STARTEST IMAGES GALLERY . STARTESTING TELESCOPES WITH AN AUTOCOLLIMATOR . ... This website is a joint effort of Markus Ludes from APM-Telescopes and Cor Berrevoets ( Aberrator free startesting Software ). The site aims at explaining the different aspects of star-testing telescopes. ... Markus Ludes (APM telescopes) used a high quality 10" Maksutov Newtonian (Zygo tested at 632,8 nm with the following errors: 1/10.1 wavefront p.t.v. and 1/51 wavefront RMS) as collimator in single pass scheme. ...

The best way to explain what the logical actors are, is to consider an example. ... An example of logical actors (the Actors.A program). ... The principle of logical actors. -- ------------------------------------------- project : (( 'Main' )) ------------------------------------------- class 'Main' specializing 'Dialog': -- identifier = "input" ; x = 27 ; y = 8 ; -- i; j; -- w1 = ( 'TextPage', value_1=i, value_2=j, text_color='White', background_color='Red', x= 9 , y= 4 ) ; . ...

LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

The service runs from a public account on uk.ac.nsf.sun (X29 address 000040010180). Make a call to this machine, and login as guestftp , using the password guestftp . ... The service will then ask you to supply a reference - this will be the name of the temporary directory where your files will be stored. Remember the reference - you will need it when transferring files to your home machine from uk.ac.nsf.sun. ...

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . MISSION PROGRAM . Since the launch of core module on February 20, 1986, till March, 23, 2001 Mir Orbital Complex (Mir OC) was in operational use on orbit under the Flight Test Program of the module-based permanently manned Mir station. A total of more than 100 launches of different spacecraft and modules (including the US Shuttle launches) were performed under the Mir Complex Mission Program. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... index.php (1) | bbclone/ | ... To do you can use the following sample and point your browser to it. <?php define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", "Test"); define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ... Create the file "count.php" and add the following: <?php define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/the/path/that/leads/to/bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Kardashev and Cherepashchuk (Director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute) welcomed the RISC. ... The Lavochkin Association and their collaborators and the ASC were congratulated on successfully passing the three-year mission lifetime in July. ... These include using lunar perturbations of the orbit to i ncrease the apogee to 500,000km, i.e., beyond the lunar orbit, with a ~24 day orbital period (although thi s would be problematic for the Pushchino tracking station). ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

... The ideas of Dark Matter and Dark Energy are certainly revolutionary. ... What is Dark Energy? ... The galaxies are much more massive than expected and consist of matter we can detect and something else we can't see i.e. Dark Matter. ... How does Dark Energy fit into the evolution of the universe? ... The mutual gravitational attraction between this matter slows the rate of expansion · Once the universe is beyond a certain size Dark Energy, which is a repulsive force, forces galaxies apart. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... Data organization and access. ... The following data types are used for storage of information relevant to the project: . ... All data available within the Pavodok-96 project are copyright ї Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory (SMIS IKI RAN). Neither the data themselves nor any materials obtained with the use of these data can be used for commercial purposes and/or by any mass-media or public information system without prior writting permission from SMIS IKI RAN. ...

... STScI has undertaken a project to place all HST keyword information in one source, the keyword database, and to provide a mecha­ nism for making this keyword information accessible to all HST users, the keyword dictionary, which is a WWW interface to the keyword database. ... Along with form­ ing the headers for the science data, most keyword values are ingested into HST archive catalog fields where they are accessible for archive searches and data characterization. ...

... Join Us for English" is a restructured and fully updated edition of the successful "Join In". This exciting course for young learners provides a motivating and enjoyable way to learn English. ... Join Us for English" is easy to use and fun for the class. ... The course is based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences and contains a variety of activities to meet the needs of children with different learning styles. ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

... In less then one day "Mir" station will finish its flight. ... Besides, the operability of motion control systems will be tested to ensure further dynamic operation at the final stage of "Mir" complex. ... The final third burn is given in daily orbit 2 using the "ProgressM1-5" 8 control engines and its main engine with the trust of 300 rg/s. Thus, to peform deorbit maneuver the OC"MIr" real-time tested manuevers involving control engines and their combination with the main engine are used. ...

... 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. ...