December 2007 Astronotes 1 The last men on the Moon by Alyson Kerr, Education Support Officer On 14th December 1972, the Apollo 17 crew finished 22 hours of rock and dust sampling and started the journey home. ... The famed Apollo lunar missions had finally ended. ... The crew of Apollo 17 knew that they would be the last to set foot Image Credit: NASA Apollo 17 crew Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison Schmitt pictured before the flight on the Moon's surface for many years. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Practical Training for Students in Simulated Satellite Navigation and Attitude Determination for Universitetskiy-Tatyana Satellite - an Overview . ... The practical training has been developed to provide a basic introduction for students into satellite navigation, satellite motion in space, Kepler orbits, and computational techniques involved in dealing with problems of navigation. ...

IN OF IN CONDENSATE GERMANIUM OSCILLATIONS THE CURRENT AN ELECTRON-HOLE QUANTUM V. F. Gantmakher and V. N. Zverev Academy Sciences of Institute of Solid State Physics, USSR subnirted 3 July 1973 Pis. ... 3, 180 - 183 (5 August 1973) ZhETF Using laser radiation to produce a high photocarrier density in gernaniurn, we succeeded in observing quantum oscillations of the photocurrent as a functi.on of the magnetic field. ... The oscillations are apparently due to the heavy holes. ...

... 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. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... The downlink telemetry rate is presently 40 bps except during the Probe Checkout #2 data playback over specially requested 70m passes. Spacecraft Activity Summary: Orbiter: On Friday , 04/03, the third of seven sequenced data playbacks occurred for Huygens Probe Checkout #2. ... On Saturday, 04/04, the fourth data playback occurred for Probe Checkout #2. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program controls the data acquisition according to the specified schedule of the sessions. ... The calibration of AVHRR instrument data is performed during acquisition . The program can be started in parallel with the satellite pass visualization, that allows the user to monitor a session and store data only relevant to specific regions in manual selection mode. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

. Pulkovo Database of Observations of Solar System Bodies . Available databases: . Observations of planets and their satellites . Observations of minor planets and comets . Info . General description of this database . Main Page .

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

The coordinates, diameters, altitudes and morphological features of all the craters of Mars exceeding 10 km in diameter, totaling 19 308, are compiled. ... The catalogue is intended for use by investigators of Mars, students, in comparative planetology and in the selection of craters for naming. ... 1 one terrace . 2 many terraces . ... 6 many hills and one ridge . 7 one hill and many ridges . ... 1 one crater . 2 many craters . ... Sample craters of different morphological categories . ...

... At present, SDSS (ugriz), UKIRT WFCAM (YJHK), ; Johnson-Cousins (UBVRcIc), and 2MASS (J2H2Ks2) ; are supported ; redshift - redfshift of a galaxy ( floating point) ; colour_name - colour identification (string) ; colour_value - value of colour in magnitudes ( floating point) ; should be in the AB mags for ugrizYJHK ; and in Vega mags for Johnson-Cousins/2MASS colours ; ; RETURN VALUE: K-correction in the specified filter for given redshift ; and ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

. CDS: - Catalogues and files available at CDS . HEASARC - HEASARC Browse: Main Interface . SIMBAD - SIMBAD Quaery Form . WEBDA - Description . Variable Stars - Variable Stars in Globular Clusters . Page is modefied 27.04.2006 . E-Mail: marsakov@ip.rsu.ru

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...

. Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . My observations . NGDC's observations . The solar regions . Links . About authors . Russian pages . The solar regions . NOAA 11300's . NOAA 11200's . NOAA 11100's . NOAA 11000's . NOAA 10900's . NOAA 10800's . NOAA 10700's . NOAA 10600's . NOAA 10500's . NOAA 10400's . NOAA 10300's . NOAA 10200's . NOAA 10100's . NOAA 10000's . NOAA 09900's . NOAA 09800's . NOAA 09700's . NOAA 09600's . NOAA 09500's . NOAA 09400's . NOAA 09300's .

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...