National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Science . ... All Pages . ... Research of the stars with planets which pass apparent star disk (transiting exoplanets). The transit method based on a detection star brightness decrease during a passing of planet in front of its disk. Observed brightness system decries when planet pass star disk and its volume depend of the relative sizes star and planet. ...

... These reports are submitted for engineering work accomplished during bright time and maintenance shutdowns. ... 010531: May 2001 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 020102: January 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . 020202: February 2002 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 030101: January 2003 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 040101: January 2004 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ... 050101: January 2005 Bright Time Engineering Work Summary . ...

November 2006 Astronotes 1 Candles in the Dark Image Credit: Wikipedia.org By Colin Johnston, Science Communicator Since the mid-ninteenth century astronomers have used the principle of parallax to measure the distance to other stars. ... How then can we tell, for example, that M31, the galaxy in Andromeda, is 2.2 million light years away? It would be straight-forward to tell how far away a star was if it was exactly the same brightness as our own Sun. ...

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Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . Section 13: Viewing and Processing Images . ... The software can read most images in these formats, and convert between them using the File, Save As command. ... This is done by placing the information in a .txt file with the same name as the image file). ... Merge Images: . ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

... Regular changes of the large-scale CGLB distribution in dependence on the phase in the solar cycle are presented. ... 9.02.76 - 20.07.76 90 45 0 -45 -90 0 90 45 0 -45 -90 0 60 120 180 240 300 360 0 60 120 180 240 300 360 0 20.04.77 - 30.09.77 7.05.78 - 16.10.78 90 45 0 -45 60 120 180 240 300 360 0 -90 60 120 180 240 300 360 30.03.79 - 9.09.79 25.06.81 - 5.12.81 22.09.83 - 4.02.84 90 45 0 -45 60 120 180 240 300 360 0 -90 60 120 180 240 300 360 Figure 1. ... Here, the CGLB is extremely low. ...