Next: The Photometric Performance of Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: Status and Goals of . ... Absolute Spectrophotometric Standards . Absolute Photometry . ... Velocity shifts and Photometry with Narrow-band Filters . ... HST, NICMOS, near-infrared, standards, photometry, calibration . ... In practice NICMOS does not have a set of filters matching any of the standard ground-based photometric bands and this poses a challenge when trying to achieve precise absolute photometry. ...

... PUL2 catalog contains original absolute proper motions of 59646 stars in 149 fields with galaxies. ... Mean errors of relative proper motions in PUL2 catalog is 5.5 mas/year. ... The external mean error of one relative proper motion of a bright star of PUL2 catalog is 9 mas/year for both of coordinates. ... After issue of UCAC2 catalog, we decided to improve accuracy of proper motions, using Pul-3 coordinates (of 1950s) as the first epoch, and UCAC2 coordinates as the second epoch. ...

... The Wide Field Spectral Imager ( WISPI ) seen here in the Roll Roof Facility provides visible and near-infrared spectra of the sky across 4 degree fields. ... A computer controlled mounting automates the acquisition of 2-D rastered spectral images. ... Light from the sky enters the large 400mm lens at top center, is imaged on the slit, collimated by the smaller 180 mm lens, and diffracted by the grating at the bottom toward the 200mm lens and CCD camera on the right. ... Camera - 200mm f/2 Nikor ED ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

... 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. ...

Text of these problems is available also in other languages : . ... What can one see in the Moon's sky more often - the Sun or the Earth? ... There are about of 250 millions of stars in the elliptical galaxy M32 (a satellite of Andromeda galaxy). ... The masses of Capella's components. ... You are proposed to estimate the masses of Capella's components, using our observational data. ... A galaxy's mass. ... Estimate the mass of FGC 1908 and compare it to the mass of our galaxy. ...

... In Spiral . Between spiral . ... Center of vortices . ... to density exterema . ...

On the minimization properties of the Tisserand systems Alberto 1 1 Escapa Д , Tomas B 1 aenas Д , Jose Manuel Ferr 1 Д andiz , & Juan Get 2 ino Dept. ... Hence, for an arbitrar y vector different from 0, we have 1 (6) Tdef + = Tdef ( ) - L + I + I . ... 2 Since the matrix of iner tia is definite positive, we have that (7) doing so, the rotation of the par ticles is identified with the rotation of the body axes with respect to some iner tial, or quasi- iner tial, reference system OX Y Z . ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . America's Nerve Center for Mission Operations . ... An overall view from the rear shows activity in the new Mission Control Center, opened for operation and dedicated during the STS-70 space shuttle mission. ... Shuttle design and construction involved close support from the mission operations team. ... The Spaceflight Control Center in Korolev is where the Russian flight controllers support operations of the Russian elements of the space station. ...

ON-LINE STATIC EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER . ... Static image reconstruction from the data measured in vivo is still intriguing problem in EIT. ... dipole (adjacent) current injection and voltage measurements on pairs of adjacent electrodes (like in Sheffield systems) . ... You can view examples of the text files for polar , dipole and trigonometric injection, use them for testing the server and find more details on HOW TO PREPARE INPUT FILE FOR THE ON-LINE EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER page. ...

Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

This module provides for determining the MIME type of a file by looking at a few bytes of its contents. ... string . ... belong . ... For example, this can recognize gzipped files and set the encoding for them. # gzip (GNU zip, not to be confused with [Info-ZIP/PKWARE] zip archiver) 0 string \037\213 application/octet-stream x-gzip This module is not for every system. ... When compiling an Apache server, this module should be at or near the top of the list of modules in the Configuration file. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . ... P. Semenov, Technical Manager of the Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frederick D. Gregory, NASA Deputy Administrator, N.A. Anfimov, General Director of TsNII of Machine-Building, Academician of RAS, as well as representatives of Roskosmos, NASA, Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

Supernovae 2016adj in NGC 5128 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2016adj in NGC 5128 (= Centarus A). ... Discovered by Peter Marples and Greg Bock ( BOSS ) (Australia). ... TNS 2016adj . TNS 2016adj spectra . ... 2016/01/20.000 . ... 2016/01/21.360 . ... 2016/01/22.329 . ... 2016/01/29.277 . ... Prediscovery . ... Prediscovery Color, Wow without inset Black and White version . ... Peter Marples and Greg Bock . ... Peter Marples . ... Back to Bright Supernovae - 2016 . ...

... Day З In common usage the word "day" unfortunately has two different meanings: (1) the period of time when the Sun is up (what we have been calling "daytime") (2) the period of time between consecutive sunrises (or sunsets), or one daytime + one nighttime. ... The sky turns dramatically dark and bright stars and planets can be seen. ... З The planets move roughly along the same path as the Sun and Moon. ... The Moon took a month to circle the sky, the Sun a year, each planet its own period of time. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Cosmology has entered the age of high precision with large redshift surveys, CMB measurements and high-redshift 21 cm hydrogen surveys; an important issue has become the dynamical and statistical reconstruction of the early Universe from zeroredshift data. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...