... One Armed Spiral Galaxy NGC 4725 . ... Through the Shadow of the Moon . ... What would it look like to fly through a total eclipse of the Sun? On a typical place on Earth in the path of the dark shadow of the Moon during a total eclipse, an observer would see the Moon cross the face of the Sun, completely blocking it for a few minutes. ... Shadows play on the water and in the sky in this panoramic view of the April 4 total lunar eclipse over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. ... April 2016 . ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

B allunar Fest NASA JSC2005E35631 NASA JSC2005E35561 NASA JSC2005E35554 Roundup SPACE CENTER ROUNDUP · Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Volume 44 · Number 10 The Ballunar Liftoff Festival brought dozens of hot-air balloons, and hundreds of guests, to JSC Aug. ... The Roundup office is in Bldg. ... 39 History in the making Since the first International Space Station components launched in 1998, the space station has proven to be a construction marvel. ... Continued on page 4 Roundup NASA ISS010E15457 03 ...

FIFTEENTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES TWELFTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW IMAGE . ... EXPEDITION FIFTEEN (ISS-15) . ... During ISS-15, it is planned to implement 272 sessions of 47 experiments. ... Breakdown of Experiments and Number of Sessions by Research Areas. Research Area . Experiment Name . Totally . ... Research of space rays . ... Ascent to ISS RS: by Soyuz TMA-10 . ... ISS-15 Crew Commander F. Urchikhin (Russia) . ... RECORDING AND TRANSFER OF SCIENTIFIC DATA TO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The first satellite launched into orbit was Sputnik€а 1 (meaning ?Traveller?), launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. ... Space Shuttle creeping to the pad to launch the Misty satellite into orbit? ... The Misty is not the only mystery in orbit, another potential covert satellite is known as Prowler. ... However there does seem to be enough substantiated sightings and evidence to suggest there are or perhaps were real mystery satellites orbiting the Earth. ...

... Transit time [h] . ... non-AR . ... 2000/02/12, 12 . ... Column 1 - An event number corresponding to the Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop (CDAW) Catalog of the severe geomagnetic storms with Dst <-100 nT (Zhang, J., Richardson, I.G., Webb, D.F., Gopalswamy, N., Huttunen, E., Kasper, J., et al.: 2007a, J. Geophys. ... In column 10, the label `AR' means that the eruption occurred in and around an AR, while the label `non-AR' indicates events resulting from filament eruptions outside ARs. ...

AAL Guestbook . Please Sign Our Guestbook . ... Previous Page | ... Signed on Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 15:11:05 CET . ... There's a great new astrobiology blog, run by newspaper editor Rob Bignell, at http://alienlifeblog.blogspot.com/. ... Signed on Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 02:46:35 CET . ... auch auf diesen Seiten . ... You have great designs on your site! ... Signed on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 17:38:52 CET . ... Signed on Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 19:39:53 CET . ...

... The question is, how to get a machine with one network interface to respond to more than one IP addresses. ... changes (most likely only in the includes). ---------------------netinet/if_vif.h-------------------------------------- typedef struct { struct ifnet vif_if; struct ifnet *vif_sif; /* slave interface */ int vif_flags; } vif_softc_t; #define VIFMTU (1024+512) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Right Ascension (ICRF/Tycho-2) J2000 at the central epoch of obs. (hours, minutes, seconds) (Obligatory parameter) . ... proper motion in RA (*cos(DE)) (ICRF/Tycho-2). (mas/yr) . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

A prefs.ccd file should be located in /usr/local/observatory/prefs on the computer to which the camera is attached. ... Parameters that will be read by prefs.ccd are -- ccd.frame_count_multi Sets the maximum number of frames in multi mode Default is 10 Minimum is 2 No maximum ccd. filter _max Sets the number of filters in the filter wheel Should be less than or equal to the number of slots available ccd. filter _01 to ccd. filter _10 Labels for each ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... The catalog contains SAO number; the right ascension and declination with a B1950.0 equinox and epoch; annual proper motion and its standard deviation, photographic and visual magnitudes; spectral type; references to sources; the Durchmusterung (DM) identifier if the star is listed in the Bonner DM (BD), Cordoba DM (CD), or Cape Photographic DM (CP); component identification; The Henry Draper (Extension) (HD or HDE) number; and J2000 positions and proper motions. ...

Conference admission includes the following: Lodging Friday and Saturday nights, Coffee and doughnuts Saturday morning, admission to the Lectures and Star Parties. Preregistration price: Adults - $40.00 Family rate $60.00 (spouse and children living with you) Children (15 years and younger not attending with family) - $20.00. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

. N OTE: . Only clusters with R<60 kpc were used to compute the spatial parameters and metallicity gradients for all subsystems except the corona. The numbers in parantheses give the number of clusters for which the corresponding parameter is known. The X O scale length of the old halo is strongly distorted by the observed asymmetry of the distribution of the corresponding clusters projected onto the XY plane ( Fig. 4А ) . discussion in the text | previous table .

ON-LINE STATIC EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER . ... Static image reconstruction from the data measured in vivo is still intriguing problem in EIT. ... dipole (adjacent) current injection and voltage measurements on pairs of adjacent electrodes (like in Sheffield systems) . ... You can view examples of the text files for polar , dipole and trigonometric injection, use them for testing the server and find more details on HOW TO PREPARE INPUT FILE FOR THE ON-LINE EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER page. ...