... Approaching the International Space Station . ... Credit: STS-106 Crew , NASA Explanation: Last Monday the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis took in this view as they approached the developing International Space Station (ISS). From top to bottom, the astronauts saw a station currently consisting of the Progress supply module, the Zvezda service module , the Zarya cargo module , and the Unity connecting module . ... The Shuttle and its entire crew are scheduled to return to Earth Wednesday. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

... База данных . ... Любителям астрономии . Сличения стандартов времени и частоты . ГЛОНАСС (ГЛОбальная НАвигационная Система Спутников, Россия) и GPS ]. Наблюдения Всемирного времени (UT0 - UTC) при помощи . ... Наблюдения широты при помощи . ...

A life dedicated to Olympiads. Waldemar Gorzkowski, the President of the International Physics Olympiad, passed away on 15 th of July 2007 in Isfahan, Iran, at the 38 th International Physics Olympiad. ... Waldemar's contribution in IAO is not well-known. ... The idea of leadership of the National Science Societies (like Astronomy Societies for IAO or Physics Societies for IPhO) in the National Olympiads and formation of the teams was highly approved by Waldemar. ... IAO Chairman. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bulletin Board . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... On board are seven astronauts that will perform the second Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. ... Also on board Discovery is a new data recorder, which will allow much more data to be taken at the same time on HST, as well as a new Fine Guidance Sensor, which helps the telescope track on its targets. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...

... 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. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...