The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

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... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Ноябрь 2003 . ... I recently read an article that I found initially disturbing, but after reading the information on this site regarding the sun, I feel much more calm. ... A few people have requested more information about the temperature of the sun. The temperature at the center of the sun is about 16 million degrees Kelvin (27 million degrees Fahrenheit), as stated in the article. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

General Information . ... Local Information . ... The city represents great cultural value because in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. ... Double room with full pension (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - 2620 rubles per person per night. solnechniy . ... Citizens of most countries need visa to enter the Russian Federation. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (chair) . ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...

... I almost didn't recognize the Summer Triangle with the jarring distraction of the Milky Way running through it, so foreign to my eyes was a profusion of stars. ... And, when one observes from the comfort of one's living space, one can listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets" and observe maps of Mars on the Internet. ... 3 AMNH, Others Shed New Light on Planet Formation A new computer-modeled theory shows how rocky boulders around infant stars team up to form planets without falling into stars. ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program controls the data acquisition according to the specified schedule of the sessions. ... The calibration of AVHRR instrument data is performed during acquisition . The program can be started in parallel with the satellite pass visualization, that allows the user to monitor a session and store data only relevant to specific regions in manual selection mode. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

Computer Ephemeris. Reduction quantities for Dynamical time. Explanations. Each row contains for the date specified at 0 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial: . interval from date to mean epoch T m expressed in julian years, . reduction quantities A+A', B+B', C, D, (all in seconds of arc), E (in 0.0001s), A' , B' (in 0.001). The same table, but for moments, expressed in Sidereal Dynamical Time is to be found on 'Reduction. Sidereal time.' page. ...

. F IGURE . 3. Plots of V S against cos for the thick disk and the old halo samples. In this graph a constant V rot appears as a straight line. Higher-weight points are plotted with larger symbols. discussion in the text | previous figure | next figure .

... Main . ... Software . ... The Fakerat is a software package to help planning of observations with the RadioAstron mission. This version of the software has been designed to match the technical information that appears . in the RadioAstron User's Handbook . Fakerat, version 16, Linux distribution; release on December 27, 2013: . ... fakerat file . fakerat_lib file . readme file . install file . ... package src . Software complex ASL , Windows and Linux distributions. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... A most promising problem is to investigate the interaction of two VHF powerful radiowave beams in the ionosphere, whose difference frequency is equal to the plasma frequency in some ionospheric area (that is, the difference frequency is taken in the range 1-8 MHz). ... Two-frequency interaction effects are based on radiowave non-linear mixing, which is rather complicated when describing and modelling the experiment. ...

... A Proposal for an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration Philip J. Stooke Department of Geography University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 Introduction. ... I propose the creation of an International Atlas of Lunar Exploration to tell this story in cartographic form. ... Many new products would be based primarily on spacecraft images rather than drawn maps, which will also reduce costs and help illustrate the primary data products of the principal lunar missions. ...

Symbolic circuit-matrix processor and evaluator . ... This software is reliable over the range of benchmark circuit complexity (both *.CIR and *.MAT file). ... SYMBOL is a symbolic-algebra package which in contrast to REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MathLAB, MathCAD and other known multi-purpose systems is especially intended for analysis of any lumped, linear, time-invariant circuit. ... pure ASCII text . ... CIRSYM - SYMbolic CIRcuit processor used to format ASCII text file *.out for CALCSYM. ...

... The paper surveys status of the Russian space activity in terms of budget, operati atellistems workforce and industrial capabilities. Shown, that the situation is uneven between the companies and particularly between various tiers of production cooperation. In the current situation international cooperation, both in form of joint non-commercial ventures and integration into global space market, is considered vital for sustenance of the national space capabilities. ... number of R&D programs . ...

. General information . The LOC will organize the ice-breaking evening, conference dinner and excursion program, and tries to cut the expenses. But the additional fees may apply. The actual information will be published.

... In August Russian scientists will send radio message to one of the extraterrestrial planets. ... Additional information about SETI METI . SETI Institute - http://www.seti-inst.edu/ - Search for new life forms in space.. ... HUNT FOR LIGHT FLASHES FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE" . ... Information for sure! ... SETI at home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). ...