Astronomy Picture of the Day . Apollo 17 s Moonship . ... Credit: Apollo 17 , NASA ( Image scanned by Kipp Teague) Explanation: Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This picture from command module America , shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. ... This spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the Moon and returning the Apollo astronauts to the orbiting command module in December of 1972. ...

... Within the transnational Access program of SOLARNET, European investigators can apply for observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA , which are installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory ( DST/NSO ). ... Periodic calls for proposals will be published for requesting SOLARNET observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA, installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory (DST/NSO). ... SOLARNET Access . ...

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The X Public Access (XPA) mechanism is the heart of SAOtng. XPA allows an Xt program to define named public access points through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... Public Access Programming: Opening The Black Box That Hides Internal Data (from the 1993 ADASS Software conference) . ... Nearly all of SAOtng's menu functions also are defined to be XPA public access points. ... See also A List of SAOtng Public Access Points . ...

home support . ... Universe in the Classroom. ... With fourteen sites across the country, over 600 amateur and professional astronomers partnered with local teachers to serve over 20,000 students in Project ASTRO with over 175,000 students served during the course of the program. ... A partnership program of over 240 amateur astronomy clubs from every state with more than 5,400 events reaching over 450,000 people in face-to-face education and public outreach activities over the past three years. ...

... Eugene A. Cernan (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Cernan subsequently served as backup pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 7. On his second space flight, he was lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module. ... Captain Cernan has logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space-of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon. ...

... This paper describes our application of the X Public Access ( XPA ) interface to the new version of SAOimage . XPA allows an Xt program to define named public access points through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... It provides a high-level image display programming interface as well as low-level access to gterm-image widget functions. ... When a new file name is sent to SAOtng , the appropriate header access program is run to gather the overall image dimensions. ...

... PRIME CREW . ... From December 1987 to June 1989 he passed a course of general space training. ... In January - June 1993 he passed training under EC-14 program on the Mir Station as a commander of the backup (third) crew. ... From October 1998 to September 2000 at JSC (NASA) he passed training for a space flight by the Shuttle Orbiter under the ISS assembly program (flight 2A, 2A/2B). ... He passed training within the ISS-14 backup crew as the ISS flight engineer and the Soyuz TMA TSC commander. ...

... For many years, all email related to a given HST observing program has been stored in that program's "history" file on SOGS. ... Nevertheless, we continued to store HST observing program emails in text files. ... Beginning on December 19, 2011, Exchange Public Folders will be used to store all future HST observing program related email. ... One folder per HST observing program . ... Exchange public folders are visible only to Outlook and Outlook Web Application (OWA) and not to other mail clients. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #20: December 2011 . ... Science Users Information . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Data Handling and Products . ... For more information about archive services or to subscribe to the archive RSSfeed to stay informed on the latest archive developments, please visit http://archive.eso.org/ . ... In recognition of this important milestone, a special science workshop will be held at ESO Headquarters. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 7, 2016 | 2 Comments Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two people on the Moon when Apollo 11 landed there in July 1969. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 19, 2014 | ... Posted on August 1, 2014 | ... 123 Comments With the anniversary of the passing of one of the most iconic figures in mankindтАЩs space exploration program, it affords us an excuse to re-examine the short but history-making space [ ] . ...

... December 5, 1998 . Surveyor Hops . Credit: The Surveyor Project, NASA . Explanation: This panorama of the cratered lunar surface was constructed from images returned by the US Surveyor 6 lander. ... Briefly firing its rocket engine and lifting itself some 4 meters above the surface, the Surveyor moved about 2.5 meters to one side before setting down again. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Should be broken out by telescope within a facility.) ... Should be broken out by telescope within a facility.) - # programs allocated time ­ number of programs with non- staff PI's ­ number of programs with observatory staff as PI's ­ number of thesis programs ­ number with U.S. PI's ­ number with foreign PI's ­ information on geographic distribution - # states, # institutions, characterization of institution (R1, PUI, etc), if information ...

... Events . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . ... Campus . ... Samara State Aerospace University Campus Accommodation. ... There are several dorms on campus, which allows students to get to the University very quickly without having to spend any money or time. ... As they enter, students must present their residence card to the security officer. ... SSAU has the biggest campus in Samara, with everything from study halls and research labs to dorms and sports facilities. ...

... RSDC . ... Press Releases (rus) || in Russian RSDC Quick Jump 9-year Galactic survey Catalog of sources 7-year Galactic Bulge Map Cleaning IBIS/ISGRI sky images IBIS/ISGRI Sensitivity vs. ... The INTEGRAL view of the Galaxy . ... May 2012: 9-year Galactic plane survey . ... They are ISGRI (higher plane detector of the IBIS telescope), JMX1 and JMX2 - two detectors of the JEM-X telescope. ... RSDC is actively participating in the all-sky survey carrying out with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2016 IKI RAN...

... The Russian Federation State Program "Physics of Condenced Matter", the "Superconductivity" division , Project code "Generation-2" . ... The multielement josephson structures are known to allow implementation of the unique properties of the Josephson junctions as electromagnetic waves sources with high change rate of generation frequency, working in the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength diapasones. ... Even the optimal type of the junction electrodynamic interconnection isn't chosen. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

Examples of pipeline processing . ... This page presents examples of "on the fly" processing of FITS astronomical data available on the WEB using the HyperLeda pipeline tools. ... In many cases, raw data are archived and a consisten description of the file (FITS header) allows to process them on the fly. ... This first command makes a "pre-view" display of the image. o=fa:L93111HP1/00147&z=vg . ... The result of a pipeline processing is a FITS file that you can read as a normal disk file. ...

... CV & PUBLICATIONS | ... Nicholls, DC, Dopita, MA, Sutherland, RS, Jerjen, H, & Kewley, LJ " Metal-poor Dwarf Galaxies in the SIGRID Galaxy Sample. ... Nicholls DC, Jerjen, H, Dopita MA, & Basurah, H. (2014) " Nebular Metallicities in Two Isolated Local Void Dwarf Galaxies ", Astrophysical Journal 780, 88 * . ... Sweet SM, Drinkwater MJ, Meurer G, Bekki K, Dopita MA, Kilborn V, & Nicholls DC, " CHOIRS H I Galaxy Groups: The Metallicity of Dwarf Galaxies" , (2014) Astrophysical Journal , 782, 35 * . ...