Next: Contents . Cover Illustration: The background image used on the cover is taken from a photograph by Bob Fosbury showing the bay in Sardinia close to where the conference took place. It is reproduced at far lower resolution than the original. The upper insert is one of the ESO VLT firstlight images and is a true colour view of the core of the globular cluster Messier 4. ... More details of the VLT first light are given in the VLT First Light paper. ... Next: Contents Norbert Pirzkal . ...

Here are some images of Australian currency. ... Some of the notes below are printed on paper, others are printed on a thin, flexible polymer (i.e. plastic). The polymer notes are fairly new - The Australian Mint is currently in the process of replacing all paper money with polymer. ... The front design features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England, who is Australia's Head of State. ... This note is printed on paper, and is due to be replaced by a newly designed polymer note in 1996. ...

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Euro-Asian Association of Astronomy Teachers . ... General information . ... With a purpose to support the enthusiasm of the young amateurs and their teachers, to give them a possibility to test their knowledge and to help them to get in touch with their like-minded friends, the I Open Russian Astronomy Olympiad has been organized by the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS) and Ministry of Education of Russian Federation in May 1994 in town of Yaroslavl', Central Russia. ... November 2000, SAO RAS. ...

Preliminary results of Flight Model KFRD (SODART/SXG focal plane detector) tests . X-ray image of two steel blades placed above the detector window is shown. Radioactive source Fe-55 (5.9 keV) was used for detector illumination. ... Periodical structure due to anode wires modulation in one dimension (at 3 mm pitch) and support grid shadow (step is about 15 mm) one can see on the picture. ... X-ray image of two steel blades obtained by another KFRD flight model detector is shown. ...

... GX - 03K Aroma Diffuser . ... Size: 130 X 130 X 70mm . ... Каша проста в приготовлении, достаточно залить порцию сухого продукта горячей водой и тщательно размешать.Состав: цельное сухое молоко 33 %, пшеничная крупа 31%, рисовая крупа 11%, сгущенный банановый сок 8,9% (сироп глюкозы, фруктоза, сгущенный сок банана), сгущенный яблочный сок 5,7%, сахар, пюре из груши 4,4 % (сахар, мякоть груши, сироп глюкозы, фруктоза), витамины (ретинола ацетат, холекальциферол, токоферола ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... The Sun stays at the center and the planets orbit it serenely, each in its place. ... Tiny Pluto, orbiting the Sun an average of nearly 40 times the Earth's orbital radius, has an odd orbit. Most planets orbit the Sun in nearly perfect circles, but Pluto's orbit is noticeably elliptical. ... The orbits of Pluto and Neptune have a coincidental timing to them: Pluto orbits the Sun twice for every three times Neptune does. ...

... As then we removed from the Earth, we dived into a sky deeper and deeper. ... We saw immense red-hot spheres, liked suns, in illuminator of our spaceship. ... We saw our Earth, Mars, Mercury, and planets-giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other. ... Also we saw a comet. ... The planet Upsilon was on our way. ... If we could speak the language of these two peoples, we could explain them what the war did on our home planet "the Earth", how many people were killed because of war conflicts. ...

... For calculation of apparent place of some star there are two methods. ... The second method is to use formulae of this page together with information from 'Mean places ...' and 'Reduction quantities' pages. ... Here: ALPHAmean, MUalpha - mean right ascension and mean proper motion in right ascension of some star at mean epoch of the year, . DELTAmean, MUdelta - mean declination and mean proper motion in declination of some star at mean epoch of the year, . ...

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. ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

... Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a PDF file of paged proof for checking and correction. The file can be read and edited using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 9 and higher) which can be free downloaded via the Internet ( http://get.adobe.c om/reader/ ). ... You can use text correction tools to make corrections (after selecting the necessary text fragment). ... For users of Adobe Reader 9: . ... to insert text without replacing the existing text, use the "Insert text at cursor" tool. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Январь 1998 . ... Дата: 26 января 1998 (1998-01-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: SpaceViews Update -- 1998 January 15 [1/6] Привет всем! ... Shuttle Cleared for January 22 Launch NASA gave the green light January 8 for the January 22 launch of the shuttle Endeavour on a nine-day mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir for the next to last time. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelObjectMgr Class Reference . ... voidљ . selectedObjectChanged ( StelModule::StelModuleSelectAction action) . ... findAndSelect (const StelCore *core, const Vec3d &pos, StelModule::StelModuleSelectAction action= StelModule::ReplaceSelection ) . ... Find and select an object from its translated name. ... findAndSelect (const QString &name, StelModule::StelModuleSelectAction action= StelModule::ReplaceSelection ) . ... getWasSelected (void) const . ...

... Dr. Sheperd Doelman, Ph.D. of the MIT Haystack Observatory gave a talk entitled "The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution." ... Currently large single antenna radio telescopes and smaller interferometer arrays have only produced images of black holes and jets which are emitted by accretion disks of the black holes. ... Observations with the VLBI radio telescope will help determine actual behavior as the accretion disk and black hole interact. ...

... These are all 74 models currently existing at the VSM. ... N-1 . ... Energia . ... Soyuz pad . Energia pad . Energia stand-start . N-1 pad . Proton pad . R-1 rocket . ... Vostok rocket . Soyuz rocket . Proton rocket . ... station . ... L-3 lander . N-1 stack . ... Mars-3 lander . ... Original Soyuz . Soyuz-10/11 . Soyuz ferry . ... ASTP Soyuz . ...

Free Space Optical Communication Systems . ... Airplane - geostationary satellite laser communication. ... Air ( space) optical communication systems ( AO ) . ... The Optical ground station was constructed at Teide observatory, Tenerife, Canary Islands for laser communication experiments from ground to geostationary (GEO) satellites. ... Laser communication experiments between ARTEMIS satellite and optical ground station (OGS) ESA at Canary Islands are performing also. ... CW laser test experiments . ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Rocket Engines . ... Heroes Of Space Remember . ... Novostroyka, recently renamed as Peresvet, is a place where almost all Russian rocket engines and stages were test fired, and environmental testing of spacecraft was held. Now Rosaviakosmos and the Government of Moscow Region plan to convert some of now unused test buildings at NII Khimmash to establish a state-owned museum of rocket and space technology. ...