The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Research areas . ... Samara State Aerospace University Education Educational programs (English) Mechatronic Systems . ... The purpose of the Program is to train highly qualified specialists for work in the fields of science, engineering and technology in areas related to design and development of mechatronic systems using fluid power for various applications including aircraft engines control. ... o design and development of robotic and mechatronic systems; . ...

... February 2016 Monthly Meeting - The World At Night (TWAN) . Babak Tafreshi   . Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:00 PM . This month, we are pleased to welcome Babak Tafreshi, founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN) . ... He is the founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN), a board member of Astronomers Without Borders, a contributing photographer at Sky magazine and the European Southern Observatory. ... 2016 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

As it proposed by the Statutes/Regulations of the International Astronomy Olympiad, the first part of preparing application to participate in the coming IAO is presenting of a short report of National Astronomy Olympiad of the current year for the Advisory Committee. ... Date of receiving report from the country . ... July 18 - August 7 . ... August 31 . ... Date of receiving draft report (or not full report) . ... Date of receiving official application . ... Done after receiving ANRAO application) . ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

Numbering Procedures for APO 2.5m and 3.5m Drawings and Engineering/Drafting Documents . ... Document part numbers are to consist of a 7 character long "base numbe,r" which is coded to provide information about the part's intended first use. The part number becomes complete and unique only with the addition of a revision number. ... Example of a "base number": 25CSA01 . ... PART NUMBER CONVENTION . ... For Example: . ... R = "Revision" . ... Questions contact Larry Carey/University of Washington ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. JPEG 2000 Compression for the Downlink and Archiving of Astronomical Data Janet C. Rountree, Brian N. Webb Science Applications International Corporation, 101 N. Wilmot Rd., ... JPEG 2000, the new International Standard for still image compression, has many unique features that offer advantages for users of astronomical data. ... WT=Wavelet transform. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

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... Students Life . ... February 17, 2014 . ... and Cultural Activity, Director of the Institute France-Ukraine at the Embassy of France in Ukraine Eric Tosatti and Attach on Research and Academic Cooperation of the Institute France-Ukraine / Cooperation and Cultural Activity Service of the Embassy of France Gilles Mametz , had a meeting with Vice-President, Academician Mykola Azarienkov, Dean of the School of ... Belgorod State National Research University Delegation Visiting Karazin University . ...

Princeton Instruments was incorporated in 1981 and has been building low light systems for its entire history. ... Princeton Instruments uses the latest in computer aided design to engineer the highest performance camera systems possible. ... We work with every major manufacturer of CCD arrays and image intensifiers in the world. ... From early in the company history, Princeton Instruments has offered complete detection systems for many different types of applications. ... Princeton Instruments, Inc. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Proposing for VLBI Time at Arecibo . ... Documentation (Field System, VLBA4 terminal, Mark 5 system) . ... In 2001, the Arecibo Observatory received its hybrid VLBA-MARK IV (VLBA4) data acquisition system, and currently NAIC commits Arecibo to support VLBI observing up to a maximum of 4% of the 305-m's observing time. ... Tracking Time (h:mm) . ... The inclusion of the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope can dramatically boost the sensitivity of VLBI observations, even with its limited source tracking...

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XmCCD ----- This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface program to control SBIG astronomical CCD cameras. ... The latest SBIG library is available from http://www.sbig.com However, the version included here is known to work with this program. ... The sources for these programs are available from the XmCCD home at http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moore/software. ...

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Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... Classical School N1522 ensures general secondary education and in addition gives good knowledge of English, history and literature of English-speaking countries. ... All graduates come to meet their teachers and friends, to remember nice years of school life: The Club of International Friendship which united children who made, contacts with teenagers of English-speaking countries by exchanging letters, receiving foreign delegations and that was the way they improved their speaking skills of English....

... Tonight's Sky . ... We test Denkmeier's 3-D eyepieces . ... Discovery 's launch will be scheduled for no earlier than February 3 . ... NASA managers have targeted space shuttle Discovery 's launch for no earlier than February 3, 2011, at 1:34 a.m. EST. ... Because of Discovery 's delayed launch, the earliest opportunity for the liftoff of the final scheduled shuttle mission, STS-134 on Endeavour , is April 1, 2011. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...