The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia . July 2-8, 2006 . Workshop Information: . ... Past workshops . ... Related Information: . ... On the free afternoon of Wednesday July 5th we are organizing a tour of Kremlin+Armory Chamber (a total number of 57 people signed up for the tour) and a Moscow sightseeing bus tour+"Kolomenskoe" tour (22 people signed up). See you in Moscow. (c) Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, 2006. ...

... 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...

... 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. ...

... 2. (a) Metallicity function and relations between (b) metallicity and radial velocity, (c) metallicity and maximum distance from the Galactic plane,and (d)metallicity and variability period for RR Lyrae variables in the initial sample.The curve in the first graph is the maximum-likelihood approximation of the distribution using a sum of two normal curves with the indicated means,dispersions,and total numbers. ... next figure | privious figure . ...

... Telescopes . ... The spectrograph is installed in the Nasmyth focus of the BTA telescope, the equivalent focal length is 186 m (F/31). ... The preslit device unit is marked by number 3. ... Fig. ... slit unit of the MSS, 4.1 ? ... The spectrograph slit unit consists of a mirror that redirects the light beam from the Z axis and from the calibration path at an angle of 65њ to the axis of the telescope focus into the slit, the order separation filter, the block of the slit and the shutter (Item 4 in...

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