... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Stephen James O'Meara . ... space flight . ... space physics . ... Sky Events . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Hubble to receive high-tech James Webb Space Telescope technology . ... Scientists and engineers now creating new technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have realized that these advancements can be used to enhance the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Regional planning meeting for the Balkan and Black Sea | ... Proposals for a web site of the Regional Network - Information on regional and global activities - Proceedings of this Meeting - Space Weather Alerts for the public - Form for submitting research and observational proposals - Database of scientific data publicly available - Greece provides solar telescope data - Romania provides data on active regions studied with helioseismis holography - Armenia provides access to...

It could be that SETI signals have arrived at the Earth, but are lower then the noise level, and our receivers cannot detect them. ... Fig. ... It follows that two zones form around the star with civilization X: "Zone Yes", where its SETI signal can be detected, and "Zone No", where its signals are hidden by noise (Fig. ... In practice, it is more efficient to use a time factor, since the problem of SETI contact does not limit the duration of the signal element and semantic text. ...

... You may write to me if you have questions. ... Let G be a locally compact abelian group, H be a compact open subgroup, and let f L1 (G). Fix a Haar measure µ on G to define the Fourier transform f : G C. a) If f (g ) = 0 for all g H , show f : G C is constant on H -cosets in G: f ( ) = f () if H . ... Let p be a prime. p 1 |y |2 1+1/p p a) In the topological group R в Qp , show Z (embedded diagonally) is discrete but not co-compact and Z[1/p] (embedded diagonally) is both discrete and cocompact. ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

... Software requirements . ... Further considerations are required on Mac OS X in relation to X11 and Qt (see below). ... ds9 stable version 3.0.3 works fine with SAS 7.0.0 . ... We recommend the installation of HEASOFT version 6.0 (HEADAS), since SAS 7.0.0 was built with that version (except for Mac OS X where version 5.3 was used). Some SAS tasks require perl . ... To work with this release of SAS on any Mac OS X version, the X Windows software or X11 (a.k.a X11R6) for Mac Os X must be installed . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ClassљIndex . ... TuiNodeEnum Class Reference . ... setValue (QString s) . TuiNodeEnum (const QString &text, QObject *receiver, const char *method, QStringList items, QString defValue, TuiNode *parent=NULL, TuiNode *prev=NULL) . ... virtual TuiNodeResponse љ . ... virtual QStringљ . ... TuiNodeEditable (const QString &text, TuiNode *parent=NULL, TuiNode *prev=NULL) . ... TuiNode (const QString &text, TuiNode *parent=NULL, TuiNode *prev=NULL) . ...

... Skalnatґ Pleso 43, 1 ­ 2, (2014) e Mini-MegaTORTORA ­ multichannel system for wide-field optical monitoring with high temp oral resolution V. Sasyuk1 , G. Beskin2 , S. Karp ov2 , S. Bondar3 , A. Perkov3 , E. Ivanov3 , E. Katkova3 and A. Shearer4 2 Kazan Federal University, Russia Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 3 Insttitute for Precise Instrumentation, Russia 4 National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Received: November 4, 2013; Accepted: ?? ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... How much energy is there in a 20 mph wind? . 20 mph wind =10 m/s .0006 * 10 3 = .0006 * 1000 = .6 KILO watts per square meter . ... In your back yard the average wind speed is 10 mph which yields 100 watts per square meter. ... 4 3 = 64 if a 10 mph wind gives you 100 watts per square meter then a 40 mph wind gives you 64 times more power per square meter 6400 watts per square meter . total power = 6400 watts per square meter * 2 square meters = 12800 watts = 12.8 Kilowatts this is a lot! ...

Towards celestial sources above 1 THz with a heterodyne receiver based on a hot-electron bolometer mixer Sergey Ryabchun, Ivan Tretyakov, Matvey Finkel, Natalia Kaurova, Boris Voronov and Gregory Gol'tsman HOT-ELECTRON BOLOMETER (HEB) MIXER Scient ific and Educatio nal Radiophysics Center Mo scow State Pedago gical University Mo scow, Russia FIRST GROUND-BASED OBSERVATION WITH HEB MIXERS BEYOND 1 THz Submillimeter Telescope ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... Personnel . Get the data . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . Team . The ionospheric station ION-1 and the sounder IS-338 installed onboard the Intercosmos-19 were designed and manufactured by talented scientists and engineers of elder generation of IZMIRAN: M.D.Fligel, L.P.Goncharov, Yu.V.Kushnerevsky, and G.V.Vasiliev under supervision of Academician V.V.Migulin. ... Participants in this work were S.P.Gaidash, A.T.Karpachev, and S.A.Pulinets, young researchers at that time. ...

Due to technical issues, on September 11, 1998 the radiolink was switched to 465 MHz channel. Data acquisition is presently performed only by SRC "PLANETA", Data Receiving Center in Obninsk and Western Siberia Data Receiving Center in Nobosibirsk . For conditions of obtaining data from RESURS-01 N3 please contact SRC "PLANETA". ... Registration of full data stream (61.44 Mbit/s) is performed only by Data Receiving Center, SRC "PLANETA", Obninsk. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... By admin December 16, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . There have been so many fantastic entries this year that the judges have struggled to pick the winners, so in the spirit of Christmas we now have four overall winners that have won a trip for their class to come to the planetarium and 28 runners up who have each won an individual family pass to visit the planetarium! ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

SPECTRA OF SPLIT COMET C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) K. I. CHURYUMOV1 , I. V. LUK'YANYK1 , V. V. VLASSYUK2 and N. V. BORISOV 1 Astronomical Observatory, Kyiv National Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine; 2 Special 2 Astrophysical Observatory of RAS, Russia (Received 5 March 2002; Accepted 12 July 2002) Abstract. ... On July 22/23, before the splitting of the cometary nucleus, several emission lines, such as C2 , C3 , CN, NH, CH, NH2 , CO+ , H2 O+ were clearly identified in the spectra. ... 2, 2000. ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

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... This document outlines the steps needed to install Apache onto a TPF system. ... Releases of the Apache server are compressed into a "tarball" file which must be downloaded to your PC. ... Files of concern include shell scripts and src/Configuration. ... os/tpf/TPFExport . ... Add/remove mod_ xxx .o files so they correspond to the mod_ xxx .o lines in your src/Configuration file. ... Copy the sample linkhttp.dlm file from the src/os/tpf/samples directory to your Apache src directory on OS/390 UNIX. ...

... 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 . ...