... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. Orbital parameters of the Sun. Date Mean Perigee Mean Paral Aberrat Epsilon Nutat longitude longitude anomaly Dec 24 272.6887 283.1787 349.5100 8.941 20.832 2326 6.72 -8.19 Jan 3 282.5451 283.1792 359.3660 8.943 20.837 6.71 -8.18 13 292.4016 283.1796 9.2220 8.942 20.834 6.76 -8.11 23 302.2581 283.1801 19.0780 8.935 20.818 6.87 -7.99 Feb 2 ...

Calculation attitude parameters: . ... Axes position of the GSE system relative to the s/c coordinate system is determinated by 3 angles Alpha , Betha and Gamma . Alpha and Betha determinate coordinates of a new XGSE axis, while Gamma determinates YGSE or ZGSE. ... String in the attitude file look like this: . ... 980307 09 16 21 604 -665.00 233.00 264.00 . ... 980307 09 16 30 604 -669.00 336.00 113.00 . ... 980307 09 16 42 604 -672.00 359.00 -114.00 . ... Angles Alpha Beta Gamma (rad) . ...

... 90-day forecast for X, Y, UT1-UTC. ... 6-year base period (~2190 points).For UT1-UTC and LOD tidal variations in the Earth rotation IERS Convention 2000 model excluded, then included and predictions are performed for differences. Trend of the second order modeled for all, except LOD. ... Autocorrelation function estimated from 6-year base period (~2190 points), last 200 are points used for prediction. For UT1-UTC and LOD predictions are performed for differences. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

... 09.03.2001 . ... March 09 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operations scheduled on OC "Mir" for March 8 are complete. The recent telemetry data confirmed that the complex remains pressurised, the thermal mode is normal, the onboard systems perform norminal. Enough electricity is generated to maintain the onboard systems operation and measure orbit parameters. The OC "Mir" onboard systems were checked out, orbit radio monitoring performed. Currently, the OC "Mir" is in free drift. ...

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Laser station . ... Built a network of laser stations (LLS), radio (GNSS) satellites and observation radiointerferometrychnyh observations of quasars (VLBI) ( YA.S. Yatskiv, Medvedsky MM, AA Pace, EE Volvach, YL Kokurin in collaboration with workers in other entities) . ... БЂў Laser station observation satellites is the global network of service stations of the International Earth rotation and conducts active surveillance for international programs. ...

... Field size . Object name . ... Map size . ... Field size: the approximate size of the map in the Y direction. ... Galaxies: . ... Galaxies, which size exceeds some value depending on the field and map sizes, are displayed with their real positional angles and sizes by 25m isophote. ... In the "tools" fields there are links to the several famous AVO (Astrophysical Virtual Observatory) resources: NED and Simbad databases and DSS2 (Palomar Digitized Sky Survey) images of the corresponding sky area. ...

THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EJECTA LUNAR TERRAINS. ... In the previous papers we were estimated the surface roughness of the ejecta lunar terrains by means comparison of the local phase function and the average integrated lunar indicatrix. ... The Hapke's theoretical model of the lunar surface reflection. ... For THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL: S.G. Pugacheva, V.V. Shevchenko a low-albedo lunar surface parameter Bo = 1. ...

... S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, . ... Following a four-day free flight, during which newly developed systems and equipment were tested, Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress M-01M docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The vehicle rendezvous with the station, its fly-about, station-keeping and berthing at a distance of 50m were performed in the automatic mode, and at the final phase in the remote operator mode (TORU). ... This docking port was contacted at 15:28:10 Moscow time. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

Shell scripts can act like standard UNIX commands and take arguments from the command line. Arguments are passed from the command line into a shell program using the positional parameters $1 through to $9 . Each parameter corresponds to the position of the argument on the command line. ... For example: cat printps # This script converts ASCII files to PostScript # and sends them to the PostScript printer ps1 # It uses a local utility "a2ps" a2ps $* | lpr -Pps1 printps elm.txt vi.ref msg . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... type 1a supernovae seem most useful . ... This is a bright, massive star that explodes after fusing all the light elements in its core. ... That means we can calculate how far away it is. ... This is exactly what we are trying to do with these supernovae; look far enough away that any deviations from flatness of the Universe can be seen. ... Phil Plait . ...

... The extinction in terrestrial atmosphere. ... A star was observed at different zenith distances during one night at the Engelgardt's Astronomical Observatory in the program of atmospheric extinction study at blue. ... Calculate the air mass for given zenith distances in 1st 54.9 11800 column, and write the result into the 2nd column. ... Spectral observations. ... Calculate the radial velocity Vr of the star on each date, the results of measurements and write calculations into the table. ...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

... 2006: . ... Components of the systems are low mass stars and white dwarfs. For 14 pairs orbit parameters were calculated and masses and luminosities of components were determined for the first time. ... As a result of a multifrequency monitoring of the variability of a micro quasar Cyg X-3 (X-ray binary system which probably consists of a black hole and a high mass Wolf-Rayet star) a high activity period was registered for the first time in the last 4 years. ... Archive . ...

The purpose of the space-physics lab exercises is to introduce the students to the methods of the measurements, to the modern conception of near-Earth space structure and the physical processes and phenomena occured in it. ... At present the reasearches and the teachers of the University and of other institutes participating in the project continue development of the the special space-physics lab exercises, and they are interested in your ideas concerning the future exercises. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...