... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... 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. ...

... This is usually defined as the direction pointing toward the center of the primary body. ... NODE: The place where the plane of one orbit crosses the plane of another. ... ORBITAL PLANE: The flat surface that would result if every point on the orbit of a body was connected to the center of its primary. ... PENUMBRA: The edge of the primary body's shadow. ... PERIOD : The time required for one body to orbit the primary body. ... PROBE: A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. ...

... Russian Aviation and Space Agency liaison Sergei Ripkin, during the crew's welcome home ceremony May 27 f rom a change in crew to a new ride home, Expedition 6 members ­ International Space Station Commander Kenneth Bowersox, ISS Science Officer Donald Pettit and Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin ­ were "all about teamwork and flexibility," said ISS Program Manager Bill Gerstenmaier. ... Bowersox later said that Pettit was "born to be a Space Station Science Officer." ...

... 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 . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... 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) . ...

... The Elephanta island looks like an elephant that lies in the Ocean. ... We arrive at the island. ... There are monkeys on the island. ... This girl was officially recognized as the most beautiful girl on the island. ... But there are wild cows on the island. ... There was a big armed British garrison on the island. ... A Hindu rajah lived on the island before the Portuguese. ... The tickets that we have bought in Mumbai are valid to return. ... And here are Gateway of India. We arrive in Mumbai. ...

LIF Marseille and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: alexander.shen AT lif.univ-mrs.fr, sasha.shen AT gmail.com . ... Kolmogorov complexity, algorithmic information theory . Teaching (mathematics, computer science): Independent University of Moscow, Moscow State University, Moscow mathematical school No 57. ... Kolmogorov memorial conference, Moscow. IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, Aarhus (Denmark), ("Kolmogorov day") . ...

КАТАЛОГ ВОЗРАСТОВ, МЕТАЛЛИЧНОСТЕЙ, ЭЛЕМЕНТОВ ОРБИТ И ДРУГИХ ПАРАМЕТРОВ БЛИЗКИХ F-ЗВЕЗД . ... В. Марсаков, Ю. Шевелев . ... Подробнее о методах вычисления возрастов и элементов орбит звезд см. в работах Марсаков & Шевелев (1993) и Марсаков & Шевелев (1994). ... A & A, 22, 255 // Первая цитата в статье . ... Первая цитата в статье . ... Марсаков В.А. & Шевелев Ю.Г. 1993, АЖ, 70,1218 // Первая цитата в статье . Марсков В.А. & Шевелев Ю.Г. 1994, АЖ, 71, 368 // Первая цитата в статье . ...

COPRATES CHASMA NORTH WALL INTERIOR LAYERED DEPOSIT: LAYER MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISON WITH JUVENTAE CHASMA ILDS USING MARS EXPRESS HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA (HRSC) DERIVED TOPOGRAPHY Michael, G.1, E. Hauber1, K. Gwinner1, R. Stesky2 ... Planets, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany 5ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Introduction: The interior layered deposit ( ILD ) in the north wall of Coprates ... The lesser section of the ILD is confined by a ridge of the chasma wall. ...

... it's the same old sun up in the sky . ... like the breezes here in old Shanghai . ... Xy Guangqi house (17 Nandan rd) in front of Observatory in the park is the oldest (500 years) building in Shanghai. The house initially called ``Nanchun Huatang'' was mooved from the initial place to Guangqi park. ... He was one of the first chinese, who adopted Christianinty, translator of Euclid, friend of Matteo Richi. To the fourth trip . ...

J E N A M - 2000 Moscow . ... We are pleased to confirm that the JENAM-2000 meeting will take place in Moscow, Russia, in May 29 - June 3, 2000. ... Registration form . ... You can submit it through the Web-page (highly desirable) URL: http//www.inasan.rssi.ru/INASAN/JENAM . ... Please, visit JENAM-2000 Web-pages http://www.inasan.rssi.ru/INASAN/JENAM , http://www.sai.msu.su/jenam , http://www.aip.fr/eas/meetings.htm for news and additional details about JENAM and associated events planning. ...

Please select one or more authors to see their list of publications. ... publications for last year, please click here first . ... Buntov, Michael . ... Grebenev, Sergey . ... Kaniovsky, Alexander . Konovalov, Alexey . ... Kuznetsov, Alexander . Kuznetsov, Sergey . Kuzmin, Alexey . ... Lutovinov, Alexander . ... Mescheryakov, Alexander . Mol'kov, Sergey . ... Pavlinsky, Michael . Revnivtsev, Michael . Sazonov, Sergey . ... 2001 . ... 1998 . 1997 . 1996 . ...

... 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. ...

... Previous: Ground Tracking Station (GTS) Products . ... GRT Log File . ... GRT Gain Curves . ... What: Co-observing GRTs will each generate a log file identical to those for ground-based VLBI experiments. ... Where: Files are placed by GRTs on their regional server ( Regional Servers for GRT logs etc ) in the sub-directory named for the month and year (e.g. may97 ) below the sub-directory named gps . ... Where: Files are placed by GRTs on their regional server ( Regional Servers for GRT logs etc ). ...

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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... F. A. Primini, and H. E. Payne, eds. Infrared Sp ectroscopy Data Reduction with ORAC-DR Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness, Brad Cavanagh1 Joint Astronomy Centre, 660 N. A`ohЇ u Place, Hilo, HI 96720 okЇ Gillian S. Wright, Alan Bridger UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Blackford Hil l, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, Scotland Tom H. Kerr, Paul Hirst, Andy J. Adamson Joint Astronomy Centre, 660 N. A`ohЇ u Place, Hilo, HI 96720 okЇ Abstract. ...

... Seeking a splendid escape to the beach or the cool breezes and green hills of the foothills and mountains of the northeast can offer a chance to take a longer look at the summer sky. ... StarQuest Memories. StarQuest was a blast this year! ... The observing at StarQuest, especially on Saturday night, was worthy of pulling an all-nighter, and several of us had our eyepieces and CCD cameras working all night along (including Brian Van Liew and Bob Vanderbei with their CCDs). ... Dark Skies! ...

... 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...