... Search By Name Enter coordinates Use current location . SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... How does NASA navigate a Mars rover's direction and determine its location with the planet having no global magnetic field? ... NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers used this base map and mathematical techniques to point the rover on its way to Mars and land it within a few kilometers of the target. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Keywords: Proper Motions, Schmidt Plates, Astrometry, Guide Star Catalog, Palomar Sky Survey . In this paper we describe a program of determining proper motions from digitized scans of 1950's-era Palomar Sky Survey (POSS) Schmidt Plates and 1980's-era Palomar Oschin Schmidt `Quick V' plates that were taken for the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) Guide Star Catalogue. ... Arrows indicate the magnitude and direction of the proper motion for the stars. ...

... Atmospheric opacity and system temperature . Antenna gain considerations and flux calibration . Instrumental phase . Atmospheric phase and phase calibration considerations . ... Calibration of Data with XX , YY , XY and YX . Calibration of Data with XX and YY Only . Determining Calibration Solutions . Determining Gains and Bandpass Functions - MFCAL . Determining Gains and Polarimetric Properties - GPCAL . Copying Calibration Tables - GPCOPY . ... Miriad manager . ...

The Optical Solar Sensor (OSD) has been designed to determine the direction towards the center of the Sun's visible disc. The direction to the Sun is computed in the instrument coordinate system relative to the pixels' position on the linear CCDs illuminated with the light passed through the incoming coding mask. The OSD coding mask has three groups of slits with three slits in each group. This mask configuration provides for reliability increase as well as for the required accuracy. ...

... The example demontsrates a way how to use the coefficients arrays and the Software . Let us suppose that we have a direction in the S/C frame, determined by the angles u1, u2, where: u1 - angle between vector and X axis (polar angle) u2 - angle on the YZ plane from Y axis (anticlockwise); . ... We use the file 950909t1 (the beginning data 9.09.06), which line 2 interval beginning : date 10.10.95 , time 1.926 thousands of sec, the interval duration is 4.583 thousand of sec. ...

... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

... R1666 Date Received: 2002-May-28 16:22:46 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category: Planetary Radar Sub-Category: Radar Observation Category: Solar System Total Time Requested: 15:00 Hours Proposal Title: Radar Imaging of near-Earth Asteroid 22753 (1998 WT) ABSTRACT: We propose delay-Doppler imaging of 1998 WT to discern decameter- scale surface features, to reconstruct the asteroid's shape, to determine its spin state, and to determine if it is a binary system. ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... Optics and spectroscopy of molecular and liquid crystals, fullerenes, superthin molecular films. Optical studies of structure, phase transitions, pretransitional phenomena, structural modifications in external field and under high pressure. ... Methods developed in the laboratory enable to determine in free standing films of different types liquid crystals values of polarization, two-dimensional constants of orientational elasticity. ...

In the Table below the masses of some asteroids which were determined during the last years are listed. ... The listed values were determined from observations of many test bodies by the weighted least square fit for one perturbing mass and corrections to the orbit elements of all used test bodies. ... based on the observations of 98 asteroids (including 50278) with the values of standard error of mass determination less than 3.0 10 -11 M Sun . ... Mass . ... 3) Mass 121 : 0.74 x 10 -11 M Sun ; . ...

... The Millennium that Defined Earth . ... Fittingly named The Horsehead Nebula it is embedded in the immense complex of star forming gas and dust surrounding the Orion Nebula some 1,500 light-years distant. ... The Dust and Ion Tails of Comet Hale Bopp . ... NGC 1850: Gas Clouds and Star Clusters . ... The December solstice brings the beginning of Winter to Earth's Northern Hemisphere and Summer time to the South! ... Simulated Supergiant Star . ... Consider this "star in a box". ... December . ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

... This example uses an error array to determine the errors in the radial profile. task: imcnts . ... xs imcnts err=vigsnr_err expo=xdata$snr_exp.pl expthr=95.0 bkgdex=xdata$snr_exp bkgdth=95.0 bkgderr=vigsnr_err # Run the imcnts task with the appropriate parameters source image file : vigsnr # vigsnr.imh source region descriptor: a 300 300 0 50 n=5 # 5 annuli centered at 300 , 300 , 0 and 50 pixels min/max radius background image file or cts/pixel: cr # From the same ...

... Development of Ideas of Structure and Evolution of Stars. Integral Features of Stars, Which Determine Their Structure, Direction and Rate of Evolutuion. ... Connection between Potential and Thermal Energy of Star. ... Structure of a Main Sequence Star. Features of Massive Stars Evolution on the Main Sequence. Internal Structure of the Sun. ... White Dwarfs, Their Features. ... Evolution from the Main Sequence of Massive Stars. ... Evolution of Small Mass Stars till White Dwarfs Sequence. ...

October 14, 2010 =============== Address BUGS In bisque/mks: add Home on startup -- currently must be homed with the joystick reverse tracking direction in southern hemisphere check southern hemisphere mappings In order of priority -- Make a guide and manual available. Provide a method of determining best pointing correction parameters. ... Fully test pointing corrections on a system capable of arc second accuracy. ...

ATMoB "Double Star Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ­ in particular, double, triple, and multiple stars. Introduction: Double, triple, and multiple stars are the "Rodney Dangerfields" of the night sky. ... W hile they can be observed under a variety of sky conditions, double stars ­ especially close ones ­ are best viewed on nights when the seeing is steady. ... The direction from a star to Polaris is north. ...

... Cooling and thermal control system (CTCS):an angle between normal of thermal radiator plane (Z-axis) and vector "SC-Sun" must exceed 90 deg.. ... The axes of the first two sensors are in the plane YOZ; they have an angle of 35 degrees with Y and -Y axis being inclined to the direction of -Z axis. ... 30 degrees for Sun; . ... An angle between +Z-axis and direction to the Sun center must exceed 90 degrees. ... An angle between direction "SA-Sun(center)" and XOZ plane must not exceed 30 degrees. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Determining the Earth-Sun Distance Using Mars . ... For more than a century, astronomers tried to measure the average Earth-Sun distance, known as the astronomical unit (AU), by observing rare transits of Venus. ... By measuring this displacement (parallax) and knowing the length of the baseline between the two observing sites, one can determine Mars?s distance. ...

... Exoplanets . ... Artists impression of the blue exoplanet. ... This exoplanet is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, the fox, a faint pattern inside the Summer Triangle.ТљТљ This planet is a not too distant 63 light years away so has been studied by space-based telescopes.Тљ Data collected from Hubbleт??s Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) when this planet moved behind its star showed that in the shadow of the star the light reflected from HD 189733b reduced into the blue part of the spectrum. ...

... IRAF View . This is the orientation of the image as viewed in an image display via IRAF (e.g. ximtool, saoimage). Note: This is different from the orientation of the image as viewed on a Macintosh, via Remark . ... A +X, +Y instrument offset will move a star in the direction indicated by the arrows. ... Note: The offset direction depends upon which interface the offset command was issued in! ... Note: This is different from the orientation of the image as viewed by IRAF. ...

. The file command examines the content of a file and reports what type of file it is. To use the command enter: file filename . Use this command to check the identity of a file, or to find out if executable files contain shell scripts, or are binaries. Shell scripts are text files and can be displayed and edited. Examples .