... 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 . ...

... Home Articles Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 1: Beginning Observers Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 3: Advanced Observers . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 4: Magazines and Miscellany . ...

... Management of the satellite remote sensing data in environment monitoring systems. ... Systems for collection, processing, archiving and dissemination of satellite data in data centers of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Meteorological Agency, Russian Space Agency, Federal Agency of geodesy and cartography. Monitoring system of Russian Fishing Agency. ... Agricultural territory satellite monitoring system for Russian Ministry of Agriculture. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... James H. Newman (Ph.D.) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... Recipient of the American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award (1994, 1999) for his work as a member of the STS-51 and STS-88 crews. ... That same year he came to work at NASA s Johnson Space Center, where his duties included responsibility for conducting flight crew and flight control team training for all mission phases in the areas of Orbiter propulsion, guidance, and control. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... By means of deep optical images obtained at the Special Astrophysical Observatory 6-m telescope it was discovered that some Seyfert galaxies that were earlier considered to be non-interacting objects displayed signatures of elongated tidal envelopes belonging to satellite debris. ... Our results suggest that statistic studies based on popular imaging surveys (for example SDSS) can lead to an underestimation of the fraction of minor mergers among galaxies with active nuclei (AGN). ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

General Knowleges about Astrometry. ... Universal Tool, Meridian Tool, Meridian Circle, Vertical, Photografic Zenithal Telescope, Astrolabe, Zenith Telescope, Horizontal Meridian Circle, etc. Meridian Principle of Objects' Coordinates Determination. ... Absolute and Relative Methods of Coordinates Determination. ... Photografic Method in Astrometry. Telescopes for Position Observations by Photografic Method. ... Basis and Theory of Photografic Method of Coordinates Determination. ...

... The first column shows the kinematical diagrams, where is the angle between the line of sight on the object and the vector of rotation about Z -axis, and V S is objects line-of-sight velocity relative to an observer at rest at the position of the Sun. The straight lines are regression fits, whose slopes yield the subsystem’s rotation rate. The second column shows the relations between metallicity and distance from the Galactic plane. ... privious figure | next figure . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

Планета Земля и Луна . ... Космическая защита . Луна . Фотографии . ... Строение Луны . ... Страница: Начало одиссеи , Экспедиции , Море Кризисов , "Аполлон-8" , "Аполлон-9" , "Аполлон-10" , "Аполлон - 11" , E-8 "Луноход" , Испытания Л-1 , Луноход - 1,2 , КА "Луна 1-24" , КА "Луна-9" , Луна от КА СССР ; . Луна - наш космический спутник . ... Снимки Луны от аппаратов серии Луна и Зонд (СССР) . Фотографии космических аппаратов серии "Луна" (также Луноходы) и "Зонд" - СССР . ... Зонд 3 . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

. SOME OF WELL-KNOWN DEEP SKY OBJECTS: . All images taken with 150/695mm homemade Newton reflector + SBIG ST6 CCD camera (falsecolors) . The treasures of Orion - some special images . Some galaxies on the Lion's mane . Messier 98, 99, 100 - three fine galaxies in Coma . NGC 6946 and NGC 6939 - nice galaxy and fine star cluster in one field of view. HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus)

... SF-SERIES . ... LUMAM . ... Home Products Microscopes Lumam LUMAM objective series . LUMAM OBJECTIVE SERIES . The LUMAM objective series features infinity-corrected Plan Fluorite (PF) and Plan Achromat objectives all specially designed for phase contrast and/or fluorescence microscopy. They are: 10x 0.50 PF, 10x 0.40 PF Phase, 20x 0.45, 20x 0.70 PF, 40x 0.65, 40x 0.65 NCG, 40x 0.65 NCG Phase, 40x 0.75 NCG water, 40x 0.85 PF, 40x 0.85 PF Phase, 100x 1.25 water and 100x 1.30 PF oil/iris. ...

... Плоское облако Хиллса (Hills Objects). ... Облако Оорта (Oort cloud). В 1950 году Ян Хендрик Оорт (Jan Hendrik Oort) (1900-1992) [1,2] предположил существование массивного облака объектов, имеющего форму, близкую к сферической, возможного источника долгопериодических и гиперболических комет (в последний раз предположение исследовано Талкотом в 1999 году) в области от 10000 до 150 000 а.е. от Солнца (по ряду оценок, может простираться до одного светового года от центра системы). ... Облако Оорта. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... An additional objective is to detect micro-particles in the vicinity of the space station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... On-line Data . ... The program enables to find out the exact present Earth coordinates of the international space station and "Shuttle". ... J-Track - this program is similar to the previous one, however it knows how to display images and orbits of space vehicles. ... NASA SkyWatch - a program for those, who are fond of watching artificial space objects through the telescope, field - glass or with the unaided eye. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . ...

Multichannel Flare Spectrograph . ... phi - the angle between the green vertical line passing through the solar disk image and the violet radius vector "r" of the object located at the center of the spectrograph slit- red cross. positive - clockwise, negative - counterclockwise . ... mx = x coordinate of the coelostat main mirror . ... x : carthesian solar coordinate alog axis parallel to solar equator (in arcsec) . y : carthesian solar coordinate alog axis parallel to solar axis (in arcsec) ...

Fast algorithm of reconstruction of absolute conductivity distribution in a cross-section of human body by measurements of electrodes' potentials on the skin surface is described. ... This paper describes fast algorithm for absolute conductivity reconstruction and results of its application. ... The main problem under the absolute image reconstruction is obtaining of reference data, corresponding to the object with uniform conductivity and the same electrode positions. ...