... 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. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

. All images Copyright by Vasiliy V. Rumyantsev , 1998 . For personal viewing only. If you have any questions or suggetions or if you want to use these images contact me . Page created: 28 December 1998 . Last update: 23 Sept. 1999 .

... It allows observations of extended and starlike objects in different modes: CCD photometry, panoramic spectroscopy with the Fabry-Perot interferometer, spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry with a "long-slit", slit-free spectroscopy, multi-object spectroscopy. ... Digital servo drives that were installed have improved the reliability of the complex, extended the range severalfold, and reduced the telescope's speed control step. ... A software and hardware set for the BTA control system was implemented...

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

LIFR MI 2 P, Laboratoire International Franco-Russe de Math matiques et Interaction avec l'Informatique et la Physique Th orique is, as its name indicates, a French-Russian mathematics research lab that focuses on fundamental mathematics and its interaction with computer science and theoretical physics. It was created by a Founding Agreement between the CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) and the IUM (the Independent University of Moscow). ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Sally K. Ride O RAL H ISTORY: 22 October 2002 ; 6 December 2002 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.A. in English, B.S. in Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1973 M.S. in Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1975 Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1978 NASA EXPERIENCE: NASA Johnson Space ... Sally Ride and Susan Okie, To Space & Back (Orlando: Harcourt, Brace, 1986). ...

... Бренд: Zapf Creation, Тип: Колготки для кукол . Аксессуары для кукол . ... Пособие содержит темы, подготовленные на основе базовой учебной программы по дисциплине "Банковский маркетинг". ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 22 - 28.06.2015, Forecast on 29.06 - 05.07.2015, Carrington Rotations 2165 (17,64.06.2015) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN WAS ON AVERAGE, AND 26 -27.06 LOW LEVELS. ... As a result of emergence of significant new magnetic fluxes in the following spot 22 and 25.06 there were two large solar flares. AVERAGE LOW LEVELS OF THE SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY ARE EXPECTED ON THE NEXT WEEK. ... G - geoeffectivity in last solar rotation. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... I read in your archives that: "The black hole will slowly radiate away?. ... Since this represents energy leaving the black hole, it will slowly release all of its mass in this fashion." ... If a pair of particles is produced which gets its rest mass energy from the gravitational field of the hole, and one particle is lost, then there will be a decrease in the energy of the hole. ...

... 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. ...

WDC-A Digital Exchange Format for One-Minute Geomagnetic Data (Update August 1993) 1. The logical record length is 400 coded characters containing header information, blank spaces, and data for one element for one hour. ... Each logical record contains header information and data in the following format: North polar distance, longitude, year, month, day, hour, element, observatory code, blank spaces, 60 data values, and an hourly mean. ... ORG is the origin of the data. A = Alaska Chain. ...

AUTOMATIC CREATION OF THE HYPSOMETRIC MAP OF VENUS. ... The hypsometric map of Venus (1:45M) created under editing of Dr. Rodionova gives the representation of the planet relief on the basis of up-to-date data. ... The requirement was to preserve contour polygons with the areas more than 10 000 sq. km at the Venus surface, which corresponded with areas approximately more than 5 sq. km at the map. ... The other side of Venus map has been prepared. ... Surface height histograms for both Venus and Earth. ...

Rocket and Space Public Corporation Energia after S.P. Korolev is the strategic enterprise of Russia and the leading company engaged in manned space systems. A great deal of attention is focused on the development of new space technologies, including dedicated unmanned space systems for various applications, rocket systems for spacecraft orbital injection. ... Manned Space Systems . International Space Station (ISS) Russian Segment (RS) developed (since 1993) and being operated (since1998). ...