USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Venera 15 and Venera 16 were a two-spacecraft mission designed to use 8-centimeter (3-inch) band, side-looking radar mappers to study the surface properties of Venus . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > How is the sky spectrum for OFFSET data produced? ... Science Users Information . Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... The product sky frame is generated as follows: . All the input sky frames are averaged . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Universe . ... About four centuries ago, a tiny white dwarf star about the same diameter as Earth, but with a mass equivalent to the Sun, swung in a tight orbit about some larger star. The white dwarfтАЩs intense gravity tore material from its more massive companion. ... The quantity of mass in the universe is constant since the universe started its last self-replication, since its last singularity, its last pre-big bang re-birth conception. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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 | ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . Space Shuttle . ... Maneuvering through space and circling the Earth 36 times, astronauts John Young, commander, and Robert Crippen, pilot, tested its systems, then landed like an airplane on schedule two days, six hours, 20 minutes and 52 seconds later. ... While the shuttle system was something new and different, development could now draw upon a reservoir of aerospace technology, which was virtually nonexistent a decade earlier. ...

Welcome to K -corrections calculator, simple service allowing one to determine K -corrections of a galaxy, given its redshift and one or more colours. ... K -correction in choose filter.. ... Redshift . Colour choose colour.. Colour value . Calculator . ... calculate spectral energy distributions , K-corrections calculator , GALEX FUV NUV , UKIDSS YJHK , K-corrections of galaxies , spectral based k-corrections , SDSS filter set K-corrections , K correction code IDL , kcorrect IDL C , . ...

... Theoretical and experimental investigations electrodynamical characteristics of RATAN-600. Calculation of the two- and thee-mirror periscopic systems of RATAN-600 and optimization their characteristics. Measurements and calculation of the antenna noise temperature of the RATAN-600 radio telescope. ... Calculation and experimental investigation of the characteristics of the radio telescope RATAN-600 when the primary feed is shifted from the focus. ... The "radio-Schmidt telescope" mode. ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...

ENERGOSPECTROMETER OF IONOSPHERIC PLASMA P3-3 . ... The major objective of the P3-3 experiment is complex investigation the main parameters of ionospheric plasma with high time and spatial resolution. ... Measured parameters: . ... The experiment produce regular data - measured with fixed time interval and «packet» data - measured once per specific time interval and producing blocks of TM-information. ... If all parameters will be measured once per second, the experiment will produce 10 MB per orbit. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . ... Delivery of electronics unit GTS-2 with refurbished performance to the ISS RS, which will allow to receive signal by ground station with a higher accuracy. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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... The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz . ... In the 1970s large dish antennas at three radio observatories, Jodrell Bank, MPIfR, and Parkes Observatory, were used to do just that - the data were combined to map the entire sky. ... Characteristic of large, complex impact craters on the Moon, the central uplift was produced by a rebound of the suddenly molten lunar crust during the violent impact event. A Twisted Meteor Train . ... Saturns Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface . ...

Next: Sky models Up: Reductions --- at Previous: Robust fits and . ... Sky values may have already been subtracted (e.g., in CCD measurements or other data marked as RAWMAG instead of SIGNAL.) DARK CURRENT: Dark current is usually a strong function of detector temperature. If you have regulated the detector temperature, then only a weak time dependence might be expected --- perhaps only a small difference from one night to the next, or a weak linear drift during each night. ...

Electronic Catalogue of Comets "Halley" . ... In this paper we give a description of the Electronic Catalogue of Comets "Halley", which makes it possible to calculate the evolution of the orbits of comets, to visualize orbital motion, to determine the circumstances of a comet's close approach to planets within a given time interval, as well as a number of other opportunities. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Sky Guide . ... What types of energy are produced when matter and antimatter annihilate each other? ... The kind of energy released during such a collision depends on which matter and antimatter particles are involved and how energetically they collide. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The Perseid meteor shower, which this year peaked around midnight on the evening of August 12th, will continue at a low rate until around August 24th. ... Video clips in AVI and mp4 formats of some of the brightest Perseid meteors detected by the ObservatoryтАЩs cameras together with an image illustrating the parallel tracks in space of the Perseid meteors detected at Armagh can be found here . ...

... What is the notion time? ... Generally speaking, it is an order of changing events, an order of constantly changing conditions of solids, Universe - being. ... The time, determined for the given longitude, is called the local time . ... A uniform system of time counting - ephemeris time is tested by observations of the Moon turning around the Earth. Fully independent from astronomic observation uniform system of the time counting is based on the concept of atomic second (see quantum watches ). ...

... We compare ray-traces of the HRMA response to "on-axis" observations of AR Lac and Capella as they move through their dither patterns to images produced from filtered event lists to characterize the effective intrinsic PSF of the HRC-I. A two-dimensional Gaussian, which is often used to represent the detector response, is NOT a good representation of the intrinsic PSF of the HRC-I; the actual PSF has a sharper peak and additional structure. ... Last modified: Tue May 18 14:35:55 EDT 2010 . ...