... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

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The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

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... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Май 1998 . ... Дата: 18 мая 1998 (1998-05-18) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: SJI's Sky And Space Update - May 1, 1998 Привет всем! ... 10, 1998. ... Дата: 18 мая 1998 (1998-05-18) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Surveyor 98 Update - May 15, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 18 мая 1998 (1998-05-18) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: The Mars Microphone: Ready To Go Привет всем! ... Are There Sounds on Mars? ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

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... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

В последнее время в Интернете развернулась дискуссия о том, не опасно ли передавать сигналы в адрес предполагаемых внеземных цивилизаций? ... Согласно этой концепции, менее развитая цивилизация, достигнув определенного уровня, посылает сигнал готовности, приняв который более развитая цивилизация, создавшая соответствующую систему обнаружения, определив направление на источник сигнала и оценив расстояние до него, немедленно начинает передачу информации на частоте сигнала готовности. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Parameter types . Angle parameters are intended for right ascensions and declinations, where conversion from hours/minutes/seconds or degrees/minutes/seconds may be needed. ... Note that the maximum range of the angle type is [-360,360] degrees. ... xxdxxmxx[.xxx]s (degrees, minutes and seconds) xxhxxmxx[.xxx]s (hours, minutes and seconds) [(+|-)]xxx[.xxx] (decimal degrees) . ... Note: Angle parameters are accessed by the task as a real value, in degrees. ...

... Telegrams || ... Revnivtsev, M., Lutovinov, A., Ebisawa, K., ''IGR J16358-4726 in archival data of ASCA and BeppoSAX'' , Astronomer's Telegram, 2003, 131 . ... Lutovinov, A., Kretschmar, P., Budtz-Joergensen, C., Domingo, A., Schoenfelder, V., Palumbo, G., Winkler, C. ``INTEGRAL observation of SLX1746-331'' , Astronomer's Telegram, 2003, 145 . ... Grebenev, S.A., Sunyaev, R.A. ``High actvity of XTE J1743-363 detected with INTEGRAL'' , Astronomer's Telegram, 2004, 332 . ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

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RUSSIAN . The Centre for Astronomical Data (CAD) of the Institute of Astronomy (INASAN) of the Russian Academy of Sciences was established in 1980 as a branch regional center of the Centre de Donnes Stellaire (CDS) with the purpose of astronomical data dissemination among Soviet and Eastern Europe astronomers and for providing the CDS with Soviet machine readable astronomical catalogues. The CAD archive is based on astronomical catalogues received from Strasbourg since 1980. ...

SURNAMES OF THE ASTRONOMERS IN THE NAMES OF THE LUNAR OBJECTS. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia The whole complex information about toponymy, morphology, selenographical coordinates and dimensions of the lunar objects was included in the automated information system for the Lunar Nomenclature. ... You may receive more detailed information in the Russian version of this article (nomen.pdf). ...

Personal Pages of Astronomers . ... home | ... Jarle Aasland (Comet Hale-Bopp: Norwegian Images) . ... Howard C. Anderson (Astrophotography Images and Information) . ... Patrick J. Anway (Lookum Observatory) . ... Peter Armstrong (ScanCam Home Page) . ... Bill Arnett's Astronomy Page . ... Astro Nights home page ( Australia ) . ... Alex Michael Bonnici (Space Exploration) . ... Michael Boschat . ... Brendan's Astronomy Page ( Republic of Ireland ) . ... Steve's Astronomy and Astrophotography page . ...

... Примерно раз в месяц там появляется очередной материал по теме SETI. 23 августа 2002 года в SpaceDaily было опубликовано интервью руководителя группы Межзвeздных посланий (МП) Калифорнийского SETI-Института Доуга Вэкоча под трудно переводимым названием "Doug Vakoch's And Lands Beyond Beyond". ... Пока одни ученые тщательно продумывают, как отвечать на будущие послания внеземных цивилизаций, другие не ждут сигналов к началу разговора. ... Какого рода посланием Вы бы откликнулись? ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...