Operating of the superconducting integrated receiver channel of the TELIS atmospheric sounder. ... The noise temperature of the SIR was measured to be as low as 120 K, with an intermediate frequency band of 4 ­ 8 GHz in double sideband operation; the spectral resolution is well below 1 MHz. The SIR was implemented in the three-channel balloon-borne instrument TELIS (TErahertz and submillimeter LImb Sounder) that detects spectral emission lines of stratospheric trace gases (like ClO and BrO). ...

... Instrument Status . Science Verification . ... CRIRES . ... SV observer shall submit their proposals using the Science Verification proposal template Proposers are asked to provide at least a short summary of the science goal, coordinates and magnitudes of GS and science target, a finding chart , the observing wavelength ID, as specified in appendix A of the UM and DIT, NDIT settings of science detectors as computed with the exposure time calculator (see below). ... with a 0.2 arcsec slit. ...

... CYLINDRICAL PROJECTIONS: -Jc lon0 / lat0 / scale (Cassini) -Jj lon0 / scale (Miller) -Jm scale ( Mercator - Greenwich and Equator as origin) -Jm lon0 / lat0 / scale ( Mercator - Give meridian and standard parallel) -Joa lon0 / lat0 / azimuth / scale (Oblique Mercator - point and azimuth) -Job lon0 / lat0 / lon1 / lat1 / scale (Oblique Mercator - two points) -Joc lon0 / Je lon0 / lat0 / scale (Equidistant). Jf lon0 / lat0 / horizon / scale (Gnomonic). ...

This version offers .. Remote or local operation of the Santa Barbara Instrument Group SG-4 Autoguider . Automatic selection of high speed serial communication . Expose, download, and display on ds9 images taken with the device . Calibrate and autotrack on command . All-in-one standalone version . ... Recorded using XmGuider with an SBIG SG-4 on a 0.5-meter corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory. ... Last version 1.0.5 updated June 18, 2010 . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Microsatellite . ... Development testing of microsatellite (with mass up to 50 kg) injection from transport cargo vehicle (TCV) Progress with the use of transport-launch container fastened by operators to docking assembly (DA) ring. ... Microsatellite Chibis-M fastened on TLC as part of TCV Progress M-13M is delivered to the ISS RS. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Over the years of its successful business operations , ISC Kosmotras has performed 22 Dnepr orbital flights with a total of 128 payloads inserted into their orbits. ... Below is the list of payloads lofted into their target orbits on Dnepr launch missions put together by ISC Kosmotras: . ... MEGSAT-1 (Italy) . ... LATINSAT-A, -B (USA) . ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program controls the data acquisition according to the specified schedule of the sessions. ... The calibration of AVHRR instrument data is performed during acquisition . The program can be started in parallel with the satellite pass visualization, that allows the user to monitor a session and store data only relevant to specific regions in manual selection mode. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...

... In January 2015 using the Mini-MegaTORTORA multichannel optical sky-monitoring system with subsecond temporal resolution, the observations of comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) and asteroid 357439 2004 BL86 were carried out. ... It was put into operation in 2014. ... Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). The 60-min-long observations with the Mini-MegaTORTORA system on Jan 19, 2015 at 16:50 UT, exposure time 30 s, BVR synchronously . ... Asteroid 357439 2004 BL86. ...

... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

... The antenna system . ... A military radar system, consisting of two identical radars, was transferred to the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP). ... The system features a two-channel transmit-receive antenna. ... By changing the phase difference in the channels, one is able to modify the shape of the total channels' beam in the angle-of-elevation plane. ... The total beam is controlled by introducing the phase signal into the excitation signal of one of the channels. ... Peak power.. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

AIA ARGENTINE ISLANDS OBSERVATORY INFORMATION 2004 ACKNOWLEDGEM: Users of the AIA-data should acknowledge: National Antarctic Scientific Center (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) STATION ID : AIA LOCATION : West Antarctica, Antarctic peninsula ORGANIZATION: National Antarctic Scientific Center (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) WEB-ADDRESS : www.uac.gov.ua LATITUDE : -65.25 Deg. ... Since 1980 Fluxgate EDA magnetometer have been used for the digital record. ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... PHASE т?? ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Swift satellite records early phase of gamma-ray burst . ... United Kingdom astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma-ray burst - the most violent and luminous explosions occurring in the universe since the Big Bang. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Archives . ... It refers to the spread in the measured energy of an incoming photon, and even astronomers often stumble over what it is and what it contains. ... The R edistribution M atrix F ile (RMF) is, at its most basic, a description of how the detector responds to incoming photons. ... The process of measuring the energy introduces a measurement error, which is encoded as the probability that incoming photons at energy E are read out in detector channels i . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ...