The Youth Space Center of Bauman Moscow State Technical University conducts the workshop for space enthusiasts (only students) every year to provide participants with an opportunity to discuss the results of the year passed in space focusing on Russian and International programs, see and touch the real space hardware and meet people working on the front edge of space science and technology. ... You will go to Mission Control Center and see how the International Space Station is controlled. ...

Birthday in Canada . Parents of children up to around 13 or 14 make a bigger show of birthday celebrations here in Canada than do people of other ages. In fact they seem to try to outdo each other in terms of providing entertainment for the kids. ... They provide food and games for the kids to play. ... I spend my birthday either at home with my friends and family, or at a restaurant with friends and family. ... On this day we usually have Pizza, cake, junk food mostly. ... Alexandra . ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Полезное для астрономии . Книга по астрофотографии. Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images . ... Поиск . ... Из серии книг от Патрика Мура . ... Созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Созвездия южного неба (поиск и описание) .. Осенние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. ... Лунные феномены (редкие, необычные явления) Жизнь астрономов-любителей Анонсы астрономических мероприятий Астрономические клубы Наш "Старлаб" . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

LBO LBO has many unique characteristics that contribute to its wide use as a nonlinear optical crystal. ... LBO Specifications Wavefront Distortion Dimension Tolerance Clear Aperture Scattering Sites Flatness Surface Quality Parallelism Perpendicularity Angle Tolerance Damage Threshold /8 at 633nm (W: +/- 0.1mm ) x (H: +/- 0.1mm ) x (L: + 0.2mm/- 0.1mm ) 80% of central area No visible scattering centers when inspected by a 30 mW green laser /8 at ...

... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... The Board of Directors shall be the governing body of the Association. ... As soon as possible after the annual meeting of the Association (cf Article VII), and no later than May 31, the President shall convene a meeting of the Board of Directors, to which any new Directors-elect shall be specifically invited. ...

... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... The NASA Integrated Services Network's mission is to provide a computer communications network designed to support NASA Science flight mission, discipline research programs, and collaborating scientists' affiliate research institutes. ... Use of the NASA Integrated Services Network to support NASA research, related training, and associated technical activities at non-profit institutions of research and education is acceptable. ...

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. ...

... The unlocked gate at the entrance to the observatoryтАЩs gravel driveway should remain closed to prevent the public from driving back to the observatory. ... This means that if there are still members of the public present at the observatory who do not wish to leave by 11:30 PM they will be locked in the park until a keyholder leaves and secures the gate(s) behind him/her. ... Roll the roof back using the hand crank near the computer room. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

... International programs . ... Information Consolidation in International Anti-Crisis Management . ... European Diploma Supplement . ... AљDIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT isљaљdocument given toљgraduates ofљhigher educational institutions ofљall forms ofљproperty and subordination toљprovide information required for objective evaluation ofљhigher education qualification (degree) received byљthe person awarded with aљhigher education diploma. ... Copyright 2010 V.љN. Karazin Kharkiv National University. ...

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. ...

Construction of the 31" Telescope and Observatory . A lot has been said about the history of the Warren Rupp Observatory and the legacy of the telescope's mirror maker Norm Oberle . Many articles on this web site and others will provide you with the details and the stories that made it all happen. This article will not focus on the the facts outlined in previous articles but will instead document the construction of the Warren Rupp Observatory through pictures taken from start to finish. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...