Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1998ey in NGC 7080 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. ... Ron Arbour discovery image 12/5.816/98 . ... Ron Arbour image 12/10.791/98 UT . ... cf. vsnet-chat 1503 . ... The new object, SN 1998ey, locates at R.A. = 21h30m00s.56, Decl. = +26o43'24".2 (2000.0), which is about 18" west and 20" north from the nucleus of the host SBb galaxy NGC 7080. ...

... 248, 2007 W. J. Jin, I. Platais & M. A. C. Perryman, eds. c 2008 Intern atio nal A stro nom ical U nion doi:10.1017/S1743921308018838 A compiled catalogue of reference stars around the selected ERS in the northern sky V. P. Ryl'kov1 , N. Narizhna ja1 , A. Dement'eva1 , N. Maigurova2 , G. I. Pinigin2 and Y. I. Protsyuk2 1 Main Astronomical Observatory of RuAS, MAO RuAS, Russia email: vryl@gao.spb.ru; 2 Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory, NAO, Ukraine email: pinigin@mao.nikolaev.ua Abstract. ... Pul...

... 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. ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

RESEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM STATE OF SPACE TETHER SSTEM CONSIDERING ATMOSPHERIC D RAG D , L A, Cq N P U The equilibrium equations of tether and subsatellite will be given with the consideration of tether mass, tether deformation and atmospheric drag. Space tether system equilibrium state will be obtained through solving the equilibrium equations of tether and subsatellite. ... Space tether system equilibrium state is obtained by calculating Tether and payload equilibrium state equations. ...

MPEC 2010-L25 : 2010 LG14 6/7/10 9:33 AM Printer- friendly version Search MPC/CBAT IAU Minor Planet Center MPC Operations Status Processing (Info) ECS: Accessible Observer Services (NEOs) N N N N N N N EO Services Overview EO Confirmation EO Confirmation (RA order) EO Ratings EO Page EO Observation Planning Aid EOChecker MPEC 2010- L25 : 2010 LG14 The following Minor Planet Electronic Circular may be linked- to from your own Web pages, but must not otherwise be redistributed electronically . ...

WDC-A Digital Exchange Format for One-Minute Geomagnetic Data (Update August 1993) 1. The logical record length is 400 coded characters containing header information, blank spaces, and data for one element for one hour. ... Each logical record contains header information and data in the following format: North polar distance, longitude, year, month, day, hour, element, observatory code, blank spaces, 60 data values, and an hourly mean. ... ORG is the origin of the data. A = Alaska Chain. ...

Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...

. Red histogram is 2dF QSO Redshift Survey . Blue histogram is Durham/AAT QSO Survey . | Front page | . | << - Number Counts | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

WORK CONDUCTED AT RSC ENERGIA . TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR ELECTRIC ROCKET ENGINES . ... The use of nuclear reactors as power plants for electrical rocket engines (RSC Energia concept till 1988) necessitated the development of a high-power Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) based on lithium-niobium technology. ... The electric power source is a fast neutron thermal emission reactor/converter with thermal emission converters of heat into electrical power built into its active zone; . ... MARTION MISSION | ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...