... 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 . ...

... We apply Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA, or extended EOF) technique to filter GRACE data and separate the principal components (PCs) of different periods. We performed data averaging over the large river basins of Russia. ... In every point ij on the map we have time series Aij(tk) of length N. The trajectory matrix for every XAij should be build and incorporated into large block matrix X as follows: X Aij Aij (t0 ) Aij (t1 ) .. ... Sum of PCs 1-10 for particular rivers basins. ...

The Massive Parallel Sequencing era: "Global sequencing" Richard Christen CNRS UMR 6543 & UniversitИ de Nice christen@unice.fr http://bioinfo.unice.fr 1 At the end of 2007, three next-generation sequencing platforms appeared: Roche/454's Genome Sequencer FLX (which succeeded a first model), Illumina's Genome Analyzer; and Applied Biosystems's SOLiD sequencer. ... 6 Tasks and problems · Genomes ­ Resequencing genomes. De novo sequencing a genome. ... Easy & Known ­ De novo sequencing a genome. ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . Forums: . Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... Post . ... Inertia - What Causes It? ... Post Message | ... Posted by Duane Eddy on February 8, 2007 23:29:59 UTC . I am looking for opinions on the cause of inertia. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Yevgeniy Shakhmatov, the Rector of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) told a reporter of the RIA Novosti about the things that the future creators of space technology are currently studying and how they can apply this knowledge in practice. Yevgeniy Vladimirovich, in 1960-80s your university was actively engaged in researches for the benefit of the domestic aerospace industry. ... In Samara we traditionally prepare specialists for the whole country. ...

... On Thursday, 11/12, Bill Boroski, Bob Nagel, Steve Bastian and John Davis continued to pursue the oscillation in the windscreen and lubricating the cone bearings. Bill was able to install the bar coder for the altitude drive. ... On Friday, 11/13, Charlie Briegel continues to work on motion controls. ... Bill has also installed the bar coder for the azimuth drive. And Steve along with Bob Nagel clean the bearings with mineral spirits in preparation for applying the new lubricant. ...

... Craters in the basin are compared to craters located in highland and mare regions. ... Craters with one fissure and craters with one chain and one fissure are few in number both in the highland region and in the basin, and craters with several fissures are lacking in these regions (Fig. ... The majority of craters in the South Pole­Aitken Basin and the highland region have rough floors, whereas about one-third of craters in the mare region have flat floors. ... The highland is the oldest lunar...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

. Prague, August 16, 2006 . Present classification : Suggested: . WR WR . New type: PP (a proto-planetary object) New type: dL (L dwarf), the causes of variability not quite clear yet . ERUPTIVE VARIABLES (CONTINUED)

... 06.03.2001 . ... March 06 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The OC "Mir" operations scheduled for March 05 are complete. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the Complex arrays generate enough electricity, the thermal mode is normal. Command complex was powered on and command software was entered in tne cause of communication sessions, pressure was equalized in pneumatic and hydrobus fuel tanks of the joint propulsion system of the core block of OC "Mir". ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York October 2008 Volume 56 Number 10, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE ysis of Cassini pictures. ... Saturn's 60 moons are divided into inner and outer groups. ... There are a diverse group of worlds such as Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Mimas, the latter known as the Death Star moon for its uncanny resemblance to the Star Wars movie's battle station. ... The strange planet so far from its parent star is unexpected based on theories of star and planet formation. ...