... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Next: The Focal Plane Instruments Up: No Title Previous: The X-ray Optics . CXO has two focal plane instruments - the High-Resolution Camera (HRC) and the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). Each of these instruments, in turn, has two detectors, one optimized for direct imaging of x rays that pass through the optics and the other optimized for imaging x rays that are dispersed by the objective transmission gratings when the latter are commanded into place directly behind the HRMA. ...

Some notes on the "FAKERAT" software. ... In 1989/1990 D.W.Murphy (JPL) added the VSOP spacecraft constraints since they have a major impact of the science return from this missions. The program with the spacecraft constraints and several additional features was subsequently renamed fakesat. ... We continued these developments by creating a new branch of the software connected with RadioAstron mission; we call this version as "FAKERAT". ... Therefore, fakesat orbit block was completely replaced. ...

... The author of the cover picture is Vasilisa Verkhodanova. The picture symbolizes our perception of the world. The modified emblem of the SAO unifying the 6-m optical telescope and the raditelescope RATAN-600 of SAO RAS is placed in the center of the radio galaxy isophotes. From the one hand, we can investigate the properties of radio galaxies with these (and other) telescopes, and try to study physical processes providing their activity. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

... James S. Voss (Colonel, USA, Ret.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in June 1987, Voss completed a one-year training and evaluation program in August 1988, which qualified him for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flights. ... As a member of the second crew to live on ISS, Voss served aboard the space station for a total of 163 days and returned to earth with the STS-105 crew on August 22, 2001. ... OCTOBER 2005 ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

Database Development for Solar System Small Bodies' Orbital Evolution Based on Modern Mathematical Models and Methods . ... Research of the orbital evolution of 6163 asteroids belonging to Apollo, Amor, Aten groups and 197 short-period comets was performed for the time period from 1800 to 2206. 815 objects have been identified among asteroids approaching closely to inner planets, in particular 612 objects passing through the Earth's sphere of action. ...

Truebloodb,g, K. Zelayab Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221 USA; bNational Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Street, Tucson AZ 85719 USA; cCerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena ... USA ABSTRACT We describe the design, construction and measured performance of the Kitt Peak Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph ( KOSMOS ) for the 4-m Mayall ... Optical layout for KOSMOS and COSMOS. ...

... arXiv.org . astro-ph . ... 1] oai:arXiv.org:1012.5438 [ pdf ] - 1386111 . ... Lemmon, Tyler J. ; Mondragon, Antonio R. Comments: 20 pages, 3 figures. Focus of paper is model with relativistic mass in the gravitational potential. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0906.1221 . Submitted: 2010-12-24 , last modified: 2016-04-07 . ... Latitudinal Distribution of the Photospheric Magnetic Fields of Different Magnitudes . ... Submitted: 2015-04-09 , last modified: 2016-04-07 . ...

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... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...