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... Astrophysics Group . ... Exploring the Cosmic Dawn . ... Cosmic reionization corresponds to the epoch in which the first stars€а and black holes reionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) that€аpervades the Universe following recombination, within a few hundred€аmillion years of the Big Bang. The epoch of reionization, and the€аpreceding ?dark ages? prior to the formation of the first stars,€аrepresent the last unexplored phases of cosmic evolution to be tested€аand explored. ...

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

... Переступая порог неизвестности при запуске первого искусственного спутника Земли (ИСЗ) 4 октября 1957 года, никто не предполагал о земных скоростях развития исследовательской деятельности, направленной на освоение космического пространства в изучении планет солнечной системы, о возможности выхода человека в открытый космос и высадки на Луну. ... О космосе и космонавтах написано много. ... Героев космоса мир знает в лицо. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Edgar Dean Mitchell (Captain, USN, Ret.) ... USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, First in Class Award. ... He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 9 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 10. On January 31, 1971, serving as lunar module pilot, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, then a U.S. Navy Captain, embarked on a journey through outer space of some 500,000 miles that resulted in becoming the sixth man to walk on the moon. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Astronomers identify the epoch of the first fast growth of black holes . ... Hagai Netzer, Benny Trakhtenbrot, and a team of astronomers from Tel Aviv University in Israel have determined that the era of the first fast growth of the most massive black holes occurred when the universe was only about 1.2 billion years old, not 2 to 4 billion years old as was previously believed, and they're growing at a fast...

... Keywords: Proper Motions, Schmidt Plates, Astrometry, Guide Star Catalog, Palomar Sky Survey . In this paper we describe a program of determining proper motions from digitized scans of 1950's-era Palomar Sky Survey (POSS) Schmidt Plates and 1980's-era Palomar Oschin Schmidt `Quick V' plates that were taken for the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) Guide Star Catalogue. ... Arrows indicate the magnitude and direction of the proper motion for the stars. ...

... История календаря . ... Семь дней . ... Время. ... У вьетнамцев сохранился до сих пор красивый обычай созерцать луну в шестнадцатый день восьмого месяца их лунного календаря: светлый лик, не закрытый тучами, обещает хороший урожай в этом году, полузадернутый туманной пеленой ? ... Император решил провести реформу в 46 г. до н.э. К тому времени римский календарь разошелся с солнечным на 70 суток по милости нерадивых понтификов, да еще десять дней надо было прибавить, чтобы год стал нормальной длины. ...

... My mother had a 'star named for me' with the International Star Registry (henceforth ISR) as a gift for this Christmas. ... On the back of the chart, a sticker described the precise location and visual magnitude of the star, taken from the Hubble Guide Star Catalog. The first thing I noticed, was the chart was Epoch 1950. ... The coordinates were also exactly those on the ISR sticker, so I now knew that even though the ISR chart was epoch 1950, the coordinates on the sticker were epoch 1983. ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

... Н.С. КОМАРОВ- ведущий научный сотрудник Одесской астрономической обсерватории , профессор, доктор физико-математических наук . ... С.М. АНДРИЕВСКИЙ- ст. научный сотрудник Одесской астрономической обсерватории, кандидат физ-мат наук . ... Ю.М. ГОРБАНЕВ- научный сотрудник Одесской астрономической обсерватории , кандидат физико-математических наук. ... Т.В. МИШЕНИНА- ст. научный сотрудник Одесской астрономической обсерватории , кандидат физико-математических наук . ...