... 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 . ...

... Paper analyses Russian view of its involvement into international space cooperation and associated Western concerns. ... a) as a global market of space products and services, or . ... Nowadays, when the Russian rocket and space industry suffers from the end of the Cold War and transition from plan to market economy, Russia counts to benefit from offering its capabilities at the global space market. ... A principal offer of Russia to a global market is a space launch capability. ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

Introduction OCAAS 2.0 November 12, 1998 1­1 1 Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System 1.1 Introduction OCAAS is a complete UNIX software package for the local and remote operation of an astronomical observatory. ... It controls all aspects of the telescope mount, CCD camera, filter wheel, focuser, weather instrumentation, power supply, GPS receiver, internet or phone line communications, dome and shutter hardware. ... Dome flats may also be taken automatically if desired. ...

... Telescopes . ... CONTENTS . ... OBSERVATORY STRUCTURE * . ... Review of the 6 m telescope operation . ... The program committee of the large telescopes . ... Small telescopes . ... INVESTIGATIONS IN THE OPTICAL SECTOR . Extragalactic astronomy . ... RADIO TELESCOPE RATAN-600 . Review of the radio telescope RATAN-600 operation . ... Radio astronomy techniques . ... RADIO ASTRONOMY INVESTIGATIONS . ... THESES REVIEW . ... in 2004 the Observatory structure was essentially modified . ...

... LINKS . ... Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... Club News . ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . by title : PDF File Download (640KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ... SOME LINKS . ...

... A clock is a tool for the time counting. The stable repeating processes are used in clocks. ... The first timepieces were sand glasses; in the 2nd thousand years B.C. there occured water clocks; the first mentions about mechanical timepieces related to the end of the 6th century; the modern mechanical timepieces are created by H. Huigens in 1657; in 70th years of the 20th century there were widespread the electronic quartz watches with numeric indication, for example on the liquid chips. ...