Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...

This service is intended as an aid to visually observing close-approaching asteroids. ... By clicking on the column headers for "Object Name", "Maximum Brightness", and "Maximum Angular Speed", you can sort the list by those fields. ... When This is the predicted time when the asteroid will be closest to the Earth. ... This field shows red if an asteroid comes as close as the moon. ... PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) This does NOT mean that this is going to hit the Earth. ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

... Mysterious Changing feature on Titan . ... 15.10.2014 . ... Credit Copyright: Cassini Radar Mapper , ASU , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: What is that changing object in a cold hydrocarbon sea of Titan? Radar images from the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have been recording the surface of the cloud-engulfed moon Titan for years. ... Subsequent observations in 2014 found the object remained -- but had changed! ... Publications with keywords: Titan . Publications with words: Titan . ...

... Астрософт (Модератор: tlgleonid ) > . Celestia или как там ее . ... Right drag: orbit the selected object . ... Ctrl + Left drag: adjust distance to selection . Shift + Left drag: change field of view (e.g. => telescopic view) . Wheel (middle button) click: toggle field of view between 45 degrees . ... Chase selected object (orientation is based on selection's velocity) . T : Track selected object (keep selected object centered in view) . ... Ctrl+P : Mark selected object . ...

... SATELLITE: An object that revolves around a planet. ... SIDEREAL DAY: The length of a planet's rotation period relative to the stars. SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun and all the objects that are held in its gravitational field and move around it. ... SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION: The position of a planet when it is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth (thus making in invisible). ... TRANSIT: The movement of an object between the Earth and the Sun and showing on the surface of the sun as a black dot. ...

... Here are some tips on how to get the best guiding out of our current system. ... NA2 Guider Tips . ... Optical double stars, late-type galaxies, and bipolar PNs may pose a problem for guiding, as will objects where you desire to observe a position away from the bright center (e.g., SNs near bright galaxies). ... Field Star is good if your object is too faint or asymmetrical for Boresight guiding, or if you need the slit to be off-center. ... Use Field Star guiding almost always. ...

... Drive the Reflector in elevation to the zenith position. ... Elevation | ... 7 SUMMARY OF REFLECTOR SURFACE ACCURACY MEASUREMENT Test Date: Start Time: End Time: Weather Conditions during Test: Comments: By- _________________ Date- _______________ SUB-REFLECTOR AND FEED POSITION AND ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT 1 2 OVERVIEW This test is to measure and record the positions of the sub- reflector and feed horn using photogrammetry. ... 3 4 SUB-REFLECTOR/FEED POSITION AND ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT TEST PROCEDURE 1...

... See also changes and comments in configure.in # prefix = @prefix@ exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@ DESTDIR = CFITSIO_LIB = ${DESTDIR}@libdir@ CFITSIO_INCLUDE = ${DESTDIR}@includedir@ INSTALL_DIRS = @INSTALL_ROOT@ ${CFITSIO_INCLUDE} ${ CFITSIO_LIB } ${ CFITSIO_LIB }/pkgconfig SHELL = / bin /sh RANLIB = @RANLIB@ CC = @CC@ CFLAGS = @ CFLAGS @ SSE_FLAGS = @SSE_FLAGS@ FC = @FC@ LDFLAGS = $( CFLAGS ) DEFS = @ DEFS @ LIBS = @ ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­209 OM Grisms Astrometry A. Talavera, A. Breeveld June 13, 2006 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE EVALDATE List of Blocks changed XSCS flag OM ASTROMET 0012 2000­01­01T00:00:00 --- FILTER­GRISM10 NO --- FILTER­GRISM20 NO --- POLYNOM MAP NO --- POLYNOM MAP2 NO 2 Changes When using the OM grisms, the position of the sources in the field of view is translated to the grism image in the position of their corresponding zero orders. ...

Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe . Articles | ... Learning about the universe, or the study of astronomy, can be fun for the individual or for the whole family. ... Learning a few simple terms will help you with this fascinating study. ... You will use a telescope or binoculars for your observation of the sky at night. ... Celestial Terms . ... Meteor or a shooting star – the light caused when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Ever wonder how solar-mass stars form?. ... In order for material to accrete onto a protostar it has to lose angular momentum. The angular momentum of a large natal cloud leads to the formation of a circumstellar disk and inner accretion disk as the cloud collapses. ... Winds generated in the inner disk or close to the stellar surface (we don't know which) expel material along the disk rotation axis. ... This provides the highest resolution observational data on nearby young stars. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... Dear participants! According to the forecast on Monday (09/21) the rain is expected. ... It will be announced on Monday during the Plenary session. ... List of participants . ... Conference program . Conference poster . Conference venue . Conference proceedings . ...

... 13, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation, e-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru; 2 Research Institute Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea 334413, Ukraine, e-mail: prok@crao.crimea.ua Summary: We propose a combined method of astronomical investigations of small or distant planets incorporating registration of a set of integral spectra of an object and their frequency analysis. ... An application of the method is shown on example of asteroid 21 Lutetia. ... 6] Busarev V. V. (2002), Solar Sys. ...

Program to display an object's position in real time} {Set the delimiter to % so we can use , in prompts} set_delimiter(%) {On first pass, get the name of the object etc.} if (s1=.) set_string (s1%Sun) display _title(+++ Real-time Positions +++) write_string (Possible objects are:) new_line write_string (Sun, Moon, name of a planet, parabolic or elliptical) new_line new_line ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Supernova Class Reference . ... Supernova (const QVariantMap &map) . ... Get a QVariantMap which describes the supernova. ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getAngularSize (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Непознанное, необъяснимое, загадочное > Planet 2003!! ... Просмотр полной версии : Planet 2003!! Denis . ... странник" приобретает скорость, равную почти 1000 км / с, у меня возник вопрос: . ... To Marc W. Buie (Lowell Observatory), 2000 CR105 was at first just another distant discovery among dozens found during his team's ongoing search for trans-Neptunian objects using 4-meter telescopes in Arizona and Chile. ...

... Phase Diversity Imaging: Real Time Correction of the Atmosphere and Telescope . Dr. Robert A. Gonsalves . ... Join us this month for what promises to be an engaging talk by Dr. Robert A. Gonsalves, “Phase Diversity Imaging: Real Time Correction of the Atmosphere and Telescope.” Phase diversity imaging uses multiple images of an object to combat the deleterious effect of the changes in the atmosphere and telescope. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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