... Lunar Close Up . ... Credit Copyright: WFI Team, ESO , MPI-A , OAC Explanation: Late last month, NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft moved in for a closer look at the Moon . Now entering an extended mission phase, controllers have reduced the altitude of this polar lunar orbiter from 100 kilometers to about 30 kilometers ( 18 miles ). ... Publications with keywords: mare - lunar prospector - Moon . Publications with words: mare - lunar prospector - Moon . ... Apollo 16: Diving on the Moon . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 12, 1999 . Lunar Close-Up . ... Explanation: Late last month, NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft moved in for a closer look at the Moon . Now entering an extended mission phase, controllers have reduced the altitude of this polar lunar orbiter from 100 kilometers to about 30 kilometers ( 18 miles ). ... About APOD > . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... The Golden Earring, planetary nebula NGC 2867, and barred spiral galaxy NGC 3109 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... European Planetary Science Congress . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > What do I need to enter for the RETARDER_WAVEPLATE_CHROMATISM table when running the pmos_science_recipe? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... After running the fors_pmos_calib recipe, the resulting RETARDER_WAVEPLATE_CHROMATISM file should be specified as an input file for the fors_pmos_science recipe to process the science data. ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

Galileo Crosses Boundary Into Jupiter's Environment . NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Space History Galileo . ...

Many entry fields permit sexagesimal entry (h:m:s.s or :':"). ... Sexagesimal entry is flexible in that you can specify one to three fields, as you desire. ... Offset and duration entry widgets assume that a single field is decimal arc-seconds or seconds ('.' or s.s) and two fields are (arc) minutes and seconds (':"." or m:s.s). ... You may specify one to three fields. ... Note: sexagesimal positions are entered in the same fashion, but a single field is decimal hours or degrees (h.h or . ...

... In today's case, a slightly off-nominal solar array slew caused the safing. ... Hubble's spacecraft computer recognized that this was not normal, and onboard safing procedures were executed as expected. ... Our STScI and GSFC teams are working on full recovery of Hubble this weekend. ... Onboard health and safety procedures will ready Hubble for science, and the science instruments (all of which are safe and in their expected states) will be brought back online accordingly. ... Hubble cheers, Ken ...

To enter a command type its name followed by any options and arguments that you want the command to have. Leave one or more spaces between the command name, its options and arguments. If necessary you can continue the command onto another line. Correct mistakes by using the <Delete> or <BackSpace> key to back up along the command line and correct it. ... Quoting command arguments . Entering more than one command . ... Command name completion . Editing the command line . ...

... 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. ...

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... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

Software Forum Message . ... Astronomy Software Discussion | ... Starry Night Pro Plus 6 - How Do I Enter Large Asteroid Database . ... The starry night pro asteroid.txt file is confusing. ... I have downloaded a page of Near Earth Asteroids from the Nasa website but I'm not sure what format starry night requires. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Spacecraft . ... Military Space . Space Science . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . Kosmos-2392 Began Its Watch . After two maneuvers, Kosmos-2392/Araks spacecraft entered operational orbit with 12-orbit repeating track. ... Russian Orbital Constellation . As of August 31, 91 Russian spacecraft were in operation, of them 42 military ones, 41 civilians and 14 double-purpose birds. ...

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GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... From left: Yuri Kovalev, Germany and Russia (with glasses); Maria Garci Miro, Spain (adjusting sleeve); Nikolay Kardashev, Russia; and Mikhail Popov, Russia (extreme right). Two space engeneers, Nikolay Babakin and Ruslan Komaev, discuss the spacecraft. ... Leonid Gurvits and David Jauncey in animated discussion. ... Bernie Burke proposes an amusing toast to the dinner party. ... Michael Garrett explains the details of his proposed toast as Yuri Kovalev translates, and diners listen attentively. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...