... Maintenance and Work Completed on M1: September 10, 1999 . Whiffles Installed on M2: September 10, 1999 . M1 Support System Maintenance: September 10, 1999 . M1 Temperature Sensor Work and Repair: September 10, 1999 . M1 Hex-cell Deterioration: September 14, 1999 . ... M1 Whiffle Mount and M1 Back, September 21, 1999 . ... Views of Secondary Mirror (Back): April 13, 2000 . ... Front Portals: June 8, 2001 . ... M2 and M3 Baffle Work: June 8, 2005 . ... M3 Work: November 7, 2007 . ...

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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. ...

... Moscow, Russia . ... March-October 2000 . ... Gusev A.S. Multicolor CCD Photometry of Six Lenticular and Spiral Galaxies. ... Gusev A.S., Park M.-G. Structure and stellar population of ringed barred galaxy NGC 2336 // Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003, V.410, P.117-129. ... Gusev A.S. Photometric Properties of Bars in Galaxies // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.579-591. ... Gusev A.S. BVRI CCD Photometry of Pecular Galaxies NGC 5605 and NGC 5665 // Astronomy Reports, 2000, V.44, N9, P.569-578. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... Weather . ... Samara State Aerospace University Students life What's the Weather Like? Average wintertime temperature is -15 degrees Centigrade. ... On the coldest days, the temperature can drop to as low as -30 - -35 degrees. There s lots of snow in February. ... The snow usually melts by early May, and the first summer days arrive in the second half of May. ... On the hottest summer days, the temperature can rise to as high as +30 degrees. ...

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FOURTEENTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES ELEVENTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW IMAGE . ... EXPEDITION FOURTEEN (ISS-14) . ... Launch: . On September 18, 2006 at 08:08:42 Moscow time (04:08:42 UTC) Russian manned transport spacecraft Soyuz TMA-9 was launched by the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle. ... ISS-14 . ... Soyuz TMA Flight Engineer . ... ISS Flight Engineer 1, . ... NASA (USA) astronaut Sunita Williams was delivered onboard the ISS by Shuttle Orbiter (Flight 12A.1) and returned to Earth by Shuttle (Flight 13A). ...

... Telescopes . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade Atomic Time Update Module #07581. ... The Meade Atomic Time Update Module eliminates the need to manually enter the local (wrist watch) time on start up of the telescope prior to alignment. Plugs into the Atomic Time Update Module Port of the LNT Module Viewfinder with an included patch cord. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Regional planning meeting for the Balkan and Black Sea | ... Proposals for a web site of the Regional Network - Information on regional and global activities - Proceedings of this Meeting - Space Weather Alerts for the public - Form for submitting research and observational proposals - Database of scientific data publicly available - Greece provides solar telescope data - Romania provides data on active regions studied with helioseismis holography - Armenia provides access to...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... Conference Photograph . ... The 1997 conference of the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) Conference series was organized by the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility and the European Southern Observatory from 14-17 September, 1997. ... The conference sponsors included the European Southern Observatory . ... Space Telescope -- European Coordinating Facility . ... Space Telescope Science Institute . ... Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VI 1997, ASP Conf. ...

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... G. A Leikin, A. N. Sanovich. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow 119899, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... G. A. Leikin and A. N. Sanovich, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, State University, 119992, Moscow, Universitetskij prosp. ...

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... Sea Surface Temperature, restored from NOAA satellite data . You may use Java applet to view temperature maps in more detail. Using the applet, you can build "accumulated" temperature maps from selected data, get temperature values in any point and save the resulting image to your local disk. Date and time of the data . ... 3.11.2007 . 19:10 (GMT) . ... For information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... Observations of precipitating (Jp) and trapped (Jt) energetic (> 30 keV) particle fluxes at the ionospheric altitudes within the auroral oval region has revealed the existence of a sharp boundary separating the poleward zone of isotropic precipitation (Jp = Jt) from the equatorward zone of weak loss cone filling (Jp << Jt) at all local times (Sergeev and Malkov, 1988). ... boundaries for higher energy particles are located at lower latitudes than boundaries for lower energy particles . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...