... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... The Intercosmos-19 satellite was designed for investigations of the topside ionosphere structure and electromagnetic processes in it. ... The instruments installed onboard Intercosmos-19 were designed and manufactured by scientists of Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and USSR. ... The sounding data could be directly transmitted to a receiving station (direct mode) or be stored in the onboard memory device for a certain period and then sent to the Earth (recording mode). ...

... Machines or equipment, especially unique or specialized types including telescopes and domes, require a combination of physical barriers, special safety control devices, and effective procedures to assure protection of personnel. ... Before unique machines or equipment are placed in service, the Site Operations Manager and Site Safety Officer will jointly conduct a hazard evaluation study to establish guarding requirements and safe work practices. ... Wheel guards are required on grinders. ...

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

... A Queriable Repository for HST Telemetry Data, a Case Study in using Data Warehousing for Science and Engineering Joseph A. Pollizzi, III and Karen Lezon Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, Email: pollizzi@stsci.edu Abstract. ... In using a Star index, the designer starts by designing a few number of fact tables. ... Resulting Fact Tables Applying this strategy to the HST telemetry problem produced the following Fact Tables: . ...

Frob enius endomorphisms of linear spaces Alexander E. Guterman My research interests are in ring theory, linear algebra and combinatorics. In particular, I investigate transformations on matrices over different algebraic structures, preserving some matrix properties, sets or invariants. ... I was investigating monotone matrix transformations and developed method of matrix deformations and chain method in order to classify monotone linear and additive transformations on matrices. ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

... Тhis new concept touches our simple lives, yet for those intrigued by the natural sciences, especially experts deeply engaged in the 'eternal' questions of general geology and astronomy, it is all the more fascinating. The problems to be faced by any theory for the formation of the Solar System . Any theory has to account for certain rather tricky facts about the Solar System. These are in addition to the obvious facts that the Sun is at the centre with the planets in orbit around it. ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... Unlike the previous digital-only Messages, Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999, the TAM has complex, three-section structure with different forms of information. Section 1 represents coherent sounding radio signal with slow Doppler wavelength tuning to imitate transmission from Sun's center. ... Section 2 is an analog information and represents musical melodies, performed on the Theremin. ... There were seven musical compositions in the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... LINKS . ... CONTACT . ... Finally, our members share their expertise by contributing with articles to our internet presence. ... 16/04/2016 . ... Join the AAL Seti@home BOINC Team! Current Solar Data (NOAA) . Solar X-rays: . ... Have you ever witnessed one? ...ollo Moon landings were faked? ...ut NASA's Deep Impact Mission? ...? ... great Hubble Space Telescope? ...n Mars? ... For that, please visit the Contact page , where you can find the Web Team contacts along with others. ...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

. The IceCube Laboratory at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica, sits atop a cubic kilometer of clear ice instrumented with thousands of sensors designed to catch flashes of light from neutrino interactions. Dag Larsen, IceCube/NSF

MICROSCOPES . ... NIGHT VISION DEVICES . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... LOMO® has designed and manufactured optical devices ranging from microscopes and endoscopes to telescopes and night vision devices . ... Since the end of the Cold War LOMO ® has been able to continue its tradition of quality and innovation by offering its diverse products and technologies to the scientific, medical, industrial and educational communities in North America. ... LOMO PLC has received the ISO 9001 Certificate . ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... 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 . ...