... Measuring the Distances to Supernovae . Professor Robert Kirshner . Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month our speaker will be Professor Bob Kirshner of Harvard University who will speak to us about measuring the distances to supernovae which was the key to the discovery of the accelerating universe that won the 2011 Nobel Prize. ... Oct . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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 . ...

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... Numerical Modeling of RadioAstron SRT Temperature Deformations M. Yu. Arkhipov, I. S. Vinogradov, S. B. Novikov, and S. D. Fedorchuk Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia e mail: rusengineer@mail.ru Received December 16, 2013 Abstract--The results of modeling the thermal deformations of a space radio telescope's reflecting surface are presented in the paper. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Is cosmic acceleration changing? A new analysis shows that dark energy, the engine driving the universe's speeding expansion, may be changing fast. ... Cosmic acceleration is the biggest mystery in all of science," says University of Chicago cosmologist Michael Turner. ... for measuring dark-energy changes. ... and any change in dark energy's acceleration ? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

The emergence of life based on amino acid and RNA/ DNA on an Earth type planet requiers a quite narrow parameter space of many of the planet's physical parameters, most important are its mass and temperature conditions. ... The period, more or less, is conserved for the giant planets.) ... Thus, the mass of a terrestrial planet suitable for the advent of the LANA should be close to 5*10 27 g. The same value follows from quite a different condition: the planetary atmosphere should be retained. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... SPECIAL HONORS: Recipient of the Air Force Legion of Merit (1956); the NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1972); the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1974); the American Astronautical Society?s Melbourne W. Boynton Award for 1975 (1977); two NASA Space Flight Medals (1983, 1985); the University of North Carolina Distinguished Alumni Award (1983); the Aerospace Medical Association Randy ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

... 1596, 2013 February 13 The Solar Corona: Why It Is Interesting for Us Abstract. Strong magnetic fields are of vital importance to the physics of the solar corona. They easily move a rarefied coronal plasma. ... They change geometry of magnetic field. ... First, we apply the concept of fast reconnection of electric currents as the source of energy for microflares to explain coronal heating in quiet regions (Somov B.V. and Hґ enoux J.-C., in Magnetic Fields and Solar Processes , 9th Eur. ...

... public class CurveFitter . ... static int . ... Field Detail public static final int STRAIGHT_LINE . ... public static final int POLY2 . ... public static final int POLY3 . ... public static final int POLY4 . ... public static final int EXPONENTIAL . ... public static final int POWER . ... public static final int LOG . ... public static final int RODBARD . ... public static final int GAMMA_VARIATE . ... public static final int LOG2 . ... public static double f (int fit, double[] p, double x) . ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Holostars: Black Holes Without Event Horizons . ... Its name derives from the fact tht information is preserved in such a black hole, and must be a contraction of hologram and star. ... The exterior metrics and fields of the charged holostar are equal to the Reissner-Nordstroem black hole solution. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... RECOMMENDED VALUES OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND CONVERSION FACTORS. ... This reference must be included when these constants are used in a context where their full accuracy is important. ... elementary charge (of proton) . ... gravitational constant . ... unified atomic mass constant . ... of electron . ... of proton . ... Planck constant . ... Rydberg constant, m 0 2 m e e 4 c 3 /8h 3 . ... fine structure constant, m 0 e 2 c/2h . ... Bohr radius, h 2 ( pm 0 c 2 m e e 2 ) . ... Bohr magneton, e h /2m e...

... 15.03.2001 . ... March 15 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operation with OC "Mir" scheduled for March 14 is complete. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the battery generate enough electric power, the thermal condition is normal. Getting the OC"Mir" ready for dynamic operations the fuel containers pressure integrity was checked, the valves of the fuel supply pipes and the 1st collector oxidizer in the core block integrated propulsion system were opened. ...

... Using the uvby -photometry and proper motion data for about 5500 F stars within 80 pc from the Sun, we have studied velocity ellipsoid parameters and obtained the following results. 1) The sizw of all wllipsoid semiaxes increase systematically for groups of stars with the decrease of both temperature (at constant metallicity) and metallicity (at constant temperature). ... As a result, each of the three parameters - temperature, metallicity and velocity dispersion - is an age indicator. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...