... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Note: I am assuming that before reading this page you are familiar with the idea that some people think NASA faked the Apollo Moon missions. If this idea is new to you, try reading my page with links to other pages about the Moon hoax , and my page debunking specific claims of this hoax "theory" . One of the more active proponents of this silliness is one Bart Winfield Sibrel. ...

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... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Appendix: Effect of errors in the encoder roller and drive disk on tracking. ... Servo error. ... Table 1: Tracking error budget Component Component error (nm RMS ) Effect (mas RMS ) Az axis wobble Drive disk high freq. error 200 17.17 Guide roller error 50 8.58 Lower bearing high freq./nonrep. error 50 4.29 Alt axis wobble Bearing high freq./nonrep. error 50 4.86 Az encoding error Drive disk high freq error 200 4.59 Encoder capstan error 50 5.73 Encoder ...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

StarShine-3: . ... The satellites are covered by nearly 1000 small, front-surface aluminum mirrors that are machined by technology students in Utah and polished by tens of thousands of students all over the world. ... And this is only small story about it. ... We will be able to measure the angular position of that satellite by observing sunlight flashes from small mirrors mounted on the surface of the satellite, as it passes across the starry sky before sunrise and after sunset.. ... Starshine 3 . ...

... Limit of star magnitude. If you want to obtain best results, you should use reference stars not more dimly than limiting star magnitude of your telescope. Limiting star magnitude depends on time of an exposition also.) This value should be set as " maximum of star magnitude " in a dialog box " Extraction from catalogue". To find darkest stars in the frame, make the following: . ... Two star magnitudes (m1, m2 in two photometric systems) will be outputted in the window "Information". ...

... On the basis of hypothesis about Solar s ystem formating from endo-Galactic Vortex, stated by е.л. Trunaev, who have acquainted the author of the present work with his manuscript in 1991 during personal contact , the results of attempt to apply its main rules to some calculations at the Solar system actually and at planets satellite systems are below stated. ... orbit in . ... All satellite systems of planets, as well as the Solar system, are formed from two- branch pre-planetary (pre-Solar)...

NASA готовится запустить к красной планете ядерный марсоход . ... Следующим марсоход Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) отправится к красной планете в 2009 году. Это будет самый большой и снабженный самыми передовыми исследовательскими приборами аппарат для исследования поверхности Марса. ... По его словам, создаваемый ими аппарат будет нацелен на изучение химии планеты, в отличие от марсоходов Spirit и Opportunity, которые в основном занимались геологическими исследованиями. ... Планета Марс . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... This was the inaugural launch from the new Yasny launch base, located in the Orenburg region of Russia, and was also the first launch for Bigelow Aerospace. ... According to Vladimir Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras, commissioning of the new Yasny launch base significantly expands the capabilities of the Dnepr Space Launch System. ...

... The Triplet Lenses are manufactured by LOMO PLC of St. Petersburg Russia, one of the world's largest and most advanced optical manufacturers. ... This day the official web site of St.Petersburg company, lomo.ru, became accessible. ... LOMO VOTING PAPERS PROCESSING COMPLEXES TESTED SUCCESSFULLY . On December 16, 2001 during elections to Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Region, Russia, pilot pieces of the new Voting Papers Processing Complex created at LOMO PLC were used for the first time. ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... Severe Space Weather . ... On Line"! ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... You can keep an eye on space weather yourself at the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center, www.swpc.noaa.gov . ...

marked with yelow asterisk are sites that have links to the VSM . Russian/Soviet Cosmonautics History . interesting site (Russian language only) and ABSOLUTELY STUNNING photos! Russian mirror of Mars Pathfinder site . Space Technology Images . big collection of photos and drawings including some rare and exotic . ... excellent site of spaceflight history . ... Astronomy 105 . ... Some interesting things plus a brilliant collection of astronomy and space links. Space Frontier . ...

... The accuracy of the RESIK measurements allows photospheric and coronal abundance sets, important for the free­bound continuum, to be discriminated. ... The FB emission depends on the set of abundances used in the calculations, a coronal set (Feldman 1992; Fludra & Schmelz 1999) giving rise to greater emission than a photospheric set (Grevesse et al. ... Right panel: continuum fluxes compared for coronal (Feldman 1992) and photospheric (Grevesse et al. 2007) abundances for Te = 15 MK. ...

... Электронная музыка ] [ Зодиакальные мифы ] [ Полезные ссылки ] [ Викторина ] . ... According to myth, Taurus represents the bull-form taken on by Jupiter when he became enamored of Europa, princess of Phoenicia: . ... Согласно легенде, Телец - это бык, в которого превратился Юпитер (Зевс), очарованный красотой Европы, принцессы и дочери финикийского царя Агенора. ... Близнецы - это зодиакальное созвездие, изображающее двух братьев-близнецов, Кастора и Поллукса. ...