... Expected NICMOS Performance after HST Servicing Mission 3 . NICMOS Cooling System Design . ... NASA is developing the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) to provide operation of NICMOS beyond the exhaustion of its stored solid nitrogen cryogen. ... The NCS combines an external radiator identical in design to the ACS/STIS Aft Shroud Cooling System (ASCS) planned for SM3, a Creare, Inc. reverse-Brayton cycle turbine cooler, and an EVA installed neon loop to the NICMOS dewar's cooling coil. ...

... A new version of a polarization analyzer ensuring parallel measurements of six polarization components of spectral lines is considered. ... A new version of the polarization analyzer, which ensures simultaneous measurements of six polarization components of a spectral line, is considered. ... One of the widespread schemes for magnetic fields measurements includes an tunable optical filter, an adjustable polarization analyzer, and a two-dimensional CCD array placed in the solar image plane [1, 2]. ...

... Program of the Course of Radio Astronomy . Moscow State University , Physics Department , Astronomy Division , 4 th year, 60 hours in total) . ... Molecular maser emission. ... The emission of the interstellar neutral hydrogen. ... Pacholczyk, A. G. Radio Astrophysics, W. H. Freeman & Co., ... Frontiers of Astrophysics, Avrett, E. H., ed., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ... Kaplan, S. A., Pikelner, S. B. The Interstellar Medium, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

... For many ATMs, having a good ray trace program on hand is pretty valuable. ... http://www.willbell.com . ... It is a slick Windows package with great graphics, but my most recent machine (Win95 OSR2) now encounters many error messages. ... OSLO LT : This is the freeware Windows version of OSLO - it is limited to 12 surfaces, but is otherwise amazing. ... KDP : This is another powerful, freeware Windows raytrace package. ... ZEMAX : This is yet another powerful, Windows raytrace package. ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara University scientists have developed a technology of new-designed photoelectric converters for solar batteries of spacecraft. ... The new solar batteries will be as much effective as their contemporary nanoheterostructured counterparts surface-supported by germanium, and the cost will be five times cheaper. ... Scientists of Samara University (joint SSAU and SSU) developed a technology basis of new silicon-based photoelectric converters (FEC). ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... STATE OF ASEC DEVELOPMENT . ... ASEC . ... Warranted life-time of balloons and calibration mixed gases, months . ... Telemetry system supplying information from each station to ecological center on technical state of gas analyzing equipment and instruments, emergency situations and unauthorized opening of the station. available . ... Calibration mixed gasses are stored inside the balloons as part of ASEC. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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Introduction 1 Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System. ... OCAAS is a complete UNIX software package for the local and remote operation of an astronomical observatory. ... It controls all aspects of the telescope mount, CCD camera, filter wheel, focuser, weather instrumentation, power supply, GPS receiver, internet or phone line communications, dome and shutter hardware. ... 1.2 Main Control Features. ... OCAAS can perform an automatic focus procedure at any time under operator control. ...

... Introduction: In the present work the morphometric parameters for 87 large martian craters [1](with diameters from 411 up to 110 kms) have been determined: depth of a crater, the relation of depth of a crater to diameter (/D), height