... ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT MISSION TO MARS. Brief description . ... Scientific goals . Scheme of the mission . ... Orbiter . ... the instruments . ... Main objectives: study of the Sun's internal structure by helioseismology method from measurements of solar brightness oscillations. ... Instrument consists of a solar photometer with a filter at 845 nm with a 5 nm passband, a two-axis solar sensor built around CCD-arrays for making corrections of photometric data by changing the spacecraft orientation. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

. The description of the instrument is divided into the following sections: . Optical Design . Cryogenics and Mechanics . Electronics and Software . Determination of Detector parameters . Some photos of the instrument . Other high resolution images .

... Outline of the BTF paper by Erwin de Blok (25-2-2002) ----------------------------------------------------- * Description of sample * Data and corrections * Descriptions of method to measure line widths * Description of method to measure inclinations * Corrections to linewidths and magnitudes (inclination, random motion, instrumental resolution, extinction) * Corrections to recession velocities (to Local Group frame, also POTENT etc for nearby galaxies) * Describe B-band ...

... It provides long range planning information to the scheduling team; it provides bright object, timing, and orientation information to the observation planning team; and it provides graphical description of the observations and their constraints. ... The GUI graphically displays the constraints that are computed by Spike and stored in the description files and in the database. ... BOAS processes all bright objects that have entered the database since the last time BOAS was run. ...

... Telescopes . ... Diameter of circular antenna . ... Number of antenna elements . ... Geometrical area . ... Effective area of full circle . ... Wavelength range . ... Frequency range . ... 2 arcsec . ... Flux density limit . ... Absolute brightness temperature limit . 0.050 mK . ...

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... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

... Main . ... Telescope . ... Diameter of the main mirror, mm . ... The length of the telescope tube, mm . ... Weight of the main mirror, kg . ... Weight of the main mirror in holder, kg . ... Weight of the telescope, kg . ... field of . ... 1:7.7, with corrector . ... 1:7.7, without corrector . ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Circular polarization of the bright side of Iapetus versus wavelength, obtained with FORS2 at the ESO VLT during the night 2011-03-28 at a phase angle of 0.77 . ... It can be noted that a change in signal occurs in circular polarization observations that are taken after rotating the instrument by 90 degree with respect to the intial position angle on the sky. ...

Modern AstroStatistics has emerged as a new field in recent times, informed by a Bayesian foundation, utilizing powerful computational tools like MCMC, and applied to diverse analysis and inference problems in Astronomy. ... The goal of our Special Session is to review current practices, highlight modern techniques, and explore how the transition into the realm of Big Data Astronomy can be facilitated. ... Big Computing in Astronomy: Perspectives and Challenges . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... FileљStructure . ... varstar Struct Reference . QStringљ . ... Magnitude at maximum brightness. ... Magnitude flag code. ... First minimum magnitude or amplitude. ... Second minimum magnitude or amplitude. ... The photometric system for magnitudes. ... Definition at line 41 of file StarMgr.hpp . ... QString varstar::photosys . ... QString varstar::stype . ... QString varstar::vtype . ... The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file: . ...

... Unusual Bright Soil on Mars . ... Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , Cornell , JPL , NASA Explanation: What is this bright soil on Mars? Several times while rolling across Mars, the treads of the robotic rover Spirit have serendipitously uncovered unusually bright soil. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - Spirit rover . Publications with words: Mars - Spirit rover . ... Unusual Silica Rich Soil Discovered on Mars . ... Victoria Crater on Mars . ... Inside Victoria Crater on Mars . ...

WAD file : CLAUS_03.WAD WAD title : "Alone in the Dark" Created by : Claus Nielsen : (d93cn@sdrborges.dk) WAD Description : This is quite a huge level. ... It's just plain fun "dooming".. ... LMP file : CN03_12.LMP and CN03_16.LMP Recording time : 14min 51sec and 15min 48sec LMP Description : A walk-through of this level, where I'm giving all the secret rooms away, but still leaving some surprise I'd think. ... One of them will open a door into a shotgun and some ammo. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

Images and text 2003 Paul Valleli . While up at Stellafane for pre-convention preparations, I spent some early morning times, experimenting with different videography setups on the 13" F/10 Schupmann at the McGregor Observatory. ... Mars was too bright and would have required neutral density filters. ... Next time, I will try 12mm and 9mm projections. ... I aquired about ten thousand frames by 3AM, at which time a breeze picked up and the seeing went to Hellas! ... 2003 Paul Valleli . ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...