... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Ham radio station Kenwood D700 . Ham radio equipment onboard ISS RS SM . ... Conversations of the space flight participant of Visiting Mission 15 with ground users, taking place in the course of real-time ham radio communications sessions, as well as video images uplinked/downlinked to/from ISS in real-time via ham radio. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Imaging Basics . ... NASA's GRAIL MoonKAM returns first student-selected lunar images . ... This image of the farside of the lunar surface, with Earth in the background, was taken by the MoonKAM system onboard the Ebb spacecraft as part of the first image set taken from lunar orbit March 15т??18, 2012. ... Students will select target areas on the lunar surface and request images to study from the GRAIL MoonKAM Mission Operations Center in San Diego,...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... My question is : How can an Earth-like environment, including gravity, be simulated on a spacecraft or a space colony? ... Centripetal force is what you feel when, for example, you are sitting in a car that makes a sharp turn and you are thrown to the outside of the curve. ... A small ship has to spin faster to feel the same force as a big ship spinning slower. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Visits to ESO Sites . ... Architecture at ESO . Collaborations with ESO . ESO Acronyms . ... Green ESO . ... ESO . ESO Brazil . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Fulldome . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... This visualization was a prototype affiliated with 'Dynamic Earth', a proposed Earth science planetarium show. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Since the Irkutsk IS radar is based on station "Dnepr", which was not intended for IS measurements, we made a serios effort to modernize this station in order to carry out ionospheric observations. Four main directions of the development of the radar experimental base: . modernization of the radar receiving system; . development of primary processing and measurement control methods; . ...

Physics of Solar corona, physics of aurorae, Solar-Terrestrial connections, lithosphere-ionosphere connections. Practical Astrophysics . General Astrophysics . ... N.I.Dzubenko. Heating of the upper atmosphere during auroral and auroral . ... N.I.Dzubenko, V.M.Ivchenko, G.P.Milinevsky. ... N.I.Dzubenko, A.P.Zhilinsky, I.A.Zhulin et. al. ... solar activity cycle by photometric data. ... Kyiv, 1994. 240p. N.I.Dzubenko. The response of aurora to sharp variations of the state of . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... A task of selection and preflight training is to form up and to train a crew for a space mission. ... Training in crews on the "Soyuz" transport space vehicle and on the "Earth-Moon-Earth" interplanetary flight program, . ... Basic space training of a lunar crew provides for acquiring a fundamental knowledge on the origin, structure and evolution of the Universe, studying methods and means of space flights performance, use of space for the benefit of mankind. ...

... Dear teachers and guests of our site, if you are interested in the work of our teachers (foreign language teachers in particular) you may contact us through Internet. ... The teachers not only use computers for presentation of the new material, but also organize the system of checking students' knowledge. ... Every grade organizes a firm, chooses the activity, approves of the staff of the firm. ... The students also plan expenditure on scientific and research activities and advertisement. ...

Russian version . ... The Summer School . Contemporary Mathematics . ... D uring two weeks around a hundred students (from the last two years of high-school or from the first two years of university) take part in 70-80 lectures and seminars. ... By the way, due to the total freedom of the participants to choose the courses, experienced mathematicians must sometimes face serious competition from their younger colleagues. ... You can see either Russian version of it, or the English version . ...

Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...

... Bachelor?s programs . ... International programs . ... The courses consist: Informational literacy in public communication; Capacity of the media and civil society; Public communication strategies: interdisciplinary approach; Public communication in the EU; Communication practices in building Government-Public Partnership, to only name a few. ... V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is a fully accredited university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. ... Copyright 2010 V.љN. Karazin Kharkiv National...

... SOC Info XMM-Newton Contact Details How to get to ESAC ESA Research Fellowships ESAC Trainee Projects ESA Young Graduate Trainees . ... The trainees are from the University of Madrid (Spain), the University of Bonn (Germany) and from the ESA Young Graduate Trainee Programme. ... The combination of the different ESA trainee schemes will allow to follow up the EPIC trainee project 2004, also in collaboration with a PhD project with the University of T bingen and University of Warwick. ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 18 . Jupiter and Venus from Earth . Image Credit: Marek Nikodem ( PPSAE ) . ... The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus was visible last week almost no matter where you lived on Earth. ... Although this conjunction is drawing to a close, another conjunction between Venus and Jupiter will occur next May. ... About APOD | ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... 5, 1998 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Newsroom Phone: 301-286-8955 NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: 98-158 HISTORIC JOHN GLENN FLIGHT TO FEATURE MARYLAND AND GODDARD SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS When Mercury astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn returns to space October 29, a fascinating array of science experiments from the Goddard Space Flight Center and Maryland students will fly with him. ...

... Plays computer games way to much. ... Only one way to find out.. ... Play Information * Episode and Level # : E1M1 Single Player : No (You can play but there's no exit... just see how long you can last on nightmare) Cooperative 2-4 Player : No (see above) Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Hell YES... best for 4 players Difficulty Settings : see below New Sounds : Kinda (I erased the sound of the switches... when one was thrown you could hear it from anywhere in the city as loud as if you were right there. ...

... Friends is a flexible course with two entry points - Friends Starter is for complete beginners and Friends 1 for false beginners. ... Captivate young students with four fantastic worlds: The Londoners, Crazy Gang, Friends' Club and Story Time - they'll always want to learn more. ... You know where you are with Friends. ... Making friends around the world. Friends' Club units feature interviews, articles and quizzes showing children's lives all over the.. ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

It is a great honour and pleasure for me to talk from this tribune. ... This year I was lucky to present a Soros lecture on the reginal conference in Tyumen in the frame of the programm "Professional contacts". ... When people want to make something new it is a great thing to colloborate, to communicate with other people. ... The ideas of free creation live in Russia, and I hope we can try to build an Open society, the society without ksenophobia, without fear of new ideas, without fear of the future. ...