On optical characteristics of non-spherical scatterers . ... Usually one assumes that the radiation from a very distant source is incident on a scatterer and then this radiation can be represented by a plane wave . ... Amplitude matrix . ... The elements of the amplitude matrix on the directions of propagation of the incident and scattered radiations, the size, morphology and chemical composition of the scatterer as well as its orientation in the laboratory system. ... Scattering matrix . ...

... Proximity e#ects of com­ ponents (reflection of radiation and surface gravity darkening) are taken into account. ... As an example, we consider the Algol (# Persei) system, where an eclipsing pair (Algol A­B) is accompanied by the third component (Algol C). ... The surface temperature distribution for Algol A­B system before (upper plot) and after (lower plot) correction for temperature due to the irradiation e#ect. ... We solve this equation by the iterative Newton­Raphson method. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

Comment on J2246-1206 . In contrast to the jet pointing to the NE in our image, the 5 GHz VLBI image of Shen et al. (1998) shows no indication of extended emission above the 20 mJy/beam level. Hong et al. (1999) find a jet component to the SE and identify that with a "superluminal" component possibly ejected in 1992. A 15 GHz image from the USNO database, taken nearly at the same epoch as the image of Hong et al. (1999) does not show any component at this position angle. ...

EXCERPT from BIENNIAL REVIEW REPORT 1997­1998 Agris J. Kalnajs June 17, 1999 1 1 Research conducted and proposed 1.1 Star Streaming The Hipparcos data was released in 1997. The top panel of Figure 1 shows a plot of the tangential velocity components along the Galactic plane in the direction pointed to by the Galactic longitude l. These stars, with distance errors less than 10%, are within 100 parsecs of the Sun and have a B - V < 0.8 . ... Such streaming will occur naturally in a barred galaxy. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . GSC 3710-00312, USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 . ... Variability type: . ... USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 is located at the distance of 15?.7 from the X-ray source 1RXS J031707.9+572942, which is larger than the position error of the source (12?), but its hardness ratio HR1 = 0.03 0.29, typical of chromospherically active stars, and its character of variability allow us to assume that the star is related to the X-ray source. ... Eclipsing variability . Sine wave 1 . ...

... Let G be a locally compact Hausdorff group and µ be a Haar measure on G. a) If H is an open subgroup, show the restriction µ|H is a Haar measure on H . ... K A open U A µ(K ), for all Borel sets is called a regular measure. A Borel measure satisfying the first condition for all Borel sets A and the second condition when A is open or finite is called a -regular measure, so by definition a Haar measure is -regular. This exercise gives an example of a Haar measure which is not regular. ...

... The Radon transform (also known as the Hough transform) is formulated as a family of line integrals through a two-dimensional function. ... The Radon transform provides us with a simple means of computing the FF plane of the autochirplet transform, by using the Wigner distribution, and arriving at a transform space that tells us basically the same information as the chirplet FF-plane, except that we benefit from the greater resolution of the Wigner distribution. ...

SINGULAR POINTS IN THE SOLAR CHROMOSPHERE . ... In the structure of the solar chromosphere, containing information on the configuration of the magnetic field, we have found and identified all the main types of the singular points ( see Fig. 1 ), which are known as inherent features of the 2-D vector field. ... The main types of the singular points are the node, the focus, the center, and the saddle. ... Singular point of the focus type in the solar chromosphere. ...

... 2014 July 21 . Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has Two Components . Image Credit: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team ; MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA . Explanation: Why does this comet's nucleus have two components? The surprising discovery that Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a double nucleus came late last week as ESA 's robotic interplanetary spacecraft Rosetta continued its approach toward the ancient comet's core. ... About APOD | ...

The Sun 65 Joule heating of plasma in current-carrying coronal magnetic loops V.V. Zaitsev1 , A.A. Stepanov 1 2 2 Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Central Astronomical Observatory, Pulkovo, St.Peterburg, Russia Introduction Already rst X-ray observations made on "Skylab" in 1969 Vaiana, et al., 1970 have shown that solar corona consists of a lots of magnetic eld loops, lled with a hot plasma. ... In this case the magnetic eld of the tube is approximately parallel to the z, axis. ...

... Pointers to Pointers . ... Pointers to a Function . ... We have introduced some advanced pointer issues already. This chapter brings together some topics we have briefly mentioned and others to complete our study C pointers. ... main(int argc, char **argv) . ... These are the only arguments main accepts. argc is the number of arguments typed -- including the program name. argv is an array of strings holding each command line argument -- including the program name in the first array element. ...

This all-sky image shows the spatial distribution over the whole sky of the galactic haze at 30 and 44 GHz, extracted from the Planck observations. In addition to this component, other foreground components such as charged particles accelerated radially, known as synchrotron radiation, thermal dust, spinning dust, and extragalactic point sources contribute to the total emission detected by Planck at these frequencies. ... ESA/Planck Collaboration ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Listed Since October 22, 1998 . ... 203) 484-7705 . ... 203) 484-9016 . Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Telescopes . ... The LX850 combines innovative concepts like StarlockтДв fulltime automatic guiding and high-precision pointing, f/8 ACF OTAs with internal Crayford-style two-speed focuser and a portable precision German equatorial mount. ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade Green Laser Pointer- a great item for star parties and backyard astronomy. ...

... Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine ESTEC ESA, Noordwijk, the Netherland NTUU «KPI», Kyiv, Ukraine REALIZATION OF LASER EXPERIMENTS WITH ESA'S GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE ARTEMIS A laser communication system was developed for space-to-ground laser -link experiments between the geostationary satellite ARTEMIS (orbital position is 21.5є East, orbital inclination is more than 7.2є) and optical ground-based station in Kyiv ... A ARTEMIS ARTEMIS ( 21.5° . ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

... Tracking stations will be selected in accordance with the schedule issued daily by the General Operative Control Group (GOCG) in Lavochkin Association with the gaps in operations during spacecraft contact with the control stations (CS). ... Communication frequencies (carrier): high data rate information transmission downlink from the SRT ­ 15.000 GHz; uplink synchronization ­ 7.2075 GHz; downlink synchronization ­ 8.400 GHz. ...