HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #2021 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 12/10/97 - 0000Z (UTC) 12/11/97 Daily Status Report as of 345/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed NIC/2/3 7812 (NICMOS Modified Short One Orbit Parallel) The Near Infrared Camera (Cameras Two and Three) was used to obtain "JH" imaging of sky regions when another instrument is prime. ... The observations were completed as scheduled, and no anomalies were reported. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . ... Development of the Northern Eurasia land cover map based on medium spatial resolution satellite data. ... The research and development has been completed of the first in Russia and in the whole world high-speed digital streams decoder for space and satellite channels with extremely high noise levels. ... Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for...

Next: Other Activities Up: M.E. Bailey Previous: M.E. Bailey Contents . Jonathan Horner, a former summer student at Armagh (now at the University of Bern, Switzerland), Wyn Evans (University of Cambridge) and Mark Bailey have completed two papers on the dynamical evolution of outer solar system objects known as Centaurs. These are large, so-called `giant' comets, circulating on dynamically unstable orbits confined approximately between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune. ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... N eptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25 1989. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... Neptune's winds blew the Great Dark Spot westward at 300 meters/second (700 mph). ... L ike Uranus and Jupiter, Neptune's rings are very dark but their composition is unknown. ... Neptune's Ring System . ... Uranus .. ...

... A Complete Solar Cycle from SOHO . ... Every eleven years, our Sun goes through a solar cycle. ... A solar cycle.. ... An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view. ... This cosmic expanse of dust, gas, and stars covers some 4 degrees on the sky in the heroic constellation Perseus. ... Comet Holmes from the Hubble Space Telescope . ... Space Station Over the Ionian Sea . ...

GALFA - H I Projects . The table below summarizes approved GALFA H I projects. Some project names link to project web sites. All scheduled project IDs link to the relevant proposal abstract in the telescope schedule database , which also lists scheduled observations for each project. If these exceed the requested observing time, a project is deemed completed ; otherwise, it is either in progress or not yet scheduled , depending on whether observations have begun. ... Goldston . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

... Dale A. Gardner . NASA Astronaut (deceased) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: б  Gardner was selected as an Astronaut Candidate by NASA in January 1978, reporting to the Johnson Space Center in July 1978.б  In August 1979, he completed a one-year training and evaluation period, making him eligible for assignment as a mission specialist astronaut .б  He subsequently served as the Astronaut Project Manager for the flight software in the shuttle onboard computers leading up to the first ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of the principal modules of the Segment (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, Nauka etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M...

... Комментариев нет 22 августа 2010, 13:58 Blogger , English , Астрономия . ... Neptune will finally complete its first full orbit of the sun since it was discovered in 1846a approximately one year from now, according to NASA estimates. ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-21 . ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... An international dispute arose between the English and French (though not, apparently between Adams and Le Verrier personally) over priority and the right to name the new planet; they are now jointly credited with Neptune's discovery. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... more Neptune images . ... What happened to the Great Dark Spot...

Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Gallery . ... The Common Room roof is completed . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: The Common Room roof is completed . Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... The Common Room roof is completed NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... NASA spacecraft completes 40,000 Mars orbits . ... NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone of 40,000 orbits February 7, 2015, in its ninth year of returning information about the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface of Mars from equatorial to polar latitudes. ... Two other active NASA spacecraft are currently orbiting Mars Mars Odyssey since 2001, and Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) since last year. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... The software systems are described following the forward and backward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Proposal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > MUSE Science Verification Completed . ... Observing Facilities . ... Instrumentation Development . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO Data . ... Of the 86 proposals submitted for the Science Verification (SV) of MUSE , a total of 49 proposals were allocated. ... All the SV data are available to the whole user community, subject to the VLT Science Verification Policy and Procedures . ...

... 739C As one part of a program to detect complete samples of active extragalactic objects, the 3.36x10^-3 sr field centered on alpha=12h04min, delta=+11deg30' (1950.0) was mapped with the Very Large Array at 1411MHz. Sixty-seven maps cover this field so that no point is more than 15arcmin from the nearest map center. ... The rms map noise is 0.030 + 0.001 mJy, and the resulting source list is complete to a map peak flux density S_p = 0.2 mJy within 25 arcmin of the field center. ...