Atlas
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in astronomy, one of the 18 named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn XV (or S15), Atlas is a small, irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring about 25 mi (40 km) by 12.
Atlas
1. One of the innermost of Saturn's moons. It was discovered by Richard Terrile in 1980 from Voyager 1 photos and is also known as Saturn XV.
Atlas (astronomy)
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ATLAS (27 Tauri). Among the wonders of the sky is the grouping in Taurus that western astronomers have long called the Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters.
Atlas, a Moon of Saturn
Saturn XV - 1980S28
Atlas, the second of Saturn's known satellites, orbits near the outer edge of the A-ring and is about 40 by 20 kilometers (25 by 15 miles) in size. It is probably a shepherd satellite for Saturn's A-ring.
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Atlas, as imaged by Cassini on June 8, 2005 Discovery Discovered by
Terrile, Voyager 1 Discovered in
October, 1980 Orbital characteristics
Epoch 31 December 2003 (JD 2453005.5) Mean radius
137,670 ± 10 km Eccentricity
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Spectral atlas of P Cygni
The data have been obtained with the fiber-linked echelle spectrograph of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg Königstuhl. The images are in gif format and about 10k each.
Atlas
Saturn XV
Atlas is the second of Saturn's known satellites: orbit: 137,670 km from Saturn diameter: 30 km (40 x 20) mass: ?
Atlas Copco is a Sweden industrial company that was founded in 1873. It manufactures industrial tooling and equipment.The Atlas Copco Group, founded already in 1873, is a global industrial group of companies headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden....
Atlas -- An early liquid-fueled rocket, used by US astronauts and still in use for unmanned launches. Because of its lightweight construction it needs no staging to achieve Earth orbit, but only drops two of its engines.
Sky Atlases and Deep Sky Observing Guides
This is a minimum set of sky charts usuful for both visual observing as well as for locating CCD imaging targets.
Star Atlas
When we use an ordinary map, we do something like this:
But when we use a star map, we have to lie down and look up. Thus, the east and the west are "reversed." ...
star atlas
an collection of maps that marks the positions of stars, nebulae, galaxies, and other astronomical objects on a coordinate system
star hopping ...
B. SKY ATLAS 2000.0 (SKY PUBLISHING) (about $40) - THE best sky atlasavailable for the amateur's general use.
A deep atlas, such as Uranometria 2000 or the AAVSO atlas, with a stellar magnitude limit of 9 or 9.5 and a vast number of objects. What's important here is to have enough stars charted that there are plenty in every finder field.
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Atlas Coelestis of John Flamsteed (1729).
The constellation of Cassiopeia has a distinctive W-shape made up of its five brightest stars, which writers such as Aratus likened to a key or a folding door.
Atlas
The Celestial Sphere
The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental celestial entities of the cosmological celestial mechanics first invented by Eudoxus, adopted by Aristotle and developed by Ptolemy, Copernicus and others.
Atlas is the second of Saturn's moons. Discovered in 1980 by R. Terrile, it orbits Saturn just to the side of the A Ring. This makes Atlas a shepherd moon. Atlas was also known by the name Hercules in mythology.
Prometheus ...
Atlas Image mosaic obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, ...
ATLAS is the largest detector and together with the other major experiments, LHCb, CMS and ALICE, are set to make significant advances across a wide range of physics, ...
Atlas was in agreement; anything for a little rest. But there was one problem: the terrible dragon. Heracles saw no problem. He shot an arrow over the garden wall, killing Ladon instantly.
Atlas -- In Greek mythology, brother of Prometheus and grandfather of Hermes (Mercury). Condemned to stand forever supporting the heavens on his shoulders. The Atlantic Ocean is named for him.
Atlas, The Atlas V rocket is an expendable launch vehicle formerly built by Lockheed Martin. It is now built by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance. Aerojet develops and manufactures the Atlas V boosters.
ATLAS: Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
ATMOS: Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy
ATP: Accelerated Training Program ...
Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora are shepherd moons because they keep rings in place.
Atlas of DRAGNs A collection of radio images of the 3CRR catalogue of radio-loud active galaxies.
Radio and optical images of radio galaxies and quasars
The on-line 3CRR catalogue of radio sources ...
An Atlas of Stellar Spectra is a very detailed site with archived photographic plates of the spectral standard stars.
The Atlas rocket was designed by the USA to carry astronauts into space. Alan Shepard and John Glenn were invited to come and watch the test firing of one of the Atlas rockets. The test failed when the rocket exploded.
The Atlas 250D and Agena B 6009 boosters performed nominally at launch inserting the Agena and Ranger into a 192 km altitude Earth parking orbit.
[6.3] ATLAS IN TEST / SCORE / POLARIS IN TEST
[6.4] THE ARGUS SPACE NUCLEAR TESTS
[6.5] SOVIET ICBMS ENTER SERVICE ...
