... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... Home Observing UACNJ-Jenny Jump State Park . ... Clear Sky Chart . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... UACNJ has an excellent facility in Jenny Jump State Park in northwestern New Jersey that is available to the member clubs. ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by...

Architect's Drawing: ARC 3.5-mTelescope This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Astrophysical Research Consortium's (ARC) 3.5-m Telescope (1994 - 2014) dedication. ... It was a pioneer telescope in remotely operating the telescope and instruments. ... Four telescopes are currently operated: The Sloan Foundation 2.5-m Telescope, the ARC Small Aperture 0.5-m Telescope, the New Mexico State University 1.0-m Telescope, and the ARC 3.5-m Telescope. ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....

... Solar System . ... Sun . ... Comets . ... Some get thrown out of the solar system forever, whereas others end up on yet smaller orbits, visiting the inner solar system fairly frequently - such as comet Halley. ... When a comet moves into the inner solar system, this is heated by the Sun, and the ices turn into gas which forms the head or coma of the comet, which may be hundreds of thousands of kilometres across and visible from Earth. The most striking part of many active comets is the tail . ...

... for Cosmic Ray Observation is situated in Irkutsk (Russia). ... Real-time (preliminary) cosmic ray data in Irkutsk . ... Online Cosmic Ray and Atmospheric Pressure Data Base . ... Real-time data Uncorrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) -- since 05.2001 . Real-time data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 min - 1 year) --- since 09.2001 . Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- since 06.2001 . Final data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- From 01.1975 To 07.2004 . ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... SRC "Planeta" is executing operative control and guidance management of ground system for receiving and processing satellite data that includes three regional centers: European Center (SRC "Planeta", Moscow, with branch offices in Obninsk and Dolgoprudny), Siberian Center (regional department in Novosibirsk) €а& Far-Eastern Center (regional department in Khabarovsk). ... Catalogues of received and processed satellite data are available on€а SRC "Planeta" web-sites: . SRC "Planeta" . ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Station coordinates from observations of DORIS system TOPEX/Poseidon satellite M. V. Vasiliev, E. I. Yagudina Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The satellite system DORIS (Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning In­ tegrated by Satellites System) is the effective means of space geodesy and geody­ namics. ... Along with SLR, GPS observations of DORIS system are used also for EOP parameters de­ termination. ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008