... We are a group of students from different schools of the town Zelenogorsk who come to the Center of Education to participate in the international educational project: "Beautiful places - open hearts". ... For a population of seventy thousand people Zelenogorsk offers two cinema halls and a Palace of Culture, two libraries, ecological and historical museums, art galerry, two sports centres, chess club, one downhill skiing course and two cross country tracks wich are illuminated. ...

... 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. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... Alignment is completed (so far) and it was time to address the installation of the camera. A miscalculation has the camera running into the removeable floor hatch. As an illustration, the group prepares a crude template of the camera. After some preliminary discussion the template is put in place. Note the floor hatch has been removed. To reconfirm the template size, the template was placed against the camera. ... Additional installation pictures tomorrow. ...

... The routine processing of STIS data in the calibration ``pipeline" requires an interrelated set of software tasks and databases developed and maintained by many groups at STScI. We present the systems-level design of this calibration pipeline from the perspective of the STIS instrument group at STScI. We describe the multiple interfaces to the pipeline processes that the STIS group works across in an effort to provide for the routine calibration of STIS data. ... For example, the STIS group: . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

... History . ... The group for study of galaxies and cosmology has been created in April, 2011 and unified researchers from the laboratory of radio astrophysics (O.V.Verkhodanov, N.N.Bursov, N.V.Verkhodanova), the laboratory of antenna measurements (E.K.Maiorova) and researches from the radio astronomical sector (Yu.N.Parijskij, T.A.Semenova, V.A.Stolyarov) inside the laboratory of radio astrophysics by the order of the director of SAO according to the decision of the SAO Scientific coincil. ...

... Our Galaxy . Milky Way . ... Universe . ... Space Flight . ... Other galaxies are not moving away because they are recoiling in disgust from the Milky Way, but appear to be receding because the Universe is expanding. ... Observers in any galaxy will see every other galaxy as redshifted, so there is nothing special about the Milky Way. ... If the Universe is expanding today, that implies that in the past the galaxies would have been closer together and the Universe was much smaller than it is now. ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... Does your system have Motif? ... Download and untar XmTel. ... Compile XmTel and copy the binary to /usr/local/bin . ... Check that the XEphem app-defaults file points to the place where the essential fifo and catalog files are located. ... Create the fifos in the xephem/fifos/ directory referred to by the app-defaults file. ... Copy xmtel to a directory in your search path such as /usr/local/bin cp xmtel /usr/local/bin If you use system directories this step must be done as root or superuser. ...

... FSP Group ATX-300PNF 300W 300Вт 300Вт.. ... Артикул: BW1218 9333 17 БУСЫ Цвет: бежево-коричневый Состав: цветное стекло, гальваническое покрытие под золото Описание: бусины ручной работы, могут отличаться участками с неравномерным распределением бежевого цвета Размеры: 60 см Уход за изделием: на изделия недопустимо воздействие духов, дезодорантов, лаков для волос, морской воды и моющих средств. ... Цвет: синий . Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . Материал верха: искусственная кожа . ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... The Nine Planets . ... COULDN'T WE BUILD A SATELLITE THAT WE COULD PLACE IN A FIXED ORBIT AROUND EACH OF THE PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM, WE COULD STUDY THE ATMOSPHERE AND SURFACE OF EACH PLANET SIMILAR TO THE WAY IN WHICH WE USE THEM TO WHATCH OUR WEATER OR SPY ON OUR ENEMIES? ... The Mars Global Surveyor is on its way to Mars (expected to reach Mars orbit in a few months) and will also be in a permanent orbit around Mars. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... ASRAS HOME . Radio Astronomy . ... About ASRAS . ... Our Observing Site . ... 2015 Mees Tour Guides . ... We're offering Regular Tours (a presentation on astronomy geared to a general audience, followed by a tour of the observatory and (hopefully!) observing of several objects, which may include the Moon, planets, nebulae, star clusters and perhaps galaxies), and Kids' Tours (a more interactive presentation specially aimed at youngsters plus the observatory tour and observing) as in prior years. ...

NEUTRON MONITOR DATA FOR JUNGFRAUJOCH AND BERN DURING THE GROUND-LEVEL SOLAR COSMIC -RAY EVENT ON 29 October 2003 R. Buetikofer and E.O. Flueckiger Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bern Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern , Switzerland This report includes information on the processing and use of the data for the ground-level solar cosmic ray event on 29 October 2003 obtained by the following three ... Section 3 of the IGY neutron monitor at Jungfraujoch is the central section. ...

21.10 news 887 MH 19/10/04 2:15 pm Page 887 news Russians fear privatization of state labs Bryon MacWilliams, Moscow Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding. ... We agree that Russian science does need reform," says Boris Stern, a particle physicist at the academy's Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... The file names' construction . The flight (m) stage's file set . ... the orbital data used for the flight operation monthly (m) long-term planning, . ... The orbital calculations are based on the initial orbital data determined by KIAM RAN using the orbital radio- measurement treatment. The determined initial orbital data are presented as a state vector (satellite position and velocity) in the J2000 reference. ... Accept the file with extension '.bgr', where the Moscow time (MT=UT+3h) is used. ...