... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... The Sun stays at the center and the planets orbit it serenely, each in its place. ... Tiny Pluto, orbiting the Sun an average of nearly 40 times the Earth's orbital radius, has an odd orbit. Most planets orbit the Sun in nearly perfect circles, but Pluto's orbit is noticeably elliptical. ... The orbits of Pluto and Neptune have a coincidental timing to them: Pluto orbits the Sun twice for every three times Neptune does. ...

... The plot widgets as shown below are created using Calibrate|Visibility|PLOT . The one on the left is the general plot selection widget, the one on the right, the (data) index selection widget, is created when additional input is required as to the indices of the selected data. ... The calibration is applied to all stars selected in the plot selection widget. ... Below is the screen print after clicking on "Calibrate". Solution calculated for OB= 1, Bl= 1, Ch= 2. RMS [%] = 1.876) . ...

Alfa_ang is a GUI for the rotang routine. The purpose of this routine is to calculate the optimum rotation angle for ALFA given the RA and Dec of a source and the date and time of the observation. The routine also returns the azimuth and zenith angle of the telescope at the requested time, thus it can be used to find the correct rotation angle and azimuth for the Fixed Azimuth Drift Scan observing mode used by the AGES drift precursor observation. ... To run alfa_ang at Arecibo: . ...

... Three different techniques for averaging have been introduced. ... The average functions mentioned above will normally produce a result frame whose world coordinates are the intersection of the father frames' world coordinates. ... Averaging statistically consistent values --- љ This command differs somewhat from the purely mathematical functions of the previous two commands in the sense that it tries to anticipate some of the astronomical content of the input data frames. ...

QED calculations of H2 molecule Vladimir A. Yerokhin St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University in collaboration with Krzysztof Pachucki Warsaw University FFK 2013, Pulkovo, St. Petersburg, October 7-11 Do we need QED for H2? ... 150, 51 (2011) An order of magnitude in precision every 14 years QED : -0.1964 (9) 5, 3039 (2009) Theory: J. Chem. ... Wave function is represented by a linear combination of basis functions Choice of the basis functions: · · Explicitly correlated basis set. ...

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... How to Calculate Power . How to Calculate Power: The magnification, or power, at which a telescope is operating is a function of the focal length of the telescope's main (objective) lens (or primary mirror) and the focal length of the eyepiece employed. ... Example: The Meade DS-2070AT telescope has an objective lens focal length of 700mm; when this telescope is used with a 25mm eyepiece, a power of 700/25 = 28 power (written as "28x") results. ... about meade | ...

... On some space shuttle missions, there are opportunities for observers in the continental United States and Hawaii to see the orbiter fly overhead. ... The second item is a Space Shuttle Mission Chart, which is a Mercator projection map of the world with the orbiter's orbits superimposed on Earth's surface. ... Shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which is at a latitude of 28.5њ north. ... NASA Johnson Space Center . ... You will see that Shuttle orbits just graze the globe...

Deep Time: Earth's history and future By Colin Johnston, Armagh Planetarium Earth 4.54 billion years ago Forms in Sun's protoplanetary disc S un Elsewhere in Solar System Other planets form. ... Hot and airless Sun a subgiant, diameter 1.5 its current value, 2 6.4 billion years from no w ? ... Earth cools 20 million years later? ... Core temperature about 55 million°C, helium flash, followed by the Sun shrinking Sun is 10 times its current diameter, luminosity 20-50% current value. ...

This diagram shows the six superimposed "layers" of the CSS table model. This diagram illustrates the algorithm for calculating a cell's final background. ... The diagram shows how, looking down on the six rectangles, one may compute the background color of each cell. ... A cell without a background color in the top layer is depicted as a "window" onto the lower layers, which give its final background color. ...

Nickolai Copernic: "making the Sun stop, pushing the Earth". ... The aim of Copernic's investigations is improving the calculating schemes. ... In heliocentric system appeared an opportunity of calculating real proportions of Solar system using the radius of the Earth's orbits as an astronomical unit. Copernic's book "About Rotation of Celestial Bodies" contains a discription of astronomical devices as well as a new more exact catalogue of stable stars. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... Newcomb, Simon, "On the dynamics of the Earth's rotation, with respect to the periodic variations of latitude", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 52 (1892), 336-341 [ Local PDF ADS link ]. ... Stephenson, Francis Richard Houlden, Michael A., "The Accuracy of TuckermanтАЩs Solar and Planetary Tables", Journal for the History of Astronomy , 12 (1981), 133-138 [ Local PDF ADS link ]. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics , 322 (1997), 347-351 [ Local PDF ADS link ]. ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...

Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . ... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The application is designed to perform high-accuracy geographic referencing and calculate geographic coordinates of satellite data using orbital data. ... The program performs conversion of satellite images into conic or equidistant projection and overlays the coordinate grid over it. ... When necessary the program allows for setting control points for correction of the reference. Shareware version (APT NOAA data processing) . ...

... For eight samples of main-sequence disk stars, the metallicity indices 0.6 , R-1 (U-V), m1 ( ) have been calculated. The indices 0.6 and (U-B) have been calibrated to the metal abundance [Fe/H] for the spectral types F, G and K separately. ... It is found that the UBV and RI data for F- and K-dwarfs imply that the metallicity of the Sun coincides with that found for the Hyades, whereas the G-dwarfs give the well known smaller metallicity of the Sun with respect to the Hyades. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

SunWorld - комплекс для моделирования . ... фраунгоферовых линий . общее описание программы SUNWORLD ! sw09.html скриншоты SUNWORLD ! shots.html презантация: популярно о SUNWORLD ! ... Алгоритмы и структуры данных программы ! alg.html GEDA - GEneral DAta (общие данные) для расчетов ! ... Программный комплекс SunWorld (постер) ! ... Структуры данных и виды расчетов программы SunWorld ! ... с) Можаровский С.Г. // mailto:sw@newmail.ru // Home page Solar page ...