... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... This approach is uniform for all values of the system parameters and applicable to most limb-darkening laws used in astrophysics. In the cases of the linear and quadratic limb-darkening laws, we obtained analytical expressions for the light curve and its derivatives in terms of elementary functions, elliptic integrals and a piecewise-defined function of one variable. ... Besides, they do not allow sufficiently accurate calculations of the light curves for some limb-darkening laws. ...

1000 of these sources, however, remains a mystery; these are the so-called unassociated gamma-ray sources, with no known astrophysical counterpart at any other wavelength. While many LAT unassociated sources likely belong to known classes of objects (e.g. pulsars), a more exotic origin for some of these sources is also possible (e.g. dark matter annihilation). ... These results will aid further studies and follow-up observations of LAT unassociated sources. ...

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... The "ATLAS Aerospace" company invites all the volunteers to pass a course of space training in the simulators of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ... The main simulators, trainers and stends are: . ... Don - 732" specialized simulator, which is used for a crew training on manual-mode control of the "Soyuz-TM" space vehicle and its systems in the course of approach and docking to the orbital station; . ...

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... Flight 1) 2) 3) Flight 1) 2) 3) model FM1 has the following parts: LNA MY-18, serial number PN 01-0252, factory number FM1; receiver box KRT-18, serial number PN 17660-01, factory number FM-001; DC-DC converters IVEP1 and IVEP2, factory number 05. model FM2 has the following parts: LNA MY-18, serial number PN 01-0252, factory number FM2; Receiver box KRT-18 serial number PN 17660-01, factory number FM-002; DC-DC converters IVEP1 and IVEP2 factory number 06. ... See Appendix 1. ... 2003. ... 2004 . ...

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... How to Calculate Power . How to Calculate Power: The magnification, or power, at which a telescope is operating is a function of the focal length of the telescope's main (objective) lens (or primary mirror) and the focal length of the eyepiece employed. ... Example: The Meade DS-2070AT telescope has an objective lens focal length of 700mm; when this telescope is used with a 25mm eyepiece, a power of 700/25 = 28 power (written as "28x") results. ... about meade | ...

... The dynamics of silicate and graphite particles with radii of (0.1-2) 10 -5 cm in the vicinity of the Milky Way is considered. The equation of motion of dust grains is integrated with gravitational attraction, radiation pressure, gas drag, and dust destruction taken into account. The effect of other factors on the motion of grains are discussed. ... Dust is swept out of the Galaxy by radiation pressure from stars at a rate of 0.04 M o yr -1 . ...

... Credit Copyright: Nicolюs Villegas Explanation: Large galaxies and faint nebulae highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. ... M81 is gravitationally interacting with M82 just below it, a big galaxy with an unusual halo of filamentary red-glowing gas. Around the image many other galaxies from the M81 Group of galaxies can be seen, as well as a lucky satellite glint streaking across the image left. ... Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82 . Bright Spiral Galaxy M81 from Hubble . ...