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... 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 . ...

... 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)...

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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): . ...

Coordinate Systems used for spacecraft trajectory description: . ... The HGI coordinates are Sun centered and inertially fixed with respect to an X-axis directed along the intersection line of the ecliptic and solar equatorial planes. ... Cometocentric (solar) Ecliptic Coordinate System (CSE) . ... CSE coordinate system for the SC POSITION: axis origin at comet center, X-axis to the SUN, Z-axis to ecliptic north pole, (X,Y)-plane is parallel to the ecliptic plane. ...

. You can get a short description of each ftp command by typing help followed by the command you want to know more about and pressing the <RETURN> key. For example: ftp> help open open connect to remote tftp ftp> . If you find this description is too brief you will find a much fuller one for each command in the Unix Programmer's Manual pages for ftp .

... The program begins with a residential summer institute at the Arecibo Observatory. ... The summer program will introduce the conceptual base (atmosphere science, geology), and provide the hands-on activities with the technology and equipment that will be used to carry out the research projects. At the end of the year, participants will report their findings to colleagues and mentors in a geoscience congress that will be organized at the Arecibo Observatory. ... Arecibo Geoscience Congress . ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... This API (Application Programming Interface) document has pages corresponding to the items in the navigation bar, described as follows. The Overview page is the front page of this API document and provides a list of all packages with a summary for each. ... Each package has a page that contains a list of its classes and interfaces, with a summary for each. ... Each of these pages has three sections consisting of a class/interface description, summary tables, and detailed member descriptions: . ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

... If you wish to participate in the School, please, provide the following information: 1. ... School (city, number/name) Class, or the graduation year. ... Contact coordinates: e-mail address (don't forget the postal code), phone number (please include country/city code). ... Give a few mathematical topics that you understand well. ... If someone can recommend you to the Organizing Committee to participate in the School, please give his contact coordinates (name, e-mail or address, phone number). ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:15:30 EST Subject: Save Dunsink Observatory! ... Thanks, Terry Moseley "Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed a copy of a letter to the Minister for Education and Science concerning serious developments regarding the future of Dunsink Observatory. ... The Irish astronomical community, both professional and amateur, appeals to you to use your offices to secure the future of the unique and hugely popular institution that is Dunsink Observatory. ...

... Byte-by-byte Description of files: star -S1.txt , star -S2.txt, star -S3.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations 1- 4 I4 --- YYYY Year of the date 6- 7 I2 --- MM Month of the date 9- 10 I2 d DD Day of the date 13- 14 I2 h h Hour of the day 18- 24 F7,2 d JD* Julian day of the date , JD*=JD-2450000.5 28- 31 F4.1 degrees M-S Apparent distance between ...

... 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 initial descriptions of the FITS format provided a simplified method for describing the physical coordinate values of the image pixels, but deliberately did not specify any of the detailed conventions required to convey the complexities of actual image projections. ... They were CRPIX n for the reference pixel location on pixel axis n , CRVAL n for the coordinate value at that pixel, CDELT n for the increment at that pixel in the coordinate value, and CTYPE n for the type of coordinate. ...

... Chilingarian, I., Melchior, A.-L., Zolotukhin, I. 2010: Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , accepted to MNRAS (arXiv:1002.2360) . ... K-Corrections in the optical and near-infrared , Analytical approximations of K-corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , photometric properties of galaxies , K-corrections approximation redshift and one observed colour , transform observed spectral energy distributions (SED) , software to estimate K-corrections , ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

Shareable Data Center "East Siberian Center for the Earth's Ionosphere Research" (SDC ESCEIR) maintains fundamental researches for nothing  if these projects are supported by RFBR. ... SDC ESCEIR performs work on a commercial basis. Financing is supported by RFBR. RFBR Grant № 00-05-72026. ... RFBR grant . Work description (obligatory) . ... Request for work | ...