... NASA spacecraft to enter large asteroid's orbit July 16 . ... On July 16, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. ... Unlike other missions, where dramatic propulsive burns put spacecraft into orbit around a planet, Dawn will ease up next to Vesta. ... NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera July 9, 2011. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Habble cosmic telescope. ... It became possible to study all occurrences on Mars (for example the season changings of the polar "hat" of Mars), on Jupiter satellites, ets. ... The scientists saw the details of the galaxy gas nebulas, the most dense central parts of the ball star congestions and galaxies to proof the existance in the cores of many galaxies invisible objects with the mass of hundred millions and milliards of the Sun's mass (evidently black holes). ...

. Interball is an international mission to study magnetospheric processes and solar-terrestrial relations. Astronomy and Space Physics Department of Kiev Shevchenko University is involved in analysis of scientific data retrieved by the satellites. Link to the IKI at IKI RAN (Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) . Programme of research at Astronomy and Space Physics Department of Kiev Shevchenko University . Publications . ASTDEPT, 2003, Webmaster . Designer

. Maria S. Murga (Khramtsova) . Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . 119017, Pyatnitskaya str., 48, Moscow, Russia . Tel.:+7(495)9510881 . Contact me . ? My research projects: . ? Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): . vs. metallicity of HII complexes . vs. radiation field and age of HII complexes . ? Calcium Sodium in the Milky Way . ? Evolution of aromatic species in ISM . Go to Homepage | About me | CV | Projects | Publications

. New! Photos: More photos from NPO Lavochkin museum . Lunokhod-2 anniversary . VRML models index . Author's photos . Identifying and . orienting spacecraft . Rockets . Sputniks . Launch sites . and launch pads . Vostok & Voskhod . Soyuz & Progress . Salyut, Almaz, TKS . Mir . L-1 . (manned Moon fly-around) . N-1/L-3 . (manned lunar landing) . Energia and Buran . Lunar . Martian . Venusian (also VEGA) .

Работа выполняется при поддержке гранта РФФИ N 12-02-00675-а . и Программы Президиума РАН N22 . This work is supported by RFBR grant, project N 12-02-00675-а . ... АСТРОМЕТРИЧЕСКИЕ БАЗЫ ДАННЫХ . ... THE ASTROMETRIC DATABASES . OF THE PULKOVO OBSERVATORY . ... Исполнители проекта: Е.А. Рощина (руководитель), И.С.Измайлов, М.Ю.Ховричев, Нарижная Н.В., Дементьева А.А., Шахт Н.А.,Кияева О.В., Романенко Л.Г., Калиниченко О.А., Васильева Т.А. Администратор сайта: М.А. Рощин. ...

... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946 and analyzes "genealogical trees" of the original enterprises (NII-88, NII-885, OKB-456, etc.) to reveal typical features of this evolution. ... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946, when an original set of institutions was established. ... The study demonstrates, that the evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry is more complicated, than usually...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

... Space research, space communication including TV and radio communication with using satellite systems, Earth and ecological monitoring, the use of satellite, navigation and topogeodesic systems, manned missions, material production in space and lots of other operations could be related to space activity. ... A special 5-year program was developed involving regular Shuttle missions with join crews. ... БИК 2-3 system and "Symbol D" system telemetry data are used to control the Station; . ...

... 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 . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... The author attempts to approach the problem from the positions of systems analysis with account for the ideological grounds and history of space activities in Russia and abroad, comparing its current interpretation with the initial goals posed by leading theoreticians and practitioners who stood at the cradle of the space exploration era. ... The space systems recognized in Russia as priority projects are largely developed with violations of the systems approach principles. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... For the next AAAP regular meeting (October 10, 8:00 PM, at Peyton Hall, Princeton Univ), Program Chair Ken Kremer has invited Dr Theresa Kucera of NASA/ Goddard. Terry Kucera has been a member of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) solar mission since 1995 and is deputy project scientist for the upcoming and cutting edge Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) project. ... AAAP Observatory Events in October. ... Terry will give a first hand account of NASA Solar Research. ...

Загрузить программу (~10 MB). ... Программа izmccd предназначена для высокоточной астрометрической обработки числовых изображений небесных объектов. Программа позволяет получать как измеренные, так и экваториальные координаты малых планет, комет, спутников больших планет, визуально-двойных звезд и других объектов, а также идентифицировать уже известные малые планеты и найти на числовых изображениях движущиеся объекты. ... Программа является бесплатной. ... Автоматическая обработка, один объект. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Possibilities of observing . ... Investigations of the SSRT 5.7 GHz radio maps in conjunction with images obtained in other emission ranges, suggested the following conclsions: . ... Solar images obtained in line H a ;(on the left, 16:11 UT, Big Bear observatory) and in the microwave emission (on the right, 04:04 UT, SSRT) 4 march 1997 . ...

... 2. ui , i- , : 5 ui = ( - sin cos i cosi - cos i sini T ), i (1) i ­ i- OYZ; i ­ i- OYZ, i = 225 - 90 i, i = 1,.. ... 6 max ( L1 , L2 ) nmax = min ( L1 , L2 ) ( nmax + 1) , nmax = min ( L1 , L2 ) max ( L1 , L2 ) - min ( L1 , L2 ) - . ... 3) D1min1 , D1min 2 7 mi n1min1 , n2 n1 , min 2 min 2 n1 , n2 , Dlast . ... 11) OX OXY : nxy = nijk - ( nijk , ez ) ez , (12) ex , ey , ez ­ . ... nxy , ex ) ( , ( nxy , ex ) < 0 -arccos nxy (13) OX OXZ : nxz = nijk - ( nijk , ey ) ey . ... 450 B2 (+225 ) B1 (-225 )...

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