. Yellow = Sun . Purple = Mercury . Pink = Venus . Blue = Earth . Red = Mars . Orange = Jupiter . Green = Saturn . The first point of Aries (the direction of the Sun as viewed from the Earth at the time of the northern vernal equinox) is towards the right. Relative sizes of Sun and planets are not to scale. Venus, Mars and Saturn will be within a triangle less than 3 degrees on each side on 2002 May 6th, as seen from the Earth. Other links Last revised: 2002 May 1st .

NIFS was reassembled for its first mechanisms test in May 2002. ... The cryostat temperatures took 90 hours to stabilize to 50 K. Initial impressions were that all mechanisms were operating correctly. ... Once cold, the mechanisms were extensively tested using command scripts. ... Cold work surface plate being inserted in the NIFS cryostat. ... Bob Miles working on the cryostat center section. ... Spectrograph side of cryostat. ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

The Optical Solar Sensor (OSD) has been designed to determine the direction towards the center of the Sun's visible disc. The direction to the Sun is computed in the instrument coordinate system relative to the pixels' position on the linear CCDs illuminated with the light passed through the incoming coding mask. The OSD coding mask has three groups of slits with three slits in each group. This mask configuration provides for reliability increase as well as for the required accuracy. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Science . ... Tom Kaye, an amateur astronomer from the Chicago, Illinois area, installed his Tau Boo campaign equipment at our facility in mid-February, 2000. ... The custom unit fed the starlight to an optical fiber that transmits the light to a bench spectrograph located in the Winer machine shop. ... The daily results from mid-February, 2000 to early March, 2000 are shown on the left. ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . Another problem that was making it difficult to automatically merge GCVS and survey catalogs has been recently solved: 'old' variable stars also had only very rough coordinates. The GCVS has been identified, on a star-by-star basis, with positional catalogs. ... The total number of stars we were unable to identify, at least tentatively, is only 200, most of them from two or three sources of especially unreliable positional information. ...

... Compatibility: Available in Apache 1.3 and later. Available as an External module in Apache 1.1 and later. ... It does its work by comparing each document name in the requested directory against the requested document name without regard to case , and allowing up to one misspelling (character insertion / omission / transposition or wrong character). ... Compatibility: CheckSpelling was available as a separately available module for Apache 1.1, but was limited to miscapitalizations. ...

On the problem of using of the ICRF radio coordinates reference system Lipovka A.A. (1), Lipovka N.M. (1) Center of research for physics, Sonora State University e-mail: nila_lip@mail.ru Bibliography 1. ... Columns 8, 9 are corrections to right ascension and declination, which should be added to coordinates of ICRF2 radio sources, to obtain coordinates of optical objects, with which these radio sources are identified. ... Lipovka .. ... Fig 3 Fig 3 ...

Polar Alignment Using The Star Drift Method . Articles | ... This method with, a little practice, can give you reasonable polar alignment within one half hour. ... If the star drifts northward, your scope is west of the pole. ... Remember that as your adjustments get you closer to the pole, the star will drift slower and you must wait longer to detect a north-south drift. If the star drifts south, you are east of the pole and you must turn the mount towards the west. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Step 1: The Footprint position calculation by the magnetic field line tracing from the satellite position up to the Ionosphere by using IGRF + Tsyganenko [1987] magnetic field model (the stop trace altitude 110 km). Step 2: Tracing back from the Footprint (produced on the Step 1) to the dipole equatorial plane (by using only IGRF magnetic field model up to the geocentric distance 8 RE and dipole field model after this distance). ... Back to the description . ...

