VISTA Data Flow System: Status Jim Emerson*a, Mike Irwinb, Nigel Hamblyc b a Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary Universit y o f London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Inst itute of Astronomy, Universit y of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, c Inst itute for Astronomy, School of Phys ics, Universit y of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK ABSTRACT Data from two IR survey cameras UKIRT's WFCAM and ESO's VISTA can arrive at rates approaching 1.4 TB/night for of order 10 years. ...

... Фотографии Луны . ... В марте прошлого года, как и все фотографировал лунное затмение. ... Для начала нужно заранее узнать, где будет находиться Луна во время затмения и в каком примерно месте она коснется горизонта. ... Около каждого слоя (показано стрелочкой на фотографии выше) есть изображение глаза - нажимая на него, мы можем отключить или включить те слои, которые мы захотим оставить для финальной фотографии и тут я рекомендую начать с самого верхнего слоя - т.е. с самой последней фотографии. ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ­ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ­ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...

... 84, No. 12, pp. 1110?1134. i Optical Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Discovery of Supernovae 2005bv, 2005 , and 2006ak, and Searches for Transients Using the MASTER Robotic Telescope V. M. Lipunov1 , V. G. Kornilov1 , A. V. Krylov1 , N. V. Tyurina1, A. A. Belinskii1 , E. S. Gorbovskoi2 ... , Moscow, Russia Received April 24, 2007; in final form, Abstract--We present the results of observations obtained using the MASTER robotic telescope in 2005 ? ... 2005?2006 . ... SWIFT GRB. ...

Copyright ї 1994 by Maxim V. Tarasenko. ... The end of confrontation, associated with the Cold War, led to political feasibility and economic desirability of extended international cooperation in space. ... For example, during the first half of 1994 the Russian Space Agency got only 10 per cent of its annual request. ... Another aspect of an inter-FSU cooperation is what was supposed to be a joint use of results from space activity, both in terms of scientific research and space applications. ...

... At the January meeting we finally achieved the necessary quorum in the vote on the bylaws changes proposed in September. ... Giant Ribbon at Edge of the Solar System: Mystery Solved? ... It is where solar wind particles heading out into interstellar space are reflected back into the solar system by a galactic magnetic field." ... Particles from the solar wind that escape the solar system are met ~100 astronomical units (~15 billion kilometers) away by an interstellar magnetic field. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

Course : Social media for civil society Lecturer: Olga Guzhva, Assistant Professor, Vice dean of International cooperation department of sociology, general editor of SCS Journal( www.scsjournal.org) The course consist of main thematic chapter as I theory and practise of e-Democracy, overview of channel of communication and social media , social media tools ( practical cases)) Theme /Modules Theme 1 Introduction to the course ... Discussion involves participants in active learning. ...

... We guess it's almost impossible to create the site nowadays where all space relative philatelic materials (postage stamps, stationary, postal marks etc.) would be registered and presented. ... We tried to make such a step in April 2005, placing at the site first images of postage stamps with portraits of astronauts (cosmonauts, spacionauts, taikonauts:). ... All illustrative material (or simply speaking, all scans of stamps) are grouped in four sections: Countries , Years , Astronauts and Flights . ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Module "Dust" of equipment "Chistota" on research dust vicinity a SC "Photon-M" . ... Module "Dust" is intended for data gathering about characteristics of dust particles in vicinity SC. ... Gauges were combined and made measurement of temperature of a surface of the gauge, fixed presence of a sunlight, registered flying by dust parti-cles in the optical way, measured weight of the adsorbed substance on a surface of the quartz resonator. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...