... In spite of the fact that the orbit assumes a zero gravity (the scientists count on it by growing super-clean crystals and other materials impossible on the earth), in fact, none spacecraft provides such conditions. ... This question is answered by the device developed by SSAU scientists - Micro-acceleration Compensation Space System (MCSS). ... Then, the computer will give commands to the magnets that compensate micro-accelerations. ... Tags: 'photon-m4' mcss . ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... NASA Featured In New Nat Geo Documentary . ... Post Message | ... Hunt for Aliens features Peter Smith, Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona; Geoff Marcy, University of California Berkeley; Debra Fisher, Yale, Seth Shostak, SETI; Simon Conway Morris, Cambridge University; and GeoffreyLandis, NASA. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Required coalignment to mirrors ~100µm Coalignment and pencil beam Accurate positioning of the X-ray baffle with respect to the centre of the mirror system was achieved by taking as reference the location of the centre of the mirror system - defined by two reference points on the Mirror Module structure and the location of the centre of the X-ray baffle defined by two reference points on the X-ray baffle structure and then performing the corresponding alignment of those reference points. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

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. This is the original Unix shell written by Steve Bourne of Bell Labs. It is available on all UNIX systems. This shell does not have the interactive facilites provided by modern shells such as the C shell and Korn shell. You are advised to to use another shell which has these features. The Bourne shell does provide an easy to use language with which you can write shell scripts . Summary of features .

If you were using a Java-enabled browser, you would see a scrolling text sign instead of this paragraph. ... Wiggle your mouse cursor over the applet, you should notice the sign speed up. ... Then, if you go back to the LED page and try it again, Netscape will give you a "NullPointerException" error. ... Everything you see the sign displaying is run entirely by a script. ... The size, size of border, color of border, and even the font that the sign uses are all configurable. ... More on fonts . ...

Next: Feature enhancement: normalizing Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: pulsing . The inverse transform is at the core of the best known applications of wavelets: data compaction and numerics. ... Two applications fall within our scope: filtering and denoising. Filtering consists of using only a portion of the wavelet map in the inverse transform process, masking out certain durations. ... Figure 23: Filtered reconstruction of the intermittent signal. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

... Dark proteomes: the dark matter of the protein universe . A recent CSIRO press release, "Secrets of the dark proteome" , features work by Sean O'Donoghue, a data visualisation scientist with CSIRO and the Garvan Institute, and his collaborators on proteins. ... For details see the research paper "Unexpected features of the dark proteome" . Image caption: CSIRO's 3D visualisation tool, Aquaria , is helping to map the dark proteome using information from the Protein Data Bank. ... today * ATNF | ...

... The large-scale chains visible on the inverted SOHO/EIT images (a-c) at three wavelengths of 171, 195 and 284 as well as on the normal MLSO/HAO He I 10830 spectroheliogram (d) of December 16, 1997. ...

Next: stecf.impol - Package Tasks Up: stecf.impol - an IRAF Previous: stecf.impol - an IRAF . All the instrumental set-up, such as filters, polarizers, rotation angles, etc. are read from the image headers. Many input images ( 3 < N < 64) can be processed. ... Output images can be rebinned to increase the polarization signal-to-noise per output pixel. ... Output error images have fully propagated statistical errors from the input error images. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... The author of the cover picture is Vasilisa Verkhodanova. The picture symbolizes our perception of the world. The modified emblem of the SAO unifying the 6-m optical telescope and the raditelescope RATAN-600 of SAO RAS is placed in the center of the radio galaxy isophotes. From the one hand, we can investigate the properties of radio galaxies with these (and other) telescopes, and try to study physical processes providing their activity. ...

Here are some images of Australian currency. ... Some of the notes below are printed on paper, others are printed on a thin, flexible polymer (i.e. plastic). The polymer notes are fairly new - The Australian Mint is currently in the process of replacing all paper money with polymer. ... The front design features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England, who is Australia's Head of State. ... This note is printed on paper, and is due to be replaced by a newly designed polymer note in 1996. ...

... Operating at a wavelength of 10 ?m, it produces a 135њx135њ image with a resolution of 0.9њ. ... The clouds move from the west-southwest. ... At the same time as the IR images, visible light images were taken with an Apple Computer QuickTake electronic camera. ... At 1540 MDT, the large central cloud is visible in both images. At 1544 MDT, a distinctive cloud is apparent near the center in the visible image and right of center in the IR. The performance of the SDSS cloud scanner is excellent. ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....