... The catalog contains SAO number; the right ascension and declination with a B1950.0 equinox and epoch; annual proper motion and its standard deviation, photographic and visual magnitudes; spectral type; references to sources; the Durchmusterung (DM) identifier if the star is listed in the Bonner DM (BD), Cordoba DM (CD), or Cape Photographic DM (CP); component identification; The Henry Draper (Extension) (HD or HDE) number; and J2000 positions and proper motions. ...

previous next contents elements attributes index . ... Alignment . ... Font style elements: the TT , I , B , BIG , SMALL , STRIKE , S , and U elements . ... This attribute specifies the horizontal alignment of its element with respect to the surrounding context. ... You could reduce the scope of the style by setting the class attribute on the element: <HEAD> <TITLE>How to Carve Wood</TITLE> <STYLE type="text/css"> H1.wood {text-align: center} </STYLE> <BODY> <H1 class="wood"> How to Carve Wood </H1> . ...

THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...

DIS-III Spectra Other information . ... LOW Blue . ... MED Blue . ... HIGH Blue . ... Lines / mm . ... 5.03е /pix . 2.43е /pix . 2.26е /pix . 1.23е /pix . 0.84е /pix . 0.62е /pix . ... 7.0 е /pix . 3.05е /pix . 3.15е /pix . ... 1.17е /pix . ... Spacial scale for Blue gratings are: 0.42 arc-sec/pixel . ... 300 lines/mm . Low Blue . ... Med Blue . ... 0.9 " slit . ... unidentified . ... Offset Directions for DIS Using Various Interfaces as viewed by the Slit Camera . ...

... solar system . ... Corrected sunspot history suggests climate change since the Industrial Revolution not due to natural solar trends . ... This suggests that rising global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution cannot be attributed to increased solar activity. ... The results make it difficult to explain the observed changes in the climate that started in the 18th century and extended through the Industrial Revolution to the 20th century as being significantly influenced by natural solar...

. RC-archive . RC0907+0436 . RC0908+0451 . RC0934+0505 . RC0942+0447 . RC0945+0454 . The R-band contours (BTA) superposed . on 1490MHz image (VLA) ps . The map (1490MHz,VLA) superposed . on the R-band image (BTA) ps . Last updated 30 Jul 2001

... Meade Instruments Corporation . Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . ... ETX-90AT and Autostar Frequently Asked Questions . ... Which of the Autostar alignment procedures is recommended for viewing celestial objects right out of the box? When using Autostar, how important is leveling the telescope and pointing it to true north before alignment in the Alt/Az or Polar modes? ... Meade ETX-90EC Astro Telescope . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

... Orienting Mir and modules . ... one on top, one on the left side) . ... Solar arrays can help to differ top from bottom - upper side is blue and flat, lower is light and ribbed. ... There are 4 long and 2 short radiators (pointed with yellow arrow on this photo ) on each module. ... So, if you see short radiators between long ones - you see module side. ... Top of each module is marked by 2 small antennas (pointed with green arrow on the photo ) in the middle of its length near ends of long...

... Left: A POSSM plot of the uncalibrated spectrum of DA 193 at 1.66 GHz on a baseline Bear Lakes to Noto. ... The phase slope as a function of frequency is clear evidence for a small delay error in the correlator model. Right: The same data as shown on the left, but corrected for a delay error and a residual fringe rate. ... Left: A VPLOT plot of the uncalibrated amplitude (upper frame) and uncalibrated phase (lower frame) as a function of time for the source DA 193 on a baseline HartRAO to Noto. ...

Next: Polarization efficiency: size/shape/orientation effects Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: The 2175? feature . To model the interstellar polarization one needs to calculate the forward-transmitted radiation for an ensemble of non-spherical aligned dust grains. ... Let non-polarized stellar radiation passes through a dusty cloud with a homogeneous magnetic field. ... The angle between the line of sight and the magnetic field is ( ). ... where the angle is connected with and ( ). ...

... Cheers, -Mike Data Providers (e.g., data centers, archives) Provider Name: NOAO Collection: High Resolution Atlas of Arcturus Spectra - 0.92-5.36 microns Characteristics: 310 ASCII tables of wavenumber vs flux Storage Format: Text tables Available online: ftp://ftp.noao.edu/catalogs/arcturusatlas/ir Comments: Tables contain three flux values (arcturus spectrum, telluric spectrum and ratio) for both summer and winter observations. ... Linelists also available as text table ...