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StarShine-3: . ... The satellites are covered by nearly 1000 small, front-surface aluminum mirrors that are machined by technology students in Utah and polished by tens of thousands of students all over the world. ... And this is only small story about it. ... We will be able to measure the angular position of that satellite by observing sunlight flashes from small mirrors mounted on the surface of the satellite, as it passes across the starry sky before sunrise and after sunset.. ... Starshine 3 . ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. LENTICULAR GALAXY IC 719 : CURRENT BUILDING OF THE COUNTERROTATING LARGE-SCALE STELLAR DISK Sternberg Astronomical Institute, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia; katkov.ivan@gmail.com, olga@sai ... In this gas-rich S0 galaxy, its large-scale gaseous disk counterrotates the global stellar disk. Moreover, in the IC 719 disk, we have detected a secondary stellar component corotating the ionized gas. ... Figure 7. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. [NASA] Американский спутник ACTS был выведен на геостационарную орбиту в 1993 г. Это был экспериментальный спутник, на котором испытывались новые телекоммуникационные технологии, в частности на нем было установлено оборудование для передачи сигнала в Ka-диапазоне длин волн. ... В прошлом году миссия спутника ACTS была закончена, и теперь космическое агентство NASA решило передать его консорциуму из нескольких американских университетов. ...

... Department Number . ... Astro Space Center . ... Telephone Number . 7(495) 333 2523 . FAX Number . 7(495) 333 2378 . ... bkomberg@lukash.asc.rssi.ru . ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... See you all on February 8th! ... David Lechter, Outreach Chair 2 February 2011 Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Mars Rovers Celebrate 7th Anniversary on the Red Planet NASA's twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity surely rank as one of the greatest triumphs in the history of space exploration. ... 4 February 2011 Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Opportunity is driving to different vantage points around the steep walled crater and snapping a series of gorgeous Martian vistas....

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...