... October 6, 09:00 09:40 . Jorge Melnick (ESO) . ... We present a statistical and temporal analysis of the ground meteorological properties recorded at the five selected sites for hosting the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT). ... Marc Sarazin (ESO) . The organization and development of the E-ELT site testing campaign by ESO are described. ... The E-ELT Site Testing activities in northern Chile and Argentina are reviewed, and pioneering explorative campaigns are illustrated. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Phil Creed's Astronomy Bowl! ... Hidden Hollow's Astronomy Bowl is a fast-paced question-and-answer game designed to both enlighten and challenge stargazers. ... Astronomy Bowl follows the traditional format of alternating toss-up and bonus questions, with a few tweaks. ... The host will read a toss-up question. ... Once a toss-up is correctly answered, that team is given a bonus question. ... If only 14 toss-ups are answered correctly, that means 20 toss-ups and 14 bonus questions will be read. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Depending on requirements of a specific launch mission, ISC Kosmotras offers several configurations of the Dnepr Space Head Module (SHM), where customer s payload will be accommodated. ... The SHM configuration is selected based on the type of the launch mission: dedicated, cluster (multiple small satellite) or shared (primary payload and a piggyback)...

... It is created for freeware distribution as an attempt to show the achievements of the Russian space industry and tell a story of the reusable orbital ship "Buran" . On your screen you will see a stunningly realistic picture of near-Earth space, as well as several spacecraft, created or envisaged by the really talented Russians: . ... demonstration mock-up of the military orbital laser station "Polyus" ("Pole") , which suffered a failure during its launch on May 15, 1987; . ... Texture . ...

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