Click for a video of the pendulum . ... In 1851 Leon Foucault (1819-1868) was made famous when he devised an experiment with a pendulum that demonstrated the rotation of the Earth. Joseph Ashbrook's book, The Astronomical Scrapbook , (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has a short chapter on Foucault's contributions to astronomy. ... Click here for more a detailed pdf document (5MB) about the University of Louisville's Foucault pendulum along with technical notes and the original working drawings. ...

... A Bayesian value for may be found simply by treating it as another parameter in our hypothesis space. ... where in the last factor we can drop the conditioning on since it is alone that induces the data . ... Evaluating the appropriate Gaussian integral gives . ... Nevertheless, for realistically large data sets, the distribution is so strongly peaked that it overwhelms any reasonable prior on , and so we assign the Bayesian value of the regularisation constant to be that which maximises . ...

... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...

... HELD BETWEEN THE FIRST VISITING CREW (VC-1) AND JOURNALISTS . ... question to Tito): . You stated that you intend to go into business in space tourism. ... D. Tito: . ... Question to Tito): . ... Question to the combined crew): . ... As to any new cosmonaut we should explain certain things which a person cannot feel on the ground. ... All crew members treat me well and do everything so that I feel well aboard the International Space Station. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

AAL Guestbook . Please Sign Our Guestbook . Guestbook Entries: 147 . Add Entry | Top | ... Previous Page | Next Page . Top Quark . ... I really appreciate this great homepage. ... Signed on at . ... a gas station at Remmich ;-) Your page is really great! ... Wei och emmer et geseit ganz nett aus :-) . ... Grьяe auch aus Deutschland! ...

Last updated 22 October 2004 by JCB . Width (arcsec) Location Material Note 0.9 DIS Steel 1.0 3.5m Storage Quartz 1.1 ?? 1.2 DIS Steel 2.0" occulting bar; unpolished near edges 1.5 DIS Steel 1.6 ?? Does this slit really exist?) ... Does this slit really exist?) 2.0 3.5m Storage Quartz 5.0 DIS Steel NOTES: 'Locations' were as of October 2004. DIS" refers to slits which remain permanently availablein the so-called default slit wheel. ...

... astro-ph . ... SAI VO . ... Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . Normalized to: Reale, F. 84 article(s) in total . 303 co-authors, from 1 to 31 common article(s). ... Drake, J. J.. ... Huenemoerder, David P.. ... Jackson, Mark G.. ... Laming, J. Martin. ... Larsson, Josefin. Larsson, S.. ... Mariska, John T.. ... Page, M. J.. ... Raymond, John. ... Sadleir, John E.. ... Schattenburg, Mark. ... Weintraub, David A.. ...

. As you probably have seen, the star in my original image is not nova. When I looked images from others, I noticed, that the star which i marked for nova in my image, is really a very faint doublestar. After more processing for my original image and compared it with Lick Observatory discovery image the real nova is now excatly in the right place. (Sept 4th, 1998) Marko Moilanen . Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies. David Bishop Last modified: Thu Sep 10 09:27:24 EDT 1998

back to "Astrology" . ... Russia under the Sign of Jackass . I'll venture to outspeak a truism: there is nowhere such a country except our Russia, where people zig and zag from one extremity to another. ... Lummy, where are the brain-convolutions of millions of people, who have been educated in secondary school? ... No, it is quite sufficient to be an average man with average intellect and average (secondary school) education. ... Another analogous question. ... and an average education . ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

The Youth Space Center of Bauman Moscow State Technical University conducts the workshop for space enthusiasts (only students) every year to provide participants with an opportunity to discuss the results of the year passed in space focusing on Russian and International programs, see and touch the real space hardware and meet people working on the front edge of space science and technology. ... You will go to Mission Control Center and see how the International Space Station is controlled. ...

... for Cosmic Ray Observation is situated in Irkutsk (Russia). ... Real-time (preliminary) cosmic ray data in Irkutsk . ... Online Cosmic Ray and Atmospheric Pressure Data Base . ... Real-time data Uncorrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) -- since 05.2001 . Real-time data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 min - 1 year) --- since 09.2001 . Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- since 06.2001 . Final data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- From 01.1975 To 07.2004 . ...

... We guess it's almost impossible to create the site nowadays where all space relative philatelic materials (postage stamps, stationary, postal marks etc.) would be registered and presented. ... We tried to make such a step in April 2005, placing at the site first images of postage stamps with portraits of astronauts (cosmonauts, spacionauts, taikonauts:). ... All illustrative material (or simply speaking, all scans of stamps) are grouped in four sections: Countries , Years , Astronauts and Flights . ...

This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Robert Halstead on 06/30/2015 23:19:35 . Planets Passing in the Night, June 30, 2015 . ... Captured using my Canon 6D at the prime focus of my 8-inch f/10 Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. ISO 1600, 0.6 seconds for the image at the left; and ISO 400, 1/50 second for the image at the right. Images captured between 8:57 and 9:02 pm EDT on June 30, 2015. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

The first annual imaging contest . Meade Messier Challenge Winners . Congratulations to Hilary Jones, the Grand Prize of the Meade Messier Challenge! ... Congratulations to Chuck Domaracki, the First Prize winner of the Meade Messier Challenge! ... There are so many good imagers out there and I saw many fine images from others that were made with the DSI. ... Chuck Domaracki, Memphis , MI . ... Chuck Reese . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved . ...

... Proposed location of the new generation Russian VLBI network radio telescopes Kaliningrad St. Petersburg Zelenchukskaya (Zc) Badary (Bd) Ussurijsk Working frequency bands for the new generation Russian VLBI network S X Ka 2.2 2.6 7.0 9.5 27 33 F, GHz Data acquisition parameters 4 frequency bands : 512 MHz bandwidth x 2 polarisations or 1024 MHz bandwidth x 1 polarisation 2-bit sampling ...

Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:03:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexei Kosut <akosut@organic.com> To: Apache Group Subject: Re: keepalive and windoze Good news and good news (of a sort).. I was able to snag a Windows 95 machine here at Organic, and tried out some things: 1) On Netscape 3.0b4, I was able to reproduce the bug, each and every time. ... Alexei Kosut <akosut@organic.com> The Apache HTTP Server http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~akosut/ http://www.apache.org/ . ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

... =================================================================== wavelength refractive index dielectric function energy (cm) real part imag.part real part imag.part (eV) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.7696E-05 1.76884E+00 0.00000E +00 3.12879E+00 0.00000E +00 2.1487E+00 5.7907E-05 1.76871E+00 0.00000E +00 3.12834E+00 0.00000E +00 2.1408E+00 6.4385E-05 1.76547E+00 ...