Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... Pre-university education . ... The works on optimization of Samara State Aerospace University Development Programme are scheduled until the end of 2014 and include four strategic sessions to be held in SSAU. Programme of Strategic Session 2 . ... Session goal: working out strategic initiatives and actions on SSAU s development until 2020 . ... discussion of strategic initiatives for SSAU s development, aimed at solving problems and eliminating gaps defined on the results of Strategic Session 1; . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Hayabusa update . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... Telescopes . ... 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 Atomic Time Update Module #07581. ... The Meade Atomic Time Update Module eliminates the need to manually enter the local (wrist watch) time on start up of the telescope prior to alignment. Plugs into the Atomic Time Update Module Port of the LNT Module Viewfinder with an included patch cord. ...

... Previous: Filtering KPNO LaTeX Observing Proposals with Perl . ... The Planning and Scheduling Tool was designed allow the user easily to take advantage of all available resources of the four telescopes (LASCO's three coronagraphs and the EIT Telescope) to maximize the use of the telemetry downlink. The Planning Tool allows users to develop customized observing sequences while monitoring compression factors and on-board processing times to realistically work within the limits of the instruments. ...

Hide Zen home . ... GiST . GIN . ... For integer arrays GIN is 10x slower than GiST on update . ... Updating of 100 rows in 100,000 takes < 0.5s for GIN index, which is quite reasonable speed. ... Example of populating a table - 10000 rows, with integer arrays cardinality 500 and maximal array length of 100. sh ./test-id.sh -l 100 -n 10000 -v 500 | ... Example of update SQL - update first 300 rows update tt set a=array( select(1000*random())::integer+generate_series( 0,200+id) ) where id < 300; . ...

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... The Russian Soyuz TMA-7 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station Orbital Complex. ... The Russian manned transport spacecraft Soyuz TMA-7, developed and manufactured by S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, has been launched to the International Space Station from the Launch Pad No.1 of the Baikonur launch site. ... The Soyuz TMA-7 prime and backup crews inspected the transport spacecraft in its launch configuration in the Assembly and Testing Facility. ...

... SIXA FM ACCEPTANCE TESTS . ... In accordance to plan of the Acceptance Tests for Flight Models which was agreed in March 2000 in Moscow, the Acceptance Test of SIXA FM was carried out between 28 August and 2 September at VTT Automation, Finland. ... GOUCH for electronics box of SIXA-FM, Remark: not updated after changes made in 1994. ... Ground Test Program of SIXA-FM. ... Integration Test of SIXA FM, BIUS, ISS, DSS, and MPMI . ... Test data were written to MPMI, DSS-F, DSS-S and GSE SIXA-FM, . ...

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... A brief description of your research aims: . To construct new AGB evolution models using updated opacity tables and reaction rates and comparing with observations where there has been two distinct populations observed in the halo separated by alpha elements. ... A brief description of the nature of the computations to be performed (resources required, interactive/batch job, i/o requirements, single processor/parallel jobs, scalability): . ... COALA : Universe Galaxy AGN Star Planet ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... www.iap.fr/opticon/neon_schools/2014/index.html . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ... MAO NASU...

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... STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... 2 February 2006 The Executive Board held a meeting on January 19th, at which all board members were present. ... And, with a positive recommendation from the Clubhouse committee, the Board voted unanimously in favor of accepting the donation. ... Generate a membership report every month for the newsletter. ...

... An overall criterion for standard-star selection is the accuracy needed in the final results: if you need more accuracy, you will need more standard stars. ... While it is possible to get a rough estimate of the extinction by observing different standard stars at high and low airmasses, the relatively large conformity errors in most photometric systems, together with the low accuracy of some standards, make this method very inefficient (see Young [ 10 ], p.178). ...

Zinovy Malkin: CPO Prediction: Accuracy Assessment and Impact on UT1 Intensive Results, IVS 2010 General Meeting Proceedings, p.261­265 http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/gm2010/malkin.pdf CPO Prediction: Accuracy Assessment and Impact on UT1 Intensive Results Zinovy Malkin Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences e-mail: malkin@gao.spb.ru Abstract The UT1 Intensive results heavily depend on the celestial pole offset (CPO) model used during data processing. ...