... 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...

Our School Observatory: . N56.2/E94.6 deg. and ~200m above sea level) . Our small observatory is located near Zelenogorsk (Siberia), in 170 kms to east from Krasnoyarsk - our regional main city. It includes a tower with a rotary dome (D=3.5m) on a roof of one of buildings. ... Our basic instrument is homemade D=150mm & F=695mm Newtonian reflector. Despite of its small size, we have learned to receive rather detailed views of heavens. ... HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus) ...

... Sun images . ... December : 2013 . ... Image of Sun's chromosphere obtained 09.12.2013 at 11:01 UT in Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory (Austria) . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.12.2013 at 23:39 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.12.2013 at 23:39 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.12.2013 at 23:36 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of solar wind ...

... Home Gallery Club Events Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburgh, Russia . ... Clear Sky Chart . ... Beyond New York City . ... Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburgh, Russia . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by ....

Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . ... In July 2012, CRTS noticed that this object had started to brighten again. ... Then in September of 2012 it got brigher again. ... Cornell University The Unprecedented Third Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a Supernova . ... UIS Henry Barber Research Observatory 2009ip page . ... 2009/08/26.11 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ... Stan Howerton . ... Stan Howerton Light curve . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

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. ...

... News . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... New instrument will help confirm Kepler's planet finds . ... CfA is part of an international collaboration building a new instrument called High-Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS-North). ... It will complement Kepler by helping confirm and characterize Kepler's planetary candidates. ... HARPS-N will essentially duplicate the successful design of an existing instrument in the Southern Hemisphere, the original HARPS. ... Atlas of the Stars . ...

english version russian version . While living in Shanghai in 2010-2011 in a wonderful Xujiahui district, where I was working at the Observatory under the support of Academy of science, the desire of walking along the old streets in search of historical buildings came to me. ... The plan of this site follows the similar project Trips over literary Odessa , dedicated to this wonderful city on the Black sea coast. ... The Community Church . T.V. Soong residence . ... Former Jewish Club . ...

The "MARS-3" Matrix Radiometric System for RATAN-600 Radio Telescope: Trial Observations D.V. Kratov Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS The MARS (MAtrix Radiometric System) project is reported. ... MARS-3"( year 2006) - 16-channel system (BS) with 5 GHz bandwidth, calculated Tsys = 200 - 210K, 5 mK(s1/2). ... MARS-3" was installed in the focal line of the RATAN-600 radio telescope in April 2007. ... The test observations showed effectiveness of the new matrix radiometric system. ...

... Solar PV Arrays (needs storage) . 2 .Magic Hydro Power that doesn't kill salmon (does not need storage) . ... You need to realistically calculate the capital costs of building the facility, how much land it will utilize, and what the operating costs are. ... Energy storage = 40 kilowatt hours per gram. ... You are to build an energy model from this array of power generating facilities and energy storage that you will be sustainable and deliver energy at a reasonable cost to the consumer. ...

home - main - author - help english - russian . Soyuz TM . Original Soyuz . Soyuz-1 - Soyuz-9) . ... ASTP Soyuz . ... Progress . ... Interior of Soyuz-T trainer . Soyuz's MIK - montazhno-ispytatelniy korpus - assembly and testing building. Left to right: launch vehicle, 2 cosmonauts in spacesuits, Soyuz spacecraft (inside a yellow framework), . shroud (a big white object) . ... in Soyuz trainer . ... Soyuz-T after landing . Soyuz descent vehicle evacuation . ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946 and analyzes "genealogical trees" of the original enterprises (NII-88, NII-885, OKB-456, etc.) to reveal typical features of this evolution. ... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946, when an original set of institutions was established. ... The study demonstrates, that the evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry is more complicated, than usually...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... CodingљStyle . ... Plugins . ... Building Plugins . ... dynamic plugins are stand-alone dynamic libraries (separate files with .so extension on Linux, .dll in Windows or .dylib on Mac OS X) that are loaded at run-time (on start-up) by Stellarium. This allows dynamic plugins to be distributed separately from Stellarium. static plugins are linked statically at build-time. ... For the rest of this discussion, I will assume you downloaded the source code in the directory /home/me/builds/stellarium . ...

Welcome to APAO . View from Dormitory . ... Sungam International Traing facilities . Sungam International Traing facilities main building . ... International Youth Education Foundation foreground . Gukjegwan - Dormitory . Dormitory . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ... URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/apao/2009/ . ...

Загрузить программу (~10 MB). ... Программа izmccd предназначена для высокоточной астрометрической обработки числовых изображений небесных объектов. Программа позволяет получать как измеренные, так и экваториальные координаты малых планет, комет, спутников больших планет, визуально-двойных звезд и других объектов, а также идентифицировать уже известные малые планеты и найти на числовых изображениях движущиеся объекты. ... Программа является бесплатной. ... Автоматическая обработка, один объект. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... 5, 1998 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Newsroom Phone: 301-286-8955 NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: 98-158 HISTORIC JOHN GLENN FLIGHT TO FEATURE MARYLAND AND GODDARD SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS When Mercury astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn returns to space October 29, a fascinating array of science experiments from the Goddard Space Flight Center and Maryland students will fly with him. ...