... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... If the Universe is flat, it is forever balanced between open and closed; it will expand forever, but always slowing, just balancing gravity. ... Basically, if the Universe is open (will expand forever), closed (will eventually contract again) or flat (expanding just fast enough to balance gravity), you will see differences in the way the SN behave. ...

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Dynamic Shack-Hartmann System RAPID V. G. Orlov, V. V. Voitsekhovich Instituto de AstronomМa, UNAM, MИxico CONACYT project E9507-1020P UNAM PAPIIT IN104910 Telescopes OAN OAN- SPM 2.1m telescope 1.5m telescope 0.84m telescope 2.1m telescope OAN-Tonanzintla 1m telescope Astronomical site SPM Observing statistics 1982-2002 (Tapia+ 2007 ) Photometric nights : 64.1% Spectroscopic ... Rapid - Dynamic Shack-Hartmann All modern telescopes demand installation of adaptive system. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Launches . ... Launch Vehicles. ... Launch Sites . ... Space Science . ... Chief of Rosaviakosmos told NK about plans of reorganization and future holdings structure of Russian aviation and space industry. ... Mikhail Yevtifyev reviews the history of Krasnoayrask Machine-Building Plant, the Siberian site that produced several types of ballistic missiles and launch vehicles as well as space satellites. ...

... A Catalog of Variable Stars Based on the New Name List E. V. Kazarovets1 , N. N. Samus'1, 2 * , O. V. Durlevich2 , N. N. Kireeva1 , E. N. Pastukhova1 , and G. Pojmanski3 1 Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyatnitskaya ul. ... THE CATALOG The 79th Name List of Variable Stars [2] contains 1270 stars, which obtained their final names in the GCVS system in 2007­2008. ... CONCLUSIONS We have presented a catalog in the full GCVS format for the just published Name List of Variable Stars...

... Planets, moons, asteroids and comets contain resources such as water and minerals, valuable to astronauts and potentially to Earth, with other elements such as platinum as a byproduct of the extraction. ... Lewis hoped we could defray cost s b y "bringing inexpensive products down to Earth. ... We could make travel to Mars cheaper by "bringing just enough fuel [to get there], then use the Martian CO2 atmosphere to go home. One ton of equipment will be able to produce 100 tons of fuel." ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

... 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. ...

21.10 news 887 MH 19/10/04 2:15 pm Page 887 news Russians fear privatization of state labs Bryon MacWilliams, Moscow Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding. ... We agree that Russian science does need reform," says Boris Stern, a particle physicist at the academy's Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

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