The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

ON THE ENERGY DISSIPATION RELEASE IN THE BY MAGNETIC FIELD SOLAR ATMOSPHERE M. KOPECKY and V. OBRIDKO* Astronomical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ond(ejov (Received 18 April, 1968) Abstract. ... 1) The calculations of the conductivity for the case of fully ionized gas gave very great values for all layers in the solar atmosphere. ... 2) What is the value of the energy released by magnetic-field dissipation, and how large is the heating of atmospheric layers by this process? ...

... How big are the Lagrangian points? I hear of telescopes orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, but for these crafts to not interfere with one another, aren't these points more like "Lagrangian areas"? ... RELATED TOPICS: LAGRANGIAN POINTS . ... When you hear about a spacecraft orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, it really means the probe is traveling within or near one of these extended, three-dimensional islands of orbits. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... The first two working group reports (on Extrasolar Planets and the Herschel--ALMA Synergies) were released in 2005 and 2006, and this third report covers the area of Fundamental Cosmology. The Working Group's mandate was to concentrate on fundamental issues in cosmology, as exemplified by the following questions: . What are the essential questions in fundamental cosmology? ... What are the appropriate methods with which these key questions can be answered? ...

TEMPERATURE OF REGOLITH IN COLD TRAPS ON THE MOON A.A. Berezhnoi Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow, Russia The hypothesis of the existence of the lunar ice in cold traps was stated in (Watson et al., ... Arnold, 1979) estimated the mean temperature on the surface of lunar cold traps as 40-90 K. We plotted the dependence of regolith mean temperature on depth for these two values of mean temperature on the surface (see figure 1). ... Arnold J.R. Ice in the lunar polar regions, J. Geophys. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

SLR Observations at the Quasar Network Stations I.Gayazov, V.Mitryaev, S.Smolentsev, I.Rahimov, A.Diyakov, V.Shpilevski, V.Pshenkin, Ya.Rets Institute of Applied Astronomy, Saint Petersburg, Russia WPLTN-2012 September 24 - 28, 2012 Saint Petersburg SLR systems installation at the Quasar observatories Observatory Zelenchukskaya Badary Stage Dome building System installation Testing Dome building System installation Testing Dome building ...

back to "Astrology" . ASTROLOGY IS AN EXCELLENT MEANS FOR BRAINWASHING . ... As the people in the mass pauperized, so grew profits of various fortune-tellers, astrologers and suchlike swindlers. ... Anatoly Mikhaylovich, references to stargazers astrologers have reached us from the depths of unrecorded time of history. ... The level of knowledge of these last ones hasn’t permitted them to comprehend and correctly (adequately) interpret their observations of celestial bodies. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York December 2009 Volume 57 Number 12, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE tational repulsion." ... The Moon is a fingernail crescent the morning of December 14 and shouldn't interfere with the Geminids, one of the year's most reliable meteor showers. ... Decembers Constellations. ... The group of sunspots spanned approximately one-eighth of the width of the solar disk. ... The Moon occulted parts of the Pleaides star cluster on the night of November 3-4. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

Midday line determination by means of gnomon. At midday the shadows of all the objects are directed along the line pointing exactly from the South to the North. ... At one or two hours before midday mark the shadow edge from the pole with the help of a peg. ... Using the free part of the cord as a circle draw a circumference coming through the peg. ... A straight line coming through the middle of the line, connecting the first and the second peg and the base of gnomon is a midday line. ...

... Четвертый Грантовый конкурс "Научный музей в XXI веке" . Фонд Дмитрия Зимина "Династия" при поддержке ассоциаций научно-технических и естественно-научных музеев российского комитета ИКОМ в 2009-2010 гг. проводит Четвертый Грантовый конкурс "Научный музей в 21 веке". Подробности . ... 27 октября стартует новый совместный проект Фонда Дмитрия Зимина "Династия" и РИА Новости - цикл открытых публичных лекций мировых звезд науки, доступных в любой точке России по Интернету. ...

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... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

... 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 . ...

... Silver Blaze A racehorse disappears before an important race. ... Лезвие перочинного складного ножа Victorinox "Evolution 18" изготовлено из высококачественной нержавеющей стали. ...

If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Russian Apache web server software on this system was successful. ... This page is here because the site administrator has changed the configuration of this web server. ... The Apache Software Foundation, which wrote the web server software this site administrator is using, has nothing to do with maintaining this site and cannot help resolve configuration issues. ... You are free to use the image below on an Apache-powered web server. ...

What is the VSM ? ... VRML = Virtual Reality Modeling Language. ... One of the best VRML viewers, if not the best, is Netscape Navigator with Live3D plugin. ... Warning: if you use any other viewer, spacecraft will probably look like parrots or clowns because each VRML viewer treats colors in its own unpredictable way. ... You can use these VRML models freely in any way you like, but: 1) let me know you use them; 2) if you add them to your Web page, a reference to the VSM must be there. ...