... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the others Spacecraft . ... ASCII file description | Plot description | ... ASCII file | real time plot . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the groundbased magnetic observatories . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic mapping polar diagram, and ASCII files for each decade of month: . ... ASCII files description | DEC 1 (ASCII file, size more then 350Kb!) ... Back to the IB_TAIL Home page. Updated 18 July, 2000 . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... Launch Date: 1959-09-12 . Launch Site/Country: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), U.S.S.R. Launch Vehicle: Modified SS-6 (Sapwood) with 2nd Generation (Longer) Upper Stage . ... Luna 2 was the second of a series of spacecraft launched in the direction of the Moon. The instrument package reached the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. The first spacecraft to land on the Moon, it impacted the lunar surface east of Mare Serenitatis near the Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus craters. ...

... An Apogee camera is used as a slit viewing camera for DIS. The on axis camera, made by Apogee Instruments, uses an 512x512 thinned, back-side illuminated SITe CCD for imaging the DIS slit. The 24 micron pixels give an angular pixel size of 0.31 arcsec/pixel, with a total square field of view of 150 arcsec on a side. ... Camera manufacturer Apogee AP7 . CCD is a SITe SI-502A 512 x 512 back illuminated CCD . CCD pixel size = 24 m . ... CCD read noise = 7-11 e - / pixel . ...

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): . ...

... Archive for September 2009 . ... Posted by hlee . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Imaging , Jargon | ... A number of practical Bayesian data analysis books are available these days. ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

The international Antique Telescope Society will hold its 11th annual convention in Dublin from 20 to 25 September, visiting Armagh on Tuesday 24 September. ... The first lecture will be given by John Butler, Armagh Observatory on: "The History of the Armagh Observatory" , and the second by Peter Hingley, Royal Astronomical Society, London on: "The Historic Astronomical Instruments from King George III's Collection at Kew" . ... For further information contact John McFarland at Armagh Observatory. ...

... The total mass of the scientific payload is about 2500 kg, of which the unfolding parabolic 10-m radio astronomy antenna's mass is about 1500 kg, and scientific package holding the receivers, power supply, synthesizers, control units, frequency standards and data transmission radio system - near 900 kg. ... The jet system is a hydrazine thrusters system: it will be used during the creation of the base system of spacecraft orientation, for unloading of the powered gyros, and for orbit corrections. ...

NCS J.10.4.4.5.1 INSTRUMENT OR SUBSYSTEM : NCS C. Cottingham September 30, 2002 REQUIREMENT : J.10.4.4.5.1 "Configure the NCS to recool NICMOS detectors. The goal during SMOV is to verify the capability to maintain the NICMOS Cooling Coil temperature less than or equal to 69 +/- 0.1K." RELEVANT SMOV PROPOSAL: N/A DESCRIPTION OF METHODS: On day 2002:078 the NCC was started and on day 2002:101 the NCC reached its weighted Neon setpoint of 70K and began to control. ...

... Timeline . ... I had secured diagrams of all the groups and detached spots, and was engaged at the time in counting from the chronometer and recording the contacts of the spots with the cross-wires used in the observation, when within the area of the great north group (the size of which had previously excited great remark), two patches of intensely bright and white light broke out, in the positions indicated in fig. ... Click here for a text of Carrington's full article , including illustration.. ...

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... Mars . ... Mars spacecraft ready for September 21 orbit insertion . ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled September 21 insertion into martian orbit after completing a 10-month interplanetary journey of 442 million miles (711 million kilometers). ... Following orbit insertion, MAVEN will begin a six-week commissioning phase that includes maneuvering the spacecraft into its final orbit and testing its instruments and science-mapping commands. ...

ADASS 97 Final Program . ... Program At-A-Glance . ... Registration; Poster and Demo set-up . ... Session 1: Computational Astrophysics etc. ... COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS . ... Session 2: Applications . ... LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS . ... Session 3: Computational Infrastructure . ... Session 5 : Data Analysis Applications . ... BOF Room A . ... Session 7 : Data Flow and Scheduling - I . ... LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS . ... COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS . ... Session 10: Astrostatistics/Data Bases . ...

... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

... This dramatic image of the Moon's edge against a background of distant stars is from a perspective impossible for groundbased telescopes. ... The entire sky is seen projected on a coordinate system centered on our Milky Way Galaxy with the plane of the Galaxy running across the middle of the picture. ... Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System . ... In the center of 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... September . ... Posted on September 3, 2015 | No Comments ItтАЩs September and the schools are back in session. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on September 8, 2014 | No Comments When we think of the constellations of this time of year, Cygnus, Lyra, Aquila and Hercules are first to come to mind. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet. ... Methods researched thus far involve the classification of astronomical images based on object parameterisation, progressive image transmission, and evaluation of existing image compression schemes. ...

... Salvage and make safe of 74" . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: Salvage and make safe of 74" . Description: The 74" interior was cleared in the first few months after the fire (images will appear in due course). During September, the debris was cleared, outbuildings demolished and exterior concrete slabs removed. ... Views: 2086 . ... Views: 1849 . ... Views: 1824 . ... Views: 1815 . ... Views: 1812 . ... Views: 1803 . ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...