... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... List of Prize Winners . ... The Inamori Foundation has announced Michel Mayor as one of the laureates of the 2015 Kyoto Prize . ... Each laureate will receive a diploma, the Kyoto Prize medal and prize money of 50 million yen (т??360 000). ... Kyoto Prize . ... Professor Michel Mayor, winner of the 2015 Kyoto Prize . ...

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... Portrait of Galileo Galilei (in 1636) by Justus Sustermans. ... We are about three-quarters of the way through the IYA, the International Year of Astronomy. It is thus timely to think about the successes of the year and, as this ASP annual meeting title indicates, forge a path to a future of continued public engagement in astronomy. In this context of public understanding and appreciation of science, it is important to note the world view into which Galileo Galilei was born (1564). ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

... R.A. = 00h55m04s.86, Decl. = -37 41'43".7 . ... Variable star in NGC 1511 . ... Variable star near Pegasus 2001bn IAUC 8624 BV anon 2001bh 7622 K star ugc11635 2001dh 7482 M star ic5374 1999db 7227 QSO anon 1999dc 7227 AGN anon 1999cx 7210 AGN anon 1999cu 7210 AGN anon 1999bs 7141 cat var ugc11093 1998di 6982 dwarf nova anon 1993U 5818 QSO anon 1993V 5818 QSO anon 1992W 5517 M star mcg 8-23-96 1992X 5517 M star mcg 6-32-24 1991ap 5327 QSO anon 1989Z 5162 var ngc4013 1985J 4059 CV ugc6274 ? ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Principle of generation of radio images General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases ... Solar radio images are generated by beams oriented within the SSRT field of view (90'). ...

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... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Астронавты космического корабля многоразового использования Discovery Пирс Селлерс и Майк Фоссум начали в среду свой последний в ходе нынешней экспедиции выход в открытый космос. ... Свой первый выход в открытый космос он совершил в ходе нынешнего полета Discovery к МКС в минувшую субботу. Затем оба астронавта выходили за пределы станции в понедельник, 10 июля. ... Астронавты Discovery вышли в открытый космос, чтобы потренироваться в устранении повреждений . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . ... About laboratory . ... The lake is like a round mirror 200 meters in diameter, surrounded by a ring wall 350-400 meters across. ... The ring wall, especially well preserved along the southeast shore of the lake, the steep banks and the great depth, all indicated that at one time there had been a powerful explosion here. ... It is possible that the depth may have been 40 meters before but that the slumping of the banks was helping to decrease the depth. ...

KLENOT Project - Contribution to Follow-up Astrometry of PHAs and VIs . ... The KLENOT project is aimed especially to do so. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), KLENOT project, Near Earth Objects (NEOs), professional NEO follow-up programs, follow-up astrometry of PHAs and VIs, Solar System science, asteroid and comet hazard, NEO discovery, precise orbit computation, judging of future close encounters with the Earth, possible impact solutions. ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

... Up: Archives and Information Services . ... The CDS has recently developed a tool for managing URLs in a context of distributed heterogeneous services (GLU, Uniform Link Generator: Fernique et al. ... This includes the development of a `URL dictionary' maintained by the data providers contributing to the system. ... But the user does not need to have an a priori knowledge of the existing services, or even of the information types corresponding to potential query results. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Discovery cтАЩest fini ! ... Pour c†йl†йbrer ce dernier vol, la NASA a assembl†й plusieurs films r†йsumant les instants marquant des la derni†иre mission de la navette Discovery : . ...

... International Astronomy Olympiad 2002 . ... The 7th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held on October 22-29, 2002 at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus. ... Authorized National Representative Astronomy Organizations (ANRAO) of the participating countries are authorized to form the teams of the Olympiad member-states. ... VII IAO . ... Information about the International Astronomy Olympiad 2003 will be known in the late 2002. ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

... Posts tagged ?false discovery? ... Without an optical afterglow, a galaxy within the 2 arc second error region of a GRB x-ray afterglow is identified as a host galaxy; however confusion can rise due to the facts that 1. the edge of a galaxy is diffused, 2. multiple sources could exist within 2 arc second error region, 3.the distance between the galaxy and the x-ray afterglow is measured by projection, and 4. lensing causes increase of brightness and position shifts. ... ArXiv] GRB host galaxies, Aug...

... a file that contains codes which are not part of the ASCII character set . ... Recipients cannot see who else has received the message: hence the term "blind". this term derives from `bootstrap loader', a short program that was read in from cards or paper tape, or toggled in from the front panel switches. ... a temporary area of memory which data can be read from and written to. a unit of memory or data consisting of 8 bits which is used to represent one character. ...

EIGHTEENTH CREW . ... NASDю Astronaut, Japan . ... From March 1992 to August 1993 he completed one year of general space training (as an astronaut candidate of NASA 14-th selection) at the Johnson Space Center, USA and was qualified as a Mission Specialist on the Space Shuttle. ... From August 26 to September 6, 2002 Koichi Wakata took part in trainings (under the program of flights to the International Space Station -ISS) based on the European Astronaut Centre - EAC, Cologne in Germany. ...