So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

The program "Apollo" . From middle of 1960.the USA have concentrated efforts on the program the "Apollo", putting purpose a parcel of the person to moon. it was successfully executed in July 1969Ц, when юrmstrong and нldrin have left "Eagle", a lunar module of "Apollo - 11", and have made historical " the first small step " on a lunar surface. ... Researching of moon under the program "Apollo" the rocket "Saturn" carrying lunar, command and service modules was used. ...

... 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 storm began quite unexpectedly. The strongest geomagnetic storm for the last seven months began on Earth almost precisely at the same time as the solar eclipse reached its maximal stage, the culmination of which occurred at GMT 02:35 (06:35 Moscow time). ... Oscillations of such amplitude in the magnetic field have not been observed since October, 11th of last year, which is more than seven months ago. ... We can only add that the magnetic storm lasted approximately 9 hours. ...

... 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 . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site Map . ... Hint : Find and stay on Arizona State Route 83, which bounds our property). Use the interactive map below or use our GPS position N31 39' 56.08" W110 36' 06.42" (or 31.665578N, 110.601783W). ... From Tucson, take I-10 east about 20 miles to Exit 281, which is marked "State Route 83 Sonoita/Patagonia". ... Go three miles, staying on the paved road of State Route 83. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... When two grd files are on the stack, each element in file A is modified by the corresponding element in file B. However, some operators only require one operand (see below). ... COSD 1 cos (A) (A in degrees). ... I0 1 Modified Bessel function of A (1st kind, order 0). ... INV 1 1 / A. J0 1 Bessel function of A (1st kind, order 0). J1 1 Bessel function of A (1st kind, order 1). ... K1 1 Modified Bessel function of A (2nd kind, order 1). ... Y0 1 Bessel function of A (2nd kind, order 0). ...

... 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. ...

... Data necessary to continue to the next screen : profiles from calibration wedges (two at least), profile of quiet sun, coordinates of the solar region and heliographic latitude of the center of the solar disk. ... Data necessary to continue to the next screen : position of two spectral lines for creating a dispersion curve ("dispersion curve" button), starting and ending x positions of continuum ("continuum" button) and starting and ending x positions of two regions for fitting ("fitting" button). ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Европейское космическое агентство объявило о начале второй стадии проектирования аппарата для отбора образцов марсианского грунта и их доставки на Землю - Mars Sample Return (MSR). В миссию MSR вовлечены ученые со всего мира, она является основной в программе ЕКА "Аврора", направленной на изучение Солнечной системы. ... Орбитальный аппарат миссии MSR (художественное представление) . ... ЕКА приступило ко второй стадии создания миссии Mars Sample Return . ...

ЕКА приступило ко второй стадии создания миссии Mars Sample Return . ... Европейское космическое агентство объявило о начале второй стадии проектирования аппарата для отбора образцов марсианского марсианского грунта и их доставки на Землю - Mars Sample Return (MSR). В миссию MSR вовлечены ученые со всего мира, она является основной в программе ЕКА "Аврора", направленной на изучение Солнечной системы. ... Затем, капсула отделится от основного аппарата, совершит посадку и отберет пробу. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...