeches. The Mars Project student website . ... I think that it can be stressful to students to have such a large project to work on when they don't know what it's worth to them. ... previous page | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... MAO main . ... July Issue: Global Sensor Networks Will Change Human Consciousness . ... Тема: July Issue: Global Sensor Networks Will Change Human Consciousness . ... July 2014 Issue Highlights . ... Scientific American Volume 311, Issue 1 . ... Extra Sensory Perception How a world filled with sensors will change the way we see, hear, think and live . ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ...

... 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 . ...

Next: Special Cases: Supernova Explosion Up: Change of Binary Parameters: Previous: Mass change . The binary separation a changes differently depending on the mass exchange mode. ... If the mass transfer is conservative ( , i.e. const) and one may neglect the redistribution of the intrinsic angular momenta of the components, the total orbital momentum conservation law implies . ... the orbital separation always increases in such systems). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on October 30, 2014 | 5 Comments Humans have been exploring mysterious lands and faraway civilizations for hundreds of years ever since they had the ability and knowledge to do so.€а A curiosity and a desire to [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on May 28, 2014 | ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System Instruction Manual . ... Remove the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System from the telescope or camera. Use the supplied hex wrench to remove the three screws from the telescope side of the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. Position your Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System to align with the diagram below. ... Carefully screw each filter into the wheel, and re-assemble the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. ...

... ASRAS HOME . Radio Astronomy . ... About ASRAS . ... Our Observing Site . ... 2015 Mees Tour Guides . ... We're offering Regular Tours (a presentation on astronomy geared to a general audience, followed by a tour of the observatory and (hopefully!) observing of several objects, which may include the Moon, planets, nebulae, star clusters and perhaps galaxies), and Kids' Tours (a more interactive presentation specially aimed at youngsters plus the observatory tour and observing) as in prior years. ...

LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

At the end of December 2004, the CCD was removed from the telescope and returned to Spectral Instruments in Tucson. The existing thick chip will be replaced with a thinned chip and the readout changed from 2-channel to 4-channel. ... Additional changes being made during this period include the installation of a compress air drier, collimating camera and cloud monitoring camera. Back to Recent News List . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...