... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...

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... Up: Surveys & Large Scale Data Management . ... The CoCat (Co-processor Catalogue) project main goal is to parallelize the VizieR large catalogue treatments (data extraction, cross-matching) for reducing the response time. ... Figure 2: The CoCat cluster. As the Sun server is becoming overloaded we decided to move the set of large catalogues to a Linux cluster (the CoCat cluster). ... The CoCat cluster involves one master node and five slave nodes (Fig 2 ). ...

... 323, P 295-304 (1997). Abstract . ... 323, P 305-311 (1997). ... 323, P 312-316 (1997). ... 323, P 317-322 (1997). ... 323, P 323-336 (1997). ... 323, P 337-348 (1997). ... 323, P 349-358 (1997). ... 323, P 357-362 (1997). ... 323, P 363-373 (1997). ... 323, P 374-381 (1997). ... 323, P 382-386 (1997). ... 323, P 387-392 (1997). ... 323, P 393-394 (1997). ... 323, P 395-398 (1997). ... 323, P 399-414 (1997). ... 323, P 415-428 (1997). ... 323, P 429-441 (1997). ... helpdesk@link.springer.de . ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... An additional objective is to detect micro-particles in the vicinity of the space station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Neutron Monitors ] [ Solar Neutrons ] [ Muon Telescopes ] [ Base Potchefstroom University ] [ Magnetometers ] [ GPS systems ] [ Ionosphere ] [ Related Data ] [ Space Weather ] . ... All Cosmic Ray Stations + InterPlanetary Data: WorldNet . Alma-AtaB (Mt.Tien Shan) DataBase of Kazakhstan Spectrograph Alma-AtaB (Mt.Tien Shan) new . ... Nagoya Muon Telescope and DATA or mail . ... Belgrade Muon Telescopes and DATA or ">mail . ... Real-Time database for Cosmic Ray Anisotropy (DB10) . ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

ADC CATALOG HOLDINGS SHORT TITLE LIST March 29, 2002 (adapted from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/key) Category 1: Astrometric and Positional Data - March 29, 2002 1090 Positions of 502 Stars in Pleiades Region (Eichhorn+ 1970) 1107A Washington Cat Visual Double Stars 1984.0 (Worley, Douglass 1984) 1131A SAO Star ...

Central Bodies Masses of Selected Globular Clusters N.A.Shakht, A.A.Kiselev, Yu.N.Gnedin and E.A.Grosheva. The Main Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory RAS 47 Tuc ­NGC 104 RA 00 24 .1 Dec -72° 04 .9 Size = 30.9 mvis + 4. 0 m D from = 12,1 kpc, h m Cen - NGC 5139 NGC 6397 (Ara) RA 17 h40.m7 Dec -53o 40'.4 Size = 31',0 mvis + 5,3m D from =2.3 kpc RA 13h 26m .8 Dec -47° 28 6 Size = 36.3 m vis +3. 7 m D from =15.8 ±1.1 kpc, 12109 years, Age: 10109 years, (13.4 ± 0.8)109 years. ...

... IAU planet classification Observing with a Telescope Large Scale Structure The observables: Local Group (size 1 Mpc) Virgo cluster (size 2+ Mpc) Virgo supercluster (size ~33 Mpc) Voids (size ~ 10-150 Mpc), Walls and sheets, aka filaments (size ~ 50-80+ Mpc) 1 parsec The nearest star is 1.2 parsecs away (Proxima Centuri). ... Virgo supercluster Voids, Sheets Filaments The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 18.0 Mpc away in the constellation Virgo. ...

... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

... Telephone: 81 3 5620 9429 International Travel Division Facsimile: 81 3 5620 9400 Convention Center (CD100993-543) 5-5-2, Kiba, Koto-ku, Tokyo135, Japan SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME: OVERVIEW Invited Discourses JD 1 The Hubble Deep Field R.E.Williams JG 2 The Cataclysmic Variable Stars B.Warner JD 3 Black Holes in the Universe I.D.Novikov Symposia S 183 Cosmological Parameters and the Evolution pf the Universe S ... The dates for this workshop are 3 - 5 March, 1997. ... March 3-5, 1997: Workshop. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. ... Vice President and General Manager/International Space Station, The Boeing Company (Present) Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. ... AWARDS & CITATIONS: · Defense Superior Service Medal · Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters · Defense Meritorious Service Medal Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. ... Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. ...

Instruments and Methods 125 Long time tracking of the Sun with RATAN-600 in Radio Schmidt mode V.B. Khaikin, E.K. Ma jorova, I.G. E mov, O.A. Victorov, V.M. Bogod, and S.Kh. ... Cosmic source tracking with unmovable main mirror in a form of cylinder requires a special secondary mirror of double curvature 12 m size or a phased array in the focal plane of an ordinary secondary mirror Ka jdanovskij, 1980. ... Fig. 4 shows the Sun tracking with new drive in speed control mode starting from meridian. ...

. of Lomonosov Moscow State University, . Russia . GCVS Research Group . Catalogues of Variable Stars . Future Prospects of Variable-Star Catalogues . B.V. Kukarkin Centenary Conference: Variable Stars, the Galactic Halo and Galaxy formation (VS-Halo) . What's new . Recent publications . Digitization of Moscow Plate Archive . The "Peremennye Zvezdy" (Variable Stars) journal . Send questions and comments to Olga Durlevich .

Supernova 2007sr in NGC 4038 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2007sr in NGC 4038 . ... Discovered by Catalina Sky Survey (USA). This one turned out to be the brightest northern hemisphere visible supernova of the year 2007. ... Icon generated from the discovery image. This supernova is in the Constellation Corvus . ... Catalina Sky Survey 's discovery page . ... SNWeb has a 2007sr page . ... Confirmation, mirror , mirror . ... JM Llapasset . ... 2008/01/06.208 . ...