. This detailed Cassini view of the monstrous vortex at Saturn's south pole provides valuable insight about the mechanisms that power the planet's atmosphere. It shows that what looked like puffy clouds at lower resolution are actually vigorous convective storms that form yet another distinct, inner ring. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

... Main mirror assembly consists of: . mirror cell structure . ... relief mechanisms . ... central bed Main mirror is fixed in the mirror cell in axial direction by three rigid supports. ... The butt relief of main mirror is implemented according to Lassel and involves 18 relief mechanisms, three of which are replaced by rigid fixing supports after the adjustment. The side relief is similar with the relief mechanisms working in both directions since mounting points are glued to the mirror. ...

... ARC 3.5m | Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) : the ARC Echelle spectrograph, a high resolution (R~31,500) echelle spectrograph that observes the entire wavelength range from 3200 е to 10000 in a single image on a 2048x2048 CCD. This instrument is permanently mounted at the NA1 port. ... In addition to the facility instruments, several visitor instruments have been used at the 3.5m, and some of these are available to the ARC observing community by contacting the instrument PIs: . ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... The Autostar/LX200 Command Set . ... The LX200 Command Set may be used to write custom software for remote operation of an LX200 telescope with a personal computer. ... The name Meade and the Meade logo may be used only with permission from Meade Instruments Corporation. ... Autostar Downloads . ... product information | ...

The Astronomy Net . ... The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). ... The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2 in 1959; the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. ...

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... Bob Benoit Manager of the Optics Division L-3 IOS SSG . Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM . ... Bob will talk about the telescope, and also describe some of the results from the M3’s first few months in lunar orbit. ... Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM in Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA ). ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

EUV PHOTOMETERS PHEU . EUV photometers measure the emissions of the Earth’s ionosphere and geocorona in the Extreme UltraViolet range. ... In the case of spinning satellite is possible to get the whole picture of the emission distribution, eg. of Aurora borealis in EUV range.) Two or three photometers are proposed. ... Detectors: . Detector EUV-1 . ... Characteristics for EUV-1 and EUV-2 detectors : . ... The block of electronics . ... Total Mass (detectors and electronics) : cca 1.4 kg . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Living the тАЬDreamтАЭ, the Dream Chaser; a mini Shuttle? Image credit: NASA) . The main objectives of the Dream Chaser program as described by its makers is to provide a passenger and cargo transportation system into Low Earth Orbit which will in turn help service and maintain the International Space Station. ... The Dream Chaser would be launched by an Atlas V rocket. Image Credit: NASA.) ... Dream Chaser test flight. ...

The Status popup displays useful information about the state of sets, regions, and graphs. ... When the number of sets is less than 30, this button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that are not shown in the display. ... Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display. ... Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the scrolled window will select the set to copy from. ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

Supernova Gallery The purpose of the Bright Supernovae web pages is to provide a place where people can find reference images of Supernovae. ... This is an RGB color image of Supernova 2003gs in NGC 936 Credit: Pablo Canadia . Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... This is an LRGB color image of Supernova 2003cg in NGC 3169 Credit: Pollux observatory . ... Credit: Nick Suntzeff Used by permission. (click on image for full resolution) . ... Credit: AURA/NOAO Image Library . ...

NOVELL . Netware for UNIX . PRODUCT PROFILES . ... They provide product information for sales situations focused on Novell products and services. ... Successful professional selling requires a sales person to first identify the needs of a prospect or customer which can be met by Novell products or services. ... The information is divided into four columns: the left column represents a Need which could be realistically expressed by customers in the selling situation. ...

COPRATES CHASMA NORTH WALL INTERIOR LAYERED DEPOSIT: LAYER MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISON WITH JUVENTAE CHASMA ILDS USING MARS EXPRESS HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA (HRSC) DERIVED TOPOGRAPHY Michael, G.1, E. Hauber1, K. Gwinner1, R. Stesky2 ... Planets, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany 5ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Introduction: The interior layered deposit ( ILD ) in the north wall of Coprates ... The lesser section of the ILD is confined by a ridge of the chasma wall. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... 5, 1998 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Newsroom Phone: 301-286-8955 NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: 98-158 HISTORIC JOHN GLENN FLIGHT TO FEATURE MARYLAND AND GODDARD SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS When Mercury astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn returns to space October 29, a fascinating array of science experiments from the Goddard Space Flight Center and Maryland students will fly with him. ...

... STELLAR DYNAMICS: FROM CLASSIC TO MODERN . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia . ... The proposed meeting is being organized by the St.Petersburg State University, assisted by an international Scientific Organizing Committee, and marks the centennial of Professor K.F.Ogorodnikov's birth. ... The conference will be organized by the Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. ...

... Most of UNIVERSAT-2009 participants will need a visa when entering the Russian Federation. ... Please take into account that the Organizing Committee needs about two months to provide this Official Invitation Letter and you will need about one month to apply for visa. For those who need the invitation letters confirming their participation in the UNIVERSAT-2009 meeting for other purposes (like funding or booking) the letters of such kind will be easily issued on the request. ...

Prognoz satellites magnetometer observation database . This page presents data of the magnetic field measurements in the outer magnetosphere and in the solar wind made by Prognoz and Interball-Tail satellites. Magnetic field measurements on the Prognoz satellites were carried out by I ZMIRAN 's Space Magnetic Research Laboratory ( SMRL ) in 1977-1984. ... Prognoz-7 and -9 provide observations at a later stage of the ISEE mission. ... Link to Prognoz-6 data . ... Link to Interball-T data . ...