AUTOMATIC CREATION OF THE HYPSOMETRIC MAP OF VENUS. ... The hypsometric map of Venus (1:45M) created under editing of Dr. Rodionova gives the representation of the planet relief on the basis of up-to-date data. ... The requirement was to preserve contour polygons with the areas more than 10 000 sq. km at the Venus surface, which corresponded with areas approximately more than 5 sq. km at the map. ... The other side of Venus map has been prepared. ... Surface height histograms for both Venus and Earth. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

... 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...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬThe Astronomical Future of HumankindтАЭ ? Alex Wolszczan . ... Lecture Series 2011-2012 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... Seminar archive . ... Seminar archive 2012 14 September . ... The VLT Survey Telescope: a year after its coming into operation" . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope located at the Cerro Paranal Observatory of ESO in the Chilean Andes. ... VST features an active optics system which guarantees an overall instrumental resolution of 0.5 arc-seconds over a field of view of 1 x1 , with only marginally elongated images. ... All seminars: . ...

... Telescopes . ... CCD photometer . ... One of the principal devices used in observations at the telescope Zeiss-1000 is a CCD photometer. ... The count rates (electron per second) for ADU = 1e - computed throughout the image for U = B = R = I = 20.0 for an object observed at air mass equal to 1.0 with the given version of CCD at the telescope Zeiss-1000 are presented in Table 1. Table 1: Quantum efficiency and count rate in the broad-band system of the CCD photometer of the telescope Zeiss-1000. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... According to Velikovsky, about 4000 years ago a giant volcano on Jupiter erupted and spewed a vast glob of debris into space, leaving the Great Red Spot behind as a permanent scar. The red hot lump ejected from Jupiter (referred to as a comet by Velikovsky) wandered into the inner Solar System, repeatedly crossing the Earth?s orbit and in fact often passing close to our helpless planet in the following millennia. ...

... 1.2 System reliability analisys 1. ... Figure 11 Hydraulic system for braking of wheels 17 :1 gauge of M numb er in throat; 2 regulator for central b ody; 3 control ; 4 surge gauge; 5 central b ody with the mechanism of ad 6 stall gauge; 7 control system for start; 8 gauge of M number 9 gauge of shock p osition; 10 regulator for by-pass shutters; 11 shutters with the mechanism of control . manual justment; for flight; by-pass Figure 12 Regulation sup ersonic air intake 1 ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... If you want to calculate equatorial coordinates of object: . Click the " File " menu, and then click " Open " ; or press  on toolbar. Choose a file with image. ... Also see section " Viewing of image ". ... Before, if it is necessary, you must make an account dark current and flat field (See section " Preliminary processing of images ".) ... Measure the marked stars. ... Click the " Calculations " menu, and then click " Coordinates " or . ...

... Общероссийская неделя "Астрономия на тротуаре" - 15-17 апреля . ... Практическая астрономия ? Астрономия и компьютеры (Модераторы: Deimos , Ed_Vazhorov ) ? PIC 16F627 Based EQ-5 / CG-5 Dual Axis Hand Controller . ...

... After the 2nd World War, the Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) made two groups in Moscow responsible for catalogues of variable stars. ... Presently, the variable-star catalogue groups still exist within the Sternberg Astronomical Institute and the Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Elena Kazarovets (variable stars in open clusters, Peremennye Zvezdy journal, GCVS) . ... Nataliya N. Kireeva (variable stars, globular clusters, GCVS) . ...

... March 13 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operation with OC "Mir" scheduled for March 12 is complete. During the previous day apart from routine OC "Mir" onboard systems checkout and orbit parametres monitoring, command software was uploaded into MCS Central Onboard computer. The MCS is in free drift. The received telemetry data was used to assess the onboard systems performance, thermal and humidity condition and complex pressure integrity. ... The complex remains in free drift. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 24 апреля 1998 (1998-04-24) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Starry dream in Chile to become high-tech telescope reality [1/2] Привет всем! ... When officials in Cerro Pachon, Chile, ceremonially break ground for the new SOAR telescope Friday (April 17), a 12-year-old dream among research astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will become a reality. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Барахолка . продам астрономическая ПЗС камера SBIG CCD MODEL ST6 OPTO HEAD -NO CONTROLLER . ... астрономическая ПЗС камера SBIG CCD MODEL ST6 OPTO HEAD -NO CONTROLLER . ... Зрачком нашей SBIG-ST6 (Santa Barbara Instument Group, CA) является маленькое прямоугольное (6.5х8.6 мм) светочуствительное окошечко на специальной микросхеме ТС241. ... IC 2118 Witch Head Nebula - отражательная туманность Голова ведьмы в созвездии Эридан (Eridanus) .. ...