Astronomy Picture of the Day . M100: A Grand Design . ... 1.06.1997 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA Explanation: Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a Grand Design spiral galaxy . A large galaxy of over 100 billion or so stars with well defined spiral arms , it is similar to our own Milky Way . ... June 1997 . ... 1997 1998 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... A Nearby Supernova in Spiral Galaxy M100 . ... Spiral Galaxy M100 . ...

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. ...

... Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: Progress Report" . ... The VISTA Project: a review of its progress and lessons learned developing the current programme , McPherson, Emerson, Born & Sutherland, in Ground-based Telescopes, eds Oschmann & Tarenghi, Proc of SPIE, 5489, 638, 2004 . Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: overview Emerson and Sutherland, in Survey and Other Telescope technologies and Discoveries, eds Tyson & Wolff, Proc of SPIE, 4836, 35, 2003 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Sky this Week . Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Sky Events . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Seasonal Observing . ... Observing Basics . ... SKA South Africa Project Office, Johannesburg . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

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. ...

... 5-GHz total flux density . ... VLBApls image at 5 GHz . ... Correlated flux density (Jy) vs. projected baseline length plot . ... flux density (Jy) . EW position (mas) . ... Other VLBI references . ... 2.3 and/or 8.4 GHz: multiple epoch VLBI images are available in the USNO Radio Reference Frame Image Database (RRFID, Fey & Charlot 2000, ApJS 128, 17) . 15 GHz: VLBI images are available in the USNO Radio Reference Frame Image Database (RRFID, Fey & Charlot 2000, ApJS 128, 17) . ...

MICROSCOPES . ... NIGHT VISION DEVICES . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... LOMO® has designed and manufactured optical devices ranging from microscopes and endoscopes to telescopes and night vision devices . ... Since the end of the Cold War LOMO ® has been able to continue its tradition of quality and innovation by offering its diverse products and technologies to the scientific, medical, industrial and educational communities in North America. ... LOMO PLC has received the ISO 9001 Certificate . ...

... I used Ѕ inch thick Appleply plywood throughout. ... The mirror box is a little unusual. ... The original design uses a fiberglass tube to connect the mirror base plate to the top ring to form the mirror box. ... I decided to build the mirror box like a standard secondary cage instead, using aluminum tubes with push-in inserts. ... All three tubes are retained at the mirror box and the secondary ring using nine, 1-inch thick Appleply clamps, three at the secondary and six on the mirror box. ...

ARMAGH PLANETARIUM IN THE 1990s Dawn of the Digistar era This decade saw the arrival of our first digital projector, an Evans & Sutherland Digistar 1. This was a revolutionary new approach to planetarium display equipment. ... This was the first Digistar projector to be installed in the UK. ... In 1994 a new section was added to our building, doubling its size. ... A walk through the stars Our Astropark opened in 1994. ... Armagh's Astropark allows visitors to walk through the Cosmos ...

... Research of an atmosphere of the Earth and other planets of Solar system by optical methods . ... The long-term experience of study of atmospheres of planets of Solar system in a department of physics of planets has defined directions and methods of researches spent for laboratory . ... The tasks of laboratory are researches by optical methods of structure of a Terrestrial atmosphere, namely study of spectra of absorption of its compound radiation of natural and artificial sources. ...

This module supports ISAPI Extensions within Apache for Windows. ... This module implements the Internet Server extension API. It allows Internet Server extensions ( e.g. ISAPI .dll modules) to be served by Apache for Windows, subject to the noted restrictions. ISAPI extension modules (.dll files) are written by third parties. ... Review the Additional Notes and the Programmer's Journal for additional details and clarification of the specific ISAPI support offered by mod_isapi. ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

I. V. Pokrovskaya, E. A. Sharkov Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Disturbances of the World Ocean : Chronology and Evolution. ... Design principals, structure and performance characteristics of given chronological catalogues and evolutionary database are reported. Part II ( in general developed into the tables ) consists in chronological catalogues and evolutionary database of tropical cyclones (for 1983-2000) and tropical disturbances (for 1997- 2000) for all active basins of the World Ocean. ...

Neutron Monitors ] [ Solar Neutrons ] [ Muon Telescopes ] [ Base Potchefstroom University ] [ Magnetometers ] [ GPS systems ] [ Ionosphere ] [ Related Data ] [ Space Weather ] . ... All Cosmic Ray Stations + InterPlanetary Data: WorldNet . Alma-AtaB (Mt.Tien Shan) DataBase of Kazakhstan Spectrograph Alma-AtaB (Mt.Tien Shan) new . ... Nagoya Muon Telescope and DATA or mail . ... Belgrade Muon Telescopes and DATA or ">mail . ... Real-Time database for Cosmic Ray Anisotropy (DB10) . ...

... June 16, 2009 - TESIS has recorded new sizeable mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere . One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite (video - wmv 4.3 MB). ... June 6, 2009 - This year's largest group of sunspots passes across the solar disk . ... June 2, 2009 - A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ... A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ...

... Research Innovation . ... In 2009 Plan for University Research comprised 130 research projects (89 fundamental and 41 applied research projects) funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and in 2010 the University works on 132 research projects. ... In 2009 the University worked on 14 agreements to conduct research under governments funding, funds from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the University Fundamental Research Fund as well as international grant...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...