About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

... The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics : A Side View . This book is the first effort in an unclassified Soviet publications to provide a comprehensive overview of the Soviet military space program. Presented here are the classification of the military space systems by functions performed (Chapter 1), the analysis of the organizational evolution of the Soviet space program (Chapter 2) and the description of all observable satellite systems of military or double destination (Chapter 3). ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

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... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Shirokovsky . ... The meteorite fell on the frozen Shirokovsky reservoir situated on the Kosva River near the village of Shirokovsky and the cities of Ugle-Uralsk and Kizel. ... Two slices were transferred to the Vernadsky Institute for study and research. ... M.A. Nazarov, Vernadsky Inst. ... Furthermore, the Shirokovsky samples do not contain typical accessory phases of stony-iron meteorites, and the accessory phases are completely atypical for all meteorites. ...

... 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. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

I. V. Pokrovskaya, E. A. Sharkov Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Disturbances of the World Ocean : Chronology and Evolution. ... Design principals, structure and performance characteristics of given chronological catalogues and evolutionary database are reported. Part II ( in general developed into the tables ) consists in chronological catalogues and evolutionary database of tropical cyclones (for 1983-2000) and tropical disturbances (for 1997- 2000) for all active basins of the World Ocean. ...

NAME dbmmanage - Create and update user authentication files in DBM format SYNOPSIS dbmmanage filename [ command ] [ username [ encpasswd ] ] DESCRIPTION dbmmanage is used to create and update the DBM format files used to store usernames and password for basic authentica- tion of HTTP users. Resources available from the httpd Apache web server can be restricted to just the users listed in the files created by dbmmanage. ... This manual page only lists the command line arguments. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

Jupiter: The Great Yellow Spot . ... Credit Copyright: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: What happened to Jupiter's Great Red Spot ? Operating at a chilly 55 degrees Kelvin , the Galileo Spacecraft's Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) recorded this composite image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot in late June 1996. Red, green, and blue colors were chosen to represent three different infrared wavelengths detected by the NIMS instrument. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

IACETH Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Road traffic emissions in ff Switzerland: Results from the Results Gubrist tunnel Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACETH), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZЭrich (ETHZ) UniversitДtstrasse 16 CH-8092 ZЭrich, Switzerland email: Johannes.Staehelin@env.ethz.ch Johannes Staehelin 1. ... Road traffic emission models and Road emission tunnel measurements 3. ... Measurements of the Gubrist tunnel Measurements of 5. ...

... java.lang.Object ij.gui.Roi ij.gui.Line . ... public class Line . ... int . ... protected double . ... Constructor Detail public Line (int ox1, int oy1, int ox2, int oy2) . Creates a new straight line selection using the specified starting and ending offscreen integer coordinates. public Line (double ox1, double oy1, double ox2, double oy2) . Creates a new straight line selection using the specified starting and ending offscreen double coordinates. public Line (int sx, int sy, ImagePlus imp) . ...

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

... CBET now has an M31 novae page , M33 novae page , and an M81 novae page . ... Also, see W. Pietsch's M31 (apparent) optical nova catalogue , M33 novae catalog , and M81 novae catalog Please note that I do not keep track of galactic novae . Nova M81 2016-04a? (= PNV J09560598+6900401 ), ATEL 8904 discovered 2016/04/02.876 by Kamil Hornoch and H. Kucakova . ... Nova M31 2016-03a? (= PNV J00421695+4059098 ), CBAT TOCP discovered 2016/03/01.721 by unknown . ... other extragalactic Novae from 2016 . ...

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. ...