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. SOME OF WELL-KNOWN DEEP SKY OBJECTS: . All images taken with 150/695mm homemade Newton reflector + SBIG ST6 CCD camera (falsecolors) . The treasures of Orion - some special images . Some galaxies on the Lion's mane . Messier 98, 99, 100 - three fine galaxies in Coma . NGC 6946 and NGC 6939 - nice galaxy and fine star cluster in one field of view. HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus)

BNO is in Baksan Gorge at the Northern Caucasus . ... The Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST) of volume 3000 cubic centimeters at a depth of more 300 m. The mountainous plant ANDYRCHI to register wide air showers located over BUST on the area 5*10 4 square metres. The complex of surface plants KOVER including a large muon detector, a scintillation telescope and a neutrino monitor meant for studying the hard component of cosmic rays and wide air showers. ...

MARS-96 . ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT MISSION TO MARS. ... Scientific goals . ... Orbiter . ... the experiments . ... SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE ORBITER EXPERIMENTS . The experiments on board the orbiter should study the atmosphere and surface of Mars with remote sensing methods. ... Measurements of the elemental composition with a gamma-spectrometer (PHOTON experiment) and of the mineralogical composition with IR-spectrometers (OMEGA and PFS) make it possible to get data about the nature of rocks. ...

... Плоское облако Хиллса (Hills Objects). ... Облако Оорта (Oort cloud). В 1950 году Ян Хендрик Оорт (Jan Hendrik Oort) (1900-1992) [1,2] предположил существование массивного облака объектов, имеющего форму, близкую к сферической, возможного источника долгопериодических и гиперболических комет (в последний раз предположение исследовано Талкотом в 1999 году) в области от 10000 до 150 000 а.е. от Солнца (по ряду оценок, может простираться до одного светового года от центра системы). ... Облако Оорта. ...

. While not entering text you use vi in command mode and enter editing commands consisting of one or more characters. The syntax of an editing command is: operator object . The operator is a character - such as d for delete - that describes the action to be carried out on the object; a word, sentence, paragraph or section. To return to command mode from insert mode press the ESC key. If you are already in command mode the terminal will beep at you (or make some similar sound).

Subject, Object and Problems of Astrophysics. Practical and Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Visual Telescope; Problems Which Are Solved with the Its Help. ... Resolution of Telescopes. ... Effectiveness of Telescope in Respect of Resolution. ... Optical Power of Telescopes for Star-like and Extensive Objects. Boundary Magnitude. Reasons of Light Dissipation in Telescopes. ... Spectral Instruments in Astrophysics. ... Basic Photometrical Ideas, Magnitudes and Their Measurement. ...

... Latest Supernovae . ... Sorted by Name For the years covered, 7501 supernovae and 114 extragalactic novae were reported. 376 of these supernovae were named by CBAT, 1714 were given possible supernova designations, and 5411 were not reported to CBAT. 219 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 874 were found in named galaxies 341 objects were discovered by amateurs 4 were brighter than 13th Magnitude 208 were brighter than 16th Magnitude 1079 were brighter than 18th Magnitude 1349 ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Quasar Class Reference . ... Quasar (const QVariantMap &map) . ... Get a QVariantMap which describes the Quasar . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getAngularSize (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

... On modern Unix derivatives there exists a nifty mechanism usually called dynamic linking/loading of Dynamic Shared Objects (DSO) which provides a way to build a piece of program code in a special format for loading it at run-time into the address space of an executable program. ... The idea is simple: When installing Apache the configure 's make install procedure installs the Apache C header files and puts the platform-dependent compiler and linker flags for building DSO files into the apxs program....

ATMoB "Messier Marathon Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in an all-night Messier Marathon. ... For each Messier object observed, check the space in the "Seen" column on the attached Messier Checklist and note the time and method of observation. ... Challenge Levels: Beginner Intermediate Master Observe and record information on 25 Messier objects in the attached worksheet. ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you thought our tour of the solar system ended with Neptune and Pluto, you are setting your sights way too low. The planets of the solar system mark time relatively close to the Sun compared to interstellar space. Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind-numbing 260,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

Microsymposium 38, MS019, 2003 (letter format) ESA SMART-1 MISSION TO THE MOON B.H. Foing1, G. Michael1, G.R. Racca2, A. Marini2, M. Grande, J. Huovelin, J.-L. Josset, H.U. Keller, A. Nathues, D. Koschny, A. Malkki (SMART-1 Science and Technology Working Team) 1 ESA Research and Scientific Support Dept., ESTEC/SCI-S 2 ESA Science Projects Dept., ESTEC/SCI-PD Bernard.Foing@esa.int SMART-1 is the first in the programme of ESA's Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology. ...

... This is usually defined as the direction pointing toward the center of the primary body. ... NODE: The place where the plane of one orbit crosses the plane of another. ... ORBITAL PLANE: The flat surface that would result if every point on the orbit of a body was connected to the center of its primary. ... PENUMBRA: The edge of the primary body's shadow. ... PERIOD : The time required for one body to orbit the primary body. ... PROBE: A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... Russian Robotic Net MASTER of Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered the Most Powerfull Object in the Universe . ... Using the 40-cm (16-inch) f/2.5 reflectors equipped with 16-Mpix CCD cameras they have found the brightening of the poorly studied flat spectrum radio quasar CGRaBS J0809+5341 = FIRST J080941.7+534125 with the known redshift z=2.133. ...

... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft . A new image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. ... ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...