... 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. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... ATCA . ... Background to the ATNF MNRF Proposal . ... The upgrade will enable the Australia Telescope Compact Array to operate at smaller wavelength (higher frequency) and higher angular resolution, and is complemented by projects at Parkes and the Australia Telescope National Facility as a whole. ...

... PRIME CREW . ... He is a veteran of three space flights and has logged a total of 36 days, 13 hours, 39 minutes in space, including four space walks of the total duration of 1 day, 2 hours, 18 minutes. ... The flight duration was 14 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes, it set a new flight record for the Space Shuttle program at that time. ... In this flight Dr. Chiao performed two space walks of the total duration of 13 hours, 2 minutes. ... The flight duration was 8 days, 22 hours, 1 minute. ...

... HST . How long does my Position Mode exposure time need to be? ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . Cycle 23 Results . ... DD Time . Mid Cycle Submission . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Phase I . ... A: One minute is usually sufficient for Position Mode observations. Often, the target acquisition is shorter than expected and, as a result, an observer might get several seconds more exposure time than specified. ...

... SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED RECEIVER V.P. Koshelets, P.N. Dmitriev, A.B. Ermakov, L.V. Filippenko, A.V. Khudchenko, N.V. Kinev, O.S. Kiselev, A.S. Sobolev, M.Yu. Torgashin Kotel'nilov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Science, Mokhovaya 11, 125009, Moscow, Russia A Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) [1, 2] was proposed more than 10 years ago and finally has been developed for practical applications [3]. ... Supercond.", vol. 17, pp 336-342 (2007). ...

The LIDAR Instrument Information . The LIDAR was designed in a bistatic scheme with a separate transmitter and two receiver channels. ... The total mass of the instrument is only 940 grams (about 2 pounds) and a total volume is 950 cubic centimeters in both assemblies. ... Engineers designed the LIDAR to operate in the temperature range from -100 to 50 degrees Celsius (-148 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit) under lower pressure, near one millibar. ... One of the receiver channels has polarizer. ...

... The computer control systems and the data analysis software tools are being developed simultaneously and are used with the mock-up hardware to simulate the data acquisition process. ... Software which handles the commissioning tasks, engineering analysis, and data processing are being developed in the AIPS++ system. ... Here we give some examples of the software being developed and we show some of the tools available in the AIPS++ programming and analysis environment. ...

... L-Wide . ... Receiver History . ... Available Filters: . ... Use with e.g. filter 5) NOTE 2 1120-1220 3 1230-1470 4 1550-1820 5 1100-1800 6 1360-1470 7 1320 hipass NOTE 8 1180-1280 9 1280 hipass (ext Output unit. ... Consequently, the calibration for data collected using the hipass 1320 and the hipass 1370 filters only will be mis-calibrated (i.e. by using the opposite polarisation calibration data). ... It is now possible to select any bandpass filter that is not in the 1320 hipass band. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Remote Sensors . ... TS34C-M Wireless long range remote temperature sensor . ... Wireless long range remote temperature sensor #TS34C-M. Reads outdoor temperature in degrees Fahrenheit as well as humidity and transmits up to 328 feet (100 meters). ...

Next: Photometric Corrections Up: Long-Slit and 1D Previous: Long-Slit and 1D . This chapter describes the long-slit љ reduction package in a general way. ... The package provides about 50 basic commands to perform the calibration and to display the results, defined in the context LONG . ... The context SPEC is a low-level context including general utility commands required by the different spectroscopy packages ECHELLE , IRSPEC and LONG . ... This interface is described in the Appendix . ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 November 27 . The Long Shadow of the Moon . Credit: Image courtesy J. Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC , NASA . Explanation: The long shadow of the Moon fell across the continent of Antarctica on November 23rd , during the second solar eclipse of 2003. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... The Long Shadow of the Moon . ... Credit: Image courtesy J. Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC , NASA Explanation: The long shadow of the Moon fell across the continent of Antarctica on November 23rd , during the second total solar eclipse of 2003. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: total solar eclipse - Antarctica - shadow - полное солнечное затмение - Антарктида . Публикации со словами: total solar eclipse - Antarctica - shadow - полное солнечное затмение - Антарктида . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Green ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... Telescopes Instruments . ... ESPRESSO . ... This picture shows an engineering rendering of the main mechanical and optical components of the ESPRESSO instrument on ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mercury . ... First spacecraft to orbit Mercury carries University of Michigan device . ... An onboard device called Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS), designed and built at the University of Michigan, will take atmospheric measurements. ... FIPS will be the first plasma instrument to explore the plasmas in Mercury's space environment. ... Video about FIPS: . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Research Research and education centers Space Instruments Engineering Institute (IKP-214) . ... Developing and producing experimental test sets for modelling space environment factors interaction with spacecraft structural elements. ... Basic technolgy research set for testing equipment and interconnecting systems and small spacecraft carrying breadboard design, dynamic, thermal vacuum testing and testing of electronic equipment for electromagnetic compatibility. ...

Introduc)ons · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Mark Klaene ­ APO Site Manager Suzanne Hawley ­ ARC 3.5m Director (UW) Bill Ketzeback ­ 3.5m Chief Engineer Joe Huehnerhoff ­ Imager Project Engineer Fritz Stauffer ­ APO Lead SoRware Engineer Jon Brinkman ­ APO SoRware Engineer Ed Leon Electrical/Electronics Engineering Russet McMillan 3.5m Lead Observer Karen Kinemuchi 2.5m Observer Nick MacDonald ­ Will the instrument allow for the decommissioning of SPIcam? ...

... 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. ...

... Members . ... The ATM's of Boston was founded in 1934 by a group of persons interested in assisting others in the art of optical polishing the craft of telescope making, and to learn together about the science of astronomy and the use of astronomical instruments. ... Mr. Jones introduced the club to Dr. Harlow Shapley at Harvard College Observatory. ... Regular shop activities resumed with the help of these "professional amateurs" and the club grew to 180 members. ... Club Newsletters . ...

Instruments and Methods 125 Long time tracking of the Sun with RATAN-600 in Radio Schmidt mode V.B. Khaikin, E.K. Ma jorova, I.G. E mov, O.A. Victorov, V.M. Bogod, and S.Kh. ... Cosmic source tracking with unmovable main mirror in a form of cylinder requires a special secondary mirror of double curvature 12 m size or a phased array in the focal plane of an ordinary secondary mirror Ka jdanovskij, 1980. ... Fig. 4 shows the Sun tracking with new drive in speed control mode starting from meridian. ...