... 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 . ...

... The antenna system . ... A military radar system, consisting of two identical radars, was transferred to the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP). ... The system features a two-channel transmit-receive antenna. ... By changing the phase difference in the channels, one is able to modify the shape of the total channels' beam in the angle-of-elevation plane. ... The total beam is controlled by introducing the phase signal into the excitation signal of one of the channels. ... Peak power.. ...

... Master . ... Zel'dovich asteroid . ... August 29, 2013: Asteroid (11438) Zeldovich discovered 40 years ago . ... Asteroid (11438) has quite an elongated orbit with a period of 3.25 yr and eccentricity 0.19 (twice that of Mars). ... Asteroid will be located in Cancer constellation at the distance of 1.63 AU from Earth and 2.62 AU from the Sun (near the aphelion of its orbit), with the magnitude being 17.0m. Telescopes of MASTER network will definitely observe asteroid (11438) Zeldovich in early 2014....

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

... 110, A09S07, doi:10.1029/2004JA010931, 2005 CORONAS-F/SPIRIT EUV observations of October ­ November 2003 solar eruptive events in combination with SOHO/EIT data V. V. Grechnev,1 I. M. Chertok,2 V. A. Slemzin,3 S. V. Kuzin,3 A. P. Ignat'ev,3 A. A. Pertsov,3 I. A. Zhitnik,3 J.-P. Delaboudinie e,4 and F. Auche e4 `r `r Received 30 November 2004; revised 2 March 2005; accepted 8 April 2005; published 28 July 2005. ... Events of the First Rotation 3.1. ... SPIRIT AND EIT OBSERVATIONS A09S07 Figure 1. ...

... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... School of Physics . ... Department of Education as an independent branch in Kharkov University was founded in 1850, as evidenced by archival material stored in St. Petersburg aphyvi. ... Throughout the period at the department were talented teachers, starting with Professor M. Lavrovsky, who by the way, i was the first head of the department. ... In I988, the Department led the professor Necheporenko Prize, International Prize in Education, Doctor of Pedagogy. ...

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NWA 1235: A PHLOGOPITE-BEARING ENSTATITE METEORITE. ... Minor feldspar Ab74.8-95.6Or0.6-6.8 (8 vol%) occurs interstitial to enstatite grains or forms lathshaped crystals within sulfide. Silica is present as 10-100 µm-sized angular and elongated grains within enstatite or rounded inclusions within metal and sulfide. ... Enstatite prisms are included in the metal aggregates. ... Schreibersite (19.8 wt% Ni) is usually present within the metal aggregates and forms tiny inclusions within enstatite. ...

Stochastic Models of Hot Planetary and Satellite Coronas . ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V., and Gerard, J.-C. Nonequilibrium Processes in the Planetary and Cometary Atmospheres: Theory and Applications , Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic, 1997. ... Res. ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V., and Gerard, J.-C. A Kinetic Model of the Formation of the Hot Oxygen Geocorona . ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V., and Gerard, J.-C. A kinetic model of the formation of the hot oxygen geocorona . ...

... The following factors that affect the final accuracy of the reflecting surface in ground conditions were considered to be the most important: the accuracy of manufacturing of the central mirror and lobes , the accuracy of their installation on the spacer , the accu racy of systems of weight unloading (the weight unloading of lobes during their manufacturing and assembly of the reflector as a whole), the ... Stan dard deviations of lobe surfaces were 0.13­0.21 mm. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

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. ...

... The main design features of the mirror system of the RT-32 are as follows [1]: . The carcass of the primary mirror is formed as a three-dimensional, welded steel tubular rod system that is highly statically indeterminate and therefore very durable. ... The supporting and driving maschinery of the antenna is T-shaped, so it has a very massive vertical stanchion (its length is 15m and diameter 2.3 m). ... Diameter of the primary reflector, D - 32 m . ... 1997 год . ... Нар.газета N 107 11.06.1997 . ...