... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... galaxies . ... space flight . ... Herschel completes its т??coolт?? journey in space . ... The European Space Agency (ESA) mission, launched almost four years ago, revealed the universe s coolest secrets by observing the frigid side of planet, star, and galaxy formations. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

... IAA VLBI Analysis Center . ... First IAA SLR EOP submission to IERS Annual Report . ... Beginning of operational processing of SLR observations . ... We use several program packages for analysis mostly developed at the IAA: GROSS for processing of the SLR observations and analysis of EOP and coordinates time series, OCCAM/GROSS for computation of EOP, station coordinates, and troposphere parameters time series from the VLBI observations, GRAPE for processing of GPS observations. ...

BerkeleyX This is to certify that CERTIFICATE Issued May 3rd, 2013 Alexander Wolf successfully completed CS184.1x: Foundations of Computer Graphics a course of study offered by BerkeleyX, an online learning initiative of the University of California, Berkeley through edX. ...

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: . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... Discussion Forums . ... SETI a great idea and a complete waste - brooksquest - October 3, 2007 - 13:35 UTC . ... Tholzel - tholzel - September 12, 2003 - 14:11 UTC . Here's another way of looking at it - dnj23 - August 20, 2003 - 04:44 UTC . ... SETI and TESLA - stevec - November 30, 2002 - 10:40 UTC . ... TEAM SETI X - FILES - gcypher - August 17, 2002 - 17:17 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955). A. Einstein - one of the outstanding thinkers of all the times. ... Einstein's "tool" was not an astronomic tube but theoretical mentality. ... He had written an article "To the electrodynamics of the moving solids", which may be considered as an introduction to the special theory of gravitation (STG), which revolved all ideas about the space and the time. ... In 1916 Einstein published "The Basic General theory of relativity". ...

... 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; . ...

... Observatory . ... The Laboratory of Astrometry . Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... UkrVO . ... The purpose of research: Creating a stellar catalog to study the structure and kinematics of star systems, including open star clusters and stars with large proper motions; the enhancement ICRF / Hipparcos system to stars dawn to 17 m (V); Search of binary systems of brown dwarfs and determination of their parameters; astrometry of minor bodies of the Solar System. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

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