... DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS By Catherine E. BorschИ magine having the power to control a digital camera aboard the International Space Station. ... Thanks to an innovative project called Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (EarthKAM), a special Space Station payload enables students to photograph and examine the Earth from a space crew's perspective. ... Astronaut Leroy Chiao will serve as commander and NASA Space Station science officer for the Expedition 10 crew. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

URBAN GROWTH AND LAND USE CHANGE FROM 1975 TO 2015 IN SAMARA CITY, RUSSIA Mukesh Singh Boori, Alexander Kupriyanov, Komal Choudhary Samara State Aerospace University This study illustrates the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban growth and land use changes in Samara city, Russia from 1975 to 2015. ... Information on urban growth, land use and land cover change study is very useful to local government and urban planners for the betterment of future plans to sustainable development of the city. ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

. Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences . World Data Center for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Moscow . (automatic forward in 5 sec) . URL : http://www.wdcb.ru/stp/data/Images_of_Magnetograms/index.en.html WDC for STP, GC RAS .

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS082, 2003 (A4 format) EVALUATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF MERCURY. ... Photometric Analysis of the Lunar Surface Analogue. ... The phase function obtained directly on some segments of the lunar surface: 1- phase function of the Moon, 2 - phase function of Mercury, 3 - phase function of segments, converted to the lunar phase function system (correlation 0.8), 4 - phase function of segments, converted to the Mercurian phase function (correlation 0.9). ...

... Despite the use of counterweights, I have had ongoing problems with preventing unwanted motion in altitude, particularly during star parties when everyone seems to want to lean on the telescope while observing. ... After some difficulties at a windy star party a few years ago at the Boston Museum of Science, I designed a simple and very effective altitude brake and slow motion control which can be assembled very quickly and at minimal cost. ... The other end of the arm attaches to a turnbuckle*. ...

... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) . ... In the Fall of 1993, NASA Science lnternet (NSI) and the Russian Space Science lnternet (RSSI) began a cooperative effort to provide lnternet communications to selected Russian institutions in order to promote sponsored scientific cooperation between the two countries. ... This change, limiting full lnternet access via NISN for NASA selected Russian institutions, will take place no later than July 1998. ...

... Oleg V. Verkhodanov . ... The last few years have changed our view on the evolution of galaxies: the most distant galaxies (i.e. systems having stellar population) have been found at redshift z=6.68 (Chen H.-W., Lanzetta, K. M., Pascarelle, S. 1999, Nature, 398 , 586) and radio galaxy at z=5.19 (van Breugel W., De Breuck C., Stanford S. A., Stern D., Rottgering H., Miley G. 1999. astro-ph/9904272 ). ... Redshifts and age of stellar systems of distant radio galaxies from multicolour photometry data. ...

... In less then one day "Mir" station will finish its flight. ... Besides, the operability of motion control systems will be tested to ensure further dynamic operation at the final stage of "Mir" complex. ... The final third burn is given in daily orbit 2 using the "ProgressM1-5" 8 control engines and its main engine with the trust of 300 rg/s. Thus, to peform deorbit maneuver the OC"MIr" real-time tested manuevers involving control engines and their combination with the main engine are used. ...

Authors: T.V. Borkova , V.A. Marsakov , . ... It is found that dispersions of spatial and kinematics characteristics of field stars change abruptly when the metallicity crosses the boundary [Fe/H] -0.95 . ... По опубликованным прецизионным наземным и спутниковым измерениям собственных движений, компилятивным лучевым скоростям и фотометрическим расстояниям вычислены компоненты пространственных скоростей и элементы галактических орбит для 174 переменных звезд типа ab RR Лиры околосолнечной окрестности. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 20 - 26.05.2013, Forecast on 27.05 - 03.06.2013, Carrington Rotations 2137 (15,02.05.2013) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN CHANGED FROM THE AVERAGE TO HIGH AND BACK TO THE AVERAGE LEVELS. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE. ... BY SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS DATA THERE WERE OBSERVED 48 CME FROM WHICH 4 WERE THE TYPE OF "HALO", 1 -"PARTIAL GALO III" AND 2 WERE THE TYPE OF "PARTIAL GALO II". ...

... Subject of Astronomy. ... Basis of Spherical and Practical Astronomy. ... Celestial Sphere. ... Changes of Star's Coordinates as a Result of Daily Rotation of Celestial Sphere. ... Time Measuring. ... Changes of Solar Equatorial Coordinates. ... Stellar Day, Stellar Time. ... Real Solar Time. ... Mean Solar Time. ... Connections between Stellar and Mean Time. ... Apparent Path and Configuration of Planets. ... Ways of Energy Transportation to Stellar Surface.Basis of Spectral Analysis. ... Solar...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

... Full silvery Moon illuminates terrain. ... Begun a next moon eclipse, when Land barriers a Moon from the Sun and throws its shade on it. ... Drawing 1. ... Drawing 6 Drawing 6 shows a splendid photo of full moon eclipse 18-19 november 1975 during is packed phases doing Dennis de Chikko. ... Eclipse, which will occur 9 november 2003, is a repetition through сарос (cycle of repetitions of eclipses equal 6585 days or 18 years 11 days) full moon eclipse from 28 octobers 1985 with the maximum phase 1,07....