... New High Contrast Coronagraphic locations for STIS provide inner working angles of ~0.2" . ... News and . ... The smallest of these supported positions is at WEDGEA0.6, corresponding to an inner working angle of ~0.3". ... These new positions allow high contrast imaging at a minimum inner working angle of 0.15", with demonstrated performance to ~0.2"--roughly 3 lambda/D, and close to a factor of two better than WEDGEA0.6. ... http://www.stsci.edu/hst/stis/strategies/pushing/coronagraphic_bars . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by Eugene G. Edmonds . ... Mounted cameras on one . ... High Speed Fastex . camera and control units . ... Film for Apollo 11 . mission being picked . ... Edmonds facing camera) . ... Astronaut stepping . ... of the Moon . Astronaut ejection . ... Removing Apollo 11 . mission flight items . ... Edmonds with items in his hands) . ... surface of the Moon . Apollo 11 Moon rocks . ... Edmonds in blue jacket) . ...

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...

... Next: Organizing Observational Data Up: Data Models and Previous: Source-searching in Photon-event . ... We present an overview of the workings of the OGIP FITS Working Group (OFWG). ... The Office of Guest Investigator Programs (OGIP) at the Goddard Space Flight Center has organized a working group to identify appropriate conventions, and, with community support, to encourage adherence to these conventions. ... serving the entire FITS community . ... fits_info/ofwg_minutes . ...

... 2011) What is Mathematica? Slide 5 of 13 Notation & Assumptions Assuming: GW distance R >> pulsar distance D, = 0, pulsar sky direction precisely known independent noise between frequency bins and across different pulsars (OK for high f) Ignoring O x 2 curvature term in r x see however Deng, X . et al 2011 on the effect GW n Pulsar k Earth x 0 Pulsar p r (x) R 0 Earth GW What is Mathematica? ... n , rL 1 pulsars Earth L, M, J, K 1, 2, .. ... Np pulsars , IJ XI A XI ,IJ rI d00,I rJ . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev Rocket Space Corporation Energia provides manufacturing and delivery of the Russian completing parts for ATV and integration of these vehicles within the ISS Russian Segment. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: W.M. Napier, Senior Research Contents . Dr John Butler has carried out activities in the following main areas: . ... Bag?, has started a project on the link between solar activity and cosmic rays on clouds and their possible influence on the Earth's mean temperature. ... The proceedings of the meeting were edited by C.J. Butler and J.G. Doyle and published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in their conference series. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... Data acquisition and related software ( some results ). Local WWW . ... An innovative data acquisition system ( FASTI ) for astronomical IR array and Fast L3CCD optical AO detectors., Skysoft The new Astronomical Software Directory. Galileo IR camera ( NICS ), . Galileo second generation instrument Giano - [ Suggestions? GTC IR High-resolution spectrometer NAHUAL , ( local site ), . ... baffa at arcetri.astro.it . ... 39) 055 5609713 . ... My Astronomical image collection . ...

Since 1994, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's (ASP) highly successful national Project ASTRO? program has been providing opportunities for professional and amateur astronomers to contribute to science education in their local communities. ... The original "classic" Project ASTRO educator-astronomer partners found tremendous interest in what they were doing among the families of their students, and thus Family ASTRO was born to continue at home what was begun in the classroom. ...

... Дни открытых дверей к юбилею САО РАН (12-14 апреля 2016 г.) . Международная конференция "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (20-24 июня 2016 г.) . ... Международная конференция MULTI-SPIN GALAXIES - 2016 (26-30 сентября 2016 г.) . Международная астрономическая конференция "Физика звезд: от коллапса до коллапса" (3-7 октября 2016 г.) Архив . ... Подробнее.. ... 10.02.16 . ... БТА в реальном времени . ... Цейсс-1000 в реальном времени . ... Последнее обновление: 22/03/2016 ...

Our completed projects . Russian Foundation for Basic Research . ... P.I. - V.Klochkova . ... P.I. - Panchuk V.E. The team: Panchuk V., Aliev A., Tavolganskaya N., Yushkin M. Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) + GFEN . ... The team: Chentsov E., Panchuk V., Tavolganskaya N., Yushkin M. Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) . ... P.I. - Panchuk V.E. The team: Panchuk V., Ermakov M.V., Najdenov I.D., Tavolganskaya N., Yushkin M. Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) . ...

Cameras for TDI Applications Princeton Instruments offers several rectangular format cameras that are ideal for TDI applications, which require high resolution in one direction only. This allows for a lower cost system with the same high dynamic range and performance of square format imaging arrays. ... TDI Applications Imaging of conveyor belts is a common industrial application of TDI. ... Many non-destructive inspection applications require economical high resolution Xray imaging. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Work begins on the world?s most powerful radio telescope . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA Aperture Array in Australia . ... Even in its earliest phase (SKA1), the radio telescope will be the fastest and most sensitive in the world. ... A further two instruments will be in the Western Australian desert: one being an array of many hundreds of aerial clusters working at low radio frequencies, the other a range of around 90 dishes ? ...

I am a programmer for the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) project in the High Energy division of the Center for Astrophysics. I have been working here since 1984, I started as an undergraduate doing research assistant work. ... The bulk of the work I have done for the last 20 years is on the ADS: user support, and gathering and including new data (over 8.5 million abstracts, 44 million citations and still growing). ... Developing New Services ADS Home Page CfA Home Page . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 High orbit for the RadioAstron project N. S. Kardashev, B. B. Kreisman, Yu. N. Ponomarev Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia RadioAstron project is an international collaborative mission to launch a free flying satellite carrying a 10­meter radio telescope in elliptic orbit around the Earth [1,2]. ... For RadioAstron mission it is proposed to use one K­band circular polarized chan­ nel at fixed frequency 22.232 GHz. ...

Piloted complex Mir has been functioning in orbit more than 12 years. ... We propose to consider piloted complex Mir as an international one and to call the states of the space association for share financing and its joint exploitation according to the international treaty. ... The Russian side is ready for the constructive negotiations on setting up the International space station on the basis of share participating of the countries (owners) in the exploitation of the complex Mir. ...

... The program begins with a residential summer institute at the Arecibo Observatory. ... The summer program will introduce the conceptual base (atmosphere science, geology), and provide the hands-on activities with the technology and equipment that will be used to carry out the research projects. At the end of the year, participants will report their findings to colleagues and mentors in a geoscience congress that will be organized at the Arecibo Observatory. ... Arecibo Geoscience Congress . ...