JSC History . JSC Oral History . ... The Mission Transcript Collection includes scanned transcripts from recorded air-to-ground transmissions and from tapes recording the words of the astronauts while onboard the Mercury through Apollo missions. ... Choose a Mission Mercury Gemini III Gemini IV Gemini V Gemini VI Gemini VII Gemini VIII Gemini IX Gemini X Gemini XI Gemini XII Apollo 7 Apollo 8 Apollo 9 Apollo 10 Apollo 11 Apollo 12 Apollo 13 Apollo 14 Apollo 15 Apollo 16 Apollo 17 Transcripts . ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

... IONOSPHERIC DATA IN THE INTERACTIVE SPIDR SYSTEM . ... The Ionosphere The ionosphere is that part of the upper atmosphere where free electrons occur in sufficient density to have an appreciable influence on the propagation of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. ... These regions may be further divided into several regularly occurring layers, such as F1 or F2. ... E Region: The region between about 95 and 150km above the Earth that marks the height of the regular daytime E layer. ...

... The antenna system . ... A military radar system, consisting of two identical radars, was transferred to the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP). ... The system features a two-channel transmit-receive antenna. ... By changing the phase difference in the channels, one is able to modify the shape of the total channels' beam in the angle-of-elevation plane. ... The total beam is controlled by introducing the phase signal into the excitation signal of one of the channels. ... Peak power.. ...

... For more distant stars we must use other techniques. ... Hence if we see a distant galaxy and can pick out any cepheids lying within it, we can calculate its distance. ... Here then is another method to gauge the size of the Universe and there are yet more. volume at high enough temperature a nuclear fusion reaction sweeps across the white dwarf's surface and eventually we will see a spectacularly bright new star (hence nova) in our skies. ... Why is this relevant to the size of the Universe? ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... Hard Rock Pioneers Deep Purple Bring Their Power Face To Face With The London Symphony Orchestra In A Concert Recorded At The Royal Albert Hall In September 1999. ... Also Highlighted Is Deep Purple Composer And Keyboardist Jon Lord's "Concerto For Group And Orchestra," From The Band's Very First Record, Recomposed Just For This Monumental Concert Performance. ... История компании Maggi начинается с 1882 года, а первые готовые сухие супы появились в 1886 году. ...

Data Processing . S2 or VLBA tapes containing the astronomical data recorded at tracking stations and ground radio telescopes must be sent to correlation center chosen by the principal investigator (PI). ... There are four correlators, which will be able to process RadioAstron data: DRAO S2-correlators in Canada, NRAO VLBA-correlator in USA, and Mitaka correlator in Japan. ... Data and Phase Links . Ground Support of the RadioAstron . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... 18941904; Bespalov P.A. Effective saturation of absorption in a plasma magnetospheric maser. In book: Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, R.Z. Sagdeev -Editor-in-Chief, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p.339-346]. Magnetospheric plasma maser [Bespalov P.A, Trakhtengerts V.Yu., ... In a magnetospheric plasma maser (MPM) the relatively dense magnetised plasma and the conjugate ends of a magnetic trap form a quasioptical resonator for electromagnetic waves. ...

... October 6, 09:00 09:40 . Jorge Melnick (ESO) . ... We present a statistical and temporal analysis of the ground meteorological properties recorded at the five selected sites for hosting the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT). ... Marc Sarazin (ESO) . The organization and development of the E-ELT site testing campaign by ESO are described. ... The E-ELT Site Testing activities in northern Chile and Argentina are reviewed, and pioneering explorative campaigns are illustrated. ...

. Heating the test sample. The Magnahelix and computer for recording temperature are in the background.

... According to standard phase screen theory large values of the intensity indices correspond to focusing conditions. ... It has been found that focusing effects always occur in the multibeam reflection (glint interference) regime. ... Figure 1 . ... First of all, calculations show that multibeam regime arises under slightly larger values of (see the Table 1 ). ... Thus, in our case (reflection from the E layer, altitude about 100 km) focusing is quite possible already when multibeam regime arises. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... I am doing this because of an exciting new project with which I am involved, and I want to have it out for the public to see. ... If I had to write out "Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph" every time, I'd go nuts. ... Regular readers are already familiar with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). ... The very faintest star you can see without aid is still a billion times brighter than the dimmest star in that STIS image. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... www.chjaa.org or http:/ / /chjaa.bao.ac.cn ) Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics A Check on the Variations of Earth's Rotation with an Ancient Solar Eclipse Yan-Ben Han and Qi-Yuan Qiao National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012; hyb@bao.ac.cn Received 2003 May 13; accepted 2003 September 29 Abstract We address the relation between an ancient total The total eclipse was recorded in some ancient Chinese books, especially in local chronicles. ...

... Integrated superconducting submm receivers and spectrometers. ... The main objective of this work is to develop and test a family of Superconducting Integrated Receivers ( SIR ) with quantum-limited sensitivity and high-resolution spectrometers for submm wave frequencies (up to 700 GHz). ... Fig 10.a. Fig. 10.a. Spectra measured by Integrated Receiver (FFO frequency = 495 GHz) at the gondola altitude 30 km for the limb scanning in the range 10.5 - 30 km with 1.5 km increment (from top to bottom). ...

Next: Status and Goals of Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: NICMOS Data Calibration and . ... CALNICB Processing . ... Combining NUMITER Images . ... The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) data reduction and calibration pipeline for the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is composed of two major tasks, CALNICA and CALNICB. ... NICMOS, calibration, pipeline, software . ... CALNICB combines images into mosaics and also removes background signal from the images. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...