The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...
Personal Pages of Astronomers . ... home | ... Jarle Aasland (Comet Hale-Bopp: Norwegian Images) . ... Howard C. Anderson (Astrophotography Images and Information) . ... Patrick J. Anway (Lookum Observatory) . ... Peter Armstrong (ScanCam Home Page) . ... Bill Arnett's Astronomy Page . ... Astro Nights home page ( Australia ) . ... Alex Michael Bonnici (Space Exploration) . ... Michael Boschat . ... Brendan's Astronomy Page ( Republic of Ireland ) . ... Steve's Astronomy and Astrophotography page . ...
... International Workshop Old photographic plates in the Gaia era: archive plates Pulkovo observatory, digitization, results of astrometric reduction, error analysis. ... The number of photographic plates with images of the Solar system bodies and observation periods. ... Additionally, for 832 stars (14-16 mag) the new proper motions were derived from combination the Pulkovo CCD-observations with the observations of these stars, which were found on 1800 digitized photographic plates (observation 50-ies...
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. Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . [ News ] . [ Satellite data ] . [ SMIS ] . [ ] . NOAA 14, 1997.04.16 10:37 GMT . St.Petersburg . Pseudo-colour image. Red - channel 3, Green - channel 2, Blue -channel . St. Petersburg . August 1996. True-color composition from NOAA 12 and NOAA 14 AVHRR Channel 3 data using images acquired at different times of a day. Back to SMIS Home Page .
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... The "ATLAS Aerospace" company invites all the volunteers to pass a course of space training in the simulators of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ... The main simulators, trainers and stends are: . ... Don - 732" specialized simulator, which is used for a crew training on manual-mode control of the "Soyuz-TM" space vehicle and its systems in the course of approach and docking to the orbital station; . ...
... 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. ...
... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...
... 000, 112 (2009) Printed 11 February 2010 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands I1gor V. Chilingarian1 2 ,2,3 , Anne-Laure Melchior 1,4 and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2010 February 01; in original form 2009 August 14 ABSTRACT To compare photometric properties of galaxies at different redshifts, the fluxes need to be corrected for the changes of effective rest-frame wavelengths of filter bandpasses, called K -corrections. ... Table 1. ...
... View from a tower . ... in the launch table . One of 2 Energia-Buran launch pads converted from N-1. There is also one more Energia launch pad called Versatile Stand-Start Complex. ... The giant N-1 tower still exists. Moreover, it looks like most photos of Buran on the launch pad were shot from this tower. One of 2 N-1 launch pads. N-1 pads were later converted for Energia-Buran program. Proton launch pad. Mobile tower is moved away from the rocket. ...