... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Views of the Solar System is maintained at several different sites on the Internet. ... This is the primary site for "Views of the Solar System." ... This site is maintained by Lee Burnside ; see also their home page . ... You are permitted to set up a Views of the Solar System mirror site as long as you follow the following guidelines: Views of the Solar System may be distributed on the World Wide Web as long as it is used for non-profit applications and the pages are not modified. ...

... For many ATMs, having a good ray trace program on hand is pretty valuable. ... http://www.willbell.com . ... It is a slick Windows package with great graphics, but my most recent machine (Win95 OSR2) now encounters many error messages. ... OSLO LT : This is the freeware Windows version of OSLO - it is limited to 12 surfaces, but is otherwise amazing. ... KDP : This is another powerful, freeware Windows raytrace package. ... ZEMAX : This is yet another powerful, Windows raytrace package. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

This module provides the ability to set environment variables based upon attributes of the request. ... The mod_setenvif module allows you to set environment variables according to whether different aspects of the request match regular expressions you specify. ... BrowserMatch . ... Syntax: BrowserMatch regex env-variable [= value ] [ env-variable [= value ]] .. ... Module: mod_setenvif . ... The BrowserMatch directive defines environment variables based on the User-Agent HTTP request header field. ...

MSU Scientific Library Physics Faculty Library . UDK: universal decimal classification . ... Bible at Gateway.com (available different languages) Bible Bible-center . The list of literature links . ... William Burroughs see also William Burroughs . Library Network . Kharuki Murakami Kharuki Murakami. ... Different funny stories . Perseus Project (Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language.) ... The Public's Library . ...

... Cheers, -Mike Data Providers (e.g., data centers, archives) Provider Name: NOAO Collection: High Resolution Atlas of Arcturus Spectra - 0.92-5.36 microns Characteristics: 310 ASCII tables of wavenumber vs flux Storage Format: Text tables Available online: ftp://ftp.noao.edu/catalogs/arcturusatlas/ir Comments: Tables contain three flux values (arcturus spectrum, telluric spectrum and ratio) for both summer and winter observations. ... Linelists also available as text table ...

... Created: 22 January 2001 . ... SERVICE AND CALIBRATION MANUAL . ... Draft Document Outline. ... 4 Preparing NIFS for Use or Storage . ... The purpose of this Service and Calibration Manual is describe the procedures used to service, maintain, and calibrate the operation of the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph. ... Section 19.4.2 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Service and Calibration Manual . ...

XmTel is intended for interactive remote telescope operation. ... LX200 ===== XmTel was originally developed control a Meade LX200 16-inch fork-mounted telescope. ... It is essential to have the LX200 hand control initialized for the location and local time, NexStar ======= XmTel supports the Celestron NexStar command sets, including auxiliary commands that access hardware directly. ... XmTel is actively being used and developed with the Celestron Corrected Dall-Kirkham C20 telescope. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

STARTEST IMAGES GALLERY . STARTESTING TELESCOPES WITH AN AUTOCOLLIMATOR . ... This website is a joint effort of Markus Ludes from APM-Telescopes and Cor Berrevoets ( Aberrator free startesting Software ). The site aims at explaining the different aspects of star-testing telescopes. ... Markus Ludes (APM telescopes) used a high quality 10" Maksutov Newtonian (Zygo tested at 632,8 nm with the following errors: 1/10.1 wavefront p.t.v. and 1/51 wavefront RMS) as collimator in single pass scheme. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... Each plot shows the information about 4 S/C, by the different color. for the INTERBALL TAIL PROBE - the red color is used, . ... The polar diagram, which shows the corrected geomagntetic co-latitude and corrected geomagnetic local time of the 4 spacecraft during the time intervals selected in accordance with the FSP1 criteria. ... In the last 4 plots the days are shown along X axis, in the last two plots the Universal time is shown along the Y axis . ... for the POLAR - the third line, . ...

... Korolev, Moscow area. On February 28, 2006 RSC Energia hosted the training sessions of Brazilian citizen Marcos Pontes under the training program for the participant in space flight to the International space station (ISS) within 10th Visiting Crew. ... President of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, General Designer N.N. Sevastiyanov congratulated M. Pontes on his birthday during the joint training sessions presenting wrist-watch and memorable gold medal of the Corporation. ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Acrobat 80 - Advanced Photo Tripod . ... Acrobat 80 - Advanced Photo Tripod #608051. ...

... Since GCVS IV, there was no new GCVS edition. ... Main reasons for the automatic-survey new variables remaining outside the GCVS for a long time:  different level of detail of the classification systems, no perfect software for automatic classification available;  individual approach to each star that was always used in the GCVS cannot be applied any longer, but the experience of automatically- updated catalogs evidences for the number of errors ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 The ephemerides server of the Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides N. Baron, J. E. Arlot Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides, Paris, France The Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides (IMCCE), formerly known as Bureau des longitudes, produces, since its creation (1795), the French ephemerides for most of the bodies of the solar system. ... The code of several theoretical models is provided...