... As modern observatories evolve to production units delivering data products and calibrated scientific data to the end users, new challenges arise in assessing the quality of data products. ... Taking the analogy of speed control on a motorway we can describe the system as a device (radar) collecting measurements of the system performance (passing cars). ... One of the direct applications of quality control is the verification of instrument performance based on the analysis of calibration exposures. ...

... You are a hot-shot rocket pilot. ... So whenever there is a difficult rescue mission to be carried out in space, they call on you. ... You will use computer simulators, which accurately model the motions of a rocketship. ... They should run on any computer with a web browser and an internet connection. ... Your spacecraft is a yellow sliver. ... Your mission is to rescue Luke. ... His spacecraft has run out of fuel, and unless you rescue him, will continue to drift there for billions of years. ...

... ARC 3.5m | Observer Orientation and Training Policy . ... Non-PhD level (Student) Training - APO staff will generally NOT train student users how to use the 3.5-m telescope and instruments. ... PhD level Remote-observing orientation & training - Before a new Ph.D.-level user can use the 3.5-m telescope remotely, he or she MUST spend three nights in person at the telescope. ... Once the three nights have been spent at APO, the new user can use the telescope remotely. ... 3.5m Telescope . ...

... NASA SPACECRAFT FINDS NEW EVIDENCE FOR WATER ICE ON MERCURY . ... The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington, D.C., would be more than 2 miles thick," said David Lawrence, a MESSENGER participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and lead author of one of three papers describing the findings. ... Water ice concentrations are derived from the hydrogen measurements. ...

... Executive scientist on object Ratan-600, Academician of RAS Parijski Y.N. Deputy director of SAO RAS on radiotelescope Ratan-600 Mingaliev M.G. Radio astronomy department . Radio astrophysics laboratory . Group for study of galaxies and cosmology . ... Laboratory of continuum radiometers . ... Group of continuum observations . Group of the Sun study . ... Laboratory of the Sun study . ... Feed cabin N1 . ... Schedule archive (Russian) . ... Observation data archive of RATAN-600 . ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... A team of astronomers led by graduate student Naslim and her supervisor Dr Simon Jeffery from Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland has found the most zirconium-rich star ever discovered. ... Using data obtained with the Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, the team looked at the evolved star LS IV-14 116, 2000 light years from the Sun in the direction of the border between the constellations of Capricornus and Aquarius. ... Ms Naslim N. Armagh Observatory...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... The antenna surface extension project involves replacing the existing outer perforated panels with solid panels, giving 22 metre reflectors useable to beyond 100 GHz. ... Following the preliminary investigations outlined in the 1997 MNRF annual report (PDF file) , the ATNF has successfully carried out a specification, tendering and tender evaluation process....

... Both Surface temp any object `near' beam to be within 2°C of ambient 21 May 2010 FTT Technical meeting 2 Camera Thermal Operation Scenarios No enclosure cooling fan running: not acceptable if the air temperature in the enclosure is lower than -5°C [0°C from camera spec] No control over humidity ­ dew point problems Start-up issues in cold weather allows some ventilation but otherwise allows ... Peltier on: set temperature of -85°C produces T = 8°C camera has a 50mm silent fan. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 09 апреля 1998 (1998-04-09) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Space Station Media Workshop Scheduled For May 12-14 At JSC Привет всем! ... Дата: 09 апреля 1998 (1998-04-09) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Increasing Greenhouse Gases May Be Worsening Arctic Ozone Depletion Привет всем! ... Дата: 09 апреля 1998 (1998-04-09) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: 25 years of Spacelab -- Go for Space Station [1/2] Привет всем! ...

... Mars in 3D! . Robert Naeye, Editor in Chief, Sky and Telescope . ... Join Sky Telescope Editor in Chief Robert Naeye as he presents many dozens of the latest and best images of Mars in spectacular 3-dimensions. ... ATMoB member Robert Naeye is Editor in Chief of Sky Telescope, the world’s most respected and influential popular astronomy magazine. ... He returned to Sky Telescope in June 2008 to serve as Editor in Chief. ... Mar . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

... Astronomy news . ... Saturnian Moon Shows Evidence Of Ammonia . Data collected during two close flybys of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft add more fuel to the fire about the Saturnian ice world containing sub-surface liquid water. ... In space, the presence of ammonia provides strong evidence for the existence of at least some liquid water. How could ammonia equate to liquid water inside an ice-covered moon in one of the chillier neighborhoods of our solar system? ...

... The total mass of the scientific payload is about 2500 kg, of which the unfolding parabolic 10-m radio astronomy antenna's mass is about 1500 kg, and scientific package holding the receivers, power supply, synthesizers, control units, frequency standards and data transmission radio system - near 900 kg. ... The jet system is a hydrazine thrusters system: it will be used during the creation of the base system of spacecraft orientation, for unloading of the powered gyros, and for orbit corrections. ...

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58 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-496-7725 F 617-496-7577 edeluca@cfa.har vard.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Astrophysics, 1986, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO B.A. Astronomy, 1979, Wesleyan University , Middletown, CT APPOINTMENT Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA Senior Astrophysicist PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS 2012 - present SAO , Cambridge, MA - Supervisory Astrophysicist SAO , Cambridge, MA - Astrophysicist IfA, ... Hinode is a strategic solar mission in low earth orbit. ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...