... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... space flight . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... NASA investigates Hubble problem . ... N ASA engineers are examining a problem related to the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

... 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 dependence of velocity ellipsoid parameters for various types stars upon theirage was investigated. ... For metal-rich stars ([Fe/H] -0.1) the shape of velocity ellipsoid becomes more spherical with increasing age of the stellar group and it approaches the equilibrium shape. ... По данным uvby -фотометрии, изохронным возрастам и собственным движениям ~3500 F -звезд диска в окрестности 80 пс от Солнца исследованы зависимости параметров эллипсоидов скоростей различных звезд от возраста. ...

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... Software for scheduling and preparing sessions of controlling and simulating for the spacecraft operation are considered. ... Ground spacecraft control segment and software for analyzing and imaging telemetric information are considered. ... Organizing elements of the mission are MCC SR providing scheduling the spacecraft and GCS opera tion, as well as SESC providing scientific program scheduling, operation of ground radio telescopes and GTS. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

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... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit Copyright: Tun Tezel ( TWAN ) Explanation: Is the Sun always straight up at noontime? ... Turning the problem around, however, as in finding where the Sun actually appears to be at high noon , is as easy as waiting for midday, pointing your camera up, and taking a picture. ... Pictured above is one such high noon analemma -- a series of pictures always taken at exactly noontime over the course of a year. ... Publications with keywords: analemma . ...

... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

... In planets astronomy: . the relativist theory of the planets movement was found. ... the planets system of other stars were opened. ... In galaxy and out of galaxy astronomy: . It's found out the general constrution of the Galaxy and its main observed solids; . ... the methods of measuring the distances to the most remote objects in the Universe are found out; . ... it is found out that the galaxy accumulations are not haotic, but form the largescale celling structure of the Universe. ...

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Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

ПЕРЕЛ?К ПУБЛ?КАЦ?Й СП?ВРОБ?ТНИК?В ГАО . ... Variable Stars- 2010", Odessa, Ukraine, Aug. 16- 21, 2010: Program and Abstr. 2010 . ... 12-25, 2010/ Ed. by M. Mishchenko et al.- K. 2010 . ... Mishchenko M. Electromagnetic scattering, radiative transfer, and coherent backscattering. ... Mishchenko M. Cairns B. Chowdhary J. Travis L.D. Multiangle, multispectral variations of polarized radiances emerging from open oceans. ... Dlugach J.M. Mishchenko M. Liu Li . ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . ... During 1992-2003 timeframe, a team of Russian and Ukrainian companies together with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) were involved in developing a commercial space launch system based on the technology of the SS-18 ICBMs being withdrawn from service. ... ISC Kosmotras was assigned the role of a team leader to build and commercially operate this SS-18 ICBM based space launch system and the entire program was given the name Dnepr . ... Dnepr LV ...