... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

History of Space Exploration . ... Space History Introduction . ... Chronology of Solar System Discovery This is a partial list of past, present, and future planetary and solar missions; for a complete account, please see the Space Exploration Chronology. Space exploration is becoming increasingly internationalized; as a result, the national designations listed here are not completely representative of the true nature of all projects. ... Apollo Lunar Surface Journal . ... Mariner Missions . ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

... Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... You can retrieve the latest issue of Mercury here . ... Although its primary mission is to study the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Planck spacecraft has already made an impressive range of discoveries. ... Extrasolar Planets: The Saga Continues , Paul Deans . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . Forty Years Ago . ... 40 Years Ago: The Birth of Mercury Magazine . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... March 9, 1999 . The VLT Interferometric Array . ... Explanation: The Very Large Telescope (VLT) Interferometric Array will be able to act as individual telescopes or as one huge telescope. ... Over the next few years, the VLT telescopes will explore the universe in unprecedented detail, searching for everything from ordinary planets orbiting nearby stars to extraordinary explosions in the distant universe . Tomorrow's picture: First Light for VLT Kueyen . ... About APOD > . ...

... This will allow the telescope to be run at low cost after MACHO observations conclude at the end of 1999. ... In collaboration with the Anglo-Australian Observatory, the University of Melbourne and Auspace, the RSAA is developing an instrument known as the Wide Field Imager (WFI). ... During the report year the fabrication of the WFI dewar in the RSAA workshop was completed. ... Annual Report 1998 . ... In January 1998 two Stromlo staff travelled to the South Pole, Brett McLinden and Ralph...

Visitor Information and Housing Request . Please note: APO accommodations are not available to the public . Read this page carefully, and please submit this form 30-working days in advance of your arrival. ... When on-site accommodations are full, APO will assist you in obtaining off-site housing. ... To cancel an existing reservation, enter the name and arrival date and choose "cancel." ... Complete the name and arrival date in the fill-in form and select Cancel . ... Room #1/Dorm A . ...

... Other Characteristics of the Sun: Variability of Rotation, Magnetism, Chemical Structure, Planetary System. ... Methods of Solar Magnetic Fields Measuring: Visual, Photografic, Photoelectric. ... Empiric Datas of Magnetic Fields in Photosphere, Chromosphere and Corona. ... Characteristics of Magnetic Field in Balanced Force Tubes by Potential and Forceless Field. ... Phenomenons in Active Region (Magnetic Field, Spots, Torches, Solar Prominences, Flares, Discharges. ... Magnetic Fields in Flares. ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . Dept. for Space Plasma Physics . Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... WASP- 22, WASP-41, WASP- 42 and WASP- 55. ... in the visible range - land 10th Keck (USA), 2 x 8.4-m LBT (USA), 8.0-m Gemini (USA), 6.5-m MMT (USA), 4th KPNO (USA), 3.5-m APO (USA), 8.2-m VLT (ESO), 3.5-m NTT (Chile); . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... The 9C survey of radio sources was made with the Ryle Telescope at a frequency of 15.2 GHz and a resolution of 25ТљxТљ25Тљcosec(dec) arcsec 2 . ... Waldram, E.M., Pooley, G.G., Grainge, K.J.B., Jones, M.E., Saunders, R.D.E., Scott, P.F., Taylor, A.C., 2003, MNRAS, 342, 915 . ... Field name . ... It comprises seven fields, each delineated by boundaries in RA and Dec, together covering a total of 114.7 deg 2 for which the source catalogue is complete to ~ 10 mJy. ...

... December 21, 1997 . ... Advantages are briefly discussed of gaining in spectral resolution, which is accompanied by losses in signal level, as compared with the attempts to improve the accuracy of measurement of line parameters by means of rising the S/N ratio alone with increasing the exposure time. To partially solve the problem of observations of faint objects at the BTA a new design echelle spectrometer is proposed. high resolution spectroscopy . ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... kupry@sai.msu.ru also kupry@asu.cas.cz . ... Solar expeditions. Astronomical Institute Czech Republic Examples IDL procedures Evpatoria Space Image Evpatoria Winter 2012 European Solar Physics Meeting Digital Images Album IDL Lib Karlovy Vary, 2008 List of publications Masha MAX MILLENNIUM PROGRAM My family (new) HSFA-2, 2005 Ondrejov (brezen 2005 ) Ondrejov webcam Photo Ondrejov observatory Praha SatTV Seznam SOHO Solar eclipse 31 July 1981 Software IDL programmes ...

... On 23 July 2003, the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia and European Space Agency (ESA) concluded a contract on a flight of Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers, member of the European astronaut corps, as a flight engineer of transport manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-4 as part of the visiting crew VC-6 (April 2004, ISS-8, ISS-9 phase) to the International Space Station (ISS), and performance of DSM DELTA Project (ESA) scientific investigations and experiments. ...

Sergey B. Popov Research experience My research interests and activity are centered around two fields of astrophysics: star formation and evolution and physics of compact objects. My research work on the population synthesis of binary stars was done in the Department of Relativistic astrophysics under supervision of Prof. Lipunov. ... In the future I would like to work on the evolution of isolated and binary neutron stars, accreting isolated neutron stars and young neutron stars in SNRs. ...

December 2007 Astronotes 1 2007 in pictures from ENVISAT By Wendy McCorry, Science Communicator These images were taken by ENVISAT, the European Space Agency's Earth Observation spacecraft ­ the largest of its kind ever built. ... Clockwise from top left: ENVISAT's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) captured this image of tropical cyclone Gamede sweeping across the Indian Ocean on 23 February 2007. ... ENVISAT captured this image of the wildfires in Southern California on 22 October. ...

FCAL Collaboration Meeting , September 18-18, 2005 . LSC Meeting , August 14-17, 2005 . ILC Workshops at Snowmass , August 14-27, 2005 . HEP 2005 , July 21-27, 2005 . SUSY 2005 , July 18-23, 2005 . ILC European Regional Meeting , June 20-23, 2005 . Ligo Scientific Collaboration Meeting , June 4-5, 2005 . Public Lecture Celebrating the World Year of Physics 2005 , May 19, 2005 . ... Exp Talks - Prior Years . ... Energy and Luminosity Spectrum , Eric Torrence . ...