... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Imaging Basics . ... Sharpest-ever ground-based images of Pluto and Charon . ... Speckle image reconstruction of Pluto and Charon obtained in visible light at 692 nanometers (red) with the Gemini North 8-meter telescope using the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

... This implies that the scientific output be much larger than that from modern ground based observations in the same scientific field. ... In order to obtain a full picture of the variable structure of such objects with the very high angular resolution it is necessary to build in future multi-element space systems similar to ground arrays. ... 30,000 km) for objects within = ? ... structure and motion of extragalactic sources as a result of their lensing by extragalactic objects . ...

... The old source code form, which is based on the punched card, and now called fixed form and the new free form. These two forms may not be mixed independently but must be separated at the compilation; an old program, (one or several program units in the form of a main program, subroutines or functions), which is compiled in free form, has the possibility to give a different result compared with earlier when it was compiled with fixed form, compilation errors are possible. ... Comments. ...

Comet Hale-Bopp Inbound . ... Credit Copyright: H. Weaver ( ARC ), NASA Explanation: Headed toward the inner Solar System, the much anticipated Comet Hale-Bopp has promised to put on a big show next spring. ... But because it is now so near the Sun's position in the sky it is a difficult target for large ground based optical telescopes as well as the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day ...

... Telescopes . ... CCD photometer . ... One of the principal devices used in observations at the telescope Zeiss-1000 is a CCD photometer. ... The count rates (electron per second) for ADU = 1e - computed throughout the image for U = B = R = I = 20.0 for an object observed at air mass equal to 1.0 with the given version of CCD at the telescope Zeiss-1000 are presented in Table 1. Table 1: Quantum efficiency and count rate in the broad-band system of the CCD photometer of the telescope Zeiss-1000. ...

... Thesis advisor: Prof. Shibaeva R.P. Positions held: 1996-2003 – junior research scientist, ISSP RAS, Chernogolovka . ... L.V. Zorina, S.S. Khasanov, R.P. Shibaeva, M. Gener, R. Rousseau, E. Canadell, L.A. Kushch, . ... Narymbetov, E. Canadell , T. Togonidze, S.S. Khasanov, L.V. Zorina, R.P. Shibaeva, . ... S.S. Khasanov, L.V. Zorina, R.P. Shibaeva . ... A.I. Kotov, L.I. Buravov, E.B. Yagubskii, S.S. Khasanov, L.V. Zorina, R.P. Shibaeva, . ... L.V. Zorina, S.S. Khasanov, R.P. Shibaeva, I.Yu. ...

... Observatory . ... The Laboratory of Astrometry . Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... UkrVO . ... The purpose of research: Creating a stellar catalog to study the structure and kinematics of star systems, including open star clusters and stars with large proper motions; the enhancement ICRF / Hipparcos system to stars dawn to 17 m (V); Search of binary systems of brown dwarfs and determination of their parameters; astrometry of minor bodies of the Solar System. ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara University scientists have developed a technology of new-designed photoelectric converters for solar batteries of spacecraft. ... The new solar batteries will be as much effective as their contemporary nanoheterostructured counterparts surface-supported by germanium, and the cost will be five times cheaper. ... Scientists of Samara University (joint SSAU and SSU) developed a technology basis of new silicon-based photoelectric converters (FEC). ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... StelQGLArrayVertexBufferBackend Class Reference . Base class for QGL-using vertex buffer backends based on separate attribute arrays. ... virtual voidљ . addVertex (const void *const vertexInPtr) . Add a new vertex to the buffer. ... voidљ . ... Specifications of vertex attributes that will be stored in the buffer. virtual void StelQGLArrayVertexBufferBackend::addVertex . ... virtual void StelQGLArrayVertexBufferBackend::clear . ...

MICROSATELLITE PROGRAM . Great advances in the development of microelectronics, large-scale adoption of microprocessors, wide use of space technologies, ease of access to space system elements make it possible to solve a wide range of critical problems by means of microsatellites (MS), which can find use in satellite communication, Earth remote sensing, space physics and technology, education, etc. ... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION | ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

RUSSIAN . The Centre for Astronomical Data (CAD) of the Institute of Astronomy (INASAN) of the Russian Academy of Sciences was established in 1980 as a branch regional center of the Centre de Donnes Stellaire (CDS) with the purpose of astronomical data dissemination among Soviet and Eastern Europe astronomers and for providing the CDS with Soviet machine readable astronomical catalogues. The CAD archive is based on astronomical catalogues received from Strasbourg since 1980. ...

The British Isles lie off the north-west coast of continental Europe. They are made up of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Independent Irish Republic) and some 5,000 smaller islands. The total area of the British Isles is 121,000 square miles (320,00 square kilometers). ... There are no high mountains in Britain. ... On the other hand the north-west of Scotland and the Scottish islands are among he most sparsely populated areas in Europe. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

SRI was organized in 1991. ... SRI consists of 12 laboratories which conduct investigations in two major directions: space-based monitoring of the state of atmosphere and Earth; space-based material science. There are 122 employes in the staff of the institute, 71 of them are scientific workers, 7 are professors and 30 PhD. SRI participated in the development of the program of the flight of Kazakhstan cosmonauts including the orbital complex "Mir". ... Tel: (007)-(327-2)-61-58-53 . ...

N. Zhukavets Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Prague, Czech Republic natalia@math.feld.cvut.cz Free Malcev and alternative sup eralgebras on one o dd generator (Joint work with I.Shestakov.) ... 5] I. Shestakov, N. Zhukavets: The Malcev Poisson superalgebra of the free Malcev superalgebra on one odd generator, J. Algebra and its Applications, 5(4) (2006), 521­535. ... 7] I. Shestakov, N. Zhukavets: The free alternative superalgebra on one odd generator, Internat. ...

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; . ...

... What's new . ... The new version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition for the constellations: Canis Minor, Capricornus The new version of the GCVS ! ... The new version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4.2) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition for the constellations: Apus, Cancer, Canes Venatici and Canis Major The new version of the GCVS ! ...

... Maxim was one of the leading analysts of Russia space activities, those who set the basis for the open independent analysis of then-Soviet space program. q In the early 1990s the small blue paperback book became a real breakthrough. In the time being, almost everything is allowed; in that time, even the title of the book - The Military . ... I believe that to open Maxim's files and archives for the experts and Russian space program enthusiasts would be a best thing we can do in memoriam. ...