... Bad Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... Dr. Philip Plait . Hubble Space Telescope Astronomer . ... His job is to calibrate the Space Telescope Imaging Spectograph , which he refers to as STIS. ... He finds it very exciting to be one of the first people on earth to see what images are coming in from the Hubble Telescope. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Research directions . ... Professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , head of the laboratory, phone +7 (495) 629 33 94, fax +7 (495) 629 36 78, serzz@cplire.ru . V. E. Minakova, , Ph.D., senior research fellow, mina@cplire.ru . A. B. Odobesku, Ph.D.,research fellow, arty@cplire.ru . V. F. Nasretdinova , Ph.D., junior research fellow, venera@cplire.ru . ... Dmitriev , Laboratory of artificial quantum systems, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies ( MIPT ) . ...

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Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... 5, 1998 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Newsroom Phone: 301-286-8955 NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: 98-158 HISTORIC JOHN GLENN FLIGHT TO FEATURE MARYLAND AND GODDARD SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS When Mercury astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn returns to space October 29, a fascinating array of science experiments from the Goddard Space Flight Center and Maryland students will fly with him. ...

Automatic Detection of NEOs in CCD Frames . ... CCD frames obtained with modern telescopes with robotic operation allow carrying out standard observation programs for detection of peculiar objects on stellar backgrounds, as is the case of Near Earth Objects (NEOs). ... In this paper, we present original algorithms for automatically detecting dim NEO images in telescope frames, considering both sidereal and differential tracking [2]. ...

... student, Astronomical Department, St.Petersburg University . ... degree in theoretical astrophysics, St.Petersburg University . ... engineer, Astronomical Observatory, St.Petersburg University . ... Ph.D.student, Chair of Astrophysics, St.Petersburg University . ... adviser of a Ph.D.student (thesis 1998), St.Petersburg University . ... adviser of a Ph.D.student, St.Petersburg University . ... adviser of a stazher from Germany at St.Petersburg University . Scientific interests . ...

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. ...

Standard analog magnetograms (20 mm / sec) are presented in the form of digital images, . ... Observatory, . ... 1949 , 1950 , 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 . ... 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 , 1956 , 1957 . ... 1950 , 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 , 1956 , 1957 , . ... 1950 , 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 , 1956 , . ... The project was conducted in 2003 by the International Council for Science ( "Rescue of Old Analogue Magnetograms by converting to digital images" , ICSU Grant–2003 Project). ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

Wave propagation in an irregular plasma . Methods of the ionospheric plasma radio sounding . ... Program, Grant No. ... Investigation of Anomalous Attenuation Effect Caused by Radio Wave Scattering and Transformation on the Ionospheric Irregularities . ... Grant No. ... Diagnostics of Ionospheric Irregularity Spectrum Using Measurements of Radio Wave Anomalous Attenuation Under Vertical Sounding . ... Simple numerical model of radio wave multiple scattering effects in the ionospheric plasma layer. ...

... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference . ... PS1 telescope establishes near-Earth asteroid discovery record . ... The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids on the night of January 29, the most asteroids discovered by one telescope on a single night. ... On Sunday night, they confirmed that two of the asteroids were near-Earth asteroids before snow on Mauna Kea forced the telescopes to close. ...

. Currently . student of the 5th course of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . Field of research interest