... Dale A. Gardner . NASA Astronaut (deceased) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: б  Gardner was selected as an Astronaut Candidate by NASA in January 1978, reporting to the Johnson Space Center in July 1978.б  In August 1979, he completed a one-year training and evaluation period, making him eligible for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut .б  He subsequently served as the Astronaut Project Manager for the flight software in the shuttle onboard computers leading up to the first ...

This module provides for user authentication using text files. ... Available after Apache 1.3.20] The supplied username and password must be in the AuthUserFile database, and the username must also match the system's name for the owner of the file being requested. ... Available after Apache 1.3.20] The supplied username and password must be in the AuthUserFile database, the name of the group that owns the file must be in the AuthGroupFile database, and the username must be a member of that group. ...

... Big Beautiful Saturn . ... As a present to APOD readers, digital imager Mattias Malmer offers a very high resolution view of big beautiful Saturn. ... Now known as supernova remnant 3C58, the region seen in this false-color image glows in x-rays, powered by a rapidly spinning neutron star or pulsar - the dense remains of the collapsed stellar core. Comet, Meteor, Nebula, Star . ... Titan Disguised . ... That moon, Titan, has a surface normally hidden from view by thick methane cloud decks. ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

... 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. ...

... Berezhnoy A.A., Kozlova E.A., Shevchenko V.V. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia, Moscow, Universitetski pr., 13, 199992. katk@sai.msu.ru According to the data from "Lunar Prospector" [1] the areas of high hydrogen content in the lunar south pole region coincide with the areas of such craters as Faustini (87.2є S, 75.8є E), Cabeus (85.2є S, 323є E) and other crates. ... We estimate the total permanently shadowed area in the lunar northern polar region at 28 260,2 km2. ...

... ROTATION CURVE: When studying spiral galaxies it is invariably found that the stellar rotational velocity in the disk remains constant, or "flat", with increasing distance away from the galactic center. ... By the same argument the flat galactic rotation curves seem to suggest that each galaxy is surrounded by significant amounts of dark matter. ... What is the maximum rotation velocity and the total amount of mass (including dark matter) in the galaxy as a function of radius. ...

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Next: Navigation Pre-Observation Products . ... SRT (Space Radio Telescope) Schedule (SRS) File . ... What: GOCG generates the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) schedule file, or SRS file, from current GSTS file. The SRS file has more precise time stamps than long-term schedules, and also designates which GTS will be used when. ... The SRS file also serves as the antenna pointing schedule file, as it describes the planned orientation of the spacecraft (and solar panels) as a function of time. ...

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... The original pro of used the fact that () any two such embeddings are related by isotopy and crossing changes, where edges are allowed to pass through each other. ... Lemma 5 is obviously false as stated: the sum should be over all unordered pairs of disjoint edges, i.e. it should be fact (), and this is what is assumed in the pro of. In the earlier argument, at the top of p.4, this do esn't matter because here, edges e and e that share a vertex automatically have lk (e, e ) = 0.) ...

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... PUL2 catalog contains original absolute proper motions of 59646 stars in 149 fields with galaxies. ... Mean errors of relative proper motions in PUL2 catalog is 5.5 mas/year. ... The external mean error of one relative proper motion of a bright star of PUL2 catalog is 9 mas/year for both of coordinates. ... After issue of UCAC2 catalog, we decided to improve accuracy of proper motions, using Pul-3 coordinates (of 1950s) as the first epoch, and UCAC2 coordinates as the second epoch. ...

This section of library contains information about "classic" Star Catalogs. ... For a Henry Draper Catalog 272149 stars have received a total of 531,211 identifications in 7 сatalogs: . 270456 - in Astrographic Catalogue ( "Carte du Ciel", 4M), . 251943 - in Guide Stars Catalog (GSC), . ... A file with information on the components of 1788 of multiple systems in catalog HDEC (3681 component, or a combination thereof, with 4054 recording). ... A file with information about 21971 variable stars. ...

Catalogue of eclipsing variables (CEV) is the world's principal database of eclipsing binary systems with available classification. CEV contains identifications, classifications, photometry, periods, eclipses data, spectral types, references and notes for 7179 systems. Format of the current CEV . CEV main table (~1.0MB) . ... List of systems, erroneously classified as eclipsing binaries in GCVS (they are not included in the CEV main table) Download all files as a single archive (~0.6MB) . ...

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. ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Post . ... A Field Does Not Contain Energy? ... Post Message | ... Here are two sites of many which use rest mass terminology. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0026-1394/41/5/S04/ . ... This site refers to the energy contained in a static gravitational field. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/mar25/articles27.htm . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

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