... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... The words are numbered according to the reference mentioned above. ... 59 WORD wSecond ; // 0 .. 59 satellite tracking start time (GMT) float fStep ; // reserved WORD wMass ; // reserved BYTE reserved [12] ; // reserved WORD wExtraBytes ; // reserved } TRAJECTORYHEADER ; NOTE: the satellite tracking start time is a hardware operating start time to follow satellite. typedef struct { // ephemeris at satellite tracking start time double time ; // Epoch time (yyddd.ddddddddd)...

... Centrifuge . ... The major factor of the orbital flight, affecting a cosmonaut, is a weightlessness state, which causes essential changes in cardiovascular and vestibular systems operation. ... In addition, you can experience a long-term G-load in a desirable value and direction, including simulation of the typical test profiles for fighter - pilots and cosmonauts. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

. Professor Cheng Chin and his University of Chicago associates have simulated the impossibly hot conditions that followed the Big Bang within an ultracold vacuum chamber in his sub-basement laboratory in the Gordon Center for Integrative Science. // Jason Smith

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... During these operations MCC-M was attended by A.N.Perminov, Director of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), W.Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator, V.A. Grin, co-chairman of the State Board, A.B. Krasnov, Head ... Gagarin CTC RGNII, N.A. Anfimov, General Director of TSNII of machine-building, responsible representatives of Roskosmos, NASA, S.P . Korolev RSC Energia , allied space enterprises and organizations, participating in the realization of the ...

... GUIDE'' (Graphical User Interface for a Data Environment) is an interactive IDL widget-based package that enables users to retrieve selected sets of satellite instrument data and perform various types of graphical analyses on them, without writing a specialized program. GUIDE simplifies the task of laying out multiple plots on a page by (1) using a page-editor to define and laying out multiple ``panels'' which contain the ``plot objects'', and (2) integrating data retrieval functions. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... 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 most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This Web site is provided by SAI VO Group and the use of the Web site and the services available at the Web site are subject to the following terms and conditions in this Terms of Use notice. ... SAI VO Group is constantly improving Web site and services and reserves the right to make such improvements or changes to this Web site, the materials and services provided from this Web site without prior notice as it deems necessary. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

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... A Dangerous Sunrise on Gliese 876d . ... On planet Gliese 876d, sunrises might be dangerous. ... Last Sunday's bright fireball meteor falling through skies over California and Nevada produced sonic booms over a broad area around 7:21 am. ... Jupiter and the Moons of Earth . ... In 2010, ESA's robotic Rosetta spacecraft zipped past the asteroid 21 Lutetia taking data and snapping images in an effort to better determine the history of the asteroid and the origin of its unusual colors. ... 2009 2010 . ...

Below is a list of additional documentation pages that apply to the Apache web server development project. ... Description of Apache's Application Programming Interface. ... Reading Client Input in Apache 1.2 . Describes differences between Apache 1.1 and 1.2 in how modules read information from the client. ... Notes about Apache's compatibility with the NCSA server. ... Performance Notes (BSD 4.4) . Some notes about ways to improve/optimize Apache performance on BSD 4.4 systems. ...

... B.V. Somov . head of the department . ... room 80 . ... senior research felow . ... research felow . ... research fellow . ... Our department performes the following most perspective studies: . Special analytical and numerical experimental investigations of the solar plasma involved in the magnetic reconnection process at the Sun. ... Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov. ... 27 September 2013 The Solar Physics Department was visited by journalists of the leading Russian TV channel "Vesti-1". ...

Astronomical Data Center . ... You can access the files described here in three ways: . ... Use CDS' VizieR Service at ADC to explore the data files. ... Get the data files via anonymous FTP. ... 1981) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1a Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1b -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ...

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RTT150 . ... The primary mirror 1 reflects light to the secondary mirror 2 which sends the converging beam of light to the system of four flat mirrors 3, 4, 5 and 6. That allows the beam of light to leave the telescope strictly along its polar axis and be collected in Coude focus. ... That's why at any tube position (for any rotation along the declination axis) beam of light parallel to the principal axis after reflection on mirror 3 follows the direction of declination axis. ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...