Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Август 1998 . ... Дата: 07 августа 1998 (1998-08-07) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: 8/11: Preliminary Assessment of Space Colonization Strategies Based on Subject: 8/11: Preliminary Assessment of Space Colonization Strategies Based on Привет всем! ... STARDUST MICROCHIP UPDATE August 5, 1998 We have now collected over 992,000 names for the second microchip that will be carried on the STARDUST spacecraft. ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... Deep Impact: Excaving Comet Tempel 1 " . ... On 4 July 2005 Deep Impact collided with comet Tempel 1, excaving a crater. Deep Impact consisted of two fully functional spacecraft: an impacting spacecraft weighting 364 kg and a flyby spacecraft for observing the impact and relaying data from the impactor. ... The impact was also observed by over 80 ground-based observatories and by several spacecraft (Rosetta, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra, Spitzer). ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...

... On 26 October 2009 in Moscow, in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) a meeting was held of the leading Russian scientists and statesmen with the Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw and the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey. ... Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw. ... Balega, the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey, Director General of the ESO Tim de Zeeuw, deputy director of the SAO RAS V.V.Vlasuyk . ...

... Radio emission of the moon and meteoroid impacts . ... Such impact events may be accompanied by radio emission of seismic origin.radiation. We detected significant increasing of lunar radio emission flux at 13 and 21 cm within 9-12 hours of the Lunar Prospector impact. ... Detection of lunar radio emission of seismic origin may lead to creation of new informational channel for investigation of seismic activity of the Moon and Mercury. ...

... Space Contents 1-2 YEAR 3-4 MONTH 5-6 DAY 7-8 BLANK 9-12 N (THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 13-15 BLANK 16-19 S (THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 20-22 BLANK 23-26 M1 (HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR THE GREENWICH DAY ) 27-29 BLANK 30-33 M2 (SECOND HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR GREENWICH DAY ) 34-36 BLANK 37-38 CC_OR_K (QUIET DAYS CLASSIFICATION) 39-41 MONTHLY MEAN DATA: Loacated after the last day of the month. ...

Detection Probability of Terrestrial Radio Signals by a Hostile Super-civilization Dr. Alexander L. Zaitsev, IRE, Russia, alzaitsev@gmail.com Comparison of the total number of the radar astronomy transmissions with respect to that used for sending messages to extra-terrestrial civilizations reveals that the probability of detection of the radio signals to extraterrestrials (ETs) is one million times smaller than that of the radar signals used to study planets and asteroids in the Solar System. ...

... 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 . ...

... The Impact of HST on European Astronomy . ... These range from the study of nearby planets, the processes of star and planet formation, the stellar and interstellar components of galaxies, the discovery that most, if not all, galactic nuclei harbor a massive black hole that profoundly affects their evolution, to the realisation that the universe as a whole is undergoing acceleration as a result of a yet unknown form of dark energy . ... Formation, structure and evolution of galaxies . ...

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: ATP1021 Title: comment on the paper by Dalin , Pertsev and Romejko Significance of lunar impact on noctilucent clouds ( revised version) Article Type: Research Paper Section/Category: Keywords: Noctilucent clouds moon influence mesosphere Manuscript Region of Origin: Abstract: a critical review of the paper by Dalin , ... Reference: Dalin, P.A., N.N. Pertsev, V.A. Romejko. ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...

The world has lost one of its most renowned scientists with the death of Eugene Shoemaker at age 69. On the afternoon of July 18, 1997, Gene and his wife, Carolyn, were involved in a car accident in central Australia. ... Best known for his pioneering work in elucidating the mechanics of impacts and in the discovery of Earth-crossing bodies, Gene gained worldwide fame in March 1993 for his discovery,with Carolyn and colleague David Levy, of a comet that would strike Jupiter 16 months later. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Bill Murray (609) 298-1179 strgazr@comcast.net Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Michael Mitrano (609)-737-6518 michael.mitrano@att.net Program Chairman ... (609) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and (609) 448-8644 kane@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 39 From the Director March ... Point your browser to http://www.princetonastronomy.org/ 2. ...

ASTRONOMY IN UKRAINE - 2000 AND BEYOND . ... Kyiv, Ukraine, 5-8 June 2000 . ... The primary objective of the conference is to consider the integration of astronomical research in Ukraine into the international astronomy. ... VLBI for Astronomy and Geodynamics Convenors: Kees van't Klooster (The Netherlands), Leonid M. Litvinenko (Ukraine), Chopo Ma (USA). ... Planetary Astronomy Convenors: Teodor Kostiuk (USA), Robert Nelson (USA), Yuri Shkuratov (Ukraine). ... The "general" registration fee: 100 USD. ...

. -!> download . Left: Consequtive explosion of 20 supernovae during 30 Myr. Right: Single hypernova (GRB) explosion with the total energy equivalent to 20 supernovae. The simulation was performed using a 2D Eulerian hydro code. The animation was done using IDL. -!>

... Electron Impact Excitation . ... Blum R.D. "Rate coefficients for the excitation of infrared and ultraviolet lines in CII, NIII ans OIV", Ap.J. Suppl, 80, 425-452 (1992) . HI Sholz T.T. "Collisional rates and cooling within atomic hydrogen plasmas", Ap.J., 380, 302-306 (1991) . Electron Impact Ionization . ... Proton Impact Excitation and Ionization . ... Line Shapes and Shifts . ... Line Diagnostics ...