The Planewave Instruments 20-inch (0.5-meter) f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory in Kentucky and its identical companion at Mt. ... The CDK20 North at Moore Observatory has been our primary platform for developing technology for remote and robotic operation in the Shared Skies program. ... g'r'z'i' filter wheel . ... Axis quad video server to send realtime video to the remote observer . ... Telescope monitor camera in the dome also on the video server . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

... Archives . ... I cannot remember when I first met Chernoff face but it hooked me up instantly. ... Alas, another absent mindedness: I don?t understand why I didn?t realize that I already have the data, XAtlas for trying Chernoff faces until today. ... There are other variations and other data analysis systems offer different fashioned tools for drawing Chernoff faces to explore multivariate data. ... Tags: calibration , Capella , Chandra , Chernoff face , EDA , line ratios , MADS , XAtlas . ...

... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... The Faulkes Telescope Project and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network had kindly given us the opportunity to use these telescopes and the observatory had booked us four sessions of controlling the telescope in order for us to make some observations on NEOs. ... Just before our first observing session on Friday, we were given a tour of the observatory building and its telescopes, by John McFarland...

Where and how are we looking for evidence of life? ... Because the universe is an immense place, it makes sense to search for evidence of life in more than one way. In addition to focusing on what we know about life on Earth, especially in extreme environments, astrobiology currently comprises three basic types of searches in space, each employing different technologies, looking in different places, and expecting to find different kinds of data: . ... The search types ? ... Extrasolar Planets vs. ...

... Solar Corona - Basic Level of Heliosphere. ... Solar Wind, Its Characteristics by Observation on the Terrestrial Orbit. ... Shock Waves in Heliosphere - General Physical Aspect and Features of Propagation of Solar Wind in Medium. ... Solar Cosmic Rays - Morphology, Origin, Energy Spectrum, Manifestrations in Outskirts of the Earth. ... Comets as Natural Heliosphere Probes. ... Dinamics of Heliosphere Dust - Light Pressure, Sublimation, Crashing, Sweeping by Solar Wind, Falling on Planetary Bodies. ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... By admin September 24, 2010 Posted in: Concept Spacecraft . One of the most grandiose of the vehicles suggested by Cole was the Aldebaran concept, a gigantic nuclear-powered launch vehicle he proposed in 1959. ... Scott Lowther has recently added fascinating scale drawings of this and other nuclear space propulsion concepts at his blog (the Unwanted Blog). ... The Amazing Aldebaran Spacecraft | ...

Estimations of the change of the Sun s mass and the gravitation constant based on high-accuracy observations of planets and spacecraft . ... More than 635 000 positional observations of planets and spacecraft of different types have been used for estimating possible changes of the gravitation constant, the solar mass, and semi-major axes of planets. ... gravitation constant, positional observation, Sun's mass. ...

... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

... 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...

... September 14, 1995 . The Far Side . ... Explanation: This historic picture was humanity's first glimpse of the far side of the Moon . ... Luna 3 followed closely on the heels of another Soviet probe, Luna 2, which had become the first spacecraft to impact the Moon on September 13th of that same year. ... Gravitational tidal forces within the Earth-Moon system have synchronized the Moon's period of rotation around its axis with its orbital period at about 28 days. ... About APOD | ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

. You can stop reading your mail and exit the mail program whenever you want. There are two ways that you can use to exit mail. Each has a slightly different effect. Exit mail using the q command . Exit mail using the x command .

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

... The Last Titan . ... 4500 Kilometers Above Dione . ... To find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn flew right past the fourth largest moon of the giant planet earlier this month. ... Angular Sand on Martian Hills . ... At the Center of the Milk Way . ... Once a controversial claim, this astounding conclusion is now virtually inescapable and based on observations of stars orbiting very near the galactic center. ... AE Aurigae: The Flaming Star . ... Is star AE Aurigae on fire?...

... The extinction in terrestrial atmosphere. ... A star was observed at different zenith distances during one night at the Engelgardt's Astronomical Observatory in the program of atmospheric extinction study at blue. ... Calculate the air mass for given zenith distances in 1st 54.9 11800 column, and write the result into the 2nd column. ... Spectral observations. ... Calculate the radial velocity Vr of the star on each date, the results of measurements and write calculations into the table. ...

... The NICMOS Parallel Program . Analysis . ... NICMOS observations made in parallel with the other HST instruments have produced an archive of over 2,000 images, covering a wide range of Galactic latitudes. ... The maximum sensitivity of these images is approximately 0.1 Jy, which should allow the detection of such astrophysically interesting sources as brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood and star-forming galaxies out to z 3. ...

The two main numerical libraries in Fortran 90 are . NAG Numerical Libraries for Fortran 90 Users . IMSL Fortran 90 MP Library Both of these offer both a modified version of the Fortran 77 library, recompiled for Fortran 90, and a completely new library, using all the new facilities of Fortran 90. ... On the Sun using Sun OS 4.2.1 we also got completely wrong results when using library functions in single precision, since the C system on Sun converted all function calls into double precision. ...

Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...