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... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Sky this Week . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mars mission given green light by NASA to proceed to development . ... NASA announced today that the University of Colorado at Boulder-led mission to Mars to investigate how the planet lost much of its atmosphere eons ago has been approved by the space agency to move into the development stage. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... John M. Grunsfeld (Ph.D.) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... A veteran of five spaceflights, STS-67 (1995), STS-81 (1997), STS-103 (1999) STS-109 (2002) and STS-125 (2009), Dr. Grunsfeld has logged more than 58 days in space, including 58 hours and 30 minutes of EVA in 8 spacewalks. ... He returned to NASA in January 2012 to serve as the Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington. ...

Maidanak Laboratory is a part of Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University. ... Observations are conducted with 1.5 meter RC telescope AZT-22 of Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan). rus . ... maidanak lab home page . ... at Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 2000). ... Because of technical reasons, we had to use three different CCD cameras in our observations, Pictor-416 camera in 1995, Pictor-416 and TI 800 x 800 cameras in 1997 and 1998, and ST-7 camera in 1999 and 2000. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

SAO is Russia's main centre for ground-based space research. ... The basic instruments of the Observatory are the optical telescope BTA (Big Alt-azimuth Telescope) with a main mirror diameter of 6 m and the radio telescope RATAN-600 with the antenna diameter 600 m. Study of the Universe as a whole, analysis of non-stationary energy release in galactic and extragalactic objects of various types, investigation of evolution and chemical composition of our Galaxy and the nature of solar activity. ...

NIST Special Publication 500-223 . A Framework for the Development and Assurance of High Integrity Software . ... The purpose of this document is to recommend a framework for the development and assurance of high integrity software. ... High integrity software, project management, software assurance, software configuration management, software development, software hazard analysis, software quality assurance, software verification and validation. ... 2 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT . ...

... In this paper we present the results of detailed B, V, R, I, and H study of the isolated nearby blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy NGC6789. Judging from the literature the observed galaxy has not been resolved into stars up to now. ... The distance of the galaxy, estimated from the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is 2.1 Mpc which places NGC6789 close to the Local Group. ... Key words: nearby galaxies: dwarf galaxies (NGC 6789): distance moduli: star content . ... Distance. ...

... 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 . ...

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... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

... Pre-university education . ... Research areas . ... SSAU History . ... Yulia Krasovskaya, Junior Research Associate of SSAU Research and Educational Centre of Gas-Dynamics Research, took a two-month internship at the Swedish University of Lund. ... Within two months Yulia conducted studies to determine the flame propagation rate of the jet fuel substitutes by applying the unique facilities of the Physics Department Laboratory of Swedish University. ... Lund University was founded in 1666. ...

... 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. ...

... part 2 | ... Part 1 . The new concept of formation and development of the Solar system. ... Thus, the initial pulse of the rotation of a protosolar cloud of the solar system was determined as a result of the diversion of a part of the moment of the rotational pulse of the Galaxy. ... Besides this new approach to the pre-solar system as a system of the destroyed vortex structure, we can understand now a number of other peculiarities of the Solar system's structure. ...

Astrophysics Space Missions . ... Space Physics Missions . Data Centers . ... Lectures in Space Science . ... Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) . ... University of Arizona , Theoretical Astrophysics Program Return to the top of this document . ... JHU/APL AMPTE/CCE Space Science Data Center . ... National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) . ... Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF) at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center . ... Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences/Utah State University (CASS/USU) . ...

... 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 . ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

JOURN ES 2014 SYST MES DE R F RENCE SPATIO-TEMPORELS . ... in ground-based and space astrometry" . ... Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia . ... The Journ es 2014 "Syst mes de r f rence spatio-temporels", with the sub-title "Recent developments and prospects in ground-based and space astrometry" were organized at Pulkovo Observatory from 22 to 24 September 2014. ... These Journ es are included in the program of celebrating of the 175th anniversary of the Pulkovo observatory. ...

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... Fortran . ... The final example shows the program in the new programming language F. program tpk(input,output); (* Pascal program for Unix *) var i : integer; y : real; a : array [0..10] of real; function f (t : real) : real; begin f := sqrt(abs(t)) + 5*t*t*t end; begin for i := 0 to 10 do read(a[i]); for i := 10 downto 0 do begin y := f(a[i]); if y > 400 then writeln(i,' TOO LARGE') else writeln(i,y); end end. ... C THE TPK ALGORITHM C FORTRAN IV STYLE DIMENSION A(11) FUN(T) = SQRT(ABS(T)) + 5.) ...