... For reliable estimation of the accuracy of asteroid CCD observations we usually consider from ten or more various NUMBERED MINOR PLANETS (NMPs) observed during several nigths per month (more then 50 positions). ... They can be considered as an indicator of accuracy of the CCD positional observations with given MPC code. ... For any NUMBERED minor planet the (O-C) values must be zero if the errors of observations and the errors of its theory are absent. ...

BMSTU, SM,YSC, supported by RSA, organised Educational Europe Tour 18-29 August for 40 students study space science and space technologies. During the trip participants visited German Aerospace Center (DLR) and The European Astronaut Center (EAC), Cologne (Germany), The European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC), Noordwijk (Netherlands) and Aerospace Museum Le Bourget, Paris (France). ... After the welcome meeting students had facility tour in DLR. ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano Ludy D'Angelo 609-737-6518 (609) 882-9336 ... @aol.com Editors Bryan Hubbard and Ira Polans (732)-469-7698 and (609)448-8644 editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 36 From the Director June ... The meeting started at 8 PM. ...

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

... 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. ...

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... 7 июля 2000 . ... Сириус, Солнце, Луна и Южный Крест . Благодарности: European Southern Observatory (ESO) . Пояснение: Слева направо представлены башни Yepun ( ye-poon ; Сириус ), Antu ( an-too ; Солнце ), Kueyen ( qua-yen ; Луна ) и Melipal ( me-li-pal ; Южный Крест ), изображенные на фоне ночного заката в Паранальской обсерватории на севере Чили. ... Antu, Kueyen и Melipal уже провели первые наблюдения, Yepun предполагается открыть в 2001 г. Имена заимствованы из языка Мапуту . ...

Space Agencies and Centres . Space research . ... BNSC - British National Space Centre . ... CNES - Centre National d' tudes Spatiales, France . ... NASDA - National Space Development Agency (Earth Observation Center), Japan . ... NASA Spacelink , includes information about the Mir station . ... John F. Kennedy Astronomy Observatory , contains rich list of astronomy sites . ... LIFE Magazine Space Links . ... Copyright RSSI 1993-1997, Space Research Institute RAS Network Information Centre ...

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

... I would like to add my voice to those who are mourning to loss of Maxim Tarasenko. ... Maxim was born in Protva, in the Kaluga Region south of Moscow on 20 June 1962. ... This was just one of many international speaking engagements of his. ... The list of papers and international places is too long to go into at this point. ... My first trip to Moscow was in 1995, and Maxim kindly made arrangements for me for transportation and access to a number of space program related facilities in the Moscow...

... 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. ...