... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... Bibliography . ... Included in this list are only the papers published in editions that seem easily accessible for users outside Russia. The papers published in hardly accessible editions were not included in the list. ... 1980-1984 | 1985-1987 | ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

Many foreigners say "England" and "English" when they mean "Britain", or "the UK", and "British". ... In Northwest England, there are many beautiful lakes with green, wooden or grassy shores and gray mountains all around. The Lake District is the central mountainous area of Cumbria in the Northwest and has some of England's most beautiful scenery. ... Nearly one quarter of the Lake District National Park is owned by the National Trust . ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... 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. ...

... Some changes concerning conference fee and social program were caused by financial instability. The Conference Fee is deducted to 200 Euro for foreign participants and includes issue of Official Invitation Letter approved by Russian Emigration Authorities, coffee-breaks and abstract and program books. The reduced Conference Fee is deducted to 1500 Russian rubles for participants from Russia and includes coffee-breaks and abstract and program books. ...

include graphics.h #include math.h #include conio.h const double l=10000000; const float V0=5000; const float angle =0.5; const float dt=500; const double G=6.67e-11; const double M=5.98e24; double E; float p; float F; float b; float b_angle ; float S; float x1; float y1; float r; float Vi; int xC; long ...

... RECOMMENDED VALUES OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS AND CONVERSION FACTORS. ... This reference must be included when these constants are used in a context where their full accuracy is important. ... elementary charge (of proton) . ... gravitational constant . ... unified atomic mass constant . ... of electron . ... of proton . ... Planck constant . ... Rydberg constant, m 0 2 m e e 4 c 3 /8h 3 . ... fine structure constant, m 0 e 2 c/2h . ... Bohr radius, h 2 ( pm 0 c 2 m e e 2 ) . ... Bohr magneton, e h /2m e...

Welcome to the AAAP Simpson Observatory 2016 season information page. The Simpson Observatory is located in Washington Crossing State Park, [on the NJ side] several miles south of Pennington, NJ. The observatory is a slide-roof design, allowing for optimal viewing of the sky in any direction. http://www.princetonastronomy.org/directions.html . ... THE OBSERVATORY WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC . ... Enter Washington Crossing State Park (NJ side) off of Bear Tavern Road . ...

... Chilingarian, I., Melchior, A.-L., Zolotukhin, I. 2010: Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , MNRAS, v. 405, p. 1409 (also arXiv:1002.2360) . ... Calculator . ... calculate spectral energy distributions , K-corrections calculator , UKIDSS YJHK , K-corrections of galaxies , spectral based k-corrections , SDSS filter set K-corrections , K correction code IDL , kcorrect IDL C , . ...

Microsymposium 40, abstract 78, 2004 (A4 format) A TREATMENT OF DATA BANK OF MORPHOLOGIC CATALOGUE OF MERCURIAN CRATERS. ... Coordinates of craters in the catalogue are changed in accordance with [2] new data of Mercury"s North Pole. A treatment of data bank is fulfilled with the use of software in regime of "client-server" on the choice of ensemble of the objects, compiling maps of density distribution of craters. ... Flat floor of craters on Mercury is met often than on the Moon. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Baikonur . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Familiarization with the Baikonur Cosmodrome launching and engineering facilities (helicopter panoramic flight is also available on special request and not included in the price) . ... Final Space Crew Medical Check and Space Suit donning . ... Witness a Space Vehicle Launch RESERVATION AND PAYMENT POLICY . ... Services / Baikonur: General description Technical description Shedule of launches Photo gallery Price . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

MATSYM - symbolic matrix processor . ... To use the program you will need a MAT file (liked CIR file: "User manual for CIRSYM program") of your system. ... In first string of MAT file enter any text you want to be the title of your system. ... Starting from string 2 (if is not comments - "*") enter the system element name, incident row and column and, optionally, its value. ... To generate a solution, run MATSYM.exe and enter "system_file_name.CIR" or click on the "ENTER" (in "MAT" case). ...

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... Objectives of the study . To survey and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of European initiatives by start-up companies, for privately-funded crew vehicles for commercial human space flight. ... New commercial markets, among them space tourism, have a great potential to become major drivers in space technology development. This study aims at the assessment of the feasibility of European initiatives to address these new markets through the development of crewed space vehicles. ...

... The 2009 New Year's Concert is the first to be conducted by Daniel Barenboim. As well as an irresistible collection of Viennese delights - including no fewer than six New Year's Concert premieres - the Vienna Philharmonic and Maestro Barenboim launch a year of celebrations marking the bicentenary of the great Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, whose "Farewell" Symphony provides the perfect finale to a very special New Year from Vienna! ...