... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

Authors: T.V. Borkova , V.A. Marsakov , . ... It is found that dispersions of spatial and kinematics characteristics of field stars change abruptly when the metallicity crosses the boundary [Fe/H] -0.95 . ... По опубликованным прецизионным наземным и спутниковым измерениям собственных движений, компилятивным лучевым скоростям и фотометрическим расстояниям вычислены компоненты пространственных скоростей и элементы галактических орбит для 174 переменных звезд типа ab RR Лиры околосолнечной окрестности. ...

... Step to Internet . ... AstroWeb Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet . ... GUS Resources . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... The Mosaic Home Page and Mosaic Documentation . ... Internet Resources Meta-Index at NCSA . ... NRAO list of astronomical resources . STScI list of astronomical resources . ... U of Illinois Weather World which includes: . ... Planning a trip? look at US Traveler's Forecast . ... Washington DC Metro Forecast , Weather Summary and Traveller's Forecast . ...

... Home Articles Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 1: Beginning Observers Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 2: Intermediate Observers . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 4: Magazines and Miscellany . ...

The unique object SS 433. ... First before 1978 it was not so interesting, but American and Italian scientists registrated three emission lines system of hydrogen and helium. ... One of its components is a massive star with temperature about 30 thousand Kelvin’s and luminance about million times more then the Sun’s one. ... The SS 433 modern picture includes the giant star with high temperature and luminance as well as its satellite. All the system is cored by plasma as by corona. ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

Subject, Object and Problems of Astrophysics. Practical and Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Visual Telescope; Problems Which Are Solved with the Its Help. ... Resolution of Telescopes. ... Effectiveness of Telescope in Respect of Resolution. ... Optical Power of Telescopes for Star-like and Extensive Objects. Boundary Magnitude. Reasons of Light Dissipation in Telescopes. ... Spectral Instruments in Astrophysics. ... Basic Photometrical Ideas, Magnitudes and Their Measurement. ...

... ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Nonstellar objects Description: NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). ... The order of the new catalog is strictly by right ascension, the NGC and IC objects being merged into one machine-readable file. ... The book also contains a table of right ascensions for NGC and IC objects. ...

... Milky Way . ... Science Fiction . ... Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-50) was born in Norman, Oklahoma; he was of French, Czech and English descent and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.б  Jansky was the third of six children and was named after physicist Karl Guthe whom his father Cyril Jansky had worked for earlier in his career.An interest in science and physics was perhaps in KarlБЂ™s genes as Cyril Karl Jansky БЂњRadio Astronomy, I am your fatherБЂќ (Image credit:Wikimedia.org) . ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... Astronomy in Ukraine Past, Present, and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Erik Hog (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark) Absolute astrometry in the next 50 years Abstract . ... In brief, the two Gaia-like missions would provide an astrometric foundation for all branches of astronomy from the solar system and stellar systems to compact galaxies, quasars and dark matter (DM) by data which cannot be surpassed the next 50 years. ... Is there any future for the ground based astrometry technique now? ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Telescopes . ... But regardless of where you observe from or whether or not you have a telescope, exploring the many aspects of astronomy can be an exciting hobby. It can be an activity shared with thousands of other amateurs all over the world. ... Or it might be pursued more actively by joining a local astronomy club like the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston and learning by direct association with other amateurs. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...

Keep the size of the tarfile to a minimum by excluding files that can be recreated from files contained in the tarfile. Examples are: .o (object) files that can be recreated by compiling the program source code.dvi files produced by processing TeX and LaTeX source files.ps (postscript) files generated by drawing and publishing packages. After you have created a tarfile, you can then reduce its size by using the compress command. ... This will create a file called project.tar.Z . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... The project of the scientific - educational small satellite for research of Earth upper atmosphere density . ... At the end of 80th years in Kuybishev aviation institute (nowadays the Samara State Aerospace University) has been developed the project of small spherical satellite " PION ", intended as for a calibration of ground resources of tracing behind space objects, and for refinement of density of upper atmosphere of the Earth. ...