... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

My research interests are focussed on the theory and modelling of accretion processes as well as star and planet formation mechanisms. I am particularly interested in the stability properties of accretion discs, the generation of MHD turbulence and associated angular momentum transport, disk - planet interactions and the origin and characteristics of jets and winds from accreting systems . ... These results have been published in Salmeron & Wardle, 2005, M.N.R.A.S., 361: 45-69. ...

Dr. Alexander L. Zaitsev of the Russian Academy of Sciences is also the Chief "Cosmic Call" scientist for Team Encounter. ... Even during difficult economic times in Russia , Alexander Zaitsev has been able to successfully conduct international radar astronomy research projects with Europe, the United States and Japan. ... Second, near-Earth asteroid radar research (the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation, 1997). ... In 1997 he received the Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal of the Russian Space Federation. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 12 - 18.12.2011, Forecast on 19 - 26.12.2011, Carrington Rotations 2017, 2118 (16,30.11, 13,61.12.2011) SOLAR SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE LAST PERIOD WAS ON AVERAGE LEVEL. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE. ... FLARE ACTIVITY WAS AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL 25.12, ON VERY LOW - 19.12 AND ON LOW - IN OTHER DAYS. ... Class E(1-8A) AR RII/IV CME X/opt. ...

... The main research task of the LRS was an investigation of interstellar medium of our Galaxy using its line emission in radio domain with the help of the gratest RATAN-600 Radio Telescope. ... The complex investigation of the Interstellar Clouds structure on the different scales and with the different radio lines for understanding of structure, dynamics and evolution of interstar gas and its interaction with other galactic constituents and the conditions for star formation. ...

Microsymposium 40, abstract 28, 2004 (A4 format) HIGH PURITY GE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER ON JAPANESE LUNAR POLAR ORBITER SELENE. ... GRS consists of three parts; gamma-ray detector (GRD), compressor driver unit (CDU) and gammaray and particle electronics (GPE). ... It is retained at ~80K, by means of a mechanical cryostat. ... The asymmetric shape makes it efficient to veto gamma-rays from the SELENE vehicle and leakage photons from the Ge detector, as well as to avoid charged particles. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... The webpages on this and other sites give lots of details, but I thought it might help if I made a brief synopsis of the arguments I and others make to debunk this pseudoscientific silliness. ... The Sun is not acting in any way abnormally. There are not more earthquakes than normal. ... This is exactly the same sort of bad logic used in the earthquake argument, and is just as wrong. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

. The black hole at the center of the NGC 4051 galaxy emits a hot wind of chemical elements, including elements like carbon and oxygen that are critical for life. The hot wind originates very close to the black hole, at a distance about five times the size of Neptune's orbit. Although speedy, the wind is weaker than expected and ejects only 2 to 5 percent of accreting material. George Seitz/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF

Text can be included in the shell script by using a here document, a special form of input redirection. The << symbol is used to indicate that text should be read up to a given mark. For example: #!/bin/sh # this script outputs the given text before it runs cat << EOF This shellscript is currently under development, please report any problems to Danny (danny@cornflake.ed) EOF exec /usr/local/test/bin/test_version . ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The "Hydrospace" program is a unique complex of engineering facilities and is intended for training cosmonauts for their operations in outer space. ... The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory includes : . ... A mock-up of the "Orlan-M" EVA-suit; . ... Air- and water supply systems complex; . ... The air- and- water supply systems are intended for provision of EVA- suit, diving equipment and diving decompression chamber with air and water. ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

DISCLAIMER: The larger the aperture, the more light a telescope will gather and the fainter the object you can see. Here is a range of magnitudes you might expect to see. Given excellent sky conditions and good optics, a well trained eye can sometimes add up to 0.8 magnitude to these values. Limiting Magnitude depends on much more than the instruments aperture. ... One formula is for aperture in inches the other is for aperture in millimeters. ... Aperture (inches) . ... 15.2 . ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

fitshdr - FITS-file headers manipulation tool fitshdr [options] [FITSfile_name] . ... fitshdr [options] --edit FITSfile_name . ... If You want to modify headers of FITSFILE using new FITS-header lines from HEADER file (or from stdin), You have to use this option (You can skip this option, if -H or --header option is used). ... Empty header lines are not displayed (in 'dump' mode only). --line-offsets . ... In 'dump' mode: file offset will be displayed for each header line. --no-line-offsets . ...

If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Russian Apache web server software on this system was successful. ... This page is here because the site administrator has changed the configuration of this web server. ... The Apache Software Foundation, which wrote the web server software this site administrator is using, has nothing to do with maintaining this site and cannot help resolve configuration issues. ... You are free to use the image below on an Apache-powered web server. ...

... Objectives of the study . To survey and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of European initiatives by start-up companies, for privately-funded crew vehicles for commercial human space flight. ... New commercial markets, among them space tourism, have a great potential to become major drivers in space technology development. This study aims at the assessment of the feasibility of European initiatives to address these new markets through the development of crewed space vehicles. ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

ATTENDANCE of the CONFERENCE . ... Programming Committee . ... Registration and PLDS3 Address . ... Last updates, 24 Nov 2001: . ... It is expected that participants will arrive October 14, 2001. Conference Registration Desk in the Hotel "Druzhba" will be open between 17.00 and 22.00 on October 14 and during the conference. ... The registration fee will be accepted in cash in Chernogolovka during the registration of the participants. ... All foreign visitors in Russia must have a valid passport. ...