... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The name "parsec" is indeed a distance of 3.26 light years. ... First off, we need to know about "parallax". ... A great example is easy to show: hold a thumb up in front of your face, about 20 centimeters away. ... That angle is called the parallax angle, and it depends on two things: how far apart your eyes are (the baseline ), and how far away your thumb is. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... Upper limits (3 sigma) to any radio flux density were established on the following dates: July 2.01 UT, < 0.585 mJy at 22.460 GHz (wavelength lambda = 1.3 cm); 3.00, < 0.900 mJy at 14.940 GHz (lambda = 2.0 cm) and < 0.189 mJy at 8.460 GHz (lambda = 3.5 cm); 8.968, < 0.291 mJy at 8.460 GHz and < 0.918 mJy at 22.460 GHz; 22.038 < 0.161 mJy at 8.460 GHz and < 0.464 mJy at 22.460 GHz; Aug. 9.00, < 0.129 mJy at 8.460 GHz; 14.837, < 0.187 mJy at 8.460 GHz and < 0.372 mJy at 4.860 GHz (lambda = 6.2 cm). ...

The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... Maps of six sources (0420+022, 0420-014, 1308+326, 1345+125, 1803+784, and DA 193) obtained with milliarcsecond resolution are presented and discussed, together with their broadband (1­22 GHz) spectra obtained on the RATAN­600 radio telescope at epochs close to those of the VLBI observations. ... The image (Fig. 5) shows that the source structure at 18 cm is compact, consisting of a VLBI core and two jet components, with the outer component lying 5 mas (30 pc) to the northwest of the core ( = 54 ). ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

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I/199 Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola+ 1987) =============================================================================== = Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog Klemola A.R., Hanson R.B., Jones B.F. <Astron. ... Positions are given for equinox B1950 and computed epoch 1950. ... Other data given for each star are: the original mean epoch, a stellar class code, the number of NPM fields measured, and discrepancy flags for position, proper motion, and photometry. ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Астрофорум - астрономический портал ? ... Горизонты науки о Вселенной (Модераторы: Дмитрий Вибе , AlAn ) ? Международный Астрономический Союз - Комиссия 4 . ... Случайны ли величины масс планет? ... Таким образом Международный Астрономический Союз - МАС: . ... А вот по-позже я Вам покажу совершенно "удивительные" парадоксы от "Международный Астрономический Союз - Комиссия 4": . ... вещества планет. ... Ответ #6 : 16.03.2007 [12:21:05] ? ... Причем тут горизонты науки? ...