... NICS will be the only infrared instrument for the first light of the TNG; as a consequence, we decided to incorporate a sufficient degree of operation flexibility by providing the instrument with six different observing modes, three aimed at imaging and three at spectroscopy: . ... It will be possible to use the narrow band filters as order sorters; this will allow to perform high resolution long-slit spectroscopy in the wavelength ranges covered by the available narrow band filters. ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The first satellite launched into orbit was Sputnik€а 1 (meaning ?Traveller?), launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. ... Space Shuttle creeping to the pad to launch the Misty satellite into orbit? ... The Misty is not the only mystery in orbit, another potential covert satellite is known as Prowler. ... However there does seem to be enough substantiated sightings and evidence to suggest there are or perhaps were real mystery satellites orbiting the Earth. ...

... What ChaMP does is put together X-ray observations from the satellite Chandra and, using and optical and x-ray surveys, will ultimately put together a multiwavelength database that will be accesible to all. ... ChaMP uses the X-ray observations taken from the Chandra X-ray satellite and compares them with images of the same star field ( group of stars in an image ) in an optical picture. They find the coodornates of the x-ray sources in both the x-ray images and the optical images. ...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on December 09, 2009 N. Kardashev chaired the teleconference. ... V. Andreyanov presented information about tests at LA. Integration tests of the flight SRT are being continued. ... SRT was tested together with the Flight model of the high data rate radio communication system (VIRK). ... S.Likhachev provided information on activities in development and tests of Russian data recorder and correlator. ... ASC software correlator was used for the corealtion. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

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Nalini Chandra & John Percy, University of Toronto . ... Some works to refer to when using multicultural astronomy in your classroom: . ... Nalini Chandra is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT. ... OISE-University of Toronto . ... John Percy, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto, is a Past President of the ASP, and is active in astronomy education at all levels. ... ASP Multicultural Astronomy Resources . ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

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In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

Supernova 1999gk in NGC 4653 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999gk in NGC 4653 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... It was a type II, and it maxed out at mag 15.5 on or about December 27th. ... Seiichi Yoshida has a 1999gk page . ... vsnet-chart 238 ] Chart of SN1999gk . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Choosing the Right Microscope . ... On most microscopes the specimen glass remains fixed while the microscope's objective lens and eyepiece move as a unit up or down to focus the image. ... Eyepieces of varying powers work with objective lenses of varying powers to yield a range of microscope magnifications. ... Magnification: The effective magnification of a microscope is determined by multiplying the eyepiece power by the objective lens power . ... about meade |...

TESTING . ... The ground experimental development of complex N1-L3 included: . ... testing of mechanical and pyrotechnic separation and docking systems, pneudraulic systems of LV stages and system L3, instruments and equipment of control and measuring systems, power systems, fixture, life support systems, high temperature and thermal-vacuum tests, investigation of gas-dynamic processes during launch and stage separation; . ... The tests included: . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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