... 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. ...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The Future . ... By admin August 20, 2014 Posted in: Concept Spacecraft . The XS-1 booster descending to Earth after releasing its upper stage. The expendable upper stage was carried on the spaceplane?s back. ... Northrop GrummanтАЩs proposed XS-1 is a reusable spaceplane which acts as a booster for an expendable upper stage that could place a 3000 lb (1360 kg) satellite into low Earth orbit. ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

I work at the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center (CXC) . The CXC is part of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. ... I am the Chandra Observatory Mission Operations Manager, which includes duty as the Chandra Flight Director . ... High Resolution Camera (HRC) . ... HRC Higher-level Sequences . ... Dr. Michael Juda . Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . ... HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS | ...

On the multifunctional orbital piloted complex Mir Russian Federation Government resolves: . To accept Russian Space Agency and Korolev Rocket- Space Corporation Energy's proposal to continue the exploitation of the multifunctional orbital piloted complex Mir (further - complex Mir) in 1999-2002. ... Russian Space Agency is to provide coordination and checking over carrying out the work determined by this Resolution. Russian Federation Government . ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Contacts . 2009: . ... We finalized the development of a facility for observations (including remote observations) of the star-shaped objects with the temporal resolution of 1 micro second. ... For contacts: G.M.Beskin ) . RATAN-600 Multi-Octave Frequency Range Overlapping Finalized. We finalized the multi-octave overlapping of the RATAN-600 frequency range from 0.75 to 18GHz with the frequency resolution of 1% using the parallel spectrum analysing complex. ... Archive . ...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

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. ...

... Research Innovation . Schools . ... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... Geology Department . ... School of History . ... Ancient and Medieval History Department . ... University History Museum . ... School of Physics . ... The Department of Space Radio Physics is one of the leading research constituents at Kharkiv V. Karazin National University. ... The Department of Space Radio Physics places great emphasis on research, and supports several major groups, which have a worldwide reputation. ...

... Partly based on observations performed with radio telescopes of IAA RAS (Federal State Budget Scientific Organization Institue of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences). c . ... Partly based on observations with the 100-m telescope of the MPIfR (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy) at Effelsberg . ... NRAO facilities . The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. ...

The Calendar of Bloody A.tecs. Living in Central Mexico from the XII century to the being of the XVI century warlike A.tecs devoted much time to sciences including astronomy. For needs of agriculture A.tecs, using the knowledge received from the forecomers, developed the exact calendar system. 52 years of the moon-and-the sun cycle formed the basis of it (something like our conception of "a century"). ... A.tecs year was divided into 18 months with 20 days each. ... Mesopotamian astronomy. ...

Text can be included in the shell script by using a here document, a special form of input redirection. The << symbol is used to indicate that text should be read up to a given mark. For example: #!/bin/sh # this script outputs the given text before it runs cat << EOF This shellscript is currently under development, please report any problems to Danny (danny@cornflake.ed) EOF exec /usr/local/test/bin/test_version . ...

... The VLT Science Archive System M. A. Albrecht, E. Angeloni, A. Brighton, J. Girvan, F. Sogni, A. J. Wicenec and H. Ziaeepour European Southern Observatory, send e­mail to: malbrech@eso.org Abstract. ... OLAS Intermediate Storage Database On­line Archive On­line Archive Facility User Data & Archive Data ASTO Archive File Database Data Stage Pipeline VCS SAS Processing Stage Database Science Archive Science Archive Facility User Data ASTO Archive File Database Data Stage Replication SARE Figure 1. ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...