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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 10.02.1997 . ... Credit Copyright: STS-51 Crew , NASA Explanation: Astronaut Carl Walz waves at his colleagues from the aft end of the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay - during a 1993 spacewalk to evaluate tools, tethers, and a foot restraint slated for use in the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission . ... February 1997 . ... 1997 1998 . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: space . Publications with words: space . ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bulletin Board . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... On board are seven astronauts that will perform the second Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. ... Also on board Discovery is a new data recorder, which will allow much more data to be taken at the same time on HST, as well as a new Fine Guidance Sensor, which helps the telescope track on its targets. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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We are very interested to receive your opinion, proposals and criticism concerning services provided by WDC-B as well as the whole WDC System. ... E-mail address: . Select and mark a level of your knowledge of the WDC System and experience in usage its services: . I know nothing of WDC System and never used it . I know of WDC System but never used it . I know of WDC System and used it a few times . I use WDC System on regular basis . ...

... SRC "Planeta" is executing operative control and guidance management of ground system for receiving and processing satellite data that includes three regional centers: European Center (SRC "Planeta", Moscow, with branch offices in Obninsk and Dolgoprudny), Siberian Center (regional department in Novosibirsk) €а& Far-Eastern Center (regional department in Khabarovsk). ... Catalogues of received and processed satellite data are available on€а SRC "Planeta" web-sites: . SRC "Planeta" . ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

... Миска с силиконовой подставкой 24 см, сталь, WMF Миска для смешивания с силиконовой подставкой для предотвращения скольжения. ... Сделана из нержавеющей стали. ... Чаши и миски . ... Мини-конструктор "Басс-гитара" - увлекательнейший способ времяпрепровождения и уникальная возможность собрать целую коллекцию музыкальных нано-инструментов. ... Конструктор nanoBlock - самый маленький в мире конструктор, крайне необычный, как все японское. ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... The seasons, the seeing ( a clear sky is not always associated to calm , stable air ) and most important how dark your observation site is. ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

... Specialists from the TESIS Control Centre, at the FIAN Laboratory of Solar X-ray Astronomy, have succeeded in fixing a malfunction in one of the observatory's central telescopes, which occurred in the second half of May. ... The main version of events pointed to a malfunction in the drive mechanism's reducer, which is responsible for the rotational power from the main shaft of the motor to its output shaft, which is connected to the shutter. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ...

As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ... Bulletin C is mailed every six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there will be no time step at the next possible date. Daniel GAMBIS Head Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France ...

... After the 2nd World War, the Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) made two groups in Moscow responsible for catalogues of variable stars. ... Presently, the variable-star catalogue groups still exist within the Sternberg Astronomical Institute and the Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Elena Kazarovets (variable stars in open clusters, Peremennye Zvezdy journal, GCVS) . ... Nataliya N. Kireeva (variable stars, globular clusters, GCVS) . ...

... Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service - The ADS Abstract Service provides access to over 160,000 astronomical abstracts since 1975. Astrophysics Revision Site . ... Common Astrophysics Acronyms . Gravitational Wave Detector GEO 600 - aims at the direct detection of gravitational waves by means of a laser interferometer of 600 m wavelength. ... Secrets of Creation - new theory on the creation of the Universe, the Big Bang, parameters of the Universe, fundamental laws of the Universe. ...

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. ...

... Количество полетов - 5 . ... С 24 ноября по 1 декабря 1991 года в качестве специалиста полета шаттла Atlantis STS-44. ... Со 2 по 9 декабря 1992 года в качестве специалиста полета шаттла Discovery STS-53. ... С 7 по 18 сентября 1995 года в качестве специалиста полета шаттла Endeavour STS-69. ... В настоящее время работает вице президентом корпорации Transformational Space (t/Space), участвавшей в 2004 - 2005 годах в конкурсе на создание нового космического корабля для NASA. ... Первый полет . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . MainљPage . ... Classes . ... Stellarium Developers Documentation . ... This documentation is targetted at developers of scripts, plugins and the core program. ... Those classes have a single instance created at startup by the ::main() function. ... Because many Stellarium components derive from the StelModule class, the main loop is able to treat them generically by calling their standard methods such StelModule::update() and StelModule::draw() at each program iteration. ...

... Chilingarian, I., Melchior, A.-L., Zolotukhin, I. 2010: Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , accepted to MNRAS (arXiv:1002.2360) . ... K-Corrections in the optical and near-infrared , Analytical approximations of K-corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , photometric properties of galaxies , K-corrections approximation redshift and one observed colour , transform observed spectral energy distributions (SED) , software to estimate K-corrections , ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... New Shepard taking off (image credit: Blue Origin) . ... This is a reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing two-part suborbital space vehicle. The two sections of New Shepard are a pressurised crew module or capsule for six passengers (with its own launch escape system) and a propulsion module (or booster rocket) propelled by a Blue Origin BE-3 liquid propellant rocket motor. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . General information Date and Location Objectives of the meeting Sponsoring Organizations International Advisory Committee Local Organizing Committee Deadlines Addresses Hotels & Accommodation Venue Visas Social Programme . ... contact Organizing Committee ( universat2006@srd.sinp.msu.ru ) as soon as possible. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...