... Solar eclipse - the eighth wonder of the world . Best images of the SOHO spacecraft . Best images of the TRACE spacecraft . ... CORONAS-PHOTON spacecraft docking with the rocket Cyclon . ... Solar Satellites - towards the Sun . ... CORONAS-PHOTON testing in the Mirny sity (2009 January) . ...

... Why doesnт??t NASA reuse space probe designs from successful missions like Cassini, New Horizons, and the Mars rovers? Using the same design and tweaking for landing on different planets or orbiting them would seemingly make the entire endeavor cheaper. ... Similarly, Cassini was originally conceived as the first in a multiple spacecraft build named Mariner Mark II. ... In many cases, however, reusing spacecraft designs is impractical. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

... Home Gallery Observing Events 2012 Transit of Venus Tale-of-2-Transits, 2012 Annular Eclipse and Transit of Venus . ... 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse by Stan Honda . ... History of the Transit of Venus - prelude to the June 5th, 2012 Transit of Venus. ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... JPL , NASA Explanation: What happens when you crash into a comet? ... This coming July 4, the Deep Impact spaceship will reach its target - Comet Tempel 1 -- and release an impactor over five times the mass of a person toward its surface. ... The remaining crater may tell how Tempel 1 is constructed. ... Publications with keywords: spacecraft - comet . Publications with words: spacecraft - comet . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . A Tale of Comet Holmes . Comet Holmes Coma Expands . ...

... 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) . ...

... 2005 May 16 . Deep Impact Spacecraft Hurtles Toward Comet . ... JPL , NASA . ... This coming July 4, the Deep Impact spaceship will reach its target - Comet Tempel 1 -- and release an impactor over five times the mass of a person toward its surface. ... The remaining crater may tell how Tempel 1 is constructed. If, for example, Comet Tempel 1 is an extremely loose pile of debris, the impactor may leave little or no discernable crater. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information Science Software Eclipse jump to navigation jump to content . ... Publications with ESO Data . ... Quality Control and Data Processing . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... The algorithms used in this library have usually nothing specific to astronomy, they gather the know-how in the field of image and signal processing and attempt to make them useful to write astronomical data processing programs. eclipse is not meant to be an interactive facility. ...

... The Surveyor probes were the first U.S. spacecraft to land safely on the Moon . The main objectives of the Surveyors were to obtain close-up images of the lunar surface and to determine if the terrain was safe for manned landings. ... The successful missions and landing dates are: Surveyor 1 on June 2, 1966; Surveyor 3 on April 19, 1967; Surveyor 5 on September 10, 1967; Surveyor 6 on November 9, 1967; and Surveyor 7 on January 9, 1968. ... Surveyor 7 Panorama of Tycho Crater . ...

YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Spacecraft Yamal-100, Yamal-200 were developed by the Corporation based on the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia-designed Multi-purpose Satellite Bus under a contract with Gascom within the framework of the Russian Federal SpaceProgram. ... Yamal-200 satellites were launched on November 24, 2003 at 9 hours 22 minutes, Moscow Time. Proton-K launch vehicle put the orbital module into its reference orbit. ... Orbit . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Events . ... Unfortunately there are no eclipses to be seen from Ireland this month: neither the lunar one on 7 July, nor the solar one on 22 July. Next lunar eclipses visible from Ireland are the partial ones on 5/6 August 2009 (very hard to see with naked eye; 23:01:04 UT to 02:17:23 UT) and 31 December 2009 ( penumbral phase should be quite visible; 18:51:38 UT to 19:53:51 UT) . ... Friday, 3 July 2009 17:12 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Natural Satellites Service. ... Mutual occultations and eclipses . of the major satellites of Uranus . ... We present the ephemerides and circumstances of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the major Uranian satellites in 2006-2010. ... In 2006-2010 about 190 mutual occultations and eclipses will occur. ... The ephemerides of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the major satellites of Uranus in 2006-2010 are presented in four tables according to four periods of visibility of Uranus. ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

JSC Turns 40 Home | Article | Gallery . Johnson Space Center at 40 Years Imagery . ... S93-45589 --- A crew of four descends to the lunar surface in a spacecraft designed to utilize oxygen produced on the Moon for propellant. Because of the high performance advantages of in situ propellants, the spacecraft does not need to rendezvous with a second spacecraft in lunar orbit. Curator: JSC Web Team | Responsible NASA Official: Amiko Kauderer | Updated 7/16/2010 . ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... 2009 Eclipse - Bruce Berger . ... Bruce Berger . ... Astro-Images . ... Astro-Images from Wingaersheek Observatory, 32 inch relay telescope, Mario Motta, vol 1 . ... Mario Motta M.D. Astro-images from Wingaersheek Observatory, 32 inch relay telescope, Mario Motta, Vol 4 . ... Mario Motta M.D. Astro-Images from Wingaersheek Observatory, 32 inch relay telescope, Mario Motta, vol 5 . ... Mario Motta M.D. Astro-Images 2 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The total mass of the scientific payload is about 2500 kg, of which the unfolding parabolic 10-m radio astronomy antenna's mass is about 1500 kg, and scientific package holding the receivers, power supply, synthesizers, control units, frequency standards and data transmission radio system - near 900 kg. ... The jet system is a hydrazine thrusters system: it will be used during the creation of the base system of spacecraft orientation, for unloading of the powered gyros, and for orbit corrections. ...

... Events . ... Pre-university education . ... Research areas . ... Facilities and equipment . ... Samara region . ... Samara State Aerospace University Research Research and education centers System Designing Science and Research Institute (NII-205) . ... Equipment: . Teaching and research equipment set of apce testing laboratory . ... Teaching and research equipment set to estimate the solar cell-poweredsmall satellites power supply system parameters . ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY . ...

... Russian KOI8 . Scientists of Laboratory of radio astrophysics develop algorithms and software. ... design of statistical estimations methods of average and smoothing; . fitting algorithms design; . development of the data processing system FADPS (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System); . design of visualisating and interactive data reduction programs for initial observational data ( fgr (Russian KOI-8) ) and continuum radio sources spectra (spg); . ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...