MISSION "KOLIBRI-2000" . project was named on the initiative of Russian and Australian schoolchildren . ORIGINAL SCHOOL RESEARCH MICROSATELLITE: . DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION" . The Project is scheduled for 2001 . Timely_project . Novel project . Original project . A fragment of background . Basic rules of development . View of Australian schools . ... Configuration of "Kolibri-2000" . ... Joint efforts in Australia . Tests in the Space Instrument Design Buro. ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

... Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) – December 8, 2013 . Comet Lovejoy in the constellation of Corona Borealis. 30 images x 60-second subframes, Total= 30 minutes. ... Acquisition, calibration, alignment, combine and digital development processing by Images Plus 3.82b, Additional processing using Adobe Photoshop. ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 8 December 2013. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. The optical instrument making is a work area of Laboratory for atmosphere optics of MAO NAN of Ukraine. The developments of lab staff is simple optical devices for scientific, industrial application and unique developments of astronomical devices, including space experiments. You can see our developments in section design of optical systems and production of aspherical optics. Staff . Design of optical systems . Production of aspherical optics . Contact . to main of Laboratory .

... part 2 | ... Part 1 . The new concept of formation and development of the Solar system. ... Thus, the initial pulse of the rotation of a protosolar cloud of the solar system was determined as a result of the diversion of a part of the moment of the rotational pulse of the Galaxy. ... Besides this new approach to the pre-solar system as a system of the destroyed vortex structure, we can understand now a number of other peculiarities of the Solar system's structure. ...

... Speckle polarimeter (previosly known as Multimode Fast Camera MFC) is an instrument which will implement several observational methods of astronomy in visible (BVRI bands): speckle interferometry, polarimetry, speckle polarimetry (including polaroastrometry), and fast photometry. The speckle polarimeter will be installed in one of auxiliary Nasmyth ports of 2.5 m telescope of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Speckle interferometry. ... Tests of speckle polarimeter at 2.5 m telescope. ...

... Subject of Astronomy. ... Basis of Spherical and Practical Astronomy. ... Celestial Sphere. ... Changes of Star's Coordinates as a Result of Daily Rotation of Celestial Sphere. ... Time Measuring. ... Changes of Solar Equatorial Coordinates. ... Stellar Day, Stellar Time. ... Real Solar Time. ... Mean Solar Time. ... Connections between Stellar and Mean Time. ... Apparent Path and Configuration of Planets. ... Ways of Energy Transportation to Stellar Surface.Basis of Spectral Analysis. ... Solar...

MATHEMATICAL MODELING: . ... This model is developed on the base of the probabilistic description of the collisional aeronomical processes and is realized on a computer as the numerical system (stochastic model). ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo , D.V.             Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. ... In Russian) . ... Piarnpuu , A. A.; and Shematovich, V. I.       Construction of structural stochastic models of collision processes in rarefied gas media (abstract) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Sky this Week . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mars mission given green light by NASA to proceed to development . ... NASA announced today that the University of Colorado at Boulder-led mission to Mars to investigate how the planet lost much of its atmosphere eons ago has been approved by the space agency to move into the development stage. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

... Participants . ... At the same time, the combinatorial description of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and related quantization topics together with the related issues in cluster algebras continue to thrive, including generalizations to algebras of higher rank and investigating the related algebraic structures. ... The workshop will take place at three locations: the Independent University of Moscow (3 days), the Steklov Mathematical Institute (2 days) and the Higher School of Economics (1 day). ...

... Our friends from Chile send us wonderful description of planet they found on their way to blue planet. ... Shambala, planet of highly developed creatures. ... Picture 1) We investigated and found wonderful caverns with pictures that showed high development in all disciplines: Music, Art, Poetry, Singing, Astronomy, Mathematics, Language, Geometry, Grammar; Science and Technology. ... Picture 4 Dark creatures who destroyed their own lives and the planet development attracting disaster. ... Chile. ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

... It is now recognised that food and wine festivals and events can play a significant role in rural and urban development and regeneration and the impacts of these events can be far ranging at a social, political, economic and environmental level.Food and Wine Festivals and Events Around the World: development, management and markets is a pioneering text that recognises the importance of this area of the tourism industry. ...

Below is a list of additional documentation pages that apply to the Apache web server development project. ... Description of Apache's Application Programming Interface. ... Reading Client Input in Apache 1.2 . Describes differences between Apache 1.1 and 1.2 in how modules read information from the client. ... Notes about Apache's compatibility with the NCSA server. ... Performance Notes (BSD 4.4) . Some notes about ways to improve/optimize Apache performance on BSD 4.4 systems. ...

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

... Students Life . ... International programs . ... International Marketing ? ... Lectures at the summer school will be delivered by associate professors and professors of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, students will be supervised by the staff of the Department of International Programs and Academic Mobility and the Center of Area Studies, allowing students to get the most out of Ukrainian culture and diversity of the city of Kharkiv in addition to learning Economics and Russian language. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the randomly-irregular magnetized plasma has been derived on the base of general grounds of the multiple scattering theory . ... Solutions of several absolute tasks of the scattering theory have been obtained (on the optical depth of the ionospheric plasma layer, on the value of radio wave anomalous attenuation, on anomalous refraction, on the backscattered signal intensity for the source being placed within a plasma layer). ...

WALTER W. GUY BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Walter W. Guy O RAL H ISTORY: 30 OCTOBER 2006 27 NOVEMBER 2006 29 JANUARY 2007 EDUC ATIONAL · · BACKGROUND: Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering , University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1959 Master of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University, Houston , TX, 1968 NASA EXPERIENCE: NASA Langley Research Center , Hampton, VA (1959-1961) · W. W. Guy and J. F. Saunders, Jr., ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. ... The purpose of these observations is the determination of precise coordinates of Solar system bodies, which is necessary for development and improvement of motion theories, and for studying the evolution of the Solar system. ... Accuracy of photographical observations is about 0.2-0.3 arcsec for equatorial coordinates and 0.1-0.3 for relative coordinates of planetary satellites, depending on object and observational conditions. ...