Three education activities and teachers' workshops will take place at the San Diego meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 7 - 11 June. ... Many astronomers (about 40% of AAS members according to the recent ASP/AAS survey) now have some involvement in K-12 education. ... Consequently, NIST's Metric Program offers an array of products designed to educate the public on the history and merits of the metric system. ... Visit the Metric Program on the web at http://www.nist.gov/metric . ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Equipment testing began on January 4. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is equipped with six sensors that measure the magnetic field in different compartments of the device, fix electrical discharges and the impact of the space environment on the equipment functionality. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is the third unit of the series, which was created in SSAU Institute of Space Device Engineering led by Professor Nicholay Syomkin. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

... Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. ... NASA Astronaut (Deceased) . ... SPECIAL HONORS: The Air Force Legion of Merit, The Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, The Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross Cluster, The NASA Exceptional Service Medal, The NASA Distinguished Service Medal, USAF Command Astronaut Wings, The Collier Trophy , The Harmon Trophy , The Scottish Rite 33, The York Rite Knight of the Purple Cross, The DeMolay Legion of Honor, The John F. Kennedy Trophy , The Ivan E....

MICROSCOPES . ... NIGHT VISION DEVICES . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... LOMO® has designed and manufactured optical devices ranging from microscopes and endoscopes to telescopes and night vision devices . ... Since the end of the Cold War LOMO ® has been able to continue its tradition of quality and innovation by offering its diverse products and technologies to the scientific, medical, industrial and educational communities in North America. ... LOMO PLC has received the ISO 9001 Certificate . ...

... The Post-Reduction Off-line Software (PROS) is a portable x-ray analysis software system designed to run under NOAO's Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). The PROS system provides IRAF users with tasks that will properly access the x-ray data. ... Similarly many IRAF tasks will be useful for x-ray data. ... The IRAF system, previous to the development of the PROS software, provided many of the features needed to analyze generic astronomical data, optical data in particular. ...

... Telescopes . LX850 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. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Acrobat 80 - Advanced Photo Tripod . ... Acrobat 80 - Advanced Photo Tripod #608051. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

NAME apachectl - Apache HTTP server control interface SYNOPSIS apachectl command [.. DESCRIPTION apachectl is a front end to the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to help the adminis- trator control the functioning of the Apache httpd daemon. NOTE: If your Apache installation uses non-standard paths, you will need to edit the apachectl script to set the appropriate paths to your PID file and your httpd binary. See the comments in the script for details. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

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 . ...

Neutron Star Group . Analytical Representations of Equations of State of Neutron Star Matter . These analytical representations are designed for older equations of state FPS and SLy4. For newer equations of state BSk19-20-21, see this http URL . ... Description of EOS subroutines . ... Alexander Potekhin ( Department of Theoretical Astrophysics of the Ioffe Institute ): palex@astro.ioffe.ru . ... Page created on April 5, 2004 , last updated on May 20, 2007 by Alexander Potekhin . ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

Description and Technical Details . In 1980s two medium-size horizontal solar telescopes 50/35000 cm with large spectrographs Czerny-Turner made by Carl Zeiss Jena were installed in the Ondњejov observatory. The Czerny-Turner-spectrographs in the Ondњejov observatory called HSFA1 and HSFA2 according to the German name Horizontal-Sonnen-Forschungs-Anlage ("horizontal device for solar research") have been explored for more than two decades. ... Diffraction grating - Richardson, Spectra-Physics . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... ClassљIndex . ... StelVertexBuffer< V > Class Template Reference . Vertex buffer interface. ... Destroy the vertex buffer. ... addVertex (const V &vertex) . ... getVertex (const int index) const . Return vertex at specified index in the buffer. ... setVertex (const int index, const V &vertex) . Set vertex at specified index in the buffer. ... Each StelRenderer backend might have a different vertex buffer buffer implementation. ...

YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Spacecraft Yamal-100, Yamal-200 were developed by the Corporation based on the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia-designed Multi-purpose Satellite Bus under a contract with Gascom within the framework of the Russian Federal SpaceProgram. ... Yamal-200 satellites were launched on November 24, 2003 at 9 hours 22 minutes, Moscow Time. Proton-K launch vehicle put the orbital module into its reference orbit. ... Orbit . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 7.01.2006 . ... First cataloged as a star, 30 Doradus is actually an immense star forming region in nearby galaxy The Large Magellanic Cloud. ... Iapetus, the third largest moon of Saturn, was inspected again as the Saturn-orbiting robot Cassini spacecraft swooped past the enigmatic world again late last year. ... APOD: 2006 January 1- The Largest Rock in the Solar System . ... The year 2005 began with Cassini's Huygens probe landing on Saturn's large moon Titan. ...

... Сковорода "Frybest" изготовлена по новейшей технологии из литого алюминия с керамическим антипригарным покрытием Ecolon, в производстве которого используются природные материалы безопасные для здоровья. Благодаря специальному утолщенному дну, сковорода равномерно распределяет тепло. ... Сковорода подходит для электрической, стеклокерамической, газовой и галогеновой плиты. ... Цвет: белый . Платья с запахом . ... Цвет - желтый. ... Женское платье трикотажное . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Orlan-DMA-GN" is used in the neutral buoyancy facility of the Yu. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and is designed for cosmonauts training under neutral buoyancy conditions for mastering the forthcoming EVA operations programs. ... Since there is an air between the space suit layers and the cosmonaut's body, the reverse affectation decreases sharply (a peculiar self-control of an organism, mostly subconscious, which flows via the feedback channels). ...

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