... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Historical highlights . ... In 1831, Giovanni Battista Amici , an optician from Modena, was invited by the Grand Duke Leopold II to preside as the Professor of Astronomy and to direct the "Specola", the observatory in Florence which was attached to the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History. ... From that year, the telescope was used by Amici's young assistant, Giovan Battista Donati, mainly for observing comets and asteroids. ...

... About NEdit . ... Download . Get NEdit . ... Available in two versions, the version distributed with NEdit v5, which searches forwards and backwards to find a match, and a modifed version which just searches backwards, but gives alternatives with repeated use. , matchStart, regex ) completedWord = substring(scanString, matchStart, matchEnd) # replace it in the window replace_range(startScan + keyStart, $ cursor , completedWord) if ($ compword_end == $ cursor ) $ compword_rep ++ else { $ ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... History . ... Site . ... Originally, the shop area of the building was to be about 25 feet wide by 50 feet long, and the observatory was to be about 25 feet wide by only 25 feet long. In early 1997, the University of Iowa inquired if it would be possible to place their Iowa Robotic Observatory telescope at our site. ... Univ. of Iowa . ... Apogee SITe 1kx1kx24um . ... Winer Observatory . ... Equatorial . ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

New data - Magnetograms of Geophysical Observatory "Paratunka" 1967-2006 ! ... Solar Activity and Interplanetary Medium . Cosmic Rays . Ionospheric Phenomena . Geomagnetic Variations . Other STP Data . List of CD-ROMs in WDC for STP, Moscow . ... STP Data Online . ... Daily Forecasts of Geomagnetic Activity Geofor , (IZMIRAN) . Weekly Bulletin of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Forecast , (IZMIRAN) . ... STP Data from other WDC's and Institutes and Observatories: . ...

MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . ... PROGRESS M1-5 CARGO VEHICLE . ... The Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle launched on 24 January 2001 from Baikonur Cosmodrome following the completion of a three-day autonomous flight in a near-earth orbit to the MIR Orbital Complex, docked to it on the Kvant module side. ... At 7 hours 28 minutes 42 seconds Moscow Time the Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle-tanker was launched to the MIR Orbital Complex. photo-report . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Next: ATLAS - A General Search Service for Complex Data Collections . ... The archive data is stored in databases that are published online as SkyNodes. ... If we would like to load this data in a database, we'll have to create a representation of the survey data types suitable for our database system. ... The Data Release includes 3 different type of ``catalog" (Point Source Catalog, Extended Source Catalog, ScanInfo), which makes the database schema more complex (Fig. ... 2QZ (full catalog) . ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

20-23 September 2016, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... Registration to the Symposium will be held in the main building of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Monday 19th September, from 18:00 to 21:00 . ... Registration will also be available on Tuesday September 20th from 8:00 to 9:00 at the conference venue. ... Conference dinner will take place in the Palace of Grand duke Vladimir (Academics House) on Wednesday 21th September, from 19:00 to 22:00 . ...

... VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . ... 1.09.1996 . ... But an even larger optical telescope is being built. Dubbed the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building four 8.2-meter mirrors in Chile which together will act as a single telescope with a mirror diameter of over 16-meters. ... Publications with keywords: optical - VLT - telescope . Publications with words: optical - VLT - telescope . ... Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes . ...

... Space flight . ... Baikonur . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... On May 5, 1957 acceptance act of the first launch complex was signed, and as early as on May 6, 1957 the first "R-7" missile was erected on the site. The cosmodrome consists of nine launch complexes with fourteen launchers, thirty-four engineering complexes, three fuelling stations for space vehicles and two aerodromes. ... Services / Baikonur: General description Technical description Shedule of launches Photo gallery Price . ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... Mees Observatory . ... Site . ... Weather forecast will be correct for the Farash Center . ... Through gracious donations from Marion and Max Farash and the Louis S. Wolk Foundation, ASRAS has been able to acquire a large piece of land well away from the city lights. ... The Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy consists of an education center, maintenance building and 6 working observatories on a 17 acre plot of land just off route 64 in the hamlet of Ionia, NY. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

MARS-96 . ... Scientific goals . ... At the end of the 1980's, the successful broad scientific exploration program of Venus was fulfilled, the successful mission to Halley Comet was completed and the mission to Phobos, having limited success, was also realized, At this time, Mars was chosen as the main object for future planetary exploration within the Russian Space Program. ... Earlier missions to Mars showed that this planet in its earlier history was much more similar to the Earth than that is now. ...

... Instrument Description . Software: Version 4.0 . Version 3.0:Complete Documentation . ... ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС, разработанный в ИЗМИРАН, предназначен для диагностики ионосферы и оперативного прогноза КВ связи. ... Общая структура ИОНОЗОНДА ПАРУС, Технические Характеристики , Конструктивные параметры на настоящий момент соответствуют модификации Комплекса: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... Там же находится полное описание Комплекса ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... 2004 IONOSONDE PARUS ...