... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

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... According to the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Program and the commitments undertaken by the Russian side under this International Project, at 11 hours 14 minutes 45 seconds Moscow time the launch of Soyuz TMA-16 transport manned space vehicle was performed from Cosmodrome Baikonur. ... Currently, two Russian manned space vehicles Soyuz TMA-14 and Soyuz TMA-15, which arrived in the station on March 28 and May 29, 2009, correspondingly, are operating as part of the ISS. ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

... Object . ... data . channel . ... As mentioned above, the uvread routine can perform, at the programmers request, extra processing steps on the visibility data. ... If the original channels are numbers from 1 to , then, by using type='channel' , uvread will return massaged channels, where channel of the massaged channels is formed by averaging channels of the original data, starting at channel . ... If is specified as 0, then uvread will return as many channels as possible. object='reference' . ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

... MOUSER Over View . The design of a new generation fast spectrograph MOUSER (Multi Object Universal Spectrograph for Extragalactic Research) to be installed at the 6 m telescope is proposed. ... photometric observations in broad and narrow spectral bands with a 6'x6' field of view and an image scale of 0".30/pixel; . ... The spectrograph is to be installed on the field rotator of the 6 m telescope prime focus without a standard field corrector. ... Back to Laboratory Home Page . ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... Scientific rationale . ... Conference venue...

... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 3: Designing NICMOS Observations > 3.1 Overview of Design Process . ... In the preceding chapters, we provided an overview of the scientific capabilities of NICMOS and the basic layout and operation of the instrument. Subsequent chapters will provide detailed information about the performance and operation of the instrument. ... Please refer to the detailed accounts given in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 . ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 . ... The Shared Object Cache provides a means to share simple data across all a server's workers, regardless of thread and process models . ... Initialize the cache. ... Destroy a given cache instance object. apr_status_t store(ap_socache_instance_t *instance, server_rec *s, const unsigned char *id, unsigned int idlen, apr_time_t expiry, unsigned char *data, unsigned int datalen, apr_pool_t *pool) . ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Next: Анализ существующих систем редукции Up: KISS (KPNO International Spectral Previous: Проведение наблюдений. ... Для выполнения этого требования необходимо было разработать пакет обработки данных, обеспечивающий редукцию данных обзора с последующим автоматическим поиском кандидатов, а также сохранение и способ доступа к уже обработанным данным. Такой пакет, развитый автором и работающий в стандартной системе обработки MIDAS, описан в данном разделе. ... Структура и состав пакета OBPR . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... The project of the scientific - educational small satellite for research of Earth upper atmosphere density . ... At the end of 80th years in Kuybishev aviation institute (nowadays the Samara State Aerospace University) has been developed the project of small spherical satellite " PION ", intended as for a calibration of ground resources of tracing behind space objects, and for refinement of density of upper atmosphere of the Earth. ...

... Астронет | ... Переменные Звезды | ... Микролинзирование . ... На протяжении последних нескольких лет в рамках проекта MACHO проводятся наблюдения микролинзирования звезд Большого Магелланова Облака - спутника нашей Галактики. Эффект микролинзирования заключается в гравитационной фокусировке света звезды массивным объектом, находящимся на луче зрения между звездой и наблюдателем. ... Согласно некоторым гипотезам, линзами могут являться реликтовые черные дыры или "нейтралинные звезды". ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). The program Izmccd is intended for precision astrometric processing of a CCD frames. This program allows to determine an equatorial coordinates of minor planets, comets, satellites of major planets, visually double stars and other objects. Also you have an opportunity of identification of known minor planets and a detection of moving objects. ... Using of program. ... Solution of problems at identification of star field. Designation of objects on image. ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

... Management of the satellite remote sensing data in environment monitoring systems. ... Systems for collection, processing, archiving and dissemination of satellite data in data centers of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Meteorological Agency, Russian Space Agency, Federal Agency of geodesy and cartography. Monitoring system of Russian Fishing Agency. ... Agricultural territory satellite monitoring system for Russian Ministry of Agriculture. ...

... Posts tagged ?objective priors? ... Ah ha~ Once I questioned, ?what is systematic error?? (see [Q] systematic error. Thanks to L. Lyons? work discussed in [ArXiv] Particle Physics , I found this paper, titled Systematic Errors describing the concept and statistical inference related to systematic errors in the field of particle physics. ... Continue reading ?systematic errors? ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... General comments . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Today's APOD | ... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about space stations: . APOD: 2006 May 16 - The International Space Station from Above . ... Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery . ... APOD: 2002 October 20 - The Space Shuttle Docked with Mir . ... Pictured above in 1995, the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the segmented Mir . ... APOD: 2006 April 29 - Skylab Over Earth . ... Index | ...