... SSAU History . ... The Ground Control Complex for Small Spacecraft of Samara State Aerospace University took control of the satellites Aist-1 . ... The data received from SSAU scientific equipment on board of the satellites Aist-1 was processed by the engineers of the Rocket and Space Centre and then was transferred to the university scientists. ... On April 19, 2013 the first small spacecraft Aist-1 was launched from the space-launch complex Baykonur together with a research satellite Bion-M No. ...

Allows you to specify a drift scan: motion at a constant velocity along a great circle. ... The path starts at the new object position (though the telescope actually intersects the path later, see Subtleties ). ... Note that the units are always /sec for both axes. ... The velocity along the path is 0.01 /sec. ... The path is assumed to start when you hit the Slew button (more precisely, when the TCC parses the command). However, it takes the telescope awhile to slew to meet the specified path. ...

... Stars . ... Straight away the three stars in his belt will grab your attention, followed by the glittering white star Rigel in his left foot and the bright orangish star Betelgeuse in his right shoulder (assuming Orion is standing facing us and not with his back to us). ... Orion Belt?s with the stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. ... In short, Orion was a big, loud giant of a man and indeed a mighty hunter, he also inherited some aquatic superpowers from his father who was the sea god Neptune. ...

This WWW form allows the user to list selected portions of the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) radio source catalog. ... Until the completion of the survey the source catalog will NOT cover the entire region of the survey and care must be exercised in interpreting the results of a catalog search. ... The second parameter in the "Search radius" box or one of the optional items in a position list can be used to specify a region in which to look for other sources. ... An example of a position list entry is: . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... On systems with multiple users, each user can be permitted to have a web site in their home directory using the UserDir directive. Visitors to a URL http://example.com/~username/ will get content out of the home directory of the user " username ", out of the subdirectory specified by the UserDir directive. ... Per-user web directories . ... the URL http://example.com/~rbowen/file.html will be translated to the file path /home/rbowen/public_html/file.html . ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

. Next: About this document ... Up: Part IV Extragalactic Astronomy Previous: Magnitudes . Sky brightnesses in magnitudes per square arcsecond. This data is from Siding Spring observatory - other observatories will be comparable or worse. U . B . V . R . I . J . H . K . Kn . Dark Sky . 22.8 . 22.5 . 21.5 . 20.8 . 19.3 . 6-day Moon ... 21.3 . 20.8 . 20.4 . 19.2 . Full Moon ... 18.8 . 18.5 . 18.9 . 18.2 . 15.0 . 13.7 . 12.5 . 13.7 . Paul Francis . 1999-03-09

... DIGITAL EDITIONS . ... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Bright galaxies . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy...

... This function can also be used for particular types of subtypes or kinds: KIND (0) integer KIND (0.0) floating point number KIND (.FALSE.) logical variable KIND ("A") string of characters There is an intrinsic function SELECTED_REAL_KIND , which returns the kind of the type REAL that has a representation with (at least) the precision and the exponential range requested. ... With the choice SELECTED_INT_KIND (5) all integers between (but not including the limits) -100 000 and +100 000 are permitted. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... Triangle Service Station, Seaford, Virginia (Summer 1954) York Air Conditioner, Warwick, Virginia (Summer 1955) Colonial National Park, Yorktown, Virginia (Summer 1956) NACA Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia Math Aid, Structural Dynamic Section, High Temperature Branch , Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (1957-1958) Research Engineer , Analysis and Computation Branch , Structures Research Division , ... B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. ...

The sky inhabitants - the constellations. ... The constellations of Zodiac. The constellations of Zodiac are very popular. ... They were counted from the point of vernal equinox. ... As a result all the Zodiac row of constellatio