... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...

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... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

fitshdr - FITS-file headers manipulation tool fitshdr [options] [FITSfile_name] . ... fitshdr [options] --edit FITSfile_name . ... If You want to modify headers of FITSFILE using new FITS-header lines from HEADER file (or from stdin), You have to use this option (You can skip this option, if -H or --header option is used). ... Empty header lines are not displayed (in 'dump' mode only). --line-offsets . ... In 'dump' mode: file offset will be displayed for each header line. --no-line-offsets . ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York December 2008 Volume 56 Number 12, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE Dispute Flares on Going to the Moon or Mars First By Dan Harrison Answering a question followin g h is Novem b er 21 lecture to the AAA on a 2006 mission to service the ISS, Coast Guard captain and former astronaut Daniel C. Burbank was clear in saying humans should return to the Moon before they go to Mars. ... The first image shows the Moon with Earth rising in the background. ...

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J/AstL/vol/page SAI Open Clusters Catalog (Glushkova+, 2009) ================================================================================ Automated search for star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... Color excesses E(B-V), distance moduli and ages were determined for 141 new and 27 known, but poorly studied clusters. We present the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Open Clusters Catalog (SAI OCL Catalog) of coordinates, diameters and main physical parameters of these clusters. ...

... Oleg V. Verkhodanov . ... The last few years have changed our view on the evolution of galaxies: the most distant galaxies (i.e. systems having stellar population) have been found at redshift z=6.68 (Chen H.-W., Lanzetta, K. M., Pascarelle, S. 1999, Nature, 398 , 586) and radio galaxy at z=5.19 (van Breugel W., De Breuck C., Stanford S. A., Stern D., Rottgering H., Miley G. 1999. astro-ph/9904272 ). ... Redshifts and age of stellar systems of distant radio galaxies from multicolour photometry data. ...

Symbolic circuit-matrix processor and evaluator . Authors: Filaretov V.V., Shein D.V. (Ulyanovsk State Technical University, Russia) . SYMBOL is a symbolic-algebra package which in contrast to REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MathLAB, MathCAD and other known multi-purpose systems is especially intended for analysis of any lumped, linear, time-invariant circuit. ... English documentation: . ... Symbolic circuit processor . ... Symbolic matrix processor . ... Complex evaluator . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... The project of the scientific - educational small satellite for research of Earth upper atmosphere density . ... At the end of 80th years in Kuybishev aviation institute (nowadays the Samara State Aerospace University) has been developed the project of small spherical satellite " PION ", intended as for a calibration of ground resources of tracing behind space objects, and for refinement of density of upper atmosphere of the Earth. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...