... SCIENCE AND BUSINESS . Such a trifle as a starry night sky of largest observatories turned out to be a small change coin in commercial bargains for exclusive communal services in Russia, and for a few elite flats in penthouses in Ukraine. SCIENCE AND BUREAUCRATISM . ... Till in Russian) . ... Clericalization of science and education (Till in Russian). ... Researcher of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, The Moscow University. ... SAI home page . ... October, 2008) . ... November, 2007) . ...

... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter)тАЭ ? Charles Keeton . ... Charles Keeton , associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates , will speak to the AAA Friday, March 2, on тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter).тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the€а American Museum of Natural History . ...

... 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 . ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

These notes summarize an informal HDF-S session at the Joint ESO/Australia workshop ``Looking Deep in the Southern Sky,'' which was held in Sydney, Australia, on 10-12 December 1997. Many groups who are planning or already executing HDF-S followup observations were present at this meeting and discussed their plans. ... AAT: 1 night imaging in broad and narrow (20 Angstrom) bands on HDF-S + environs using the Taurus tunable filter. Scheduled for May 1998. ... Scheduled for July 1998. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

. Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1998/06 Nauchny, Katsively (Crimea, Ukraine) :: В Научном . Up . On the Observatory park alleys. Note the shielded street light (astronomers do not want extra light in the night) . Next >> . Photo album generated by album from D. Madison 's Marginal Hacks on Tue Jun 23 14:46:46 2015 .

... Be/X-ray binaries and candidates", Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov, Astron. ... Population Synthesis of Binary Be Stars with Degenerate Companions in the Galaxy", Natalya Raguzova, Astrophysics and Space Science, v.281, p.641-649 (2002) . ... The Evolutionary Evidence for Be/Black Hole Binaries", Natalya V. Raguzova and Vladimir M. Lipunov, The Be Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars, IAU Colloquium 175, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 214, edited by Myron A. Smith and Huib F. Henrichs. ... 1998 ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow Union "Optic" . ... Ural State University, Kourovka . ... Irkutsk State University . ... The 2 first images in different polarizatios (Eeast-telescope and West-telescope) . ... West Time GRB Mag Error (hour) 1.02097639 17.93 0.22 1.07643278 17.43 0.09 1.13188834 17.78 0.14 1.18734417 18.03 0.19 1.24280056 17.87 0.15 1.29825584 17.58 0.10 1.35371584 17.94 0.12 . ... GCN 10076) . ... GCN 10048) by internet 3422 s after the GRB time. ...

... Archive of publications: . ... 2012 . 2011 . 2009 . 2008 . 2007 . 2006 . 2005 . 2004 . 2003 . ... From 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 to 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 . ... Whight light corona at different phases of the solar cycle Sun and Geosphere, V. 6, 1, 2011 . ...

... S.A. Shevchenko and A.N. Tereshchenko 'Photoluminescence in germanium with a quasi-equilibrium dislocation structure' Physics of the Solid State, 49, No.1, 28-33 (2007) . S.A. Shevchenko and A.N. Tereshchenko 'Peculiarities of dislocation photoluminescence in germanium with quasi-equilibrium dislocation structure' Phys.stat.sol.(c), 4, 2898-2902 (2007) ... top . ... S.A.Shevchenko 'Electroconductivity of germanium with dislocation grids' Zh.Eksp.Teor.Phys.( JETP), 115, N1, p.115 (1999) ... top . ...

... trans "Lomonosov Moscow State University" %} Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Seminar archive . ... Seminar archive 2014 26 December . ... Одно из первых цветных фото, полученных на новом телескопе: http://www.saao.ac.za/spod/first-light-with-master-saao/ . Отчет в Интернет: http://www.pereplet.ru/lipunov/325.html#325 . ... On 2014 December 21, a first light was obtained and on December 23 a first scientific telegram was sent in the Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (NASA). ... All seminars: . ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... The computer is set up so that the software for whatever camera is running and the switch box set to channel B. This allows the monitor and keyboard upstairs to operate the computer. Now the telescope can be set up. ... In the North west of the dome, there is a motor that turns the dome. The dome opens with a motor that pulls the slit back. ... Each camera had a specific alignment with the telescope. ... The lights on the roof provide a nice target to center in all three telescopes. ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... Formation of Galactic Subsystems in Light of the Magnesium Abundance in Field Stars. ... The Thin Disk(2006) . ... I. The Thick Disk. ... A Compiled Catalog of Spectroscopically Determined Elemental Abundances for Stars with Accurate Parallaxws. I Magnesium. ... Stars of extragalactic origin in the solar neighborhood.( ... Evidence for age delay between the formation of the old halo and the thick disk(2000) . ... Tel:work(8632)433985 . home(8632)333178 . Fax:(8632)434044 . ...

7.0 Application of Back-illuminated CCD Technology . As indicated in the absolute performance characterization detailed above, low noise, back-illuminated, low light level CCD (BCCD) cameras offer superior low light level performance to image intensified approaches. ... Figures 7.3 and 7.4 show a similar test of bar targets clearly illustrating the superiority of the back-illuminated CCD for low light level imaging of high resolution targets at a range of 400 meters. ...