... Fit the ring around the equator and then change its inclination from 0 degrees (equatorial orbit used by geosynchronous satellites) to 28.5 degrees (space shuttle orbit) to 51.6 degrees (space station orbit) to 90 degrees (polar orbit used by spy satellites). by Rob Landis, Space Telescope Science Institute . ... With so many satellites now in orbit, it is likely that you have seen an artificial satellite zipping across the night sky. ... http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftpsoft.html . ...

... LOCATION . ... The administrative centre, the library, scientific laboratories, computer center, hotel and apartment houses of an observatory are located in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhiz , which is situated in 25 kms to the south from a village Zelenchukskaya. ... It is desirable to come on conference by the following types of transport: . ... During the conference period it is supposed to conduct a public meeting of the section "Sun" with discussion of results of the researches made in 2005. ...

... The Earth's orbit is not a perfect, sun-centered circle. At aphelion, the most distant point in Earth's orbit, the Sun is 150 million kilometers away and at perihelion, the closest point, Earth approaches the Sun to within about 147 million kilometers. ... Venus Once Molten Surface . ... This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft. Magellan orbited Venus and used radar to map our neighboring planet's surface between 1990 and 1994. ...

... These values are functions of the geographical (geodesic) latitude and the height of the point above the sea level. ... The option also permits to solve the reverse problem — to calculate approximate values of observatory latitude and its height above the sea level depending on the introduced values of dxy and dz. ... It should be mentioned that low precision of dxy and dz for some observatories in the list maintained by MPC leads to negative value of height above the sea level for some of them. ...

Next: Metrology corrections Up: Astrometry data reduction Previous: Coherent integration Contents . procedure dispcorr is used to compute group delays and dispersion corrections for the data read from the .coh file. The dispersion corrections are computed for every data point, as well as the corrections due to the motions of the siderostat pivots. ... They are transformed into delays and interpolated to the time stamps of the data points by metrocorr . ...

On line simulation in ALMA Software Robert Lucas ALMA Simulation workshop Summary · · · · · · Need for hardware simulation for software testing Requirements for on-line simulation A Shared Simulator Limitations Current capabilities Further work ALMA Simulation workshop 2 Need for on-line simulation · Main motivation is to test software ­ At the subsystem level: simulate the ... ALMA Simulation workshop 8 Actual scope? ... ALMA Simulation workshop 11 Further work? ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . Monthly Sky Notes . ... NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of Saturn's moon Helene on June 18, 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) . ... Your email address will not be published. ... Email * . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Getting to Moscow from the airport: There are three international airports in Moscow: Sheremet'yevo , Domodedovo , and Vnukovo . All three are connected to Moscow through a high-speed railway, called Aeroexpress , with moderately priced tickets (320 rubles, approx. ... The point of arrival is a rail terminal, which is connected to a subway station: Byelorusskaya for Sheremet'yevo, Paveletskaya for Domodedovo, and Kievskaya for Vnukovo. The map of Moscow Metro (subway) is found in Wikipedia. ...

... What happens if you do a cd (change directory) to this type of directory? ... Look at this example: pwd (print the user's working directory) /usr/home/john/tmp ln -s $HOME/accounts/may fifth (use a symbolic link named fifth that points to the directory $HOME/accounts/may) ls fifth cd fifth (change directory to the new directory) pwd (print the working directory) /usr/home/john/accounts/may (the user is actually in the the directory that the linked directory points to) . ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

... Subject: Competition link, Mercury, Occultation, ISS, ESA, Ionosphere, б  . ... 2.б  MERCURY & MOON: If you want to spot Mercury, perhaps for the first time, there's a great chance to findб this elusive little planet quiteб easily on the evenings of 6 & 7 May, when the crescent Moon will act as a guide. б  On the evening of the 6th, the very young Moon will lie just 2 degrees above and right of Mercury in the evening twilight. ... OCCULTATION OF MARS: Fancy a challenge? ... OCCULTATION DETAILS: . ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... The Zenit-SM Launch Complex . ... INJECTION PROFILE . ... LAND LAUNCH . ... 1-st burn of Block DM-SLB (Injection into reference orbit) . 2-nd burn of Block DM-SLB (Injection into transfer orbit) . 3-rd burn of Block DM-SLB (Injection into target orbit) . ... TM-data reception in real time with US main engine second burn is provided by the mobile measurement station developed by RSC Energia, located in Abidjan, Kot-d'Vuar Republic. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

SINGULAR POINTS IN THE SOLAR CHROMOSPHERE . ... In the structure of the solar chromosphere, containing information on the configuration of the magnetic field, we have found and identified all the main types of the singular points ( see Fig. 1 ), which are known as inherent features of the 2-D vector field. ... The main types of the singular points are the node, the focus, the center, and the saddle. ... Singular point of the focus type in the solar chromosphere. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... StelCircleArcRenderer Class Reference . Provides functions to draw circle arcs using StelRenderer . ... drawGreatCircleArc (const Vec3d &start, const Vec3d &stop, const SphericalCap *clippingCap=NULL, void(*viewportEdgeIntersectCallback)(const Vec3d &screenPos, const Vec3d &direction, void *userData)=NULL, void *userData=NULL) . ... Create a circle arc renderer to draw multiple circle arcs . ... void(*)(const Vec3d &screenPos, const Vec3d &direction, void *userData)љ . ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

IBIS Data Analysis . ... IBIS . ... Flat Fielding - Introduction . The images obtained by IBIS will have intensity variations across the field of view that are not due to the solar image, but rather caused by instrumental effects that alter the observed intensity in each point of the field of view. ... IBIS Flat Fielding Techniques . ... Therefore, it is desirable to obtain the flat field measurements center on a point along the equator near the heliographic center of the solar disk. ...