... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

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AUTOMATED CREATION OF THE LUNAR HYPSOMETRIC MAP: TECHNIQUES OF COMPILING. ... And the second one is the database, obtained from the raster images of the Lunar Subpolar regions (higher than latitude ±60°) where brightness of each pixel depends on its height [1]. ... Due to these reasons it was necessary to develop the special 10-stage methodology of data processing and map compiling. ... The height data were obtained and the lunar hypsometric map was created according to the 10-stage methodology. ...

... Norm Oberle being reflected by one of his . ... The 31" mirror at the . ... It was through Norm's classes that I made my own two telescope mirrors described elsewhere on this site. ... Soon he made his first first telescope. ... Norm was one of the charter members and organizers of Cuyahoga Astronomy Club and its first president. ... In 1968, Norm formed the LEAP Project (Lake Erie Astronomical Project) partially an out growth of the telescope making class and astronomy meetings at the planetarium. ...

apomask -- Create an apodizing mask image with zero background and a circular central mask with rounded off edge apomask output xdim ydim radius sigma k xpos ypos . output = "" [image] . ... The X dimension of the input image. ydim = 512 [integer] . The Y dimension of the input image. radius = 12.0 [real] . The radius of the central disk of the output image which is to be set to one. sigma = 2.0 [real] . The sigma of the roll-off region around the central disk. k = 0.5 [real] . ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... 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 . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... ОТЧЕТЫ СТУДЕНТОВ О ПРАКТИКЕ В САО . Лето 2001 года . ... Гришатовой Юлии . ... Для определения лучевых скоростей, FWHM (полной ширины на половине максимума) и интенсивности линия He I 6678.15А описывалась гауссианой ( рис.1 ). ... create/icat {P1} ztsh*.bdf . execute/catalog @@ set_lambda {P2} . execute/catalog @@ timing {P2} . execute/catalog @@ phase {P2} . ... create/table {P1}.tbl . ... create/column {P1}.tbl fwhm . execute/catalog @@ add_rv_curve_point {P2} {P1}.tbl . ...

... Telescopes . ... Creation of the distributed net of control (DCN) of the 6 m telescope has been completed, which is based on the use of digital tracking drives and the means of commercial automatization to ensure the real-time processes of control and data acquisition. With changing to DCN, computer diagnostics of the majority of units of the telescope has been implemented, the reliability of its operation in the whole has been increased, its performance characteristics have been improved. ...

LIFR MI 2 P, Laboratoire International Franco-Russe de Math matiques et Interaction avec l'Informatique et la Physique Th orique is, as its name indicates, a French-Russian mathematics research lab that focuses on fundamental mathematics and its interaction with computer science and theoretical physics. It was created by a Founding Agreement between the CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) and the IUM (the Independent University of Moscow). ...

August, 2012, Odessa, Ukraine EVENTS: Monday, 20.08.2012 Arrival 09.00 ­ 22.00 Registration of participants 20.00 ­ 22.00 Evening session : Astronomical Society news (conference hall of ONU recreation center « Chernomorka ») Tuesday, 21.08.2012 06.03 09.00 09.30 10.45 12.45 13.00 14.30 16.00 16.30 18.00 19.00 19.57 21.00 06.04 09.30 11.00 11.30 13.00 14.30 16.00 16.30 18.30 20.00 19.56 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 13.00 10.45 12.45 ... 10 Section 3. ... 14.30 ­ 15.30 Section sessions ­ .. ...

Course : Social media for civil society Lecturer: Olga Guzhva, Assistant Professor, Vice dean of International cooperation department of sociology, general editor of SCS Journal( www.scsjournal.org) The course consist of main thematic chapter as I theory and practise of e-Democracy, overview of channel of communication and social media , social media tools ( practical cases)) Theme /Modules Theme 1 Introduction to the course ... Discussion involves participants in active learning. ...

... In the USA it was called space Shuttle system. ... NPO MOLNIYA was founded on the basis of two design bureaus: BUREVESTNIK (Chief Designer A. V. Potopalov) that had experience in the creation of heavy supersonic aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles and MOLNIYA (Chief Designer M. R. Bisnovat) which developed unmanned flight vehicles and an Experimental Machine-Building Plant (General Designer V. M. Myasischev) where heavy and high altitude aircraft were designed and tested. ... Buran Orbiter . ...

Actor Prolog is an object-oriented logic language. So, any program written in Actor Prolog consists of classes. ... An example of Actor Prolog program. -- -- (c) 2002, Alexei A. Morozov, IRE RAS. -- ------------------------------------------- project : (( 'Hello' )) class 'Hello' specializing 'Console': [ goal:- writeln ( "Hello World!" This program consists of solely 'Hello' class. ... Thus, the execution of the program starts with the creation of an instance of the 'Hello' class. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... to the International Space Station . ... The vehicle and ISS docking is scheduled on 27 May 2004 with berthing to the axial docking port of Russian Service Module Zvezda. ... The prelaunch processing was directly led by the Technical Management (Yu.P. Semenov, Technical Manager of Russian Piloted Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences). ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Corvus Capital, along with its own capital, has the backing of a number of international funding partners. ... MyCloudtag App has launched in the Apple App Store Google Play store! App Fitness & Health . Andrew Regan lead a 10 man team on the first ever there-and-back crossing of the Antarctica. ... CloudTag is a London Listed Company focused on the Fitness and Wellbeing Market. AIM Fitness & Health . Sirius Petroleum is an Oil Gas Company listed on London's AIM. AIM Oil & Gas . ...