... Low Polar Orbit . ... Different types of satellite orbits have different uses: while the synchronous orbit is best for communication satellites, Lagrangian point orbits help monitor the solar wind before it reaches Earth. ... Many spacecraft use such orbits, e.g. the US Air Force surveillance satellites of the DMSP series, or the series of French Earth-resources spacecraft SPOT . ... If the satellite then starts near a noon-midnight orbit, it will always pass near noon and near midnight. ...

... Concept Spacecraft . ... The proposed lentiular design concept for the Apollo spacecraft was one of several unorthodox designs rejected in favour of the more familiar conical shape which was lighter and less complex.The lenticular design was a ?road not taken?, losing out to less challenging configurations.It is strange to think that if history had proceeded differently, each Apollo crew could have ended their lunar mission by gliding to a touchdown on a runway at Edwards AFB in a flying saucer! ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... The Intercosmos-19 satellite was designed for investigations of the topside ionosphere structure and electromagnetic processes in it. ... The instruments installed onboard Intercosmos-19 were designed and manufactured by scientists of Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and USSR. ... The sounding data could be directly transmitted to a receiving station (direct mode) or be stored in the onboard memory device for a certain period and then sent to the Earth (recording mode). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... This glossary is not meant to be an exhaustive list of techno-definitions. ... Is there a term you don't see here? ... Do you know how to pronounce the CONSTELLATIONS , STARS , or the PLANETS and their MOONS ? ... First Law - the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at a focus . ... LIGHT BUCKET: A common slang term for a large apertures . ... LIGHT POLLUTION: The illumination of the night sky caused by artificial light sources on the ground (streetlights, billboards, etc.) ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

Interstellar Radio Messages . ... One-Dimensional Radio Message to Blind Aliens . ... Project METI@home: Messages to ETI from Home . ... Limitations on Volume of Interstellar Radio Messages . Synthesis and Transmission of Cosmic Call 2003 Interstellar Radio Message . ... Transforming SETI to METI . ... Test SETI during Transmissions of Interstellar Radio Messages . Sending and Searching of Interstellar Messages . ... The First Musical Interstellar Radio Message . ... IRE RAS 1996-200 9 ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

The design of IAO-Diploma has academic (conservative) style. ... The first row consists of three cells. ... Second cell - logo of EAAS - Galaxy, negative image. ... The second row consists of one cell, two lines. ... Second line - words 'International Astronomy Olympiad'. ... There should be a text in English with the name of the awarded student, his or her team, explanation of awarding including the degree of Diploma and the Number of the International Astronomy Olympiad like: Adam Kohl . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... solar system . ... exoplanets . ... New camera for detecting exoplanets . The Subaru Telescope will utilize a new instrument in the hunt for planets beyond our solar system. ... A further advantage of the HiCIAO camera is that it will be used in concert with an adaptive optics (AO) system that was recently significantly upgraded, which, in turn, increased the clarity of Subaru's vision by a factor of ten, opening up more of the night sky to observing. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope to be added to ESOтАЩs Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ... It is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to sky surveys in visible light. The VST was designed and built by the INAFтАУOsservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy as part of a joint venture between INAF and ESO. €а . ... VLT Survey Telescope . ...

NAME httpd - Apache hypertext transfer protocol server SYNOPSIS httpd [ - X ] [ - R libexecdir ] [ - d serverroot ] [ - f config ] [ - C directive ] [ - c directive ] [ - D parameter ] httpd [ - h ] [ - l ] [ - L ] [ - v ] [ - V ] [ - S ] [ - t ] [ - T ] DESCRIPTION httpd is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. ... This manual page only lists the command line arguments. ... Paths in this manual may not reflect those compiled into httpd. ... The default is /usr/local/apache . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Design Notes . ... Here are some of the features and notes about PmWiki's design decisions. ... PmWiki:Flat File Advantages - why PmWiki uses flat files to store pages instead of an SQL database . PmWiki:Hierarchical Groups - why PmWiki doesn't support nested groups . ... PmWiki:Page File Format - the format of PmWiki's page files . ... PmWiki:WYSIWYG - why not WYSIWYG. ... See Design Notes and PmWiki:Hierarchical Groups . ... For the reasons why, see PmWiki:WYSIWYG . ...

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... According to the National Space Program of Ukraine on 1998-2002 the experimental space system WARNING has to be designed and launched in 2001. ... Composition of scientific payload is implemented in the international cooperation. ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRC), Ukraine. ... Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (SRI), Kiev, UKRAINE; . ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRI), Lviv, UKRAINE; . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Parameterization of the Solar Radiation Pressure model for GPS satellites I. S. Gayazov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The treatment of solar radiation pressure (SRP) effect until now is the main problem in precise modeling of GPS satellite orbits. ... In practice, however, all seven parameters of the empirical model cannot be confidently determined from phase observations. ... Bar­Sever Y. E. A new model for GPS yaw attitude. ...

... Geophys., v.15, N 5, 1997; Cosmic Research, v.36, N 1 and N 3, 1998, and some are in preparation (Ann. ... 1998; Cosmic Research, v.36, N 6, 1998; N 3, 1999). ... As a part of these efforts, the Space Research Institute (IKI, Moscow) will organize a topical symposium "DYNAMICS of the MAGNETOSPHERE and ITS COUPLING TO THE IONOSPHERE at MULTIPLE SCALES from INTERBALL, ISTP SATELLITES and GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS" during February 1999 at Zvenigorod (a resort 50 km from Moscow). ... Moscow, 117810 . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... LX600 Series . ... 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. ... MeadeтАЩs LX90 ACF is a favorite of astronomers making the jump to their first, serious, larger aperture telescope. ... Astronomer InsideтДв then takes you on a guided multimedia tour of the best objects in your sky. ...

... Incremental cost is therefore limited to a simple 16-bit up down hardware counter interface buffer for the interpolator and 9 bits of a 16 bit port for the absolute encoder. Teledyne-Gurley Model 8626, 2 required @ $1400 $2800 Complete Duplicate Spares $2800 . BEI Model M25, 2 required @ $1000 $2000 Complete Duplicate Spares $2000 . ... Datacube VG-120 Multibus video interface $3000 Spare $3000 Panasonic B/W CCD camera, 2 req'd @ $1000 $2000 One spare camera $1000 . ...