The purpose of the space-physics lab exercises is to introduce the students to the methods of the measurements, to the modern conception of near-Earth space structure and the physical processes and phenomena occured in it. ... At present the reasearches and the teachers of the University and of other institutes participating in the project continue development of the the special space-physics lab exercises, and they are interested in your ideas concerning the future exercises. ...

... For many ATMs, having a good ray trace program on hand is pretty valuable. ... http://www.willbell.com . ... It is a slick Windows package with great graphics, but my most recent machine (Win95 OSR2) now encounters many error messages. ... OSLO LT : This is the freeware Windows version of OSLO - it is limited to 12 surfaces, but is otherwise amazing. ... KDP : This is another powerful, freeware Windows raytrace package. ... ZEMAX : This is yet another powerful, Windows raytrace package. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

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... 2009) 0 Fig.1 · Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn , VLBI ESO, COMPONENTS PARAMETERS FROM INTERFEROMETRY · Following S.Kraus et al. ... Using i=105o , we obtain v sini = 32 km/s. BEST MODEL FIT 1OriC 1 · Mass, M · Luminosity, log L · Radius, R · Teff, K · log g · Equatorial rotation velocity, km/s · Magnetic field , G · The time of life, yrs 35.8 5.20 10.0 37000 4.01 5.4 500-1500 150 000 1OriC 2 10.0 4.69 8.2 30000 3.60 96.2 moves to MS 1 OriC ...

... 0,50-0,59 (0,50-0,59) µm . ... Swath Width . ... at end of visibilty area . ... Visibility Area Width . ... Ground Resoultion in Nadir: . along swath . ... across swath . ... Ground Resolution at End of Visibilty Area: . ... 200 lines per second . ... at least 200 . Ground resolution corresponds to normal flihgt altitude 650 km. For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... type 1a supernovae seem most useful . ... This is a bright, massive star that explodes after fusing all the light elements in its core. ... That means we can calculate how far away it is. ... This is exactly what we are trying to do with these supernovae; look far enough away that any deviations from flatness of the Universe can be seen. ... Phil Plait . ...

... 84 · Summer 2013 www.astrosociety.org/uitc © 2013, Astronomical Society of the Pacific 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112 Energy Budget: Earth's most important and least appreciated planetary attribute by Lin Chambers (NASA Langley Research Center) and Katie Bethea (SSAI) B asking in the Sun on a warm day, it's easy for people to realize that most of the energy on Earth comes from the Sun; students know this as early as elementary school. ... See Figure 1.) ... Earth's energy budget. ...

Catalogue of eclipsing variables (CEV) is the world's principal database of eclipsing binary systems with available classification. CEV contains identifications, classifications, photometry, periods, eclipses data, spectral types, references and notes for 7179 systems. Format of the current CEV . CEV main table (~1.0MB) . ... List of systems, erroneously classified as eclipsing binaries in GCVS (they are not included in the CEV main table) Download all files as a single archive (~0.6MB) . ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

QUASI PERIODIC ORBITS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SUN- EARTH L2 POINT AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN SPECTR-RG MILLIMETRON MISSIONS I VA N I L I N , A N D R E W T U C H I ... RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 24th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics Laurel, Maryland, 5-9 May, 2014 APPLICATION OF QUASI PERIODIC ORBITS NEAR LIBRATION POINTS ESA space telescope Gaia launched on 19.12.13, direct ... Dynamics and Mission Design near Libration Points - Volume 1. ...

... The OC "Mir" orbit parametres before the final burns . ... Orbit period (in min) . ... Mean orbit altitude (km) . ... solar F 10.7 flux . ... F 10.7 <= 100 - low level; 100 < F 10.7 < 150 - medium level; F 10.7 >= 150 - high level . Orbit 86328(15) - the first burn bulding the descent orbit  D V 1 =9.3 m/s. After burn altitude H min = 188.2 km, H max = 219.2 km. Orbit 86329(16) - the descent orbit second impulse D V 2 =10.4 m/s. After burn altitude H min = 158.9 km, H max = 218.5 km. ...

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Images of Supernova 1998bu in M96 . ... It took less than 24 hours for me to accumulate enough images of SN 1998bu in M96 to run out of space on the main page. ... Optical Light Curve of the Type Ia Supernova 1998bu in M96 and the Supernova Calibration of the Hubble Constant by Nicholas B. Suntzeff et.el. SAOTNG images . ... AUDE SN 1998bu light curves in French [ Translate ] . ... The light curve is an assemblage of submissions of the event's rise and decay in the R, V, and Visual band. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

About V I spectral lines with overlay of Zeeman and hyperfine structure splitting in spectra of sunspot umbra S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. ... Overlay of components of the different types can allow obtain the parameters of the magnetic field by the ratio of the component intensities. ... The structure of Zeeman splitting which follows from the parameters of the line atomic levels can be seen in Figure 1. [pic] Figure 1. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

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... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...