. " The Arecibo Observatory is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations . expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

... Staff Directory . ... Missions . HST . ... Hubble Heritage Project . Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... Research . Research Staff Directory . ... Events . ... The Quick Reaction Camera (QRC) project will install four 0.4 meter telescopes in a remotely-operated global network to provide ground-based follow-up observations to high-energy transient events detected by the High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) satellite, due to be launched later this year. ...

... НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . ... Кружок ?Олимпиады и математика? ... Московская математическая олимпиада . Заочный математический конкурс . ... Устные математические олимпиады . Олимпиады по программированию . Математический праздник . Математические регаты . ... Математические бои . Олимпиада по геометрии им. И.Ф.Шарыгина . ... Программа ?Math in Moscow? Научные конкурсы . Творческий конкурс . ... График олимпиад . ... XXVII Математический праздник . ...

... Another piece of asteroid discovery news, from Terry Moseley: "Dave Grennan from Dublin has just discovered a Main Belt asteroid from his observatory in Raheny. ... Dave's discovery comes just after Dave McDonald's find of 2008 TM9 a few weeks ago. ... This is only the third asteroid ever discovered in Ireland. ... This has been an amazing year for astronomy in Ireland, and is a superb lead-in to IYA 2009!" ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... PmWiki . Summary:Search wiki:) . ... SitePageActions 2 pages found out of 221 pages searched. A search for more than one word will find pages that contain all of the words. ... To limit your search to a single group, enter the group name followed by a slash at the beginning of the search string (e.g., "PmWiki/" or "Site/"). ... apple pie . ... apple' in the PmWiki group of pages . ... the phrase 'pmwiki/apple' in all groups of pages . ... all pages in the PmWiki group . ... Pulsar Surveys . ...

The following bug and limitations are known. Please send new bug reports, comments, suggestions to: saotng@head-cfa.harvard.edu: . ... When the raw data is being transferred to SAOtng by the external file access program, the GUI performance can slow down noticeably. When a cursor shape is changed (e.g. from circle to rectangle) using the (Button 3) marker menu inside the cursor, the button press actions inside the cursor become confused. ... This causes problems with discrete colormaps. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Gift Center . ... Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Field size . Object name . ... Map size . ... Field size: the approximate size of the map in the Y direction. ... Galaxies: . ... Galaxies, which size exceeds some value depending on the field and map sizes, are displayed with their real positional angles and sizes by 25m isophote. ... In the "tools" fields there are links to the several famous AVO (Astrophysical Virtual Observatory) resources: NED and Simbad databases and DSS2 (Palomar Digitized Sky Survey) images of the corresponding sky area. ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... References: A-G . ... Inglis, David Rittenhouse, Dynamo Theory of the Earth's Varying Magnetic Field, Rev. Mod. ... Rev. 85, 512, 26 Sept. 1919b. Larmor, Sir Joseph, "Possible rotational origin of magnetic fields of Sun and Earth", Engineering, 108 461, 3 Oct. 1919c. Larmor, Sir Joseph, "Possible rotational origin of magnetic fields of Sun and Earth", Reprinted and supplemented by a 1927 note, p. 611-612 in Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir Joseph Larmor, vol 2, Cambridge University Press 1929...

... Easy to use C, FORTRAN, and UNIX interfaces provide direct access to SAOtng information, data, and control functions. ... XPA allows an Xt program such as SAOtng to define named ``public access points'' through which data and commands can be exchanged with other programs. ... New image files can be loaded using the file public access point: csh) imset file ../data/coma.fits Sending an image file name to the file access point causes SAOtng to load and display that image. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The real-time radiosignals characteristics calculation algorithm from current VS data is carried out according to the following scheme (V.P.Grozov ,G.V.Kotovitch,V.E.Nosov,S.N.Ponomartvhuk, S.V.Pushkarev,L.P.Sergeeva,V.V.Khakhinov. Real time decameters radio systems characteristics calculation by ionosphere vertical sounding data. ... ionogram and calculation results display on monitor; . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The VC-4 flight tasks were successfully completed. The manned transfer vehicle Soyuz TM-34, been a part of ISS orbital complex since April 27, 2002, as a rescue vehicle and been the earlier manned space vehicle modification of Soyuz type, was replaced by Soyuz TMA-1, the new modification, designed by the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia specialists in cooperation with its subcontractors from Russian rocket and space industry. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Available Actions . Default actions . ... Cookbook actions . Page actions are applied to wiki pages, as a query string appended to the URL . ... displays dialog for setting/changing password of the specified page or group of pages, see passwords , see also $EnablePostAttrClearSession if you do not want to have the session cleared after validating change General use of passwords . ... display the specified page (default action if no ?action= is present) . ...

... Institutes of Chernogolovka . The largest of all the scientific institutions of the center is the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka , where fundamental problems of chemical physics are studied: kinetics and mechanisms of chemical and biological processes; processes of combustion, explosion, and polymerization; and mechanisms of elementary reactions involving high energy particles. ... Developments and Technologies . ...

When entering Plates section user should open the file with information on moments of observations, plate centers, angular dimensions of sky regions covered by plates and numbers of observatories (the file can be created for the first time or can be prepared according to bellow described format in advance). ... It is supposed that the position of plate center and half-dimensions of plate are specified in right ascension and declination (the edge of rectangular plate is oriented to the equator). ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Order . Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Extra-Vehicular Activity(Hydro-Space) . ... Specify here, if you wish to get a certificate - PADI specialization on Space Suit Diver program. ... Space Vehicle Injection into the Near-Earth Orbit . ... Space Vehicle Descent . ... Services / Order: Order . ...