... Space suited project Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, and Alan B. Shepard Jr. (left to right) are posing in front of a Redstone rocket in this vintage 1961 NASA publicity photo. ... Hen 1357: New Born Nebula . ... Also known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars in the constellation of Sagittarius. ... On the Moon, the long history of micrometeorite bombardment has blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

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Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

... The Parkes Ultra-wideband Feed Horn . by Alex Dunning (CASS) . The Parkes ultra-wideband receiver project aims to produce a single receiver to cover the 0.7 - 4.2 GHz frequency range. CSIRO has produced a feed horn covering this frequency range, which is a major technical challenge in the design of such a wideband system. The image above shows the feed horn undergoing beam pattern measurements in the CSIRO near field anechoic chamber. Photo by Ray Moncay (CASS). ... today * ATNF | ...

... Soyuz TMA TSC Flight Engineer, . ... Recipient of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School Colonel Ray Jones Award as the top flight test engineer/flight test navigator. ... In 1994, upon completion of the United States Air force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California, Fincke was assigned to the 39th Flight Test Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, where he served as a flight test engineer working on a variety of test programs, as well as flying the F-16 and F-15 aircraft. ...

... Photos provided by Eugene G. Edmonds . ... Earth Resources aircraft . camera control panel . Earth Resources . support aircraft . Camera equipment used . on the Earth Resources aircraft . Wild Heerbrugg Camera . with magazine installed . Edmonds holding motion picture . and still camera unit used . ... Boilerplate drop test . ... coverage of drop test . ... Zero-G test project unit . installed in aircraft . Camera installed . in Zero-G test unit . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Progress of the project in pictures . Armagh Observatory has been fortunate in receiving a substantial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the restoration of three of its telescopes and domes. ... 2) The 1827 dome, built originally for a Herschel telescope and shortly thereafter converted for the 15-inch Grubb Reflector . 3) The Robinson Memorial Dome which was built to house the 10-inch Grubb Refractor . ...

... 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. ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

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... 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)....

Проект существует с июля 2002 года. Цель проекта - дать краткий обзор наиболее интересных статей, появившихся в библиотеке электронных препринтов astro-ph . Также в обзоры будут включаться статьи, появившиеся в списке astro-ph из других разделов. ... Параллельно в 2002-2003 гг. создавался списки обзорных статей, в которых подробно освещаются те или иные часто обсуждаемые вопросы (например, статья А. Линде hep-th/0107176 является одной из лучших обзорных статей по инфляции). ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Graduate Student Researcher, Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz . Randi writes: "When I was in third grade, I didn't know what I wanted to be. ... I decided to become an astronomer because that way I could use electronic instruments and computers to study the natural world." ... Vy writes: "I wanted to be a veternarian as a kid. ... Only later, in high school, did I start thinking that I wanted to be an astronomer." ... search . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?pretty pictures? ... Astronomy is known for its pretty pictures, but as Joe the Astronomer would say, those pretty pictures don?t make themselves. ... Tags: astroart , astronomy , Chandra , pretty pictures , survey , visualization . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Map projected image of Earth (AVHRR) 123k gif ; 1440k gif . Famous Apollo 11 image of Africa Europe 31k jpg . global composite of satellite images 508k gif . ... Galileo image of South America from 1st flyby 62k jpg . ... Earth by Meteosat 4 satellite (IR filter) 688k jpg . ... Ross ice sheet, Antarctica, taken by Galileo on its first pass of Earth 11k jpg . ... NOAA satellite's view of USA 322k gif . ... images of Earth from Clementine html . Earth images from weather satellites html . ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... French Leger inspected the new rotator at Ideal Machine (Tacoma, WA) and took these pictures. ... The turning machine (on right) and turn table (on floor) at Ideal Machine are pictured. the platen used for the rotator is shown laying flat on the table. ... The rotator's ring shown on edge. ... The rotator's inner ring packed for shipment. The inner ring's flange mounting tab for attaching to the outer ring (lower edge of ring). ... Access holes on inner ring and then latch mounts. ...

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