... ROBERT J. CENKER . ... This has included launch vehicle evaluation and systems engineering support for Motorola on Iridium; avionics architecture, generation of performance specification, and generation of performance map for small expendable launch vehicle; and constellation configuration and launch vehicle performance definition for proprietary smallsat communications system. Last two years with RCA were spent as Manager of Payload Accommodations on EOS Platform. ...

... Telescopes . ... The spectrograph is installed in the Nasmyth focus of the BTA telescope, the equivalent focal length is 186 m (F/31). ... The preslit device unit is marked by number 3. ... Fig. ... slit unit of the MSS, 4.1 ? ... The spectrograph slit unit consists of a mirror that redirects the light beam from the Z axis and from the calibration path at an angle of 65њ to the axis of the telescope focus into the slit, the order separation filter, the block of the slit and the shutter (Item 4 in...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gi in NGC 3184 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... NGC 3184 is a fairly close Mag 10.3 galaxy, only about half as distant as the Virgo cluster. ... Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999gi page . Odd Trondal's 1999gi page . ... CfA image . ... 14.5 . ... Jean Marie Llapasset image . ... vsnet-alert 3805 ] SN 1999gi in NGC 3184 . vsnet-chat 2438 ] Host galaxy of SN1999gi . ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

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. Distance Conversion Calculator . by Matt Oltersdorf 2000 04 02 2225 UTC . Type the known value into the appropriate units field, click the . calculate button and the program will show all values for . related unit properties. Kilometers . Meters . mm . Inches . Feet . Yards . Miles . Astronomical Units (A.U.) . Light Year (LY) . Parsec (pc) . Kilometers . Miles .

... 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. ...

... RECOMMENDED VALUES OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND CONVERSION FACTORS. ... This reference must be included when these constants are used in a context where their full accuracy is important. ... elementary charge (of proton) . ... gravitational constant . ... unified atomic mass constant . ... of electron . ... of proton . ... Planck constant . ... Rydberg constant, m 0 2 m e e 4 c 3 /8h 3 . ... fine structure constant, m 0 e 2 c/2h . ... Bohr radius, h 2 ( pm 0 c 2 m e e 2 ) . ... Bohr magneton, e h /2m e...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Paul Cicchetti on 12/29/2011 17:00:30 . ... I had a brief time to try my new toy; an ST-8300 with filter wheel. I took the following sequence: LRGB, L 10 images at 3 minute sub frame, RGB was 15 images at 2 minutes. I did not do a bias flat or dark (just tested the system). Aligned each channel of RGB and then Luminance. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...

... Free image alignment/stacking/processing Software . My lunar drawings . ... REAL TELESCOPES . ... Download Pocket-Aberrator . ... The Aberrator is freeware that generates star-testing images to show the effects of aberrations (distortions) influencing the quality of a telescopes performance. ... The idea to make a program like the Aberrator I got after studying many internet-sites on star-testing and often the effects of certain aberrations were only available as literal descriptions. ...