... 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). ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Общий форум любителей астрономии > Продолжительность полярной ночи? ... Просмотр полной версии : Продолжительность полярной ночи? ... Вот вам простые формулы (проще по-моему некуда) - в результате получите номера дней в году, когда начинается и заканчивается полярные день и ночь, отнимите одно от другого - будет продолжительность дня и ночи: . ... Полярный день: N_polarday_begin=koeff*ARCSIN(COS(fi)/SIN(e))+82 . ... return pi*g/180;} . ...

... Russian Moon exploration program currently consists of three successive missions, using the legacy of earlier Soviet lunar missions, which included orbiters and landers, sample returns and rovers. ... Currently Russian Moon missions are as follows: . Luna-25 (also known as Luna-Glob-Lander) mission to land the spacecraft on the Moon and the first in a row of a new lunar program, which should eventually lead to exploitation of the Moon. ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

... THIRD RUSSIAN VISITING CREW . ... The main crew of the third visiting mission had a consultation on ESCD experiment included into the program of scientific experiment of cosmonaut M.Shuttleworth, as well as on the kits of equipment that are to be delivered to and returned from orbit on-board Soyuz TM-34 and Soyuz TM-33 spacecraft. ... Upon completion of this work there was a review of this inspection with participation of the leading specialists of the Corporation. MAIN | ... CORPORATION | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Apollo 8 , NASA Explanation: Forty years ago, in December of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back again. ... The Apollo 8 mission's impressive list of firsts includes: the first humans to journey to the Earth's Moon , the first to fly using the Saturn V rocket, and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - Moon - Apollo 8 . Publications with words: Earth - Moon - Apollo 8 . ...

Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . ... In July 2012, CRTS noticed that this object had started to brighten again. ... Then in September of 2012 it got brigher again. ... Cornell University The Unprecedented Third Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a Supernova . ... UIS Henry Barber Research Observatory 2009ip page . ... 2009/08/26.11 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ... Stan Howerton . ... Stan Howerton Light curve . ...

... now - return the registration form . May 10 - deadline for conference registration and accommodation form . ... July 1 - final information to participants . ... RETURN] . ... Please send the abstracts to LOC. E-mail address: astro@te.net.ua . ... All participants are requested to fill in the enclosed Registration Form and send it to us before May 10, 1999 (via electronic mail to astro@te.net.ua ) . ... Please complete and return this form (even if you sent the pre-registration form) . ...

... Beijing Global Information Center of Application and Exploitation, Beijing, China Introduction In the current list of satellites tracked by ILRS stations, the mission for GNSS include: one GPS satellites four GALILEO satellites six GLONASS satellites one QZSS satellite four COMPASS satellites COMPASS is the Chinese regional satellite navigation system, consisting of satellites with GEO, IGSO and MEO orbit and the orbital altitudes of 21500-36000km . ... M3 can be tracked by all ILRS stations. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Sky Events . ... Dragon spacecraft returns critical science to Earth . ... Dragon is the only space station resupply spacecraft able to return a significant amount of cargo to Earth. ... Investigations included among the returned cargo could aid in food production during future long-duration space missions and enhance crop production on Earth. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...

... Planetarium Staff . ... Freedom of Information . ... The Armagh Planetarium website has been enabled to use BrowseAloud software. ... See the following instructions on how to increase the size of the text on any web page you are viewing. тАв Press ' Ctrl ' and ' + ' to increase the text size, ' Ctrl ' and ' - ' to decrease the text size. ... For information on changing the text size in older browsers and on different operating systems visit the BBC My Web My Way site for Windows, MAC and Linux . ...

and 42 % 27-11-1999 Andr\'as Holl % 2.31: 02-05-2001 % % Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary % Use the following documentstyle definition : % \documentstyle[twoside, ibvs2, epsf]{article} % or % \documentstyle[twoside]{article} % \input ibvs2.sty % \input epsf.sty % epsf is only needed for figures % IBVS.STY screen message \ typeout {} \ typeout {IBVS.STY Ver. 2.31 - 02-05-2001 } \ typeout {Information Bulletin on Variable Stars - Konkoly Observatory} \ ...

February 2004 Starfields. The monthly newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... 15, No.2 February 2004 Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using February 2004 Newsletter President's Message.. ... Compare it with the white star Alpha Cephei. ... The monthly newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. the director of the Harvard College Observatory at the time. ...

The Astronomy Net . Articles | ... Forums . ... I have moved the entire Astronomy family of sites to a nice new server with the help of your previous contributions and personal funds. This server contains this site plus those listed at Astronomy Net . ... This site - www.astronomy.net - by itself sends about six billion bytes of information to visitors every month. ... I count on donations from patrons to help me keep Astronomy Net on the internet servicing the astronomy community. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... The length of the shadow depends on the height of an object (like a mountain or a human) and how high up the Sun is. ... We can calculate the length of the shadow if we know the Sun's angle above the horizon and the object's height. ... The Earth spins 360 degrees in 24 hours, which means it spins 1 degree in 4 minutes; that in turn means the Sun moves 1 degree every 4 minutes in the sky. ...

Underdetermined sets is a new type of data structures (terms) developed in Actor Prolog . ... The point is that an underdetermined set can include some indefinite rest (a tail) like a list in usual Prolog . At the same time, the order of elements of an underdetermined set can be arbitrary one and it does not affect results of unification of underdetermined sets. Moreover, Actor Prolog guarantees that a rest of an underdetermined set never contains elements that are explicitly given in the set. ...

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

... In the median ; function of IDL, the higher of the two values is returned. ... Felix Stoehr, [ST-ECF] xxx = xx(sort(xx)) n = n_elements(xxx) if ((n mod 2) eq 0) then begin return , 0.5 * (max([0,xxx(n/2-1)])+xxx(n/2)) endif else begin return , xxx((n-1)/2) endelse end ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ;***************************************************************************************** function DER_SNR , ...

... 45° Eyepiece Focus Knob Optical Tube Sunshade Objective Lens Zoom Ring Mounting Head Quick Mount Latch Mounting Platform Side Tilt Locking Nut Elevation Crank Handle Elevation Height Locking Nut Tripod Leg Locking Lever Pan Lever Vertical Lock 1 Parts The · · · following par ts are included with the spotting scope: The spotting scope optical tube. ... If your spotting scope is intentionally immersed in water for any significant length of time, you risk voiding the warranty in doing so. ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...