... Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . At 22:37:09 Moscow Time a space logistics spacecraft Progress M-02M was launched from the Baikonur launch site. The objective of the launch is to provide support needed for continuing the flight of the International Space Station (ISS) in accordance with the Russian commitments under the ISS project, as well as to continue developmental testing of the logistic spacecraft of the new series. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

... The International Space Station from Orbit . ... Late last month and earlier this month, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery. ... Perseid Meteors and the Milky Way . ... Where will the next Perseid meteor appear? ... Tonight is the peak of the month-long Perseid Meteor Shower. ... The Heart and Soul Nebulas . ... Mars to Appear Normal this August . ... Will Mars appear extremely close and bright later this month? ... October is the best month to see Mars this year. ...

... The time taken to read through a quadrant on the array sets a fundamental limit on the fastest electron collection rate which can be achieved by resetting all the pixels. An inherent consequence of the methods of operating the NICMOS array detectors in the ACCUM, MULTIACCUM, and RAMP modes is therefore that there is a minimum possible exposure time, ~ 0.6 seconds (0.302 for MULTIACCUM), set by the time required to read the array. ... Figure 15.1 illustrates the operation of bright object mode. ...

... OM grism data are obtained as image mode data. However the different nature of this type of data, spectra of the objects in the field of view instead of their "sky" image, makes that a special processing must be applied to the grism images. ... They are concatenated in a perl script, omgchain , which works in a similar way to the image and fast mode chains. ... All necessary corrections are applied to the grism data files. ... As we have pointed out OM grism data are image mode data. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... Scientific rationale . ... Conference venue...

Next: FIT/ROMAFOT Up: The Automatic Path Previous: SEARCH/ROMAFOT . ... This command groups the objects automatically. ... To group remaining objects, one can execute the command once more with the same catalogue and intermediate table, but with an increased maximum number of objects per window and a reduced AR (in the sense just explained). ... The user is trying to group noise peaks. ... After having grouped the objects, the user tries to fit the subframes by executing the command FIT/ROMAFOT . ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... NOTE TO EDITORS -- For additional information, please contact: Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD (phone: 410-338-4514, fax: 410-338-4579, e-mail: villard@stsci.edu) or Lars Lindberg Christensen, ST-ECF, Garching ... Germany (phone: +49-89-3200-6291, fax: +49-89-3200-6480, e-mail: lars@eso.org) or William B. Latter SIRTF Science Center/California Institute of Technology (phone: 626-395-8568, fax: 626-568-0673) Image files are available on the Internet at: ...

... User Guide ] Task: uvfit Purpose: Fit point sources to a given vis file. ... Key: stokes Normal Stokes/polarisation parameter (e.g. i,q,u,v,ii etc). ... Key: object This gives the object type that uvfit fits for. ... Key: fix This gives a set a flag parameters, one parameter per source. Each parameter consists of a set of letters, which indicate which source parameters of a component are to be held fixed. These source parameters are fixed by the initial estimates given by the `spar' parameter. ...

... 2006 May 16 . The International Space Station from Above . Credit: STS-114 Crew , NASA . Explanation: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth . Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery . ... After departing the ISS , the crew of Discovery captured this spectacular vista of the orbiting space city high above the Caspian Sea . ... Tomorrow's picture: safe space . ... About APOD | ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... ESO Science Outreach Network . ... This is an image of the most distant "normal'' galaxy known, G 0102 190, as seen on a CCD exposure obtained with the EFOSC II instrument at the ESO New Technology Telescope. ...

Pulkovo Photographic Plate Database . To find a certain plate, type its number, choose instrument and click button FIND Instrument: Normal Astrograph 26-inch refractor Plate number: . To find plates with a certain sky area: choose instrument, type coordinates (R.A. and Dec.) of the center of this area, type radius of this area, type (optionally) names of required objects, and click button FIND . ...

... Posts tagged ?measure? ... Almost two year long scrutinizing some publications by astronomers gave me enough impression that astronomers live in the Gaussian world. ... Continue reading ?Borel Cantelli Lemma for the Gaussian World? ... Tags: Borel Cantelli Lemma , CLT , families of distributions , gaussian , grand challenge , measure , non-Gaussian , probability , statisticians . Category: arXiv , Astro , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Frequentist , Jargon , News , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...