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... INSTITUTE OF RADIOENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS . ... The use of such a division is shown to open wide possibilities for application of chaos in modern communication systems and computer networks. Novel quality of the systems and networks can be achieved by means of not only designing new technological hardware, but also by modification of certain equipment modules and corresponding software. Examples of using chaotic encoding for computer networks are considered. ...

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... In many cases, this includes the acquisition of the data itself, across the INTERNET. ... We propose to use a real telescope, with digital camera, as a network device which will allow students in a remote classroom to acquire and analyze real data. ... Use of this image processing software through X-windows would also demand high bandwidth connectivity as the image file, which are painted on a remote screen, are still quite large. ... All the observing is done from Eugene, using the INTERNET. ...

Our School Observatory: . N56.2/E94.6 deg. and ~200m above sea level) . Our small observatory is located near Zelenogorsk (Siberia), in 170 kms to east from Krasnoyarsk - our regional main city. It includes a tower with a rotary dome (D=3.5m) on a roof of one of buildings. ... Our basic instrument is homemade D=150mm & F=695mm Newtonian reflector. Despite of its small size, we have learned to receive rather detailed views of heavens. ... HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus) ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

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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. ...

... They are an indicator of accuracy of the CCD positional observations for a given observatory. ... Planetary and Space Science 56 (2008) 1847 ­1850 Table 4 The best results of CCD asteroid observations from MPC database for some professional observatories MPC Observatory Code Professionals 673 Telescope 000 :07 0.07 0.08 0.06 000 :06 0.06 0.04 0.05 Year Total asteroids Total positions s a 1849 sd Type USA, table Mountain, D ј 0:61 m, FL ј 9:0 m, FOV ј 22 б ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... FileљStructure . FileљList . ... core . modules . Meteor.hpp . ... 46 љ Meteor ( const StelCore *, double v); . ... 64 љ Vec3f position; . 65 љ Vec4f color; . ... 67 љ : position( Vec3f (pos[0], pos[1], pos[2])), color(color) {} . 68 љ VERTEX_ATTRIBUTES( Vec3f Position , Vec4f Color); . ... 75 љ Vec3d obs; // observer position in meteor coord. system . ... 88 љ double xydistance; // distance in XY plane (orthogonal to meteor path) from observer to meteor .