... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

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... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by NASA JSC Image Repository and Terry Slezak . ... from the primary NASA humidity-controlled cold storage vault built for the permanent preservation of spaceflight films. ... the other vault, situated in a remote corner of the NASA property, is used to store a complete duplicate set of the films, . ... at 0 F (-18 C) and 20% RH, houses a second duplicate set of backup copies and documentation of the spaceflight films. ...

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Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 03 марта 1998 (1998-03-03) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Detailed Images From Europa Point To Slush Below Surface Привет всем! ... Recently transmitted from the Galileo spacecraft, the images provide three key pieces of evidence supporting the idea that water may lurk beneath Europa's surface. ... Europa's blindingly bright ice surface makes it one of the brightest objects in our solar system. ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

... The obtained results lead to the following conclusions: a) the heavy element enrichment had taken place in the Galaxy in a few bursts of its activity rether than in a continuons manner; b) these bursts occured during the callapse of the early Galaxy; c) the star formation had been inhibited in the time of the bursts; d) the metal enrichment did not proceed in the periods of star formation, between these bursts of activity. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Naming the individual error document files . ... Creating ErrorDocuments in different languages . ... Customizing Proxy Error Messages . ... This document describes an easy way to provide your apache WWW server with a set of customized error messages which take advantage of Content Negotiation and eXtended Server Side Includes (XSSI) to return error messages generated by the server in the client's native language. ... For demonstration purposes, we present a simple generic error document scheme. ...

Nickolai Copernic: "making the Sun stop, pushing the Earth". ... The aim of Copernic's investigations is improving the calculating schemes. ... In heliocentric system appeared an opportunity of calculating real proportions of Solar system using the radius of the Earth's orbits as an astronomical unit. Copernic's book "About Rotation of Celestial Bodies" contains a discription of astronomical devices as well as a new more exact catalogue of stable stars. ...

... I.Barkalov 1.42432chernogorovka, Russia SUPERCONDUCTING RESPONSE BULK CdSb ALLOY NEAR THE LOCALIZATION THRESHOLD IN V. F.Gantmakher, V.M.Teplinskii, Institute of Solid State Physics, Experiments with rnetastable CdSb alloy (S) demonstrate superconducting response on the insulating side of the metal(M)-insulator(I) transition. ... The state g=4 separates M- and I-states [7]. of Fig.1 displays the evolution in the S-response. lJhen g>4, i.e. the curves demonstrate the I-states, guasireentrant behavior...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

Irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process and temporal variations of geopotential Valery Bondarenko, Vadim Perepelkin s The observed irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process are very variety. ... These phenomena indicated in the IERS data are the "abnormal" fluctuation of the Earth Pole coordinates which owing to changing of the geodynamical parameters gives negative result in interpolation and forecast of the first approximation mathematical model. ... Fig. ...

... Be s k i n , 1, 3 S. Karpov,1 S. Bondar,2 A. Perkov,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 V. Sasyuk,3 A.Biryukov4 and A.Shearer5 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... Here we give a status report on the next generation, multiob jective and transforming monitoring system, MiniMegaTORTORA, with two variants (MMT-6 based on image intensifiers with fast CCDs and MMT-9 equipped with Andor Neo sCMOSes) now under construction and commissioning at SAO RAS. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Here we present the ionospheric parameters variations for quiet conditions. ...

THE LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE COLUMN BY YURI GUREVICH Foundations of Software Engineering Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052, USA gurevich@microsoft.com FIXED POINT THEOREM AND APERIODIC TILINGS Bruno Durand, Andrei Romashchenko and Alexander Shen Abstract A new simple construction of an aperiodic tile set based on self-referential (fixed point) argument is proposed. ... Let us extend our "positive" example (with one macro-tile and M 2 tiles) by superimposing additional colors. ...

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