Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

My colleagues and I have recently completed a series of observations of SN1999an. ... The telescope is located at Martin Observatory in Blacksburg, VA, and is operated by the Physics Department of Virginia Tech. Our IAU Minor Planet Center Observatory Code is 841. ... Attached you will find a copy of one of our images (in .jpg format) with the supernova indicated. ... Virginia Tech Department of Physics . Back to Bright Supernovae . Back to Supernova 1999an . ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

... 322, L29 ± L36 (2001) The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey ± V. The 10k catalogue S. M. Croom,1w R. J. Smith,2 B. J. Boyle,1 T. Shanks,3 N. S. Loaring,4 L. Miller4 and I. J. Lewis1 1 2 3 4 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead CH41 1LD Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE Department of Physics, Oxford University, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH Accepted 2001 March 7....

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... A closed surface (i.e. a compact surface without boundary) is homeomorphic to either a sphere with g handles (a connected sum of a sphere with g tori) or to a sphere with g M obius bands attached (a connected sum of a sphere with g copies of RP 2 ). A compact surface with boundary is homeomorphic to a closed surface with a nite number of disks deleted. ... Prove that on the sphere with g handles the maximal number of nonintersecting closed curves not dividing this surface is equal to g. IV.11. ...

... Be s k i n , 1, 3 S. Karpov,1 S. Bondar,2 A. Perkov,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 V. Sasyuk,3 A.Biryukov4 and A.Shearer5 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... Here we give a status report on the next generation, multiob jective and transforming monitoring system, MiniMegaTORTORA, with two variants (MMT-6 based on image intensifiers with fast CCDs and MMT-9 equipped with Andor Neo sCMOSes) now under construction and commissioning at SAO RAS. ...

... SHORT TERM PREDICTION OF POWER SOLAR FLARES FROM SSRT DATA . The algorithm for short term prediction of powerful solar flares, based on SSRT data, includes microwave emission characteristics in total and polarized flux, the structure of active region (AR) magnetic field at the photospheric level, and H a patrol data. ... During this period, 7 AR's crossed the solar disk, in which 20 flares of importance ? ... Data on AR's and magnetic fields were received from the Sayan observatory by teletype. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When you talk about how men were first sent to the Moon, there's no doubt some of the stories get lost in time. That's why the Science Channel aired a show called "First on the Moon: The Untold Story" . ... But there was a far worse breach in reality in the show, and this dealt with the famous Apollo 11 "UFO". ... A discussion of this TV show on the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today bulletin board . ...