... EYEPIECE April 2013 Volume 61 Number 4 ISSN 0146-7662 Isaac Asimov Memorial "Debate About Nothing" By Richard Brounstein NASA ROVER FINDS CONDITIONS ONCE SUITED FOR ANCIENT LIFE ON MARS WASHINGTON - An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. ... 11 EYEPIECE April 2013 FOCUS ON THE UNIVERSE Comet Chasing: Photographing PanSTARRS By Stan Honda wasn't expecting to dodge cow chips while photographing Comet PanSTARRS. ...

... I am fond of astronomy from school time. When I was eleven years old, I built my first telescope. ... I had renewed my hobby when I was 33 and when I already had a family and two sons. The 110-mm Newtonian is my first serious self made instrument and I built it during five years. ... In the Russian version of this site there are some articles, wich I wrote and the bibliography of the astronomy and ATM literature. ... Alexander Zencovich. ...

... NICMOS ? ... Научный инструмент для наблюдений в инфракрасном диапазоне, используемый в космическом телескопе 'Хаббл'. ... 1М (космический аппарат) . ... 2МВ (космический аппарат) . 3МВ (космический аппарат) . ... AGILE (космический аппарат) . ... Dawn (космический аппарат) . ... SOHO (космический аппарат) . ... Spica (космический телескоп) . ... Swift (космический аппарат) . ... Астрон (космический аппарат) . ... Восток (космическая программа) . ... Союз (космический корабль) . Союз 7К-Л1 . ...

... Калибровка снимка - это удаление из него паразитной информации, которая включает в себя: темновой шум, горячие пиксели, шум считывания (ток смещения), а также тени от пыли на матрице и оптике. Для калибровки снимка нужно подготовить снимки с паразитной, т.е. нежелательной информацией. В первую очередь нам нужно получить мастер-кадр шума считывания (ток смещения), на западе снимок шума считывания называют Bias или Offset . ... Уровень темнового шума сильно зависит от температуры матрицы. ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

home - main - author - help english - russian . Soyuz TM . Original Soyuz . Soyuz-1 - Soyuz-9) . ... ASTP Soyuz . ... Progress . ... Interior of Soyuz-T trainer . Soyuz's MIK - montazhno-ispytatelniy korpus - assembly and testing building. Left to right: launch vehicle, 2 cosmonauts in spacesuits, Soyuz spacecraft (inside a yellow framework), . shroud (a big white object) . ... in Soyuz trainer . ... Soyuz-T after landing . Soyuz descent vehicle evacuation . ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1986 the launching of the Core Block marked the beginning of the Mir Orbital Station construction. Currently the Mir Station consists of 6 modules. ... The Mir Station total mass is near 130 tons. ... For sinking unburned Mir Station fragments after reentering atmosphere a Southern Pacific Ocean area limited by the following point coordinates: 53 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 132 њ W; 30 њ S, 127 њ W; 30 њ S, 90 њ W; 53 њ S, 90 њ W is choosen. ...

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... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. Dnepr Launch of ASNARO and 4 piggyback microsatellites 26 March 2015 KOMPSAT-3A Launch Dnepr LV . Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ...

Copyright ї 1994 by Maxim V. Tarasenko. ... The end of confrontation, associated with the Cold War, led to political feasibility and economic desirability of extended international cooperation in space. ... For example, during the first half of 1994 the Russian Space Agency got only 10 per cent of its annual request. ... Another aspect of an inter-FSU cooperation is what was supposed to be a joint use of results from space activity, both in terms of scientific research and space applications. ...

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 . . . . . . . . . . . .