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... 13, Moscow, Russia +7 (495) 939-50-06 (phone) +7 (495) 932-88-41 (FAX) e-mail: polar (at) sai.msu.ru; sergepolar (at) gmail.com URL: http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/ EDUCATION Moscow State University, Russia. Ph.D. in Astrophysics 1998 "Population synthesis of X-ray sources after the burst of starformation and evolution of isolated neutron stars" Supervisor: Prof. V.M. Lipunov Moscow State University, Russia. ... Young Scientists Research Award, Awarded by Moscow State University 2006 3.) ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... November 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 . December 6, 7, 8 and 9 March 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 . ... December 3, 4 and 5 February 13, 14 and 15 . ... December 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 . Incoherent Scatter Radar ionospheric parameters measurements are carried out on coordinated days determined by the International Geophysical Calendar. ...

Астрономия и Космос Небесные тела Планеты и их спутники . Видимым парадом планет называется планетная конфигурация, когда пять ярких планет Солнечной системы (Меркурий, Венера, Марс, Юпитер и Сатурн) в своем движении по небосводу подходят друг к другу на близкое расстояние и становятся видны в одно время в небольшом секторе (10 - 40 градусов) неба. ... Из выше описанного видно, что парад планет можно наблюдать, либо вечером, либо утром. ... Не пропустите ОСЕННИЙ ПАРАД планет 2002 года! ...

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... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... August 8, 2006 . ... A Twofer: two Bad news articles in one day! ... Not-so-sly Fox December 28, 2000 . ... Chevron Corporation's (minor) Bad Astronomy March 23, 2000 . ... Vacuuming Out the Cobwebs September 16, 1999 . ... Through Hubble's Lens October 9, 1998 . ... Sixth Rock from the Sun October 16, 1997 . ... More Bad News related to the Hubble images May 14, 1997 . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... New Members . ... October Public Night . ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... If for some reason you need a hardcopy and cannot print one yourself, please feel free to contact me at 419-845-2629 and I will be happy to send you one via regular postal mail...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... ST-ECF . ABOUT ST-ECF . ... After an initial agreement between NASA and ESA in 1977 and following Hubble's more than twenty years in space and 110,000 orbits of the Earth, the aim of this conference is to celebrate the huge contributions made by the Hubble observatory to our knowledge and understanding of the Universe. ... David Southwood . ... Robert O'Connell . ... Robert O'Dell . ... Questions and information: HST3@stecf.org . ... Maintained by HST 3 Webmaster <HST3@stecf.org> . ...

Rick Hedrick (left) and Joe Haberman (right) with an early prototype at the Planewave factory in September 2009. ... Rick Hedrick testing the CDK700 on October 8, 2010. The finished telescope was delivered by air freight from California to Toowoomba in July 2013, and then to the mountain by truck. A crane lifted the mount with the lower truss, including the primary mirror, into the dome. ... Rick Hedrick prepared the primary mirror in August. ... kielkopf at louisville dot edu . ...

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