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... Get Object Information Returns: <string># Returns a string containing the current target object's name and object type. ... Returns: Nothing. ... LX200GPS AutoStar ­ Performs no function Select deep sky Library where D specifices 0 - Objects CNGC / NGC in Autostar LX200GPS 1 - Objects IC 2 ­ UGC 3 ­ Caldwell (Autostar LX200GPS ) 4 ­ Arp (LX200 GPS) 5 ­ Abell (LX200 GPS) Returns : 1 Catalog available 0 Catalog Not found LX200GPS AutoStar ­ Performs no function always ...

... Just one: a very stringent requirement on the relative positions of Earth and Mars at the time of launch. ... Suppose the spacecraft which has landed on Mars is a robot , which collects a sample and immediately takes off again for its return trip. ... Since Earth and Mars constantly change their relative position, it stands to reason that if we sufficiently delay the return trip, Earth will move from position (2) relative to Mars to position (3), at which time the return trip can begin. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Being the 8th commercial launch for Dnepr, this is also its first 'return to flight' mission since the failure encountered on July 27, 2006 during liftoff from Baikonur. In parallel with the successful completion of its first launch campaign in 2007, ISC Kosmotras continues preparations for the next two Dnepr launch missions scheduled to fly from Baikonur and Yasny launch bases. ... Dnepr Program . ...

This section contains information of how user agents should treat control characters and other special characters. ... There are 256 character positions in the Latin-1 encoding. ... It consists of the space character, 186 characters that form a subset of the graphic characters in ISO 6937/2 (1983), and four additional characters that are intended for inclusion in ISO 6937/2. ... Certain characters are taken to have special meaning within the context of an HTML document. ...

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Blog . ... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . Book Store . Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... I just came back from "Superman Returns", the long-awaited sequel, kinda, of the Superman movie series of the 1980s. The movie was OK; I would say it was fun and all but hardly the equal of the original with Christopher Reeve. ... So let's find the nearest phone booth so we can go up, up, and review! ... My review of "Superman Returns" . ... Check out my book "Bad Astronomy" . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...

... IRAF Multiple Extensions FITS (MEF) Files Interface Nelson Zarate National Optical Astronomy Observatories Tucson, AZ 85719 (zarate@noao.edu) Abstract. ... If there are no values to match then `extver' should be INDEFL. 3.2. mef rdhdr gn (mef,group) Read extension number `group'. ... The header should have been read by now. mefo The output file MEF pointer returned by mef open. 4.2. mef copy extn (mefi, mefo, group) Copy a FITS extension given by its number `group' into an output file. ...

SUBROUTINE TAP_ESYMB ( IZ, SYMBOL, STATUS ) . Return the element symbol. SUBROUTINE TAP_ENAME ( IZ, NAME, STATUS ) . ... FUNCTION TAP_EMASS ( IZ ) . Return the mean atomic weight of an element. FUNCTION TAP_ZELEM ( NAME ) . ... FUNCTION TAP_AELEM ( NAME ) . ... The mean atomic weight of the element associated with the given name is ! ... The element name associated with the given atomic number is ! ... The atomic number ot element associated with the given name is ! ...

... 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. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

This module provides for determining the types of files from the filename and for association of handlers with files. ... The directives AddCharset , AddEncoding , AddHandler , AddLanguage and AddType are all used to map file extensions onto the meta-information for that file. ... Files> . ... For example, if you had a directory you wanted to be parsed entirely as imagemap rule files, regardless of extension, you might put the following into an .htaccess file in that directory: SetHandler imap-file . ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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Crews of the Space Station "Mir" . ... First main crew on the Station Mir. ... Soyuz TM-2" . ... Second main crew on the Station Mir. ... Third main crew on the Station Mir. ... Fifth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Sixth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Tenth main crew on the Station Mir (175 days). ... Twelfth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Thirteenth main crew on the Station Mir (179 days). ... Copyrigth ї The People's Charity Foundation for the Preservation of the Space Station "Mir", 1999 . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

Heliocentric model of Aristarch Samossky (III c. B.C.). The Moon turns around the Earth. The Earth rotates around its axis, that is why the cauge of day and night can be seen. ... Aristarch model explained the modification of Venus and Mars glitter. In B1 position Venus is seen as a round dark spot on the Sun's disk; in B2 position it is seen as a bright spot of assimetric form. In M1 position Mars is nearer to the Earth and has more bright glitter than in M2 position. ...