... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... I've been to Alaska to see them almost every spring since 1996. ... My hobby turns to be my work. ... I was singing in a rock band when I was a student. I love 70's western rock music (e.g., AEROSMITH, ROLLING STONES, QUEEN,...) and 80's Japanese rock music (ARB, ECHOES, Carmen Maki Oz,.. My most favorite band is LA-PISSCH , which is a Japanese funky rock band and plays a kind of mixture music (like FISHBONE) including ska, punk. hard rock, blues.. ... Now I'm tring to see Japanese movies. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Earth penumbra effects on AES motion taking into account the refraction and the extinction of the light in the atmosphere A. M. Fominov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The perturbing acceleration F of the Artificial Earth Satellite (AES) due to the solar ... In step 1, the table of the shadow function values with the angle distances d between the solar disk and the earth disk edge may be calculated. ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

EUV PHOTOMETERS PHEU . EUV photometers measure the emissions of the Earth’s ionosphere and geocorona in the Extreme UltraViolet range. ... In the case of spinning satellite is possible to get the whole picture of the emission distribution, eg. of Aurora borealis in EUV range.) Two or three photometers are proposed. ... Detectors: . Detector EUV-1 . ... Characteristics for EUV-1 and EUV-2 detectors : . ... The block of electronics . ... Total Mass (detectors and electronics) : cca 1.4 kg . ...

OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth . ... arxiv:0709.0752 Sky in Google Earth (Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization) . ... Описан проект <A HREF=" http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html ">Sky in Google Earth</A>. ... http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/167.html#arxiv/0709.0752 . ... Еще они нам сказали, что image processing для DSS2 какие-то фонари в Гуггле делали 2 года!! ... А черт знает что там они делали два года. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Общий форум любителей астрономии > В Google Earth добавили слой показывающий засветку . ... Просмотр полной версии : В Google Earth добавили слой показывающий засветку . ... Теперь пользователь Google Earth могут посмотреть засветку для любой точки Земли . В слоях выбираем . Галерея - NASA - Earth City Light . ... Я ж выложил примерно положение в google earth? см выше (можно приблизить в программе, оно как раз по центру). ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... November 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 . December 6, 7, 8 and 9 March 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 . ... December 3, 4 and 5 February 13, 14 and 15 . ... December 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 . Incoherent Scatter Radar ionospheric parameters measurements are carried out on coordinated days determined by the International Geophysical Calendar. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Jerry L. Ross (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... In May 2014, Ross was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame. ... Ross has flown in 21 different types of aircraft, holds a private pilot s license and has logged more than 4,100 flying hours, the majority in military aircraft.б  He retired from the Air Force on March 31, 2000. ... MAY 2014 ...

Status of EPIC operations Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo, ESAC Mallorca BOC meeting 29-30 March 2011 Routine Operations Nominal observations · See the Quarterly Status report at http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_news/mission_status/index.php · Almost no time lost due to the instruments (~ 0.05%) Eclipse season; nominal. · 22 earth eclipses, one combined earth+lunar eclipse, and one lunar only. ... Pedro CalderСn RiaЯo | ... Status_Oper_2011.ppt | XMM-Newton | Pag. ... Status of EPIC operations | ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Aperture Synthesis with Light . ... MRAO Telescopes . ... Stars ? ... The astronomer?s desire to see things in ever greater detail is thwarted at optical wavelengths by the Earth?s atmosphere: making optical telescopes larger does not provide more detail in the images. ... The Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST) has been developed to meet the very demanding task of imaging the surfaces of individual stars and studying the interaction of close pairs of...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

... November 26, 2001 at 21:24:12 Moscow time the Progress M1-7 transport cargo vehicle with Colibri microsatellite (MS) accommodated in the payload compartment was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the near-earth orbit in compliance with the International Space Station (ISS) flight program. ... According to the ballistic analysis made by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia specialists, MS will make an atmospheric re-entry and be destroyed on 3-4 May 2002. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...