Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . ... Mark Watney an astronaut on the Ares 3 mission to Mars is left stranded following a storm. ... However being a bit of an outer-space junkie, I did notice some problems with the plot. ... Without a character like Mark Watney, this book would have been a scientific look at survival on Mars; instead what we have is a realistic look at an intelligent human being stranded on Mars. ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Events The Third Lem Reading Conference . ... September 10 - completion of reception of scientific articles for edited volume of the conference materials; . ... Proposals, suggestions and comments should be sent to Nesterov Aleksandr Yuryevich and Demina Anna Ivanovna at: lemovskiye.org@gmail.com or phil@ssau.ru marked 'The Third Lem Reading Conference' in the subject line, phone: +7 846-267- 47-87. ... Ed.) The Second Lem Reading Conference. ...

The section "Interstellar Radio Messages" contains only abstracts and articles which were written about IRE's works. It's a reason why, for example, such classical subject as Arecibo Message does not present here. Some texts were corrected by our American colleagues in order to convert our local "Russian" English into the true English. ... And at the same time ask an indulgence at readers for this and some following texts, which were not "re-translated". Alexander L. Zaitsev . ...

... You will need a formal letter of invitation to get Russian visa and we will provide it to you. ... First, we will need a copy of first two pages of your passport. The best way to do it is to find a scaner, open the passport, put it on the scaner, scan it with 300 dpi resolution in grayscale mode, save as JPEG file and then send the file to ysc@bmstu.ru and please send a copy to coordinator Irina Yurovskikh yurovskikh.i@mail.ru . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Launches Chronology . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... Optics and spectroscopy of molecular and liquid crystals, fullerenes, superthin molecular films. Optical studies of structure, phase transitions, pretransitional phenomena, structural modifications in external field and under high pressure. ... Methods developed in the laboratory enable to determine in free standing films of different types liquid crystals values of polarization, two-dimensional constants of orientational elasticity. ...

I. Installation . ... AMPLE package distributive (created with program InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++) has been downloaded on FTP server of IAA RAS as archive Ample.zip. ... Note: If the window "file download" appears, select Open... switch button, then press OK button. ... The shortcut for AMPLE will be linked with this folder, and auxiliary files will be created here during AMPLE work. ... When running AMPLE all auxiliary and new configuration files are created in the WORK folder. ...

... We present new progress in our extensive pro ject mCPod (On­line database of photometric observations of magnetic CP stars), which was initiated five and a half years ago (Mikulґ et. al, 2007). ... The database consists of two parts, the Data and the References. In the References one finds the sources of data, the bibcodes including links to the corresponding papers, names of comparison and check stars (if available), the number of observations in individual filters (see Fig. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

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 revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... 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 . ...

In this course we will cover the basics of the theory of elliptic operators, examples of which include the de Rham and Dolbeault operators, as well as their generalisations such as the Dirac operator. We will explain how several seemingly unrelated results in geometry and topology (e.g. the Hirzebruch and Rokhlin signature theorems and the Riemann-Roch theorem) all follow from the general index formula by M. Atiyah and I. Singer, and sketch a proof of the latter. ... The signature operator. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

Distribution of the analyzed SEPs with different >100 MeV proton fluxes ( J 100 ) at the microwave flux density plane ' S 9 vs. ... 1) General correspondence takes place between intensities of microwave bursts and proton fluxes - J 100 increases when S 9 and S 15 rise. ... 3) Powerful microwave bursts ( S 9 , S 15 >3000-10000 sfu ) with hard radio spectra ( S 9 < S 15 ) correspond to majority of powerful proton fluxes ( J 100 >10 pfu ). ...

... FEATURES OF OBTAINED IMAGES All images obtained by the TESIS have a number of artifacts, i.e., the dark current, flat field, blurring (related to the feature of input shutters and CCD matrices of the equipment), and frame damage caused by the entry of cosmic particles. In addition, poor accuracy of the spacecraft stabilization leads to the fact that separately taken images of the Sun have a ran dom displacement and rotation relative to the CCD matrix. ... Methods of image recording of the TESIS. ...

... The words are numbered according to the reference mentioned above. ... 59 WORD wSecond ; // 0 .. 59 satellite tracking start time (GMT) float fStep ; // reserved WORD wMass ; // reserved BYTE reserved [12] ; // reserved WORD wExtraBytes ; // reserved } TRAJECTORYHEADER ; NOTE: the satellite tracking start time is a hardware operating start time to follow satellite. typedef struct { // ephemeris at satellite tracking start time double time ; // Epoch time (yyddd.ddddddddd)...