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... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...

The First International Symposium on Space Education "UNIVERSAT-2006" was held in Moscow on June 26-30, 2006. ... The scientific program of UNIVERSAT-2006 covered a wide area of topics centered around the theme "Space Education and University Satellites". ... Space Researches in University Education - Heliobiology, Ecology, Atmosphere Sciences, Remote Sensing. ... Basic Space Sciences in High-School and Cooperation in Space Education Projects. ... They have presented over 70 oral and poster reports. ...

The lost world: Pluto and Haron. Pluto . ... Mass . ... The period of rotation . ... Pluto is the ninth from the Sun big planet of the solar system. ... The careful processing of the snapshots with the images of the star sky parts, where the new planet was thought to be found was not successful at that time (later on when Pluto had been discovered the snapshots of 1991 were processed again and there were the four very weak and invisible earlier imeges of the planet seen). ...

... Our Java and Python software runs anywhere on Windows, Mac, and Linux . ... Alsvid - Algorithms for visualization and processing of image data with Python . Our observatory software . PyDome - Astronomical dome control in Python . ... Software archive . ... XEphem for visual access to astronomical data and remote telescope operation (Linux and Mac OS X) . ... SAOImage DS9 for astronomical data visualization (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows) . ... G ttingen ImageJ astronomical resources . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...