... What Have We Learned About Halley's Comet? ... Until the Russian VEGA and the European Giotto spacecraft flew by Halley's core, people had never really seen the heart of a comet! ... showed that the comet's nucleus was about 15 kilometers long and 8 kilometers wide. ... The Giotto spacecraft came within 600 km of the comet's nucleus, surviving the great gas and dust storms of the inner coma. ... Comet Halley's dark icy nucleus (center) and bright "jets'' of gas and dust as photographed by "Giotto''....

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Roof Status . ... If you select Winer to provide the site and maintenance for your remotely-operated telescope, your telescope will be housed in the modern roll-off roof observatory seen at left. ... The building computer and most customer telescope control computers are programmed to keep logs to assist in diagnosing problems in moving the roof or telescopes, or in controlling the instruments. ...

... Astronomy news . ... 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. ... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., designed and built the Moon Mineralogy Mapper and is home to its project manager, Mary White. ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

Pulkovo Photographic Plate Database . To find a certain plate, type its number, choose instrument and click button FIND Instrument: Normal Astrograph 26-inch refractor Plate number: . To find plates with a certain sky area: choose instrument, type coordinates (R.A. and Dec.) of the center of this area, type radius of this area, type (optionally) names of required objects, and click button FIND . ...

The efficiency of interaction of radiation with a particle and hence its optical properties depend on the particle chemical composition, size, shape, structure, etc. ... Particle size expressed in units of the wavelength of incident radiation, together with chemical composition, most strongly affects the optical properties of a scatterer. ... There are many methods to solve the light-scattering problem for a homogeneous spheroid (our survey of the light-scattering methods see here ). ...

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