... The Olympiad participants are not supposed to study at any institutions of higher education (university or school which can be considered technical colleges). Students who finished their school examination in the year of the Olympiad cannot be members of a team even if they did not start university studies. ... National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the 14 th International Astronomy Olympiad. Updated 26.01.2009. ...

... In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is in a waiting mode continuing its deceleration in Earth atmosphere. During the previous day the OC "Mir" onboard systems were subject to a routine check out, the current trajectory parametres were registered. The processed information confirms the MCC readiness for the final stage dynamis operations with the OC "Mir". ... The first corrective impuls ( the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" 8 control engines are fired): . T burn start - 03.32; . ...

... Just one: a very stringent requirement on the relative positions of Earth and Mars at the time of launch. ... Suppose the spacecraft which has landed on Mars is a robot , which collects a sample and immediately takes off again for its return trip. ... Since Earth and Mars constantly change their relative position, it stands to reason that if we sufficiently delay the return trip, Earth will move from position (2) relative to Mars to position (3), at which time the return trip can begin. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... AAC Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp has returned from behind the Sun. In December and early January, Comet Hale-Bopp was too near the Sun to be easily visible from Earth . ... The above photo was taken on January 31 st and shows the two emerging tails of Comet Hale-Bopp . ... Publications with keywords: Comet Hale-Bopp . Publications with words: Comet Hale-Bopp . ... Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass . ... The Dust and Ion Tales of Comet Hale-Bopp . ...

... Attract Club Visitors . ... Now that you have your Welcome System in place, your club is ready to greet visitors to your club meetings. ... As part of the club meeting, the person running the meeting may ask visitors to stand or raise their hand. ... Sharing the Universe videos are produced by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from research conducted by the Institute for Learning Innovation, the ASP, and from astronomy clubs like yours. www.astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse . ...

Temperature Sensor with LCD USER MANUAL (TS13C-M) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PRODUCT OVERVIEW BEFORE YOU BEGIN BATTERY INSTALLATION LOW BATTERY WARNING PLACEMENT OF THE REMOTE SENSOR GETTING STARTED TRANSMISSION COLLISION PRECAUTIONS SPECIFICATIONS FCC STATEMENT DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY BATTERY SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS STANDARD WARRANTY INFORMATION 3 4 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 10 11 2 INTRODUCTION Thank you for selecting a Meade Instruments temperature sensor! ... Flashes twice when battery power is low. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

... Jupiter without its Southern Equatorial Belt . The Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) started to fade during the latter part of 2009 and completely disappeared around May of 2010. It is believed that bright ammonia clouds obscure the dark belt at irregular intervals. The SEB previously vanished in 2007. The belt returned around November 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... Very few of us can do something without the feeling that it can be done and done good. So, I want to say several words on the possibility of building the Open society in Russia. ... Even if we can't find long happy periods in the history, but can find ideas, which were original for Russia and the whole world, which were created by Russian philosophers, we can say that we can try to build the Open Society, because Russian way of thinking has something in common with the ideas of the Open society. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

Version 1.0 RadioAstron International Science Council meeting 2014 8 August 2014 , 14:00, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (room 48), Moscow 9 August 2014 , 09:00, Space Research Institute ( IKI , room 200), Moscow [10 August 2014 , 10:00, IKI : science team meetings] 8 August 2014 , start at 14:00, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (room 48): 14:00 Greetings Kardashev, Kovalev , ... The Kaluzhskaya shopping center is suggested as a lunch place for 10 August 2014. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 29.08 - 04.09.2011, Forecast on 24 - 31.10.2011, Carrington Rotations 2015,2016 (22,71.09; 19,99.10.. 2011) SOLAR SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE LAST PERIOD REMAINED BY 21.09 AT HIGH LEVEL, HAVING REACHED ON OCTOBER, 20-21th THE GREATEST VALUES FOR THE CURRENT SOLAR CYCLE THEN HAS STARTED TO DECREASE GRADUALLY. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE. ...

... The BURAN orbiter is the first reusable manned space vehicle in our country. The BURAN orbiter is the space airplane which may descent from an orbit and land to an airdrome . ... BURAN orbiter . ... CREATION AIRFRAME OF THE BURAN ORBITAL SPACESHIP . ... Radio-Navigational Maintenance of the Atmospheric Descent and Landing of the BURAN Orbital Spaceship " by Shcharensky V.A.; . ... Landing Complex for the BURAN Orbital Spaceship " by Yakhno V.A., Studnev V.V.; . ... FROM SPIRAL TO MAKS . ...

About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... A task of selection and preflight training is to form up and to train a crew for a space mission. ... Training in crews on the "Soyuz" transport space vehicle and on the "Earth-Moon-Earth" interplanetary flight program, . ... Basic space training of a lunar crew provides for acquiring a fundamental knowledge on the origin, structure and evolution of the Universe, studying methods and means of space flights performance, use of space for the benefit of mankind. ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

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. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Ноябрь 1998 . ... Дата: 05 ноября 1998 (1998-11-05) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Surveyor 98 Update - November 3, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 05 ноября 1998 (1998-11-05) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Deep Space 1 Update - November 4, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 05 ноября 1998 (1998-11-05) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: APOLLO: An Eyewitness Account Привет всем! ...