National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

Airglow Ripples over Tibet . ... Credit Copyright: Jeff Dai Explanation: Why would the sky look like a giant target? Airglow. Following a giant thunderstorm over Bangladesh in late April, giant circular ripples of glowing air appeared over Tibet , China , as pictured above. ... Unlike auroras powered by collisions with energetic charged particles and seen at high latitudes, airglow is due to chemiluminescence , the production of light in a chemical reaction. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

Date: 11/24/2014 Time:05:26 Moon Age: 1.8 Available Observing Hours: 12.9 Observer: Instrument: Operator: Cage: Lebofsky, Bell 90PrimeOne Trueblood PF hours lost to: weather: 2.0 telescope: 0.0 instrument: 0.0 computer: 0.0 Time Temp Humidity Wind Vel. Wind Dir. Seeing Open 18:30 37.8F 50% 15 N 1.9 Close 05:20 37.1F 15% 15 NE 1.8 _________________ Description ______________________ Most of the night, seeing >2", which severely limited our available targets. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelMainWindow Class Reference . ... voidљ . ... Alternate fullscreen mode/windowed mode if possible. ... boolљ . ... Get whether fullscreen is activated or not. ... It is the class in charge of switching betwee fullscreen or windowed mode. ... Get whether fullscreen is activated or not. static StelMainWindow & StelMainWindow::getInstance . ... void StelMainWindow::init . ... Set whether fullscreen is activated or not. void StelMainWindow::toggleFullScreen . ...

... Speed clips mount or disconnect pouches and other gear quickly and efficiently by weaving them under the webbing of the platform, alternately weaving it between the platform and pouch. ... Speed clips contain an accessory lanyard hole . ... simply cut the strap off or tuck it behind the Speed Clip) . ... Женские ботинки Thermoball Lace от The North Face займут достойное место среди вашей коллекции спортивной обуви. ... Ботинки Thermoball Lace - отличный выбор стильной и технологичной зимней обуви. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... Mark 6 Next-Generation VLBI Data System , IVS 2012 General Meeting Proceedings, p.86­90 http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/gm2012/whitney.pdf Mark 6 Next-Generation VLBI Data System Alan Whitney, David Lapsley MIT Haystack Observatory Contact author: Alan Whitney, e-mail: awhitney@haystack.mit.edu Abstract The Mark 6 VLBI data system is being developed by MIT Haystack Observatory as a nextgeneration ... Converted modules are not backwards compatible with Mark 5 systems. ...

... Korolev, Moscow area. On February 28, 2006 RSC Energia hosted the training sessions of Brazilian citizen Marcos Pontes under the training program for the participant in space flight to the International space station (ISS) within 10th Visiting Crew. ... President of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, General Designer N.N. Sevastiyanov congratulated M. Pontes on his birthday during the joint training sessions presenting wrist-watch and memorable gold medal of the Corporation. ...

... 24 } Line { SrcBlock sin SrcPort 1 DstBlock func1 DstPort 1 } Line { SrcBlock Fcn SrcPort 1 Points [0, -55] DstBlock func DstPort 1 } Line { SrcBlock (G*M) ^1/2 SrcPort 1 Points [25, 0] DstBlock func DstPort 3 } Line { SrcBlock func SrcPort 1 Points [40, 0] Branch { ...

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SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... 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 . ...

... For a semple of red giants comprising about 2000 stars, the distributions of metallicity [Fe/H] are given. ... The center of the distributions of giants in both galactic poles is found to demonstate a statisticaly significant gap similar to the one found earlier for the late main-sequence stars. The implications of the metallicity distribution properties for the problems of the chemical evolution of the galactic disk are discussed. ...

. Allg uer Hochzeitsuppe . mit Gem sestreifen und Backsp tzle . (Allg u Marriage Soup) . Schweinshaxe mit Sauerkraut . und Semmelkn deln . (Pork Shanks with Sour Kraut and Dumplings) . Vegetarian Alternative: . Vegetarischer Gem seteller . (Vegetarian Vegetable Plate) . Apfelk chle mit Vanillesauce . (Apple Pie with Vanilla Sauce) . Beer and soft drinks (as much as you can handle) at no extra charge!

... Impact on source motion in Galactic coordinate system is given by Kovalevsky (2003), Malkin (2011) l cos b = -A sin l, b = -A cos l sin b, where A = R0 02 /c is the galactocentric acceleration called hereafter the GA constant. ... We just have to return to the traditional many-centuries-old astrometric practice of modelling the position of a celestial object as a linear trend with two parameters: the position at the initial (conventional) epoch and the apparent (proper) motion. ... 2011). ...

... The electronic journal Astrophysical Bulletin accepts manuscripts from authors from all over the world in Russian or in English. ... By submitting a paper to the editors, the authors assign the rights to its translation into English (for manuscripts in Russian) and into Russian (for manuscripts in English) to the founders, editorial board, and publishers of the journal but reserve the rest of the copyright. ... After a manuscript is registered, the corresponding author receives an e-mail...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program controls the data acquisition according to the specified schedule of the sessions. ... The calibration of AVHRR instrument data is performed during acquisition . The program can be started in parallel with the satellite pass visualization, that allows the user to monitor a session and store data only relevant to specific regions in manual selection mode. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... New calculations of the orbit of an asteroid (designated "3753") show that it is performing a complicated gravitational dance with the Earth, causing it to alternately speed up and slow down in its orbit ( my Bitesized Astronomy page has a more detailed description of the situation ). Briefly, the Earth's gravity alternately slows down and speeds up the asteroid in its orbit around the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...