When entering Plates section user should open the file with information on moments of observations, plate centers, angular dimensions of sky regions covered by plates and numbers of observatories (the file can be created for the first time or can be prepared according to bellow described format in advance). ... It is supposed that the position of plate center and half-dimensions of plate are specified in right ascension and declination (the edge of rectangular plate is oriented to the equator). ...

... So at T 10 at T=10 10.5 (t 0.2s) 10.5 (t = 0.2s) (t 0.9s) So at T~10 10.14 End up with mainly protons, neutrons and electrons (some neutrinos) when Universe is 1 second old With ratio of N/P set as Neutrons decay with half-life of 887 seconds Formation/Destruction of Deuterium Neutrons converted to D at roughly 200s From Saha equation (but Neutron Except those neutrons that decay .. ... A bit less 28%*exp(-100s/900s) =24% when one takes into account neutron decay.. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... By now, most everyone has heard the news that a group of people in California has committed mass suicide, claiming that it would enable them to meet a spaceship flying along with the comet Hale-Bopp. ... I received an email from a Bad Reader basically laying the blame for all this on the people purveying the Bad Astronomy. ... One of the best Hale-Bopp comet sites, AT JPL . ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

Member's Christmas Party 1999 . ... All of the Christmas pictures were taken by Larry Heltzer (Doc) and Joe Forster. ... Somehow I got cut out of the picture, I'll have to talk to the photographer (Joe). ... This time with Kim Balliett and her husband Ron. Kim was elected club Vice President. ... John Boggs is in between everyone feeding his face (but then again, we all were!) Barrie McConnell, Dave Hartsel's arm and Kim and Ginny are in the back. ... Barrie, Dave Hartsel, and John. ...

of the RadioAstron Teleconference 4 . ... The agenda of the teleconference and the list of participants are attached as an Appendix A to the Minutes. The main intents of the teleconference were to discuss the results of Pushchino tests, to develop actions in order to overcome the problem of aging of 6-cm and 18-cm receivers and to understand situation with NASA support for the project. ... Andreyanov informed the participants about the procedure and main results of Pushchino tests. ...

... He was born in Cholmogory - a village where one generation before him saw the first Russian observatory and Lomonosov was able to use the angle gaude. ... But the atmosphere of Venus was so "rich" that no only during four last years of Lomonosov's life, but even two centuries after his death the astronomers didn't go far away from his investigations. 200 years exactly after "the star year" of Lomonosov in 1961 the Soviet spaceship - the first in the world went to Venus. ...

The types of respirators in use at APO are half-face, full face, and mask-style filter types. ... These respirators DO NOT supply oxygen. ... The observatory does not maintain Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) for use and, consequently, materials that require them cannot be used. ... Whenever possible chose adequate ventilation over using a respirator. ... Oxygen monitors used for confined spaces may be used to monitor oxygen levels where respirators are required. ...

The ultimate force in the universe: Some thoughts about gravity. ... Gravity through the ages Aristotle: Earth, water, fire, air. Earth and water fall `down' to the center of the cosmos (geocentric or earth centered universe). The more earth or water in the object, the faster it is attracted to the center. ... Determines the fate of the universe (expand forever, or contract back in a `"big crunch"). ... Determines the fate of stars when they die (white dwarfs, neutron star, or black hole). ...

... Making a Case for METI . ... Many leaders of the modern SETI community oppose the deliberate transmission of messages from Earth to the stars in attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). ... Like Arecibo, our transmissions include scientific information. ... METI is not scientific . ... So, to increase the likelihood of effective communication across interstellar space, we include in our METI transmissions non-scientific messages: text, audio, video, art, music, etc. ...

... Schools . ... Chemical Materials Science Department . ... Department ofљPsychiatry, Narcology, Neurology andљMedical Psychology . ... Prof. PI Zinchenko, known for his research on the psychology of memory, was the representative of the Kharkiv psychological school, which has made a significant contribution to the development of national psychology. ... Remember the stuff from which a person is active (practical, cognitive, directing) material that is left out such activities, stored in efficiency. ...

Les ASTRONOMES AMATEURS DU LUXEMBOURG vous invitent Ю participer au DнNER DE BIENFAISANCE ASTRO ­ GASTRO ­ NOMIQUE , le 19 avril 2002 au CASINO DE DUDELANGE Ю 19.00 heures.Le dНner sera suivi d'une prИsentation d'astronomie ! ... Les AAL ont dИcidИ d'apporter leur soutien Ю l'action de solidaritИ TиLиVIE , ensemble avec RTL et la Ville de DUDELANGE , Ville de l'Astronomie Ю Luxembourg. ... Veuillez penser Ю vos dons pour notre tombola ! ... Pour le comitИ des AAL N. Feierstein, prИsident ...

... Impact on source motion in Galactic coordinate system is given by Kovalevsky (2003), Malkin (2011) l cos b = -A sin l, b = -A cos l sin b, where A = R0 02 /c is the galactocentric acceleration called hereafter the GA constant. ... We just have to return to the traditional many-centuries-old astrometric practice of modelling the position of a celestial object as a linear trend with two parameters: the position at the initial (conventional) epoch and the apparent (proper) motion. ... 2011). ...

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... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

... The flag on the moon represents an important event in vexillological history. ... During their historic extravehicular activity (EVA), the Apollo 11 crew planted the flag of the United States on the lunar surface. ... Like any activity in space exploration, the Apollo flag-raising also provided NASA engineers with an interesting technical challenge. ... As NASA plans a return to the moon and an expedition to Mars, we will likely see flags continue to go "where no flag has gone before." ...

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... Development of Ideas of Structure and Evolution of Stars. Integral Features of Stars, Which Determine Their Structure, Direction and Rate of Evolutuion. ... Connection between Potential and Thermal Energy of Star. ... Structure of a Main Sequence Star. Features of Massive Stars Evolution on the Main Sequence. Internal Structure of the Sun. ... White Dwarfs, Their Features. ... Evolution from the Main Sequence of Massive Stars. ... Evolution of Small Mass Stars till White Dwarfs Sequence. ...

... Since January 2000 our English translation (Astronomy Letters) is available on-line !!! . see Note on printing of the on-line papers) . Scanned copies of Astronomy Letters for 1975-2000 can be found on-line in free access in ADS . ... 1995 , 1996 - the Grand prize (full story) , 1997 (full story) , 1998 (full story) , . 1999 , 2001 (full story) , 2003 , 2004 (full story) , and 2005 . ... LANL / ITEPh astrophysics preprints . ... E-mail: pazh@hea.iki.rssi.ru . ...