... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... Especially necessary for an assessment of the calibration reliability of simulations of the different observing modes (still to be performed by the XMM-Newton calibration teams) was the closure of the loop between simulation and data analysis. This has been done complementing the SciSim release with the release of 90 specific SciSim calibration files included in the SciSim CCF tarfile , together with the corresponding Calibration Index file CCF_scisim.cif. ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . ...

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... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

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Pixels , slits and facets for the NGST NIRSpec: Appendix ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits and facets for a MEMS-type spectrograph for NGST Appendix : Extension to different PSF and detector properties Santiago Arribas, Peter Jakobsen, Robert Fosbury Wolfram Freudling --1-- ST-ECF Instrument Science Report NGST 2002-01a Pixels , slits , and ... This PSF meets the two requirements established by Bely et al. for the OTA optical quality. ...

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... Its optical telescopes – the Europe's largest telescope of the mirror diameter 6 m BTA (Big Telescope Azimuthal) Medium-Size telescope of the mirror diameter 1 m ( Zeiss-1000 ) and the small telescope of the mirror diameter 0.6 m (Zeiss-600) – are at the altitude 2100 m above sea level 17 km away from the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz. ... Nizhnij Arkhyz . SAO staff members live in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhyz at a distance of 25 km to the southward of stanitsa Zelenchukskaya. ...

Nova in M31 2000 3 . ... From Giovanni Sostero (Remanzacco Observatory): at the end we have found a good Nova candidate in the course of our monitoring program in M31. ... Remanzacco Observatory Light curve This is a preliminary lightcurve of Nova M31-3 from the images we collected and those provided by others. ... vsnet-alert 5346 ] [FWD] Suspected Nova in M 31 . ... vsnet-alert 5349 ] (fwd) M31 possible nova . ... vsnet-alert 5355 ] [FWD] New image of the possible Nova in M31 (GSo) . ...

. Prague, August 16, 2006 . Present classification : Suggested: . No subtype: CV N, NA, NB N, Nhf (final helium flash; suggestions of a different designation are welcome) NR Nr, NSym (symbiotic Nova), UGWZ (see below) . NC NSym NL CV, UXUMa ('permanent outburst'), VY (VY Scl type, fadings from time to time) . CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES . AND OTHER STARS WITH OUTBURSTS

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HIGH MASS X-RAY BINARIES AND RECENT STAR FORMATION HISTORY P. Shtykovskiy 1 1,2 and M. Gilfanov 2,1 Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 2 Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching b. Munchen, Germany Ё Ё ABSTRACT Based on the XMM-Newton observations of Magellanic Clouds we consider the dependence of population of high mass X-ray binaries on the recent star formation history in the host galaxy. ... HMXBS AND RECENT STAR FORMATION IN MAGELLANIC CLOUDS 4.1. ...

This directory contains Calgary Neutron Monitor Data at five minute resolution. Each file is a gzipped tar archive that contains files of uncorrected count rates and barometric pressures at five minute intervals for one year. A file named snm.calg.fmi.YYYY.tgz is an archive that holds five minute data for the year YYYY. ... So a file named cal01030.fmi contains five minute uncorrected data for year 2001 day 30 (which is Jan 30, 2001). ... A text file named note.txt is also usually present. ...

Preface The necessity of the preparation and edition of such intricate publication, that is the printed version offered to the reader, of geoinformation system including the chronological catalogue and evolutionary database of the global tropical cyclogenesis is dictated, in opinion of the authors, whole number of objective circumstances. ... It derivates the serious dissensions in the initial ('raw') information as well as in databases and archives of regional cyclogenesises. ...

STARTEST IMAGES GALLERY . STARTESTING TELESCOPES WITH AN AUTOCOLLIMATOR . ... This website is a joint effort of Markus Ludes from APM-Telescopes and Cor Berrevoets ( Aberrator free startesting Software ). The site aims at explaining the different aspects of star-testing telescopes. ... Markus Ludes (APM telescopes) used a high quality 10" Maksutov Newtonian (Zygo tested at 632,8 nm with the following errors: 1/10.1 wavefront p.t.v. and 1/51 wavefront RMS) as collimator in single pass scheme. ...