... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS047, 2001 SOME PROBLEMS OF THE EVOLUTION OF ASTEROIDS ­ RUBBLE PILE. ... Evidently, we can distinguish two processes: distant interactions, where there is no direct contact between separate fragments, and close contact interactions, where the fragments collide with one another. ... Such a rubble pile with a dust atmosphere differs from a cometary nucleus only in the absence of a volatile gas component, which is usually considered the cause of the appearance of cometary dust. ...

Fred Ewalt image: . I revisted my series of 5 raw images on SN1999gp. The attached UGC 1993 field image is the summation of five co-aligned and added one minute raw exposures (vice averaged, which was used for the processed image I submitted yesterday). ... The probable Foreground Star, SN1999gp and the Nucleus of UGC 1993 are all apparent in this field image. The second "Inset - A image", I blew up and normalized to the same pixel count as the field image. ... Back to 1999gp . ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... A glorious cosmic butterffly imaged by the HST (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . This dramatic image looks like some vast cosmic eruption, and that impression is entirely correct. ... Designated NGC 6302 and often called the Butterfly Nebula, this is an example of a planetary nebula. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

... Recent Topics . ... Fw: IAU Commission Reform . ... Subject: IAU Commission Reform . ... This announcement ( www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann14008/ ) . ... endorsed by the Executive Committee. ... with the simultaneous creation of the new Commissions by the Executive . ... www.iau.org/science/commission-reform-forum/ ) for feedback to the . ... The IAU Executive Committee believes this process for renewing the . ... The Commission reform aims at making the IAU, at a . ... MAO NASU . ...

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System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

. -!> download . Left: Consequtive explosion of 20 supernovae during 30 Myr. Right: Single hypernova (GRB) explosion with the total energy equivalent to 20 supernovae. The simulation was performed using a 2D Eulerian hydro code. The animation was done using IDL. -!>

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... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... Астрофотография (Модераторы: LifeIsGood , MaxMan ) > . Учебные материалы по обработке исходников астрофото . ... Астрофотография . ... Вчера увидел на форуме "Звездочета" тему Онлайн-учебники по астрофото http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,21665.0.html , открытую Ed_Vazhorov . ... Пять видео роликов Astrophotography Processing in Photoshop на английском языке, но без звукового сопровождения. ... Part 1, Astrophotography Processing in Photoshop - Stretching (2:27) . ...

The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . ... The main goal of this workshop is to consider (via invited and contributed talks and posters) the scientific problems in the field of high energy astrophysics which are possible to solve using the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory INTEGRAL as well as to present and discuss the scientific results already obtained by this observatory and its coordinated observations with on-ground telescopes and other spacecrafts. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... sleo (@) - 28.04.2003 13:59 . Re: 2 sleo . x203a; x203a; x203a; в ответ на: Re: 2 sleo Михалыч . ... Корн,Корн sleo, 24.04.2003 18:03 . Re: Корн,Корн - очень вредная книга (-) Михалыч, 25.04.2003 09:18 . Re: Корн,Корн - очень вредная книга (-) sleo, 25.04.2003 11:04 . ... Re: 2 sleo Михалыч, 28.04.2003 09:34 . ... Re: знаем, знаем ''братьев Корн'':) Михалыч, 25.04.2003 11:30 . ... Re: Робинзон sleo, 30.04.2003 09:20 . ...

... A clock is a tool for the time counting. The stable repeating processes are used in clocks. ... The first timepieces were sand glasses; in the 2nd thousand years B.C. there occured water clocks; the first mentions about mechanical timepieces related to the end of the 6th century; the modern mechanical timepieces are created by H. Huigens in 1657; in 70th years of the 20th century there were widespread the electronic quartz watches with numeric indication, for example on the liquid chips. ...

... In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is in a waiting mode continuing its deceleration in Earth atmosphere. During the previous day the OC "Mir" onboard systems were subject to a routine check out, the current trajectory parametres were registered. The processed information confirms the MCC readiness for the final stage dynamis operations with the OC "Mir". ... The first corrective impuls ( the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" 8 control engines are fired): . T burn start - 03.32; . ...

Flexible frame grabbing and high speed image processing . for PCI bus PCs . ... Fully software compatible with XPG-1000 Power Grabber. ... The FPG-44 Power Grabber product line is a family of imaging boards and software offering flexible frame grabbing and high speed image processing for PCI bus PCs. ... The FPG-44 will interface with any analog/digital camera or sensor at data rates up to 32 Mbytes/Sec. ... The FPG-44 is a flexible frame grabber and image processing board for PCI and ISA bus PCs. ...