... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

Computer Ephemeris. Second order reduction quantities. Explanations. This page consist of four little tables. First and second tables contains J a (in 0.000001 s ) and J d (0.0001") for nothern declination, third and fourth contains the same information but for southern declination. Each table have 13 informational columns headed with right ascension values, and some amount of rows, labelled with date. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York March 2010 Volume 58 Number 3, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE will save significant weight. ... The JWST will be a very large space telescope. ... March 28 Moon at perigee, 224,859 miles from Earth, 12:59 a.m. March 29 Moon lies near Saturn; full Moon at 10:25 p.m. 2 Mars and Moon Shone Bright By Joseph A. Fedrick During the nights of January and the first half of February, Mars and the Moon shone bright, although the frost was cruel. ...

... Chapter 1. ... Problems of observational radio cosmology (6) . ... Analysis of radio astronomical data (32) . ... Data analysis system (33) . ... Actuality, goals and results to depend (45) . ... Interactive processing of continuum radio spectra of radio sources (72) . ... Creation of the astrophysical catalogs data base CATS and its application for selection and analysis of radio galaxy samples (112) . ... Data and methods (176) . ... Results of analysis of known radio galaxies data (179) . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Possibilities of observing . ... Investigations of the SSRT 5.7 GHz radio maps in conjunction with images obtained in other emission ranges, suggested the following conclsions: . ... Solar images obtained in line H a ;(on the left, 16:11 UT, Big Bear observatory) and in the microwave emission (on the right, 04:04 UT, SSRT) 4 march 1997 . ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . SMIS PUBLICATIONS . ... M. Andrrev, V. Efremov, M. Gostev, G. Dmitriev, Yu.S. Krasheninnikova , E. Loupian , A. Mazurov , R. Nazirov , A. Proshin , E. Flitman A System for Operational Remote Access to Archives of Data from Russian Earth-Observation Satellite Systems . The paper is devoted to general information system architecture, developed at IKI RAN for building information systems for access to satellite data and derived products. ... Preprint IKI RAS. ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...

CLEAN Map ps -- is a plot of the naturally weighted CLEAN image. The lowest contour levels (2 steps) on image is plotted at "clev" levels [Jy/beam], the peak brightness -- "max" values [Jy/beam]. The dashed contours indicate negative flux. The beam is shown in the bottom left corner of the images. The plot is in postscript format.

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

... 1) The MS lower envelopes for groups of stars with different metallicities turn out to be coincident. ... 4) The conformation of the kinematics of stars within narrow ranges ob b-y with the ages derived from isohrones reveals that, at Z < Z , the isohrone ages seem to be increasingly overestimated with growing b-y . ... At a given metallicity, they have a much narrower MS and the locus of their MS lower envelope seems to be brighter for the metal-rich group of stars. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...