Instructions for Uploading Images and Video Related to the Columbia Accident . For anyone who has recorded video or taken photos that they believe may be of aid in the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, NASA has established a special location on the Web where Internet users may upload their media files to be reviewed by NASA. ... Image file: johndoe_020203_0415pm.jpg . ... If you have any problems uploading your files, please e-mail Mike Koester . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . ... This image shows Saturn approximately as it appears under good atmospheric conditions through the Meade ETX telescope at a power of 100x. Example: Two telescopes, one with a main lens of 2" diameter (or aperture) and one with a main lens of 4" diameter are focused on the planet Jupiter. ... In the refracting telescope (a) light is collected by a 2-element objective lens and brought to a focus at F . ... about meade | ...

Spacecraft ephemeris , or more generally, location of an observer, given as a function of time. ... The ephemeris data for spacecraft and target bodies are normally combined in a single file called the SPICE SPK file. ... Attitude data is contained in the SPICE CK file. ... Several miscellaneous kernel files - spacecraft clock (SPICE SCLK file) and leapseconds (SPICE LSK file) - are also part of SPICE; these are used in converting time tags between various time measurement systems. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... A document window is shown, with 8 lines (numbered 1 to 8), each 24px high. The text of the "outer" box (at the end of line 1, halfway into line 2, and halfway into line 3) is shifted upward 12px. The text of the "inner" box, thought shifted upward as well, has been relatively positioned so that it lies in its normal flow position at the end of line 2. ... The lines, as they appear in the image, contain: Start 1 Beginning of body contents. 2 of outer contents. Inner contents. ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

UFO Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... It Really Is Relative . ... Post Message | ... If you are on the Earth the moon does not rotate around its own axis. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... One of the instruments, the Troughton equatorial telescope, is maintained at constant temperature and relative humidity, to reduce the rate of deterioration. ... 3.1 Troughton Equatorial Telescope . Figure 1 shows the equatorial telescope constructed by J E Troughton of London and which was erected in the west dome of Armagh Observatory in 1795. ... Troughton, J. E.: c.1790, Instructions for Adjusting the Troughton Equatorial Telescope, Armagh Observatory Archives , M17.2, 3pp. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... 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 . ...

... The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) is a 110-meter baseline K-Band infrared interferometer located at Palomar Mountain, California. In 1999 an effort was started to provide more observer-friendly observation planning and monitoring tools, such as might be used in NASA interferometer missions. This session illustrates how these prototype tools aid in the observation of spectroscopic binary stars. ... In 1999 an effort was undertaken to prototype mission operations support tools at PTI. ...

Links on this page are to sites that hold information on the Sun , our nearest star . ... Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) , California, USA. Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) , Hawai'i, USA. ... Space Environment Center, Current Solar Images , Boulder, Colorado, USA. ... Solar Data Analysis Center, Latest Images , at GSFC, Maryland. ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Solar Physics (at GSFC). ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Space Physics (at GSFC). Back to Links ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

These are very prominent absorption lines is most all galaxies. ... These pair of absorption lines will appear in all the spectra and they should be your principle source for determining the redshift. ... When this applet opens you will see an iconic representation of galaxies in the left hand side of the applet and a target area in the right side of the applet. ... Note: What you are doing in this excercise is identical to what Hubble did in the 1920's and you are using the same galaxies. ...

... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

Next: The Photometric Performance of Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: Status and Goals of . ... Absolute Spectrophotometric Standards . Absolute Photometry . ... Velocity shifts and Photometry with Narrow-band Filters . ... HST, NICMOS, near-infrared, standards, photometry, calibration . ... In practice NICMOS does not have a set of filters matching any of the standard ground-based photometric bands and this poses a challenge when trying to achieve precise absolute photometry. ...

... Milky Way . ... Map of the Milky Way (based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope) showing its two major stellar arms and central bar. ... ТљIn written science fiction, one often encounters another navigational convention, where towards the Galactic Centre is described as т??Corewardт??, away from the Centre towards the rim of the Milky Way is т??Rimwardт??, objects in the direction of the Galaxyт??s rotation are т??Spinwardт??, while objects in the opposite direction are т??antispinwardт?? ...