... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... Table 32.2 summarizes the nominal initial accuracies for different kinds of acquisitions. ... FOS Target Acquisition Calibration Accuracies . ... ACQ . ... Blind Pointing . ... In summary, the pointing accuracy limitations of FOS target acquisition methods are: . ... ACQ/PEAK: . ... This was the value achieved by all FOS externally pointed calibration observations obtained after July 1, 1992 and was the ultimate limiting positional accuracy of FOS photocathode granularity and sensitivity calibration...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . testodf (testodf-0.45.1) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Description . This test ODF is a simulation of an observation of a point source. The spectrum is a narrow Gaussian line at 1 keV. The source is located in an arbitrary location in the sky, and the spacecraft is initially pointing twoards the source. The spacecraft is drifting slowly away from the source and at the same time some jitter occurs. XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-01

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations . ... NASA s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has obtained its first observations of the extended upper atmosphere surrounding Mars. ... MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of Mars. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

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): . ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | Student list | ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... This message : [ Message body ] [ More options ( top , bottom ) ] . ... Previous message : Tasso.Tzioumis_at_email.protected: "VLBI telecon Friday 8 Nov at 02:30 UT" . ...

... The spacecraft of Magion type have been selected as the subsatellites of the Interball project: Magion-4 (C2-X) for the Tail Probe and Magion-5 (C2-A) for the Auroral Probe. ... Magion-4 was produced in the Czech Republic in collaboratrion with Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and has onboard scientific instruments and sensors designed and built in Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovak Republic. ... Plasma flow detector VDP-S (Czech Republic, Russia) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... When Galaxies Collide (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope) . In the southern sky constellation of Corvus (the Crow), we see the Antennae Galaxies (alias NGC 4038 and 4039). ... Your email address will not be published. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Are Saturn's auroras like Earth's? To help answer this question, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini spacecraft monitored Saturn's South Pole simultaneously as Cassini closed in on the gas giant in January 2004. ... The central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy rises above a sea of clouds in this ethereal scene. ... APOD Heatmap . ... Bright stars of Sagittarius and the center of our Milky Way Galaxy lie just off the wing of a Boeing 747 in this astronomical travel photo. ...

Next: Results & Discussion Up: Coronal Hole Diagnostics out Previous: Introduction . ... The dates of the observations discussed here, their locations, pointing, slit sizes and exposure times are given in BTDW. ... Line fits are given by the dotted line. ... An estimation of the errors in the derived parameters was obtained using the GA-derived parameters as an input for a ``classical'' IDL-CURVEFIT procedure (Peter, 1999; Peter & Judge, 1999). ...

Lisnyky observatory of A&SPD is located in the village of Lisnyky in Kyiv region. AZT-8 (right) Diameter 0.7 m, Newton, Cassegren. ... Spiral jets of comet Hale-Bopp have been observing on the 3-rd of April, 1997 with 70-cm reflector and image intensifier, time of exposure: 1 second, field of vision: 1.5 minute of arc. This color image was obtained with Fuji color film (Super Plus 400) in focal plane of the 70-cm reflector (F = 27 m) at Lisniki Observatory by A.M.Evtushevsky. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... At 22:42:27 UT 26/07/09, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on board of the SWIFT multi-wavelength space observatory triggered and located GRB 090726 gamma-ray burst event. ... About half an hour after the BAT trigger, the first images were obtained with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope in four BVRI filters (see Fig.1). ... The spectrum of the optical transient was obtained with the SAO RAS 6-m BTA telescope 1.54 hours after the burst, using the SCORPIO instrument in the spectroscopic mode (Fig.2). ...

... The very first thing you should do now is to locate the limits of your slitlets because this information is needed for all further commands. ... LOCATE/MOS . ... Then you should have a look at your flat field and try again with . ... OFFSET/MOS . ... The results are stored in the frame . If you have not written anything to this keyword it will derive the name of the normalized flat field by adding an `n' to the name of the input flat (e.g. nmosff1 ) and write the name to . ... FLAT/MOS . ...

... User Portal . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Phase 2 Users Workshops . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... Phase 2 = Phase 1 . ... Service Mode: User Feedback . ... In 2013 the User Support Department organized two Phase 2 Users Workshops to provide to participants an overview of the Phase 2 process, resources and tools, as well as a hands-on tutorial and face-to-face assistance with the preparation of the Phase 2 material. ... P2PP version 3 Quiz...

Links on this page are to sites that hold information on the Sun , our nearest star . ... Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) , California, USA. Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) , Hawai'i, USA. ... Space Environment Center, Current Solar Images , Boulder, Colorado, USA. ... Solar Data Analysis Center, Latest Images , at GSFC, Maryland. ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Solar Physics (at GSFC). ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Space Physics (at GSFC). Back to Links ...

... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

Cosmic Ray laboratory of . ... Neutron Monitor (Cosmic Ray Observations) . is situated in Irkutsk (Russia) . ... Height - location above sea level . ... Height: . ... For recording the CR (Cosmic Rays) neutron component at Irkutsk, . neutron monitor NM-64 is used, which is an installation with 18 two-meter proportional counters filled with BF 3 (boron trifluoride gas) in which the B 10 90 per cent of the total boron. ... The neutron monitor is located at 475m above sea level. ...

... About half an hour after the BAT trigger, the first images were obtained with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope in four BVRI filters (see Fig.1). ... The spectrum of the optical transient was obtained with the SAO RAS 6-m BTA telescope 1.54 hours after the burst, using the SCORPIO instrument in the spectroscopic mode (Fig.2). ... The spectrum of the optical transient GRB090726 with identified lines, obtained with the BTA 1.54 hours after the burst. ...