... Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight. ... Velocity at impact was 2.62 km/sec (1.62 miles per second). ... The television system consisted of a six slow-scan vidicon TV cameras capable of transmitting high-resolution, close-up television pictures of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight before the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Apollo 14: Rickshaw Tracks Across the Moon . ... G1, pictured above, is the brightest known globular cluster in the whole Local Group of galaxies. ... In the center of M51, a spiral galaxy 23 million light-years away, astronomers have identified a dense region of young stars. ... Comet Hyakutake on a Starry Night . ... It was a starry night in April (April 9th, 1996, 9:32 pm CDT to be exact) near Lone Jack, Missouri when Comet Hyakutake graced this astronomically rich field. ... April . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 February 13 . NEAR Spacecraft Survives Landing on Asteroid Eros . ... Explanation: Yesterday NEAR-Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and send signals back from its surface. Since the robot spacecraft was not designed for such a contingency , the success of the landing on asteroid 433 Eros was not assured. ...

... ATNF Colloquium . MWA progress towards SKA_LOW . by Carole Jackson (ICRAR, Curtin University) . ... Work by the "Low-Frequency Aperture Array" (LFAA) R Consortium for the future SKA telescope is concentrated on the set of antennas, on board amplifiers and local processing required for the Aperture Array telescope of the SKA. ... It is an aperture array consisting of over a quarter of a million wide bandwidth antennas of a single design. ... today * ATNF | ...

Next: Summary Up: Design Previous: Logical View . The screen design is part of the user interface development, and is a result of the storyboarding described in Section . ... This provides a good overview of how the user interface development had to be broken down to meet the design requirements. The Menu Bar is located at the top of the screen, and provides access to several functions available throughout the design session. ... The Palette of Objects is located in the upper right. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... The box is a special structure in the shape of a transparent polyethylene unsealed container with fasteners inside (a "space easel" of a sort), and is designed to protect against exposure to ventilation air flows during the experiment, as well as to protect the space station environment from paint drops. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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... Galileo image of Ida asteroid 114k gif ; 41k jpg . ... Large false color image of asteroid 951 Gaspra 172k gif ; 33k jpg . ... Montage of 11 images taken by Galileo spacecraft of 951 Gaspra 75k gif 75k jpg . ... True Enhanced Color images 140k gif ; 18k jpg ; 596k tiff . ... HST images of 4 Vesta (rotation series) 25k jpg ; 216k gif ; caption . ... Comet Shoemaker-Levy imaged by Hubble/WFPC 145k gif . ... AAT image of Comet Halley (color) 40k gif . ... CCD image of comet Mueller 93a 96k gif . ...

... Why doesnт??t NASA reuse space probe designs from successful missions like Cassini, New Horizons, and the Mars rovers? Using the same design and tweaking for landing on different planets or orbiting them would seemingly make the entire endeavor cheaper. ... Similarly, Cassini was originally conceived as the first in a multiple spacecraft build named Mariner Mark II. ... In many cases, however, reusing spacecraft designs is impractical. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... How much energy is there in a 20 mph wind? . 20 mph wind =10 m/s .0006 * 10 3 = .0006 * 1000 = .6 KILO watts per square meter . ... In your back yard the average wind speed is 10 mph which yields 100 watts per square meter. ... 4 3 = 64 if a 10 mph wind gives you 100 watts per square meter then a 40 mph wind gives you 64 times more power per square meter 6400 watts per square meter . total power = 6400 watts per square meter * 2 square meters = 12800 watts = 12.8 Kilowatts this is a lot! ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

... INSTITUTE OF RADIOENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS . ... The use of such a division is shown to open wide possibilities for application of chaos in modern communication systems and computer networks. Novel quality of the systems and networks can be achieved by means of not only designing new technological hardware, but also by modification of certain equipment modules and corresponding software. Examples of using chaotic encoding for computer networks are considered. ...

Description and Specifications (html) ( pdf ) . System Block Diagram (pdf) . ... GALFA Spectrometer Setup, Operations, Basics Manual (pdf) . GALFA Diagnostic Software Overview . ... Polyphase Filter Bank . ... Design of Quadrature Downconverter Board (pdf) . Design of Low-Pass Filters (pdf) . Design of 16-Channel DAC/Gain Control Board (pdf) . ... Design of Digital Decimating FIR Filter (pdf) . ... Quadrature downconverter (August 9, 2004) . Spectrometer board (September 1, 2004) . ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 UTC . ... 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" . ...

My wife and I received a Casio QV-300 digital camera as a wedding gift. ... Searching the web, we were able to find software called qvplay that enabled us to download the pictures onto our Sun. ... I could only get the lowest speed to work (about 60 seconds per picture), but it was adequate. ... I was excited about using the camera with the laptop, because the Sun only has 8-bit color, and an extremely lousy monitor. Copying pictures from the Sun to the laptop, sure enough they looked fantastic. ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

The design of IAO-Diploma has academic (conservative) style. ... The first row consists of three cells. ... Second cell - logo of EAAS - Galaxy, negative image. ... The second row consists of one cell, two lines. ... Second line - words 'International Astronomy Olympiad'. ... There should be a text in English with the name of the awarded student, his or her team, explanation of awarding including the degree of Diploma and the Number of the International Astronomy Olympiad like: Adam Kohl . ...