... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet. ... Methods researched thus far involve the classification of astronomical images based on object parameterisation, progressive image transmission, and evaluation of existing image compression schemes. ...

Tail Probe is one of the satellites of the INTERBALL program. ... Collection of the orbital elements | ... Flight situation analysis during operations scheduling . ... Two stages of the orbital situation analysis are presented: . ... The satellites motion calculation during the flight situation analysis is based on the orbital elements, determined by the Ballistic center at KIAM RAN. The modified (by backward integration) orbital elements are usedduring the aposteriory situation analysis. ...

... But there also exists a practical angle: in a world increasingly dependent on electricity and electronics, the "space weather" outside the atmosphere can have serious effects, in particular on human communications. Currently more than 200 communication satellites circle the Earth in synchronous orbit . ... For a view of NOAA's "space weather report," click here ; another such report, from the University of Michigan, is linked here . ... Another such event occured April 7-11, 1997 . ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

PAYLOAD MODULE . Payload module is optimally sized with respect to both the area allocated for payload hardware and the volume inside the module needed to accommodate large-volume hardware items . A payload analysis has demonstrated that internal volume of the module and its outer and inner surfaces can accommodate all the hardware necessary for communications spacecraft. ... YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Free Space Optical Communication Systems . ... Airplane - geostationary satellite laser communication. ... Air ( space) optical communication systems ( AO ) . ... The Optical ground station was constructed at Teide observatory, Tenerife, Canary Islands for laser communication experiments from ground to geostationary (GEO) satellites. ... Laser communication experiments between ARTEMIS satellite and optical ground station (OGS) ESA at Canary Islands are performing also. ... CW laser test experiments . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... ATCA . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

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Next: Auxiliary utilities Up: MIDAS utilities for Previous: Time series analysis . The commands COVAR/TSA serves for the calculation of the covariance and autocovariance functions. ... COVAR/TSA -- . ... Edelson and Krolik's (1988) method is used for the estimation of the cross correlation function (CCF) of unevenly sampled series. ... DELAY/TSA -- . delay analysis with interpolation: The command computes the time lag function for two time series by the Press et al. (1992) method. ...

... The hydrogen line is the most pronounced absorption feature in spectra of B-type stars. Two effects play the dominant role in observed behavior of : the Stark broadening of the line absorption coefficient and interstellar absorption. ... Keywords: B-type stars, H I line, Stark effect, interstellar absorption . ... Thus having a good description of the Stark effect we investigated early B-type stars, where interstellar absorption may play an important role. ... 4 (IUE observations) and Fig. ...

... Division , Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, 1954-1955; College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 19591961 PRE- NASA EXPERIENCE: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, VA (1954-1958) · Aerospace Technologist, Fluid and Flight Mechanics Branch (1954-1958) NASA Langley Research Center , Hampton, VA (1958-1961) · Aerospace Technologist, Fluid and Flight Mechanics Branch (1958-1961) · Transferred to ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 phasecalc July 2, 2008 Abstract Given an ephemeris, calculate a phase column for an event table. 1 Instruments/Modes Instrument Mode all all modes with time information 2 Use pipeline processing yes (?) interactive analysis yes 3 Description Given an ephemeris and a list of event tables, phasecalc calculates the phase of each event in each of the tables. ... TimeColumnDoesNotExist (error) The table does not contain the column TIME. ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Aurora Over a Communications Tower . ... 28.09.2004 . ... Credit: Frank Andreassen (nettfoto.no) Explanation: Higher than highest communications tower , higher than highest mountain , higher than highest airplane , lies the realm of the aurora. ... Pictured above is a particularly rare purple aurora l corona that occurred on August 30, high above Harstad , Norway . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: aurora . ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... The software run under Windows 95, 98 NT, including Paraxial and Seidel . ... and Energy Distribution, Optical Layout, Optimization, Tolerancing etc. ... Listed Since August 20, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... I've posted a simple command-line program to compute the dispersive path delay due to the atmosphere using ATM (more precisely my re-packaging AATM). ... I had not appreciated that even at 330GHz, the dispersive wet delay is about 10% of the non-dispersive wet delay. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by Disqus . Copyright 2012, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Astrophysics 405 Homework Assignment 4 Tully­Fisher Galaxies in the Expanding Universe Due 1999 April 15 This assignment is a ``dry lab'' simulation of a galaxy observation project. ... Images, spectra, and apparent magnitudes mB for a collection of nearby galaxies have been provided. ... For those galaxies you are unable to classify, assume type Sc. (g) Compute the T­F distance for each galaxy. ... 2 Galaxy Data Use the following data in your calculations. There are 32 galaxies in this sample. ...