This mosaic of image swaths from Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper, taken with the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR), features a large dark region several hundred kilometres across that differs in several significant ways from other potential lakes observed on Titan. It is not as dark to the radar as many lakes (including the lakes seen here), and the nature of the margin is unusual. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

... More accurately, the Earth is rising. ... The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught . ... Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, has grown a long and filamentary tail. ... The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared . ... SOHO: Comet McNaught Movie . ... McNaught s Matinee . ... The Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) instrument onboard the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellite had just opened up on January 11 when it snapped the above image of Comet McNaught...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

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These include satellites which monitor the weather, such as the GOES series (one of which is shown on the right) of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ... To this class also belong "spy satellites" which observe the ground from low circular orbits. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) is currently studying the Earth atmosphere. ...

The 5 th IVS General Meeting Proceedings, 2008, p. 183­187 VLBI Data Structure, Analysis Strategies and Software Optical Characteristics of Astrometric Radio Sources Zinovy Malkin 1 , Oleg Titov 1) 2) 2 Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences Geoscience Australia e-mail: malkin@gao.spb.ru Contact author: Zinovy Malkin, Abstract. ... Our list includes source type, redshift and visual magnitude (if available). ... This results in 3914 geodetic radio sources in total. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... 29a. Satellite looking up . 29c. Satellites probing around . ... The US Air Force furthermore sponsors polar satellites of the DMSP series, scanning the cloud cover of the polar region and also studying ions and electrons of the magnetosphere. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has studied the Earth atmosphere. ... Next Satellite Class: #29c Those observing local conditions . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... The chemically peculiar star HD965 belongs to a rare type of very slow rotators. As far back as in the 90s, G.Mathys (ESO, Chile) supposed its extremely slow rotation as observing split Zeeman components in the spectrum, from which he measured the magnetic field on its surface. Field variation proved to be very slow, and G.Mathys determined that the variability period should be longer than two years. ... Up to now, only two stars with periods longer than 20 years are known. ...

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... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

FITShdr' package contains set of utilities, that allows to display or modify FITS-file headers (FITS MEF included). ... Both source tarball and i386 RPM are available for downloading: fitshdr-current.tar.gz size: 36379 MD5 checksum: 1e7222149ca36696797a6e0f4af41afc SHA1 checksum: 990bdf69f67d2b989d2d6e044deeaf9128d4470c fitshdr-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm size: 539101 MD5 checksum: 19e046da52b3ec8dd89aaed9e806bb5d SHA1 checksum: 07a4b4e2bd96a4c9fda7dc65127d0b80130c97e1 . ...

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... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EJECTA LUNAR TERRAINS. ... In the previous papers we were estimated the surface roughness of the ejecta lunar terrains by means comparison of the local phase function and the average integrated lunar indicatrix. ... The Hapke's theoretical model of the lunar surface reflection. ... For THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL: S.G. Pugacheva, V.V. Shevchenko a low-albedo lunar surface parameter Bo = 1. ...

The software package ERA (Ephemerides for Research in Astronomy) is a problem-oriented software system for solving heterogeneous calculating tasks of Ephemeris and Dynamical Astronomy. The package makes it possible to produce ephemeris calculations needed for both planning various observational programs and processing the resulting observations. ... The system includes packages of processing the position observations by both the Least Squares Method and by Kalman filtering. ...