... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... Section 1: Getting Started . ... To Take an Image . ... Section 3: File Menu . Section 4: Edit Menu . Section 5: View Menu . Section 6: Image Menu . ... Merge Images . ... Meade Software License Agreement . ... Manufacturer is Meade Instruments Corporation, 6001 Oak Canyon, Irvine, California 92620. ... Index of Instruction Manuals . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... 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 . ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

... An Electronic Version of Volume I of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars with Improved Coordinates N. N. Samus'1,2 , * , V. P. Goranskii2 , O. V. Durlevich2 , A. V. Zharova2 , E. V. Kazarovets1 , E. N. Pastukhova1, M. L. Hazen3 , and T. M. Tsvetkova Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. ... Subsequently, we are planning to publish new versions of the GCVS Volumes II and III, as well as of the catalog of suspected variable stars (the NSV catalog). ... Stars, No. ... Stars Obs. ...

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

MULTISCOPES . ... HOME . ... ABOUT LOMO . ... Home Products Microscopes Multiscopes Trinocular Head HT-30 . ... The HT-30 Trinocular Head , with its superb field flattening ability, is designed to work with LOMO microscopes as well as with other brands equipped with a universal dovetail mount. ... The head incorporates a revolving Magnification Changer with three settings and a sliding Optical Path Selector (OPS) which controls the light distribution between the binocular and the photo/video channel. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .