Apollo 15 . ... 1971) --- Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, walks away from the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Hadley-Apennine landing site. The LRV is parked a short distance from the rim of Hadley Rille. ... While astronauts Scott and Irwin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Module (CSM) in lunar orbit. ...

... 03.32 AM - the first impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre-descent orbit. ... maximal distance from earth surface - 219 km . minimal distance from earth surface - 188 km . ... 05.00.24 AM - the second impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre- descent orbit. ... 08.08 AM - the final third breaking impulse is performed using a combination of the Progress M1-5 main engine and eight thrusters to deorbit Mir OC. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... COMETS . In 1999 18 periodical comets will return to perihelions. ... Perihelion Time . ... Perihelion Distance (a.u. * ) . True Distance (a.u. * ) . ... Jan.28 . ... 2.29 (Nov.17) . ... 1.3 (Apr.2 2000) . ... May be ~1.5 m near perihelion) . ... 11.6 m (Mar. 2000) . a.u. - astronomical unit: middle distance from Earth to Sun, equal 149.6 millions km. Jupiter comet family . Caturn comet family . ...

The structure of gas lagers in the spiral arms of Galaxy . ... The large-scale layer structure of the gas spiral arms of Galaxy (figures 1 and 2) was found out for the first time in the galactic longitudes 10 - 40 degrees, of distances of 6 kpc from the centre of Galaxy right up to its external part. 3-4 large-scale layers of thickness 600 - 800 pc is usuall observed in the arms across the plane of Galaxy. ... Figure 1. ... The location of layers HI of the external spiral arm. ...

... Measuring the Distances to Supernovae . Professor Robert Kirshner . Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month our speaker will be Professor Bob Kirshner of Harvard University who will speak to us about measuring the distances to supernovae which was the key to the discovery of the accelerating universe that won the 2011 Nobel Prize. ... Oct . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ClassљIndex . ... Skybright Class Reference . Compute the luminance of the sky according to some parameters like sun moon position or time or altitude etc.. ... setDate (int year, int month, float moonPhase) . ... Set the moon and sun zenith angular distance (cosin given) and precompute what can be This function has to be called once before any call to getLuminance() More... љ . ... cos(angular distance between moon and the position) . ...

... 2 M.E. Zhukovskii, On the zero-one k -law extensions, European J. of Combinatorics, 2014, submitted. ... Published in conference abstracts 1 M.E. Zhukovskii, On the Weak Zero-One Laws for the Random Distance Graphs, Abstracts of the talks at the international conference Eurocomb 2009, Bordeaux, France, September, 2009. ... 10 M.E. Zhukovskii, On zero-one k -laws for the random graphs, Abstracts to the talks at the 55-th scientific conference in MIPT, Moscow, Russia, November, 2012. ...

Bobylev V.V., Bajkova A.T., 2016, Analysis of the Z Distribution of Young Objects in the Galactic Thin Disk. Astron. Lett., ... Bobylev V.V., Bajkova A.T., 2016, Kinematic Analysis of Solar-Neighborhood Stars Based on RAVE4 Data. ... Bobylev V.V., Bajkova A.T., 2016, The z Distribution of Hydrogen Clouds and Masers with Kinematic Distances. ... Bobylev V.V., Bajkova A.T., 2015, Detection of periodic variations in vertical velocities of Galactic masers. ... Bobylev V.V., 2014, The Gould belt. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...

J/AstL/vol/page SAI Open Clusters Catalog (Glushkova+, 2009) ================================================================================ Automated search for star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... Color excesses E(B-V), distance moduli and ages were determined for 141 new and 27 known, but poorly studied clusters. We present the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Open Clusters Catalog (SAI OCL Catalog) of coordinates, diameters and main physical parameters of these clusters. ...

... THE SIMPLEST MODEL. ... 13, Moscow 119992, Russia E-mail: san@sai.msu.ru Abstract: The analysis of the simplest model shows that an asteroid ­ rubble pile evolves, depending on the parameter V2d (where V is the average velocity of fragments and d is the average distance between fragments), either as a conglomerate of "independent mutually gravitating clusters" (when V2d < fm, where f is the gravitational constant and m is the average mass of a fragment) or as a "receding cluster" (when V2d > fm). ...

... Астрофотография (Модераторы: LifeIsGood , MaxMan ) > . C/2009 P1 и другие кометы . ... 08 Июнь 2011, 22:18:47 ? ... Perihelion distance 1.5505340 AU . ... Inclination of orbit 106.1777000 degrees . Argument of perihelion 90.7453000 degrees . ... Date of perihelion JD 2455919.16800 (23 Dec 2011 16:01:55) . Right ascension: 22h59m39.520s . Declination: -02 40' 04.34" . Mean position at current epoch: . Right ascension: 23h00m14.863s . ... Right ascension: 23h00m15.962s . ...

... Average distance to central body in in astr. mln. units km 1,6·10 9 . ... Max. m agn. from Earth **) -26,8 m m m Body , planet Sun Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Mass 10 24 kg Albedo 2,5·10 11 8·10 10 1989000 0,3302 4,8690 5,9742 0,0735 0,6419 1899,8 568,50 86,625 102,78 0,387 0,723 1, 000 0,00257 1,524 5,204 9,584 19,191 30,071 57,9 108,2 149,6 0,38440 227,9 778 ,6 1433,7 2871,0 4498,6 0,241 0,615 1, 000 0,0748 1,880 11,862 29,458 84,015 164, ...

... S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, . ... Following a four-day free flight, during which newly developed systems and equipment were tested, Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress M-01M docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The vehicle rendezvous with the station, its fly-about, station-keeping and berthing at a distance of 50m were performed in the automatic mode, and at the final phase in the remote operator mode (TORU). ... This docking port was contacted at 15:28:10 Moscow time. ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...