... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... In the AAAs lecture at the AMNH April 9 on "High -Energy Astrophysics with a Neutrino Telescope in New York City," Farrar outlined her ingenious idea to create a starter array of 1,000 stations inside existing water tanks to form a neutrino telescope capable of detecting high energy astrophysical neutrinos. ... Mars Soldiers On. ... May May May May May 4:45 7:43 May May 2 One Last Good View of Mars By Joseph A. Fedrick Mars was rapidly fading into the distance as Earth left it behind during March. ...

... part 1 | ... The Basic Stages in Earth's Pre-geological Development . ... After fragments of the Vortex sleeves separated, whirlwinds of second and third orders ("NC" - new micro-vortex) were generated- future planet cores and their satellites - all of them developing independently, governed by the common laws of development of cosmogenic vortexes. ... Our planet's core today is comprised of considerably deteriorated cosmogenic vortex; consequently, the Earth has a moderated magnetic field. ...

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 . ...

... In 1965, in view of the fact that the country's leadership put S.P.Korolev in overall charge of the effort to land a man on the Moon and bring him safely back to Earth, Korolev decided to focus the work of his team on the manned space flight, while the work on the lunar robotic craft was turned over to Lavochkin Design Bureau headed at the time by G.N.Babakin. ... This flight was considered as an initial phase of preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

astro-ph/0207074 . ... Comments: 42 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the September issue of PASP . ... Commets: 5 pages, 4 figures. ... Commets: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of the conference "Ra Pulsars" held in Chania, Crete, Sept 2002 . ... Commets: 6 pages, 2 postscript figures, to appear in the proceedings of the JENAM 2002 Workshop WS-VLTI "The Very Large Telescope Interferometer: Challenges for the Future", Editors: P.J.V. Garcia, A. Glindemann, Th. ...

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