2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 2007-2009 WORK PLAN: TOWARD CONVERGENCE DRAFT 1 for Technical Review COVER NOTE The following is the first version for a three-year plan for GEO, 2007 to 2009. ... Page 1 of 38 2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 ACRONYMS ADM AMDAR AMMA APAN AVHRR CBD CEOS CERN DAPHNE DEM EC EPA EPIDEMIO FAPAR FDSN GEANT GEO GEOSS GIS GMES GOFC-GOLD GOS GPM GSN IGCO IGDDS InSAR INSPIRE IPY ITU MODIS NASA NGO NIEHS SAR SBA SPOT -VGT SST THORPEX UN UNFCCC COP ... Task No. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... The images in this animation were taken using the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics MicroObservatory remote-controlled telescope in Arizona and processed using the MicroObservatory Image 2.1 software. ... The two images in this animation were taken at exactly the same time (2010-Oct-08, 0600 UTC), one from the remotely controlled telescope in Cambridge, MA, and the other from the remotely controlled telescope in Arizona. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... What is the notion time? ... Generally speaking, it is an order of changing events, an order of constantly changing conditions of solids, Universe - being. ... The time, determined for the given longitude, is called the local time . ... A uniform system of time counting - ephemeris time is tested by observations of the Moon turning around the Earth. Fully independent from astronomic observation uniform system of the time counting is based on the concept of atomic second (see quantum watches ). ...

H 2 O maser sources spectral data at 22 GHz. I began this project 27.08.1998 for displaying spectral data at 22 GHz of water maser. While data will concerning in base Puschino many year (1979-1998 yy) regular observations of sample of these sources. Sources . R.a. (1950.0) . ... The figures with many years spectral data (day-month-year) . The behavior of flux . The behavior of spectral components . ... All spectra 1981-94 . ... The some spectral component: many year behavior . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Barbara Hubal . Mike Unsold . ... Workshops . ... Ken Hubal . ... He's also built a number of specialized solar astronomical instruments and regularly submits data to the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Solar Section.. ... The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory will be back again this year the weekend of May 2nd - 4th! Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... Make-and-Take Solar Filter This year we plan on having another "make-and-take" solar filter workshop! ...

... Academics . Research Innovation . ... University Psychological Counseling . ... Center for International Education . ... Research Institutions . Research Institute of Astronomy . Research Institute of Biology . Research Institute of Chemistry . ... About the Department . ... The Research Institute of Chemistry (established in 1929) is the first research institute founded at Kharkiv University. ... Chemistry. ... Research Affairs Record Manager of the Research Institute of Chemistry . ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

Next: Electronic database Up: A Database of Optical Previous: A Database of Optical . ... Many new observational data have been measured in the last years, e.g. by the Infrared Space Observatory in 1995-1998, and interpretation of these spectroscopic data is still in progress. This requires the comparison with data of ``analog materials'' delivered by spectroscopical laboratories. Various terrestrial analogs of cosmic solids have been studied in chemical and physical laboratories. ...

... supernova images . Supernova Search and . ... How to report a supernova discovery . ... General Supernova information When you are looking for information on the latest Supernovae, the first place to look (Besides the Bright Supernovae page ) is the Recent IAU Circulars page, Recent CBET Circulars and IAU 's List of Recent Supernovae and List of All Supernovae , as well as the Headlines page web page. ... Arcturus Observatory SN images . ... Joseph Brimacombe's supernova images New 2009/12/17 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Brains on Vacation Archive . ... I'm always amazed at the dumb advertising cosmetic products will use to convince you their stuff is better than someone else's. I remember years ago one skin lotion had a big sticker on it said that it contained uric acid. ... Case in point: Neaclear , makers of "liquid oxygen skin care products". ... Clorox liquid contains oxygen. ... 2008 Phil...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... The majestic star-forming region in the Lagoon Nebula. The pale ring to the right is an internal reflection in the telescope.€а (Image credit: ESO/ VPHAS+/ V. Kalari and J. Vink (Armagh Observatory) . ... The 18 component images were further processed twice. ... Venu and his colleagues use images like this to identify individual young forming stars in the Lagoon Nebula and determine their ages. ...

The Astronomical Journal welcomes new submissions at IOP Publishing . ... From: Andrew Wray < andrew.wray@iop.org > . ... On behalf of the IOP-AAS Project Team, I am delighted to announce that IOP Publishing is now processing all new submissions to the AJ. Submitting a new article . To submit a new article to the journal, go to http://authors.iop.org/aj , where you will find our beta version of the new AJ web submission site. ... Refereeing an article . ... IOP Publishing . ...

... the historical dates of the Ukrainian space industry; . ... EXPOSITIONS OF UKRAINIAN SPACE INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES AND PARTNERS ON THE SUBJECT OF . ... Ukrainian Space Industry Investment Potential Exposition: . Investment opportunities in Ukrainian space industry; . ... Investment projects with participation of Ukrainian space industry enterprises; . ... Ukrainian space industry enterprises' securities; . ... Expositions of the Ukrainian Space Industry Leading Enterprises and Partners . ...

... Velocity allipcoid parameters as functions of heigt above the Galactic disk for the complete sample of F -stars (left) and a young ( t 3 Gyr) metal-rich ( [Fe/H] -0.13 ) group (reght). ... next figure | previous figure . ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

. Эмблема основной программы полета первого японского астронавта. First Material Processing Test .

... 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...

THE KAIDUN METEORITE: WHERE DID IT COME FROM? ... The formation of the subalkaline and alkaline clasts of the Kaidun meteorite, apparently also requires deep differentiation of material in a fairly large parent body. ... These differences in structure of two genetically linked clasts, due to the different encounter speeds of the clasts with the parent body of Kaidun, obviously indicate that these two events were separated in time. ... References: [1] Ivanov A.V. et al. ... 16] Ivanov A.V. et al. ...