[7939] Atlas is a multiple star system with a blue-white giant for a primary star. [7941] Electra is another blue-white giant. [7945] Maia is a blue giant classified as a mercury-manganese star.
The first Atlas rocket that launched with a Mercury capsule exploded. The first Mercury-Redstone launch only went about four inches off the ground. NASA learned from these problems. NASA learned how to fix them. NASA made the rockets safer.
Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy 2nd ed., Jean Andouze/Guy Israel, Cambridge University Press, 1988
dtv-Atlas zur Astronomie, Joachim Herrmann, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1973
Kosmos-Sternführer, David A. Baker, Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1979 ...
Merope o o Atlas Electra o O o Pleione \ Celaeno . Alcyone O Maia Taygeta o .' Asterope
Several sources used, most notably SEDS, seds.org.
I like it! ...
A good star atlas must show enough faint stars to be used for your star hopping trek. I recommend, as a minimum, Sky Atlas 2000. The latest edition of this atlas shows stars down to magnitude 8.
Mercator's "Atlas sive cosmographicae" is published posthumously.
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Valentin Pini discusses Ptolemy and introduces an armillary dial ...
MegaStar Sky Atlas
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MegaStar is the first software to integrate the Hubble Guide Star Catalog, and combine it with a massive deep sky database of 84,000 objects.
5º = 131.8º. The caldera of Olympus Mons is shown in NASA's Atlas of Mars at 18.4ºN, 133.1ºW. An error of 1.2ºN (~4 pix) and 1.3ºW (~4 pix) with the calculations in the above.
Atlas rocket (From Stargazers to Starships Glossary - GSFC) An early liquid-fueled rocket, used by U.S. astronauts and still in use for unmanned launches.
A sustainer engine, considered as a stage after booster engines have fallen away, as in the main stage of the Atlas. major axis The longest diameter of an ellipse or ellipsoid. major lobe See lobe.
This relatively recent focus on atmospheric turbulence is exemplified by the contrasting discussions found in Norton's Star Atlas, then and now.
GARRY HUNT and PATRICK MOORE, Atlas of Uranus (1989), offers an in-depth introduction.
In 1966, the astronomer Halton Arp published a catalogue of 338 of these galaxies in his "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies." Arp suggested that peculiar galaxies create stars in intense bursts. Ring galaxies are a type of peculiar galaxy ...
For examples of how right ascension (R.A.) and declination (Decl.) appear on a star atlas, see the Millennium Atlas (also here and here). Note that, at the celestial equator, there are 15 arc seconds in one second of R.A.
Thome died before the completion of this southern sky atlas in 1914, when 578,802 stars from declination -22° to -90° were published as the Cordoba Durchmusterung ("Survey").
" Meanwhile, the elementary requirement of making visual acquaintance with the stellar heavens was met, as regards the unknown southern skies, when Johann Bayer published at Nuremberg in 1603 a celestial atlas depicting twelve new constellations ...
Despite its masculine connotations, the constellation is rich in female icons; both the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters are daughters of Atlas and both are important astronomically.
Look for a copy of the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp. It is available in book form or on laser disk.
In fact, even the most detailed atlases just flood-fill several thousand square miles of ocean in the region "aqua blue" and move on. To satisfy the conditions of the question we need to sight land.
The Orbiter was launched on the 20 May 1978 from the Kennedy Space Center aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket. It went into around Venus on 4 December 1978.
Except for the comparatively few stars visible to the naked eye, stars are named by numbers according to the various star atlases and catalogs issued by astronomical observatories.
On 2 December 1995 an Atlas II-AS rocket launched SOHO Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was inserted into a halo orbit around the L1 Lagrangian point between the Earth and Sun in February 1996.
When you look in a sky atlas, you might see diagrams like this:
Obviously, this is very different from the photo above. This type of schematic draws the stars as different sizes to represent different brightnesses.
It was the first star atlas that uses equinox-2000.0 coordinates for each star, and soon became the standard intermediate-scale star atlas. The first edition plotted about 43,000 stars down to magnitude 8.0. The second edition of Try Sky Atlas 2000.
Designated Tabit by Becvar but Allen gives Thabit as Burritt's name for an unlettered star on his atlas, the Upsilon of Heis (HR 1855).
It first appeared as Apis in the star atlases of Johann Bayer in 1603. In 1752 the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de La Caille rename the constellation as Musca Australis, the southern fly. The name has since been shortened to simply Musca, the fly.
I include images of world atlases from different time periods in this chapter and the previous one as another way to illustrate the advances in our understanding of our world and the universe.
He flew NASA's Friendship 7, a Mercury-Atlas 6 spacecraft, to about 162 miles in altitude, going at a maximum orbital velocity of about 17,500 miles per hour.
Some of the names are possibly familiar to you - Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Methone, Pallene, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Polydeuces, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Kiviuq, Ijiraq, ...
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