... astro-ph . ... A Catalog of almost 3900 variable stars . ... Properties of Dust Grains in Planetary Nebulae - I. The Ionized Region of NGC 6445 . ... A model of the ionized region is constructed, using the photo-ionization code CLOUDY 90.05. ... The most likely conclusion is that grains are residing inside the ionized region of NGC 6445 and that the low temperature and flux of the grain emission are caused by the low luminosity of the central star and the low optical depth of the grains. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . ... In July 2012, CRTS noticed that this object had started to brighten again. ... Then in September of 2012 it got brigher again. ... Cornell University The Unprecedented Third Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a Supernova . ... UIS Henry Barber Research Observatory 2009ip page . ... 2009/08/26.11 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ... Stan Howerton . ... Stan Howerton Light curve . ...

... Обзор LPR фильтра. Впечатления от наблюдений с LPR фильтром. ... Характеристики цветных фильтров Baader-Planetarium . Мой перевод pdf- файла о фильтрах с сайта Baader-Planetarium (379 кб) . ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Bezus Evgeniy Anatolevich . ... Bezus E.A. , Bykov D.A. , Doskolovich L.L. Antireflection layers in low-scattering plasmonic optics // Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications. ... Doskolovich L.L. , Bezus E.A. , Bykov D.A. Phase-shifted Bragg gratings for Bloch surface waves // Optics Express. ... Bezus E.A. , Doskolovich L.L. , Soifer V.A. Near-wavelength diffraction gratings for surface plasmon polaritons // Optics Letters. ... 2011. ...

Verkhoglyadova O.P., V.N. Ivchenko, K. Kudela, M. Slivka, V.N. Lutsenko, S.A. Romanov "Approach to identification of the tail plasma regimes using INTERBALL-1 data" // Czech. ... Yermolaev "Observation of vortical motions and compressional waves in the dawn low-latitude sheet" // Journal of Technical Physics, 1999, v.XL, No 1, p.325-328. ... Martiushov V. "A point explosion inside a cavity with power-law density distribution" // 6 th Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Achievements . ... The theory of radiative transfer in inhomogeneous atmospheres was developed ( Yanovytskij E.G. ) . ... Calculations shown that the vertical movement of gas and aerosol in the atmosphere of giant planets with velocity w = (0.1-0.5) m/s determines the capacity of visible clouds and therefore affects their brightness characteristics (A. P. Vidmachenko). ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2010 . ... Moon's topography is shown based on LOLA laser altimeter data, white contour shows a permanently shadowed region and a white rhomb indicates LCROSS spacecraft impact location. ... Ultra deep survey of the sky in hard X-rays, performed by INTEGRAL observatory . INTEGRAL observatory has completed the first and the most sensitive survey of the sky in hard X-ray energy band. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

e-mail: podgorny@inasan.ru . Institute of Astronomy RAS . ... Spectrum of solar flare protons // Journ. ... The active region magnetic flux correlation with flare appearance. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. Solar Flare Numerical Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation and Solar Flare Model. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. MHD simulation of magnetic field configuration above the active region NOAA. ... Podgorny I. М., Podgorny A. I. The active region magnetic field association with solar flares. ...

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). ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Research results on fast active processes General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases ... Distribution of the recorded spikes in duration . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... A Ministerial Committee (hereinafter the Committee) chaired by a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay A. Anfimov has been set up by the state authorities of Russia to investigate the cause of the Dnepr LV mission failure. ... The conclusions made by the Committee were delivered to the State Committees of Russia and Kazakhstan established with the aim to investigate the Dnepr launch failure consequences. ... Mission profile . ...

... Hold off, hold off, Lord William," she cried, "Your strokes they are wondrous sore; True lovers I can get many a one, But a father I'll never find more." ... Rise up, rise up, lady mother," he cried, "Rise up and let us in; Rise up, rise up, lady mother," he cried "For this night my true love I've won." ... Lord William died in the middle o' the night, Lady Margaret she died on the morrow; Lord William he died for his true love's sake Lady Margaret she died for the sorrow. ...

. English . Russian KOI8 . Current server sed.sao.ru . Dissertation of Doctor of Sciences degree ( close to German Habilitation ) . A time to cast away stones, . and a time to gather stones together . Ecclesiastes, Ch. 3 ; 5 . Full gzipped PostScript version (in Russian) is here (2005), autoreferat (short thesis in Russian) is here . Main results of dissertation work . Continue...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Using positional observations of minor planets for improving the orientation of star catalogue Yu. ... But expe­ rience shows that this kind of observations can be used succesfully for improving orientation parameters of star catalogues with respect to dynamical reference system. ... Observations of 90 selected minor planets were used in general solution for their orbital elements, orientation parameters and some parameters of phase re­ duction. ...

... 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 . ...