Midday line determination by means of gnomon. At midday the shadows of all the objects are directed along the line pointing exactly from the South to the North. ... At one or two hours before midday mark the shadow edge from the pole with the help of a peg. ... Using the free part of the cord as a circle draw a circumference coming through the peg. ... A straight line coming through the middle of the line, connecting the first and the second peg and the base of gnomon is a midday line. ...

... Column Fmt Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 Blank 2- 5 I4 Year (19__) 6- 8 A3 Blank 9-10 I2 Month 11-13 A3 Blank 14-15 I2 Day 16-17 A2 Blank 18-20 F3.1 Time in tenths of hour 21-24 A4 Blank 25 I1 Code number of the ssc in the N collection (0, 1, 2 or 3 -- the number 9 occurs when no record was available) 26-29 A4 Blank 30 I1 Code number of the ssc in the T ... 181-182 A2 Blank 183-185 I3 Order number of ssc in the year. ...

Multipurpose Aerospace System (MAKS) . ... Up to date the main components of the orbital stage construction have been worked up, external fuel tank mock-up has been made, significant work has been already done on the propulsion system MAKS consists of the subsonic carrier aircraft and an orbital stage with an external fuel tank mounted on it As the first stage the An-225 MRIA aircraft originally intended for the BURAN transportation is used. ... CREATION AIRFRAME OF THE BURAN ORBITAL SPACESHIP . ...

Note: you can click on a picture to see it enlarged ...you float into the ODS (Orbite Docking System) from Shuttle's airlock through tunnel extension ( also serves as EVA airlock ). The tunnel leads further to the Shuttle's back where Spacelab is placed. ... You move upwards.....and see a closed hatch. It's time to open it! Yet another closed hatch - but it's not the Shuttle's, it belongs to the Russian space station Mir. Open it - and you are in the Mir's docking module . ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...