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The following are some standard questions that observers have about their fixed target confirmation charts. ... Why doesn't my target appear to be centered on the cross hairs? ... How is proper motion handled? ... Target well centered . If your target is not perfectly centered in the cross hairs, see the questions below for why it may not be centered and how well centered it must be . ... So, targets to be acquired by STIS should appear well centered in the cross hairs on the confirmation chart. ...

... 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 . ...

Next: A box, to include Up: To produce a region Previous: To produce a region . select cursor and circle . When in the image window, the mouse now has a box shape with an arrow at the upper left corner. The mouse buttons act as follows: . LEFT - to move the center of the circle at the position of the arrow point. ... RIGHT - idle. center the circle at the point source by positioning the arrow point and clicking on the LEFT mouse button. A circle will appear at the arrow position. ...

... User Guide ] Key: offset A number of Miriad tasks either take or return celestial coordinates as offsets from some reference position -- invariably the observing center or the reference pixel. ... Offset celestial coordinates are always given in arcseconds on the sky. The offset, (x,y), is related to a true sky coordinate, (RA,DEC), by x = (RA - RA0) * cos(DEC0) y = DEC - DEC0 (These equations should be viewed as a definition, rather than a small angle approximation). ...

... 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. ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

... GIVE A GIFT . ... Give a Gift . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Gift Center . ... I have been trying to get my head around "there is no center to the universe" without success. Can you give a layman's explanation? ... To wrap your mind around it, first accept that the Big Bang was not an explosion in space the way we naturally perceive it. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ...

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home resources > books . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Buy The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy at Amazon.com! Reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes . In 1974 astronomers discovered a bright radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It was an unknown quantity then, but astronomers now know that the object is a supermassive black hole causing a maelstrom of activity at the galactic center. ...

... Observations . ... Natural Satellites Data Center. ... Nomenclature of satellites | ... Inner satellites of Jupiter . ... Inner satellites . Mutual events of the Galileans . ... Inner satellites of Saturn . Main satellites of Saturn . ... Mutual events of the main satellites . Inner satellites of Uranus . Main satellites of Uranus . ... Mutual events of the Uranian satellites . Inner satellites of Neptune . Main satellites of Neptune . Outer satellites of Neptune . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... A lightweight stick with two balls of equal weight at its end obviously has its CG in the middle. When one ball is twice the weight of the other, the CG divides the distance between them by a ratio 1:2, in a way that makes it closer to the heavier mass ( see figure ). ... Even though the balls are separate, one can speak of their common center of gravity, on the line connecting their centers, 1/3 of the distance from the center of the heavier ball. ...

... Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. ... Sometimes falling ice crystals make the atmosphere into a giant lens causing arcs and halos to appear around the Sun or Moon. ... On December 3 (UT), Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, will be at opposition, opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky, shining brightly and rising as the Sun sets. ... Bright Jupiter is nearing its December 3rd opposition when it will stand in Taurus, opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 February 24 . Barnard's Loop around the Horsehead Nebula . ... Although hard to make out, the famous Horsehead Nebula is the slight dark indentation in the bright streak just to the left of the image center. Glowing like an emission nebula , the origin of the bubble , known as Barnard's Loop , is currently unknown. ... About APOD | ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

... STScI-PRC99-16 RING AROUND A GALAXY Space Telescope Science Institute astronomers are giving the public chances to decide where to aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Guided by 8,000 Internet voters, Hubble has already been used to take a close-up, multi-color picture of the most popular object from a list of candidates, the extraordinary "polar-ring" galaxy NGC 4650A. Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. ...

... 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. ...