... Monday 3, 17:35 Concert of chamber music by the Kazan State Chamber Orchestra ?La Primavera? after the opening of the conference and before reception. Wednesday 5, 15:00-18:00 Excursion to Kazan Kremlin. ... The Local Organizing Committee in Kazan has proposed organizing an excursion to the ancient city of Bulghar , 130 km down the Volga River, just south of where the Volga joins with it's main tributary, the Kama, and widens considerably . ... Agriculturers palace on Palace square in Kazan . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Another first from NASA: . ... Кому: "dyrector" , "Oleh Petruk" , "Roman Plyatsko" , "bohdan hnatyk" , "?гор Мриглод" , "Андр?й Трохимчук" , "bnovos" , "dvv" , This email address is being protected from spambots. ... Тема: Fwd: Another first from NASA: . ... Subject: Another first from NASA: . ... This morning, the United States became the first country to reach Pluto -- . ... This email was sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. ... MAO NASU ...

Gaspra . ... On October 29, 1991, Galileo came within 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) of Gaspra. ... These two color views of the asteroid Gaspra were produced by combining three images taken through violet, green, and infrared filters by the Galileo spacecraft on October 29, 1991, from a distance of about 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles). ... The earliest view (upper left) was taken 5 hours, 45 minutes before closest approach when the spacecraft was 164,000 kilometers (102,000 miles) from Gaspra. ...

... 1 second averages . Each strip was 600 seconds of data followed by a calibration scan The plots show the gps L3 occurrence in the data. The first plot averages 1 MHz of data about 1381.04 Mhz (.ps) (.pdf) (this is the center of the GPS L3 signal). ... A 2nd order baseline was removed from each 1 second 4 Mhz sample before computing powers or baselines. ... There are 14 data sets (7 beams times two polarization's). ... You can see the 1381.04 1 Mhz wide gps l3 signal change with time. ...

... Another Nearby Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy . ... One of the brightest supernovas in recent years has just been recorded in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy (M51). ... Most time lapse videos of the night sky show the stars and sky moving above a steady Earth. ... Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A . ... Jets of streaming plasma expelled by the central black hole of a massive spiral galaxy light up this composite image of Centaurus A. The jets emanating from Cen A are over a million light years...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... The first argument is the scrolled window you wish to change. ... The first one is the horizontal scrollbar, the second, * the vertical. */ gtk_ scrolled _ window _set_policy (GTK_ SCROLLED _ WINDOW ( scrolled_window ), GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC, GTK_POLICY_ALWAYS ); /* The dialog window is created with a vbox packed into it. */ gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (GTK_DIALOG( window )- vbox), scrolled_window , TRUE, TRUE, 0); gtk_widget_show ( scrolled_window ); /* create a table of 10 by 10 squares. *...

... Venus, the brightest planet, and Jupiter the second brightest (apart from Mars on very rare occasions) will appear very close together in the Eastern morning sky! ... Venus will be magniute -4.0, and Jupiter mag. ... Callisto, Jupiter's outermost Galilean moon, will then be 7' to the West of Jupiter, so Venus will be just about 4.5 times further away. ... The Last Quarter Moon will be 55 degrees away to the upper right of Venus, with Saturn (mag 0.1) another 16 degrees beyond the Moon. ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 19:53:31 GMT Dear delegates (especially ATNF, Applied Physics, Entomology)- Further to my email on close and on call allowances: 1. The AMWU claim is for what is now the standard in the APS for all restriction duty situations (close call, on call, stand by, etc). That is one rate for all. ... AMWU have now put to CSIRO that the claim be for 7/10/15% of CSOF4M hourly rate per hour restricted, not 7/10/15% of the officer's hourly rate per hour restricted. ...

... The motion of a planet around the Sun or of a scientific satellite around Earth follows different equations (though a connection exists), but in many respect it resembles that of the stone. ... Kepler's law states: . ... Illustrating Kepler's 2nd law: . ... As an example, let the drawing on the right represent the orbit of an Earth satellite, and let AB and CD be the portions of the orbit covered in 3 hours near apogee and near perigee, respectively. ... Gravity can also provide energy. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... Always looking over my shoulder When everything falls apart When you make a false start Then you can't turn the pages And you can't find the door When you're nobody's baby Not even close to pulling through We fill up stolen hours, Hunger for the touch of money Building crooked towers on the faultline , faultline When I came running to you I was following the light from a dead star When everything falls ...

This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Anna Hillier on 10/07/2007 20:32:09 . Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, E. Concord, New Hampshire . There was a special showing of "Dawn of the Space Age". A CGI full dome IMAX at precisely, 3:28 and 40 seconds p.m. made in The Netherlands. ... I rated it as a 4star presentation. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

... Limit the shutter open time of WFPC2 to about one hour . ... J.10.4.16.1    The HST optics shall be protected from contaminants being polymerized by the solar UV light reflected by the earth in the early stage of outgassing following SM3. ... Avoid pointing the +V1 axis within 15 degrees of bright earth limb from the time HST is released by the Orbiter through release +3 days. ... Avoid pointing the +V1 axis within two degrees of the bright earth Limb from release +3 days through release +12 days. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . Cosmology . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on May 9, 2011 | ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 21, 2010 | No Comments Galaxies, distant from us in space and time, have been in the news recently. ... No Comments We all love bright and showy spiral galaxies! ... No Comments Dark matter and its part in the evolution of the Universe is revealed by new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... About 10% of the time is allocated to moving the telescope to the zenith and exchanging the spectrographic cartridges. ... Focus telescope (open-loop)* . ... TOTAL TIME (seconds) . ... This assumes two 60 second arc exposures and two 55 second readouts. ... Otherwise, the arc exposure will likely consist of a 30 second integration followed by a quick 28 second readout, half the normal time. ... The flat-field exposure can be read out with a quick 28 second readout, half the normal time. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... TimeZoneConfigurationWindow Class Reference . ... Parses an offset string in the format [+|-]hh[:mm[:ss]]. ... The sign is inverted, as in the TZ format offset = (UTC - local time), not the traditional offset = (local time - UTC). static double TimeZoneConfigurationWindow::readTzOffsetString . ... The sign is inverted, as in the TZ format offset = (UTC - local time), and the traditional offset = (local time - UTC). static void TimeZoneConfigurationWindow::readTzTimeString . ...