... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...
NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...
... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...
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. ...
The Archeops experiment aimed at measuring the cosmic background emitted just after the Big Bang. The study of this radiation is essential to obtain precise information on the evolution of the Universe: density, Hubble constant, age of the Universe.. To achieve this goal, measurements have been done with devices cooled down at 100mK temperature placed at the focus of a warm telescope. ... 28960 visitors . ...
п'? . PubliГї le 14/02/2010 par Jean-pierre Prost . Date : 04/02/2010 . Lieu : Valbonne . MatГїriel de prise de vue : Takahashi Mewlon 250, barlow Baader FFC et SKYnyx 2.0M . Commentaires : TrГЕs belle nuit du 03 au 04 FГїvrier, avec une turbulence en constante diminution jusqu'Г l'arrivГїe des nuages ..... Date : 04/02/2010 . Lieu : Valbonne . MatГїriel de prise de vue : Takahashi Mewlon 250, barlow Baader FFC et SKYnyx 2.0M .
... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...
The ultimate load . ... During next several days project “Send your name to Mars” ( http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003 ) will stop taking names. The last day will be on November 15, 2002. ... Step 1 . ... Write your name, mark time and click the button “add my name”. ... Please write down time and certificate number exacting it can be in its last days. ... Calculate the difference between End and Start time (in minutes), and the difference between your last and first Certificate’s Number. ...
To the Deputy Head of the Administration of Russian Federation President Mr. A.V.Ogarev . ... First the international space station (ISS) Alpha, which is under construction now, will compare to the OS Mir on the amount of information only in 5-7 years. ... Thirdly, the participation of Russian Federation in the international space projects, including work on the international space station (ISS) Alpha, is to be aimed first of all at the providing of Russian interests. ...
... T.T.T. Put up in a place where its easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, its well to remember that Things Take Time. ... SOCIAL MECHANISM When people always try to take the very smallest piece of cake how can it also always be that thats the one thats left for me? ... ATOMYRIADES Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards. ...
... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Современные физики пришли к заключению, что большая часть вещества во Вселенной существует в форме так называемой "темной материи", которую невозможно увидеть непосредственно; без этого допущения объяснить особенности движения галактик никак не удается. ... Либо "темная материя" состоит из чего-то иного. ... А поскольку темная материя должна иметься и в нашей Галактике, такие частицы могли бы без труда достигать нашей планеты. ...
... Роман Евгеньевич Ильинский email : ilinsky_r@mail.ru . ... Ильинский Р. Е., Ровенская Т. С. Дифференциалы луча в оптической системе // Вестник МГТУ. ... 1998.- ... Roman Ilinsky , Gradient-index meniscus lens free of spherical aberration, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, volume2, number 5, pages 449-451, year 2000 . ... Ильинский Р. Е. Определение реальных габаритов пучков в градиентных оптических системах // Прикладная оптика -2000: Тез. докл. ... 2000.- ... ROMAN ILINSKY . ...
... It is created for freeware distribution as an attempt to show the achievements of the Russian space industry and tell a story of the reusable orbital ship "Buran" . On your screen you will see a stunningly realistic picture of near-Earth space, as well as several spacecraft, created or envisaged by the really talented Russians: . ... demonstration mock-up of the military orbital laser station "Polyus" ("Pole") , which suffered a failure during its launch on May 15, 1987; . ... Texture . ...
... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...
... Multiexposition 34 images Sun 1/1000 sec f/22 and 1 image background. ... It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year. Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth's globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time. ... Previously, the position of the Sun on the sky was calculated with computer as well as optimal moments of time for taking each of the exposures. ...
Школа разработки аппаратуры цифровой обработки сигналов на ПЛИС . ... Сборник докладов 1-й Международной конференции "Цифровая обработка сигналов и ее применения" 30.06-3.07.1998, Москва, МЦНТИ, том 4, с. 9 - 19 . Стешенко В.Б. Особенности проектирования аппаратуры цифровой обработки сигналов на ПЛИС с использованием языков описания аппаратуры // Сборник докладов 2-й Международной конференции "Цифровая обработка сигналов и ее применения" 21.09-24.09.1999, Москва, МЦНТИ, том 2, с. 307 - 314 . ...
... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... THEOS SC Injection Accuracy . ... Moscow, 11:00 a.m., 1 October 2008. ... Following expeditious telemetry data processing, injection accuracy of five RapidEye satellites launched on 29.08.2008 from Baikonur Cosmodrome was calculated. ...