... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... According to Velikovsky, about 4000 years ago a giant volcano on Jupiter erupted and spewed a vast glob of debris into space, leaving the Great Red Spot behind as a permanent scar. The red hot lump ejected from Jupiter (referred to as a comet by Velikovsky) wandered into the inner Solar System, repeatedly crossing the Earth?s orbit and in fact often passing close to our helpless planet in the following millennia. ...

... Generally, astronomical data archives are open to public. ... The data format?so called FITS. Yet, ASCII format catalogues are available (for example, VizieR , http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR) . ... Here, I attach an email from 2006 Astrostatics Summer School at PSU , who kindly answer to my question on how to read files in FITS format. ?????????????from Patrick . ... The tool you want in this package is called dmlist , with a syntax like this to dump the data to an ASCII file: . ...

Central Bodies Masses of Selected Globular Clusters N.A.Shakht, A.A.Kiselev, Yu.N.Gnedin and E.A.Grosheva. The Main Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory RAS 47 Tuc ­NGC 104 RA 00 24 .1 Dec -72° 04 .9 Size = 30.9 mvis + 4. 0 m D from = 12,1 kpc, h m Cen - NGC 5139 NGC 6397 (Ara) RA 17 h40.m7 Dec -53o 40'.4 Size = 31',0 mvis + 5,3m D from =2.3 kpc RA 13h 26m .8 Dec -47° 28 6 Size = 36.3 m vis +3. 7 m D from =15.8 ±1.1 kpc, 12109 years, Age: 10109 years, (13.4 ± 0.8)109 years. ...

... Cabinets containing the Palomar, ESO and UKSTтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: Cabinets containing the Palomar, ESO and UKST survey plates and films. Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... Shockproof Plastic Battery Storage Box Container Case for 16340 / CR123A Battery . ... Package Contents: 1 x Battery Case, 1 x Strap, 1 x Keyring, 1 x Carabiner . ...

... Астрономические каталоги . ... Астрономический Интернет . ... на учебный Автоматизированный Астрономический Комплекс Новосибирского Государственного Университета. ... Автоматизированный Астрономический Комплекс оснащен телескопом-рефлектором системы Ньютона с параболическим главным зеркалом диаметром 315 мм. и солнечным телескопом-рефрактором с объективом диаметром 100 мм. ... Расположен астрономический комплекс на лабораторном корпусе НГУ в Академгородке, 30 км к югу от г. Новосибирска. наверх . ...

... galaxies: bulges galaxies: clusters: general galaxies: clusters: individual: . ... star formation statistics stellar content structure Cosmology ( cosmology :) cosmic background radiation ( cosmology :) cosmological parameters cosmology : miscellaneous cosmology : observations cosmology : theory ( cosmology :) dark ages, reionization, first stars ( cosmology :) dark energy ( cosmology :) dark matter ( cosmology :) diffuse radiation ( cosmology :) distance scale ( cosmology :) early Universe (...

... Read MPEC 2008-W65 Read MPEC 2008-W67 M.P.E.C. 2008-W66 Issued 2008 Nov. ... 02138, U.S.A. Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU URL http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html 2008 WM61 Observations: K08W61M * K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 ... Orbital elements: 2008 WM61 Epoch 2008 Nov. ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... The Round Earth . ... Some of the names he used for the Moon's crater are of persons discussed in "Stargazers"-- Tycho (distinguished by bright streaks that radiate from it), Ptolemy ("Ptolemaeus"), Copernicus , Kepler , Aristarchus , Hipparchus , Erathosthenes ; Meton and Pythagoras are on the edge, near the northern pole. ... Those moons display " palimpsest" craters which are merely surface markings, because as time passed, the walls which originally existed sagged back onto the flat surface. ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The following are astronauts who are employed at NASA. Astronaut assignments and category definitions (e.g., "active" astronauts, "management" astronauts) are contained in a separate Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) policy letter. Astronaut . ... Acaba, Joseph M. 2004 . ... Aunon, Serena M. 2009 . ... Barratt, Michael R. 2000 . ... Burbank, Daniel C. 1996 . ... Cassada, Josh A. 2013 . ... 1998 . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... By R.A. By NGC/IC . ... By R.A. Andromeda . ... Canis Major . ... Canis Minor . ... Leo . ... Leo Minor . ... Ursa Major . ... Ursa Minor . ... By Catalog Type . ... By R.A. Messier . ... Herschel 2500 . ... Herschel 400 (I) . ... Globular Clusters . ... AL Globular Club . ... AL Planetary Club . ...

... Popper (1959) classified the eclipsing components as B8 V and B9.5 V. According to Wolff and Preston (1978) the primary component (B8) is a HgMn star. Spectroscopic elements were determined by Wyse (1936) from observations made in the years 1934 - 1935 and by Harper (1937) from observations 1935 -1936. ... Rachkovskaya (1985) according to Harper - 2.68 and 2.36 observed the star in the years 1967 -1968 and 1981 - 1982 and obtained the mass ratio q » 1. ...

... October 10, 1604 a new star unknown before appeared in Snakebearer constellation. ... Mostly Kepler saw farther than Galilei , understanding that planets were influenced by the Sun. ... The most of all wonders is that I opened four new planets and observed their own movement and the movement according each other and according the other stars. These new planets are mooving around the other great star as well as Venus, Mercury, and perhaps the other known planets are moving around the Sun". ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... MSS Container 1 Thermal insulating container consisting of 3 numbered experimental bags (MSS Sample 1, 2, 3) and ice pack. ... Identical to MSS Container 1; . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...