1000 Sols . ... 13.06.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech ; Mosaic Processing: Marco Di Lorenzo, Kenneth Kremer Explanation: Shortly before Mars' June 2015 conjunction, the Curiosity Rover celebrated 1000 sols on the red planet . After its August 5, 2012 landing, Curiosity's 1000th sol or martian day on the surface corresponded to planet Earth's calendar date May 31, 2015. ... The mosaicked panorama was constructed with images from navigation cameras taken on Curiosity's sol 997. ...

... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

... 2011 October 4 . QR Codes: Not for Human Eyes . Image Credit: Kaywa QR Code Generator (Free) . Explanation: This communication was not meant for human eyes. It was not even meant for aliens eyes . ... Although not meant to communicate with aliens , QR codes employ several attributes common to famous alien communication attempt s. Can you -- or a local smartphone -- figure out what the above QR code means ? ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Instruments . ... Grism Spectroscopy . ... UVIS Flats . ... Instrument Handbook . Data Handbook . ... The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is a fourth-generation UVIS/IR imager aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). WFC3 was installed in May 2009 during HST servicing mission 4, and replaces the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). ... ISR 2016-09: WFC3 Cycle 22 Proposal 14007: UVIS Gain . ...

... The tracking system works in micro-step regime with a computer step of correction = 0.003 arcsec per second of time and a maximum speed of correction up to 4.6 arcsec per second of time. ... The APD module was constructed for performing experiments of receiving of 2 Mbps signals from “ARTEMIS” using the Cassegrain focus of 0.7m telescope. ... GaAs PIN photo diode. ... Laser module with thermoelectric stabilisation of laser diode. ... Electronic module for turbulence compensation system . ...

... Watchouts . ... Help . It has been found by several PN exposures that the event list corresponding to a certain quadrant (3 contiguous CCDs) is truncated. This makes one (or more) quadrant(s) to appear fainter even in exposure corrrected images. ... It has been found that it was present only for some of the SAS versions in the past. SAS 6.5 is definitively affected. ... It follows a complete list of the affected exposures up to revolution 1051: . ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . ...

... Ranger 9 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight. The spacecraft carried six television cameras, an optical earth sensor and high-gain antenna for optimum communications, and solar panels to provide power, as well as additional engineering equipment. ... The spacecraft encountered the lunar surface with an incoming asymptotic direction at an angle of -5.6 degrees from the lunar equator. ...

KOLIBRY KONSTRUKTOR EDUCATION-SA EDUCATION WINOGRAD CHONDRO VIDEO-2 APIS THEBAS ARISS-2 VIDEO-3 ARISS-3 SEEDS GRAPHABOX BUGENERGY BOP ESD ARISS-4 CHROPHYL MATI-75 TOP PICTURE ARISS-TV MAI-75 FIZIKA-OBRAZOVANIE . ... Complex of amateur radio communications package consisting of: . ... Different video information received during photo and video recording per scenario plans of experiment MAI-75 and other recordings made onboard the ISS RS, earlier recorded and in real time as well. ... VIDEO | ...

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... The necessity of simultaneous access to one communication channel by many users, e.g., in satellite communication systems or cellular telephony, has led to the development of the corresponding standards: FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) and TDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access). ... There is a number of ideas for chaotic signal applications in multiple-access systems, but as a rule, chaotic signals are used there only as efficient and versatile means of quasi-noise signal formation. ...

... ИСТОРИЯ ГАИШ - хроника, музей, персоналии, мемуары, периодика . Сайт "HERITAGE - астрономия, астрономическое образование с сохранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает ранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает работу, проводимую сотрудниками ГАИШ МГУ и физического факультета МГУ по расширению астрономического образования студентов. ...

IF <logical expression> THEN <statement>.. ELSEIF <logical expression> THEN <statement>.. ELSE <statement>.. CIF . ... ELSEIFs when present must precede any corresponding ELSE. ... When the IF or ELSEIF condition has the value .TRUE., the statements following are executed and control is transferred to the statement following the CIF. ... When the IF and all ELSEIF clauses have a value which is .FALSE., control is passed to the statement following the corresponding ELSE or CIF. ...

Cloud cover and water vapor observed at Oma site,Tibet W ang Hong-shuai (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Kislovodsk 8.10.2010 Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 2 2008.11 Oma Site 40 m CT 2 tow er 4.5 m antenna Satellite communication w eather station 10m tow er SBIG seeing m onitor DIMM seeing dome MIR cloud m onitor R en ew al p o w er supply Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 3 PWV<0.5 5 .0 % 1 0 .1 % 8 .1 % Percent. ... 05 8.3% Percent . ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . Articles | ... Once upon a time, communication via radio was something only government entities, commercial establishments and certain private folks could do. ... With the continuing progress of services like General Radio Mobile Service (GMRS) and the recent arrival of Family Radio Service (FRS), it has never been easier to do radio communications for your event all by yourself. ... Broad range of radio bands to utilize. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Geomagnetic storms and substorms are a natural hazard similar to hurricanes, floods etc. ... Solar and geomagnetic activity also probably influences the Earth's climate and human health. ... Under southward directed IMF the Earth's magnetosphere is open to input from the solar wind flow. ... Since practical importance of solar wind measurements was recognized, a number of approaches was developed for prediction of the geomagnetic activity basing on the solar wind data. ...

... Currently a 50MHz 486DX PCBrand personal computer, located on the fourth floor in the warm room in lab number 443C, is used to control the charge coupled devices (CCDs). ... The PC is connected to a monitor and keyboard in the warm room and another pair in the dome itself. ... An intercom system simplifies communication between the dome and the warm room. ... The second intercom in the dome is used for two way communication between the dome and the warm room. ...

... Finding Stars . ... Handling Bad Pixels . ... The guide camera image controller can control one or more guide cameras. ... Each time the camera is read, the image is automatically saved to a fits file on a shared disk. ... Cameras that have bad pixels require "bad pixel maps" in order to find stars, centroid or even compute statistics for the image. ... View this image (for instance in NIH Image) and determine an upper and lower cutoff; pixels whose values are outside of this range are considered...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Integral Field Units . ... This animation shows what happens as a sunspot (or starspot) forms and the magnetic field increases in strength. ... The dark spectra lines in the spectrum of the emitted light split into three components and the strength of the circular polarisation in parts of the spectrum increases significantly. ...

The files in this directory are necessary for running SBIG USB cameras with XmCCD. The library libusbdrv.so is used by xmccd1 and ccd to communicate with the camera. The version in this directory is the most recent one released by SBIG at the time this version of xmccd was developed. The static library libsbigudrv.a is not used by xmccd. ... In Suse 11.3 fxload is not installed by default, but it is available as a post-installation software option. ...