... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

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... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

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The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

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Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

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• Triplanes

... Dmitry Stepanovich (VIDEO of March 2011) . Olga Silchenko, a soloist of the Early Music Theatre . ... Anna and Olga Silchenko have presented the duets by Rubinstein and Chaikovsky (VIDEO) . ... Two Russian romances - duets by Olga Silchenko and Dmitry Stepanovich (VIDEO) . ... N. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Tsar's Bride", the duet of Lubasha and Gryaznoy - by Olga Silchenko and Dmitry Stepanovich (VIDEO) . ... Vivaldi "Magnificat", 6th part, duet by Anna and Olga Silchenko (VIDEO) . ... Olga Silchenko . ...

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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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... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

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The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

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Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

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... Events . ... The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution . ... Galaxy lies a super massive black hole - 4 million times more massive . ... Universe to spatially resolve and image a black hole Event Horizon. ... For the much more massive (6 billion solar mass) black hole . ... for assembling a submm-VLBI Event Horizon Telescope. ... emission near the event horizon of super massive black holes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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• Astronomy and the Human Eye
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ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ­ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ­ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...

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... In the light curve depicting their observations, definite trends are noted, here is a "thumb-nail" analysis of the the magnitude estimations of the bright SN (1989B) in the galaxy NGC 3627 (M66). ... 10 (IAUC # 4742) 2/25 13.3 16 j 2/27 13.5(*) 18 lc 2/28 13.8 19 p 3/1 13.2 20 w 3/2 13.5 21 a 3/4 13.8 23 p 3/6 13.3 25 c 3/7 13.3 26 c 3/8 14.1 27 m 3/8 13.3 27 r 3/9 13.4 28 c 3/9 14.1 28 m 3/10 13.6 29 j 3/10 14.0 29 a 3/11 13.6 30 c 3/11 13.5 30 r 3/11 13.7 30 s 3/13 [13.69 CCD Mag.] ...

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... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

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• AAL Printout

Preface The necessity of the preparation and edition of such intricate publication, that is the printed version offered to the reader, of geoinformation system including the chronological catalogue and evolutionary database of the global tropical cyclogenesis is dictated, in opinion of the authors, whole number of objective circumstances. ... It derivates the serious dissensions in the initial ('raw') information as well as in databases and archives of regional cyclogenesises. ...

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... 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...

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Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... From The Planetary Society Home Page: http://planetary.org/articlearchive/headlines/1998/headln-041698.html Mission Prepares To Collect Pieces of Stardust April 16, 1998 Earth's First Cometary Dust Sample Return Mission Will Fly Planetary Society Member Names to a Comet and Back Scientists and engineers continue to prepare the Stardust spacecraft for its February 1999 launch. ...

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