... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

See also: Name-based Virtual Hosts Support . As the term IP-based indicates, the server must have a different IP address for each IP-based virtual host . ... There are two ways of configuring apache to support multiple hosts. ... For each installation, use the Listen directive in the configuration file to select which IP address (or virtual host) that daemon services. e.g. Listen www.smallco.com:80 It is recommended that you use an IP address instead of a hostname (see DNS caveats ). ...

... To see such a sight, however, you will need to look in the direction of the ecliptic . All of the planets and their moons orbit the Sun in nearly the same plane, the ecliptic plane . ... Ten years ago, a series of time exposures caught, left to right, the Sun , Venus , the Moon , and Jupiter , all rising in the ecliptic plane behind Fire Island , New York , USA . ... Smaller members of our Solar System , including most comets and many asteroids , do not always move along the ecliptic plane . ...

... Artist's conception of a young star veiled by its circumstellar disk. ... My bio may say "post-doc," but I'm actually in the planet-construction business. ... And since, in the "real world," everyone I meet has a business card, I'm now designing one for myself тАФ it'll have a hardhat on it. ... Of course, in practical terms, what I actually do is study the construction and assembly of solar systems how stars and planets are born from gas and dust inside giant stellar nurseries. ...

Introduction The suggested invention relates to attitude control system of a spacecraft. ... Systems without interaction with ambient (Systems with jet engines) Here, for instance, we can put systems, which can generate torque because of jettisoning any particles or gas. ... The main element of the suggested attitude control system is an electrical motor, which main feature is absents of a stator. ... 3 Block diagram of an attitude control system on a jet engines base. ... It is a system with| | ...

The aim of this section of the course is to familiarise you with celestial Coordinates. ... I found some good notes explaining the celestial coordinate system on the web: . ... 1st Dec: 04hr, 00min In addition to the equatorial coordinates described in the notes above, astronomers also use (at least) two other coordinate systes: galactic coordinates and ecliptic coordinates. ... Ecliptic coordinates use the ecliptic (the Earth's path around the sun) as the equator, and are used for solar system work. ...

... Hierarchy and stability 3. Stability criteria for triple systems 4. ... The results for selected systems with weak hierarchy (physical properties of components) System HD 40887 AB+CD HD 76644 AB+CD HD 217675 AB+CD HD 222326 A?+BC HD 284419 A+BC Spectral types K5V, M0V, K4V, ?? ... More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 ( And) Quadruple system More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 Pair B1B 2 More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 (Zhuchkov et al. ...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Until 2002 observations were mostly performed with ST-8E CCD in the 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... In April, 2003 telescope was equipped with a larger-size CCD Andor DW436 . ... 2048 x 2048 pixels, . ... Since summer of 2002 the main focal detector of the RTT150 telescope was AP47p CCD in 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... During September 3-13, 2002 works on installation of new autoguiding system ( photo 1 ) were carried out on RTT150 telescope. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... Individual pawprints extracted from the ESO archive can be passed through a calibration pipeline at Garching that will remove instrumental artefacts, and produce astrometrically and photometrically calibrated single pawprints for the user. The UK-based VISTA Data Flow System (VDFS) receives a copy of all VISTA raw data by agreement with ESO, and is required to fully respect the proprietary rights assigned by ESO to observations. ...

... Telescopes . ... CCD photometer . ... One of the principal devices used in observations at the telescope Zeiss-1000 is a CCD photometer. ... The count rates (electron per second) for ADU = 1e - computed throughout the image for U = B = R = I = 20.0 for an object observed at air mass equal to 1.0 with the given version of CCD at the telescope Zeiss-1000 are presented in Table 1. Table 1: Quantum efficiency and count rate in the broad-band system of the CCD photometer of the telescope Zeiss-1000. ...

Summary of the pro ject by A. Shlapunov "The Cauchy Problem for Elliptic Complexes" It is well known, that the Cauchy problem for elliptic equations is ill-posed in all the standard functional spaces. ... For overdetermined elliptic systems this approach was based on Integral Representation Method. ... Differential complexes appear as compatibility conditions for overdetermined systems of differential equations (such as, for example, Maxwell system or multidimensional Cauchy-Riemann system). ...

SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard BITPIX = 8 / number of bits per data pixel NAXIS = 0 / number of data axes EXTEND = T / FITS dataset may contain extensions COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'AstronomyCOMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode: 2001A .. ... IMAGEW = 4256 / image width IMAGEH = 2832 / image height ANRUN = T / Solve this field! ...

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... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Барахолка . Продается камера StarShoot Solar System Color Image II . ... цветная камера, по сути аналог QHY5, но без порта для гида . ... Лунные феномены (редкие, необычные явления) Жизнь астрономов-любителей Анонсы астрономических мероприятий Астрономические клубы Наш "Старлаб" . ... Orion StarShoot Solar System Color Imaging Camera III . ... Encyclopedia of the Solar System . ... Solar system simulator . ...

Storing and accessing the largest astronomical catalogues with the SAI CAS project S. Koposov1,2,3, O. Bartunov2, S. Karpov4 et al2. ... Why we want to build our own Catalogue Access Service The requirements for our CAS system The importance of the Database for the CAS (PostgreSQL & Q3C) The technical realization of CAS What has been already done Example of work TODO Storing and Accessing Astronomical Catalogues Existing projects CDS OpenSkyQuery CASjobs with SDSS They are all really great! ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When I was in high school, my favorite bumper sticker said "Ski Olympus Mons". ... Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system, and is located on a large elevated plain on Mars, called the Tharsis shield. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...