... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... index.php (1) | bbclone/ | ... To do you can use the following sample and point your browser to it. <?php define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", "Test"); define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ... Create the file "count.php" and add the following: <?php define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/the/path/that/leads/to/bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

An example of visual expert system. The program is written on Actor Prolog. -- -- (c) Alexei A. Morozov, March 19, 1999. ... Actually I wrote this program to train myself -- -- in carrying out SADT interview. ... A logical description of the blocks of the SADT model. ... The main purpose of these classes is keeping lists of cooking -- -- battery corresponding to various blocks of the SADT model. ...

... Byte-by-byte Description of files: star -S1.txt , star -S2.txt, star -S3.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations 1- 4 I4 --- YYYY Year of the date 6- 7 I2 --- MM Month of the date 9- 10 I2 d DD Day of the date 13- 14 I2 h h Hour of the day 18- 24 F7,2 d JD* Julian day of the date , JD*=JD-2450000.5 28- 31 F4.1 degrees M-S Apparent distance between ...

... THANK YOU NASA. ... I decided to return to a full-time job (after a 15-year hiatus raising my children). I took a civil service exam, was called the next day and assigned as a GS-5 to the Flight Operations Division, NASA Space Task Group, to Chris [Christopher C.] Kraft and Charles [W.] Mathews (Chief) located in separate buildings, on the West Side of Langley Air Force Base. ... Chris Kraft was also the Mission Flight Director for the Mercury Astronauts. ... Return to JSC Oral History Website . ...

The most recent kpyymm.tab (yymm stands for year and month, each expressed with two digits) files are distributed per e-mail half-monthly by Dr. H.-J. Linthe, mailto:kp_index@gfz-potsdam.de Both recent and past tables are supplied as an archive on the FTP servers . ... Since many observatories are interested mainly in the international quietest and most disturbed days, beginning August 1996 three extra lines have been added to the end of the table containing these values in an easy to read form. ...

... To accomplish this, the data model will use a layered design. ... Figure: Layered Design of the ASC Data Model. ... The decision to adopt the ETOOLS package as the generic layer of the implementation of the ASC data model was made because it meets the implementation requirements. ... Standard API Independent of Data Format : Because of the ETOOLS kernel approach, tools and applications designed and implemented on top of the ETOOLS package can access different disk file formats through the same API. ...

... Several HTML elements, most notably the A element , may contain an attribute which takes a URL as value. URLs, Uniform Resource Locators, are addresses of Web documents. More generally, URLs can be used on the Web to refer to "objects" on the Web or in other information systems. ... http . a Web document (to be accessed using Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP ) . ... file . ... In particular, the specifications say that within a URL only a limited set of characters can be used as such : . ...

... IC1848 . IC1848 - The "Embryo" or "Soul" Nebula . ... It is variously referred to as the "Soul Nebula" or "Embryo Nebula", due to its resemblance to a baby. ... This image is a tricolor narrowband image, taken with Ha, OIII, and SII filters. ... Astrodon 50mm Ha, OIII, and SII filters, with 6nm bandpass . ... Ha: 8 hours of 30 minute subs . OIII: 14.5 hours of 30 minute subs . SII: 11.75 hours ...totalling 34.25 hours . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...

... The words are numbered according to the reference mentioned above. ... 59 WORD wSecond ; // 0 .. 59 satellite tracking start time (GMT) float fStep ; // reserved WORD wMass ; // reserved BYTE reserved [12] ; // reserved WORD wExtraBytes ; // reserved } TRAJECTORYHEADER ; NOTE: the satellite tracking start time is a hardware operating start time to follow satellite. typedef struct { // ephemeris at satellite tracking start time double time ; // Epoch time (yyddd.ddddddddd)...

... 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. ...

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As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

These are very prominent absorption lines is most all galaxies. ... These pair of absorption lines will appear in all the spectra and they should be your principle source for determining the redshift. ... When this applet opens you will see an iconic representation of galaxies in the left hand side of the applet and a target area in the right side of the applet. ... Note: What you are doing in this excercise is identical to what Hubble did in the 1920's and you are using the same galaxies. ...

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. ...