... 12.03.2001 . ... March 12 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operations sheduled with OC "Mir" for March 11 are fully complete. The station continues in free drift. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the Complex arrays generate enough electricity, the thermal mode is normal. Today on the Station (core block) the Motion Control System (MCS) digital central computer was powered on, it is being loaded with command software. The next status report is scheduled for March 13 2001. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

What is the VSM ? ... VRML = Virtual Reality Modeling Language. ... One of the best VRML viewers, if not the best, is Netscape Navigator with Live3D plugin. ... Warning: if you use any other viewer, spacecraft will probably look like parrots or clowns because each VRML viewer treats colors in its own unpredictable way. ... You can use these VRML models freely in any way you like, but: 1) let me know you use them; 2) if you add them to your Web page, a reference to the VSM must be there. ...

... 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...

EYEPIECE Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York March 2009 Volume 57, Number 3, ISSN 0146-7662 Want First-Rate Imaging on a Snowy Day? ... For the past month, I've been experimenting with a relatively new service: renting time on research-level telescopes online. ... It includes a cost adjustment for phases of the Moon. ... W HAT'S UP Pollux, the brightest of Gemini's "twins," and Epsilon Tauri in the Hyades are the most prominent winter stars known to have planets. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...