... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... A large gas cloud collapses. ... As more stuff piles up in the center, the temperature and pressure increase (when you squeeze a gas, it heats up). ... It absorbs a lot of the generated heat and then radiates it away at the surface. ... You supply it with a steady source of gas, and it merrily burns it away, generating heat which is radiated away by the surface of the grill (well, the part that isn't absorbed by the food you're cooking). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... View from a tower . ... in the launch table . One of 2 Energia-Buran launch pads converted from N-1. There is also one more Energia launch pad called Versatile Stand-Start Complex. ... The giant N-1 tower still exists. Moreover, it looks like most photos of Buran on the launch pad were shot from this tower. One of 2 N-1 launch pads. N-1 pads were later converted for Energia-Buran program. Proton launch pad. Mobile tower is moved away from the rocket. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 7.09.2010 . ... They are NASA's Space Shuttles , and NASA has recently released large digital posters to honor them. ... Posters for all of the shuttles , including Atlantis , Challenger , Columbia , Discovery , Endeavour are available. ... September 2010 . ... Publications with keywords: space shuttle - space shuttle Endeavour - NASA . Publications with words: space shuttle - space shuttle Endeavour - NASA . ... The Flight Deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... History . ... Educational reporting which elucidates the features of the space experiments conduct onboard the station (the ISS inertia tensor, etc.) and ways of the ISS attitude hold, on the attitude sensors and devices defining a space position of science devices, on deformation of the station hull, magnetic measurements, as well as microgravity disturbances onboard the station. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia"...

SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard BITPIX = -32 / number of bits per data pixel NAXIS = 2 / number of data axes NAXIS1 = 1138 / length of data axis 1 NAXIS2 = 1114 / length of data axis 2 TELESCOP= 'UT1 ' PI-COI = 'C. Cesarsky' / Name of PI and COI ORIGIN = 'ESO/EIS ' / Data processed by RA = 53.0917713808546 / RA (J2000) at start (deg). ... RADECSYS= 'FK5 ' / Coordinate reference frame. ... TOT-IMAG= 125 / Total number of images. ... MOSTILES= 21 / Total number of tiles in MOSAICID. ...

... You will connect to the server ( telescope ) computer with a command such as the one described below: ssh -L 7624 :localhost: 7624 user@remoteserver On a high speed local area network if you also want to transport X you may connect with ssh -Y -L 7624 :localhost: 7624 user@remoteserver Configure SSH without passwords =============================== On the computer you are connecting from ... Server Port =========== INDI accept remote commands on port 7624. ...

... The Observatory, the cupola of which is 480 cm wide, is equipped with a Ritchey-Cretien 500 mm f/7.5 telescope, a 200 mm f/7.5 guide telescope, and a 250 mm f/13 Baker-Schmidt, a ST4 and a ST6 CCD cameras and four computers. ... Up until now we have archived about 600 images from the first observation, and 100 from the second, thanks to the automatic telescope aiming control program written by Vairo Risoldi. ... A.Nakamura, Japan, took CCD image of NGC5775. ...

... This site requires Javascript to function correctly. ... Don't rush to buy a telescope - As Alan MacRobert of Sky & Telescope Magazine says, 'To put a telescope to rewarding use, you first need to know the constellations as seen with the naked eye, be able to find things among them with sky charts, know something of what a telescope will and will not do, and know enough about the objects you're seeking to recognize and appreciate them.' ... ASRAS can help you choose the telescope that's right for...