... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

... Our Solar System is a stellar-planetary unit consisting of the Sun ; the nine planets and their satellites; the asteroids, comets, and meteoroids; and interplanetary dust and gas. The dimensions of this system are specified in terms of the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun, called the astronomical unit (AU). ... The boundary between the solar system and interstellar space - called the heliopause - is estimated to occur somewhere beyond 120 AU. ... Earth . ...

... spectrum . ... mn : main program, wh : subroutine WHOLE, in : subroutine INTEG and SFLUX, op : continuous opacities, ln : line opacities, at : atomic data, md : model atmosphere, ou : output, ot : other. ... This variable is set whenever a model atmosphere is read in, so that the default is whatever was used to compute the original model atmosphere. ... Default = 1 . ... As well as reading in the model, ionisation fractions and other depth-dependent quantities are also computed at this stage. ...

... 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. ...

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

. A generic illustration of the neutron capture process on an unspecified element. Courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science

... Measurement of thermal properties of a sample to determine its composition: abundance of sorbed and hydrated water, mineralogical characteristics (chemical composition, crystallization etc.) ... The main registration technique, used in DTA instrument, is measurement of the sample temperature and/or power consumed by the instrument heating cell during the heating with the specified rate. ... Main characteristics of a heater . ... M. Gerasimov, Head of Laboratory +7(495)333-11-55, Mgerasim@iki.rssi.ru...

... Triangle Service Station, Seaford, Virginia (Summer 1954) York Air Conditioner, Warwick, Virginia (Summer 1955) Colonial National Park, Yorktown, Virginia (Summer 1956) NACA Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia Math Aid, Structural Dynamic Section, High Temperature Branch , Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (1957-1958) Research Engineer , Analysis and Computation Branch , Structures Research Division , ... B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. ...

... Same values with Т?_QEТЛ refer to product of transmission curve and detector QE curve. ... For IR filters, H2RG curve is required (though absent) . ... QE curve of a E2V CCD44-82 chip no. -09-02 is given here: . ... UBVRcIc filter curves: . ... SDSS filter curves: . ... IR filter curves are taken as from witness 1'' at 77K at AOI=0: . ... infrared_anc.png . ... round . ... Asahi . ... FSU . ... Bessell_U(25mm)-1 . ... SDSS_u'(25mm)-1 . ... USA . ... ANC . ... Curve by witness 1'' at 77K . ...

Symbolic circuit-matrix processor and evaluator . ... This software is reliable over the range of benchmark circuit complexity (both *.CIR and *.MAT file). ... SYMBOL is a symbolic-algebra package which in contrast to REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MathLAB, MathCAD and other known multi-purpose systems is especially intended for analysis of any lumped, linear, time-invariant circuit. ... pure ASCII text . ... CIRSYM - SYMbolic CIRcuit processor used to format ASCII text file *.out for CALCSYM. ...

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Brown J., Cassinelli J.P., Li Q., Kholtygin A., Ignace R. Optically Thick Clumps - Not the Solution to the Wolf-Rayet Wind Momentum Problem? ... 426 , 323-328 (2004) . The hot star wind momentum problem $\eta=\mdot \varv_{\infty}/(L/c) \gg 1$ is revisited, and it is shown that the conventional belief, that it can be solved by a combination of clumping of the wind and multiple scattering of photons, is not self-consistent for optically thick clumps. ...

... RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL MONITORING . ... OF MEASURING CHANNELS . Parameters of ecological fields measured by ARES . Parameter measured, . ... Volumetric activity of gases radionuclides in the air, Bq/m 3 : . ... of inert gases . ... Volumetric activity of a- and b-active aerosols, Bq/m 3 : . ... Concentration of nitric oxide NO, mg/m 3 . ... Meteorological parameters measured by ARES . ... 0.5 + 0.05 V), where V - measured wind velocity . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... The alloy with x = 0.171 is found to deviate from the linear Curie point dependence on pressure. The interrelation between the magnetic T-C diagram peculiarities and the anomalies of the thermal expansion coefficient and the isotherm of the magnetic susceptibility in the paramagnetic range is investigated. ... 5, Tc and T, decrease linearly with increasing pressure. ... It is seen in Fig. 2 that the P(Tc)dependence for the alloy KO. is nearly 5 parabolic in the investigated temperature range. ...

... This applet generates an observing list based on an observer's location and time. ... To use this program, enter in your location, and the local times at which you wish to begin and end observing. The date you enter should correspond to the calendar day at the time at which you begin observing. For example, if you wish to observe from 9:37 PM October 23, 2007 until 3:21 AM October 24, 2007, you would enter 21:37 for the starting time, 03:21 for the finish time, and 10/23/2007 for the date. ...

Mercury magazine is now digital only, with all of the same articles and features that appeared in the print version. The magazine will be formatted to download and include space for advertising. Our readers are directly involved in the mainstream of astronomy research and education. ... 86% are involved in astronomy education at some level . ... 1/4 page . ... Additional work includes resizing of ad material, reformatting or correcting electronic files and correction of advertiser errors. ...

... РЕШЕНИЕ ЗАДАЧ СФЕРИЧЕСКОЙ АСТРОНОМИИ . ... Вычисление точных топоцентрических эфемерид планет . ... В качестве примера в нем приведены исходные данные сервера для расчета эфемерид Марса. Ниже списка располагаются четыре кнопки для модификации исходных данных. ... Через некоторое время, которое в основном определяется скоростью передачи данных по сети, на экране появиться большая таблица рассчитанных значений параметров, снабженных многочисленными комментариями. ...

About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

... Exit Sub End If ' First argument is the FITS file to read filename = WScript.Arguments.Item(0) ' Create the ASCOM FITS driver object Set image = CreateObject( FITS. Image ) ' Read the file from disk WScript.Echo Reading filename ... image .ReadFromFile filename WScript.Echo ...done ' Read image dimensions WScript.Echo WScript.Echo ...

We would like to announce a further pre-release of a standard for the exchange of optical (visible/IR) interferometry data. ... The latest draft addresses some minor issues uncovered by John Monnier in updating his IDL reader/writer code for the previous release of the standard. The specification of the OI_TARGET table has been changed in the latest release. The apparent RA and Dec have been removed (since the epoch for these positions is potentially ambiguous). ...