Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York February 2010 Volume 58 Number 2, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE would have seen and what he wouldn't. For example, he wasn't sure what Saturn's rings were. When he looked at the Milky Way with a scope, he saw innumerable stars. ... Kepler also observed a system where the light curve from the orbiting body dips more during occultation than during transit, suggesting it's much hotter than its parent star, an odd situation for a planet-star system. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

... Students Life . ... Trade Union of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students . ... The University Student Trade Union has protected the rights of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students for more than 80 years. ... to issue international student?s identity cards ISIC and IYTC; . ... The Trade Union Committee closely cooperates with the University Student Council, Student Scientific Society and Student Councils of Halls of Residence. ... International Students' Education Center . ...

Andromeda Nebula. In the XVIII century the great English astronomer William Gershel included this galaxy into the observed stars congestions. ... What is this nebula interested for? It is a great spiral galaxy 1,5 times more than our galaxy - The Milky Way. The Milky Way and Andromeda Nebula are the greatest objects of the local group of galaxies. ... Andromeda Nebula is not the nearest galaxy to ours but its structure looks like the structure of our Galaxy. ...

AUTOMATIC CREATION OF THE HYPSOMETRIC MAP OF VENUS. ... The hypsometric map of Venus (1:45M) created under editing of Dr. Rodionova gives the representation of the planet relief on the basis of up-to-date data. ... The requirement was to preserve contour polygons with the areas more than 10 000 sq. km at the Venus surface, which corresponded with areas approximately more than 5 sq. km at the map. ... The other side of Venus map has been prepared. ... Surface height histograms for both Venus and Earth. ...

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. ...

The creation of the database of images of old analogue magnetograms of Geophysical Observatory "Paratunka", Kamchatka, Russia, 1967-2006 VarSITI / SCOSTEP Project Final Report ­ 2014 1. INTRODUCTION Magnet ic field variat ions show the processes in the Sun-Earth system. ... These data are contained in analogue magnetograms obtained at the observatories during the last century. ... The usual so lut ion of these problems is to obtain the graphic images of magnetograms. ...

Multipurpose Aerospace System (MAKS) . ... Up to date the main components of the orbital stage construction have been worked up, external fuel tank mock-up has been made, significant work has been already done on the propulsion system MAKS consists of the subsonic carrier aircraft and an orbital stage with an external fuel tank mounted on it As the first stage the An-225 MRIA aircraft originally intended for the BURAN transportation is used. ... CREATION AIRFRAME OF THE BURAN ORBITAL SPACESHIP . ...

... Recherche dans le site : . Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit–їs . ... Accueil Feu d'artifice stellaire dans Helix . ... Ces amas de mati–Rre, aussi grands que notre Syst–Rme solaire et d'une masse –їquivalant –Љ 10% du Soleil, –їtaient d–їj–Љ connus des astronomes. ... 06/04/2016 - Le journal de bord de Thomas Pesquet (21) . ... 25/02/2016 - Un myst–їrieux –їclair radio localis–ї dans une lointaine galaxie . ...

... as a result of its inspection of the Poncelet laboratory on January 24, 2005 . ... i) to send young French researchers for long-term stays in Moscow to work with Russian scientists, and, at the same time, to provide a meeting place for other types of cooperation – joint seminars, international conferences, short term exchanges; . ... The Committee highly appreciates the work done by Alexei Sossinsky, the first director of the Laboratory. ...

Extended time series of Solar Activity Indices (ESAI) is database including observational, synthetic and simulated sets to study Solar magnetic field variations and their influence on the Earth. ESAI extend the ordinary lengths of some traditional indices of solar activity: sunspot areas, Wolf numbers (equatorial component of magnetic field of the Sun), polar faculae numbers (polar component), mean latitudes, N-S asymmetry of hemispheres (location of activity). Series . ...

... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Yasny launch base is located in Orenburg Region, Russia. ... Admin & Hotel Complex including hotels, dining facilities and office premises; . Assembly, Integration and Test Building (AITB) incorporating clean room facilities and fueling station; . ... Yasny launch base AITB is divided into four main areas: Clean room 1 (CR1), Clean room 2 (CR2), Fueling Station and Offloading & Storage Area. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Space flight . ... The L-39 two-seat training jet plane is intended for flights in regular and complex meteorological conditions at day and night time, as well as for acrobatic flying. ... A cockpit canopy is pressure-tight with a single layer glazing, the back-folding parts can be thrown off under abnormal condition by pyrotechnical systems. ... Comparable on size and assigned tasks with the American F-16 and F/A-18 fighters, the MIG - 29 is presently in the service of 23 countries of the world. ...

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... favourite school! ... Relying on our good willed highly skilled teachers, the school is formed with the spirit of co-operation and joint creativity, the co-operation of classes that create a unique atmosphere of unity. ... The ability to act independently: defend ones rights, interests, show responsibility, to plan and organize ones plans, independently acquire . The ability to work with different types of information and to use it for expanding ones knowledge, . ...

... Scientific and technical cooperation General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication of data Possibilities of observing the structure and dynamics of microwave activity Basic ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...