... Mirror hard points, Galil channels A-D, are at nominal positions for observations . Lateral link drives, Galil channels E & F, are at nominal positions for observations . Install telescope-wind baffle turnbuckles . ... Remove wind baffle (see wind baffle rem. proc.) . ... Remove remaining 2 pair of wind baffle counterweights . ... Move wind baffle + telescope to zenith "bird bath", install pin, apply telescope altitude brake, depress emergency stop button and disable wind baffle drive . ...

... Epimetheus and Janus, two small moons of Saturn, actually switch positions as they orbit their home planet. The orbital radii of the moons are strangely separated by less than the radii of the moons themselves: about 50 kilometers. ... Last month, a Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. ... This October, Mars has become a bright, yellowish star in planet Earth's sky as it approaches oppositon, the period when Mars and Earth pass close as they orbit the Sun. ...

... The versatile and efficient INVERTOSCOPE? combines the highest optical performance with unsurpassed mechanical quality, and is backed by LOMO's unique lifetime warranty, the most comprehensive in the industry. ... A 15X focusing eyepiece with two interchangeable reticles (a 10mm/100div scale and a 10mm x 10mm/400sq grid) for convenient measuring and counting. ... A set of stage inserts and extension plates to accommodate a variety of sample vessels such as Petri dishes, flasks, microtest plates, etc...

... Let us first find out which way -- rise in spectral resolution with some loss in the S/N ratio or increase in the S/N ratio with a fixed spectral resolution -- is better for the purpose of reduction of equivalent width determination errors. ... N -- number of counts for 1 ? ... line equivalent width, . ... Thus if the spectral resolution is managed to be increased (i.e. to decrease )without loss in the number of counts falling at 1 ?, the equivalent width measurement error is then proportional to . ...

. Next: Initial velocity Up: Space and velocity distributions Previous: Space and velocity distributions . Following Paczynsky (1990), we assume initial space distribution of young neutron stars to be varying exponentially with distance from the Galactic center and from the Galactic plane, that is probability distribution for young neutron star positions can be written in the form . with kpc, and pc. Mike E. Prokhorov . Fri Jul 19 19:16:07 MSD 1996

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

... Vlasyuk V.V. head of the laboratory . ... Borisov N.V. senior researcher . ... Drabek S.V. leading engineer . ... Emelianov E.V. researcher . Fatkhullin T.A. senior researcher . ... Klochkov S.N. senior engineer . ... Moiseev S.V. leading engineer . ... Ryabukha A.I. senior engineer . ... Sinyansky S.I. leading engineer . ... Spiridonova O.I. researcher . ... Stankevich A.I. engineer . ... Timchenko Yu.N. senior engineer . Yakopov G.V. researcher . ... Yakopov M.V. senior researcher . ...

This photograph shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way. ... By studying how their light changes and other properties of these systems, astronomers can measure the distances to eclipsing binaries accurately. A long series of observations of these objects has now led to the most accurate determination so far of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud тАФ a crucial step in the determination of distances across the universe. ...

... This file GMRT_FLS_dr1.1.dat 95 3944 GMRT FLS sourcelist of 3944 sources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file : GMRT_FLS_dr1.1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1- 24 A24 --- Name IAU designation of source 27- 28 I2 h RAh Centroid position right ...

... The derived position here agrees with the position from recent ATCA observations, RA=15h 01m 34.74s, Dec=39 18 39.2" (Tasker, private communication) which found the source unresolved. Because of the relatively large position offset, the reality of the fainter component 0.12" to the west is somewhat in doubt. However, the ATCA centroid position is offset by 0.3" to the south-east of the VLBA position, suggesting that the faint component may be part of more extended structure. ...

Large-Scale Structure of the local Universe with INTEGRAL observatory >200-300 , . ... It is now widely accepted, that practically every galaxy in the local Universe has supermassive black hole and some of these black holes are AGNs. ... 136 ( ) 49- . ... The map of the survey is shown on the left. ... Using Hard X-ray all-sky survey such important properties of nearby Universe as energetics of accretion to the supermassive black holes and large-scale mass distribution of matter were studied. ...

... After all we cannot send a probe to the star Altair to confirm that it is 17 light years away. ... The "Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni was about ten light years away" Earth goes around the Sun in one year, so in six month it is in the opposite position in its orbit. ... In 1838 Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni had a parallax of 0.314 arcseconds and therefore the star was about ten light years away (today the distance is more precisely measured to be 11.4 light years). ...

polimodel -- Produce model linear polarization and position angle images . ... Whether to apply random errors to output polarization and position angle values. seed = "" [integer] . ... This task produces a model linear polarization image and corresponding position angle image from an input image assumed to represent intensity (Stokes I parameter). ... A threshold for the input image can be defined such that polarization and position angle are not computed for input values less than this threshold. ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... How did early astronomers determine the distance form earth to the sun, and what method is used today to determine distances in space? ... Since Huygens knew the Sun-Venus-Earth angle (from the phases), and he could directly measure the Sun-Earth-Venus angle (simply by measuring Venus' apparent distance from the Sun on the sky) all he needed was to know the distance from Earth to Venus. ...

Next: RSOG Post-Observation Products . Previous: Navigation Post-Observation Products . ... Executed Sequence of Events (XSOE) . SRT and SC Status Reports . ... GOCG to RSOG, to JPL MMNAV, to MBC and to DPC . What: The actual executed sequence of events (XSOE) is summarized in an XSOE file. ... Where: File will be placed in /spectr/ra/data/srt/xsoe on the GOCG FTP site. back to top . ... What: The GOCG will provide regular updates on the SRT and SC payload status to RSOG. ...

Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe . Articles | ... Learning about the universe, or the study of astronomy, can be fun for the individual or for the whole family. ... Learning a few simple terms will help you with this fascinating study. ... You will use a telescope or binoculars for your observation of the sky at night. ... Celestial Terms . ... Meteor or a shooting star – the light caused when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...