New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Academic mobility . ... Samara region . ... Samara State Aerospace University named after Academician S. P. Korolev (the National Research University) conducts VII Samara Regional Interuniversity Academic Olympics on Programming on March 30, 2014. ... Each year over 25 teams representing different universities of Samara Region, in which the Olympic programming is developed, participate in Academic Olympics of the SSAU. ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY . ...

... Facts of the Tunguska paradox . Hypotheses about the nature of the Tunguska explosion . Bibliography . ... Puzzles of the Tunguska event . Tunguska sketches . ... Review of studies of the Tunguska phenomenon . ... Vasilyev . ... Map and photos of the Tunguska site . Detailed maps of the epicenter of explosion . ... Photos . ... The expedition "Tunguska 2004" . ... The expedition "Tunguska 2001" . The expedition "Tunguska 2000" . ... The expedition "Tunguska 2002" . ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

... part 2 | ... Part 1 . The new concept of formation and development of the Solar system. ... Thus, the initial pulse of the rotation of a protosolar cloud of the solar system was determined as a result of the diversion of a part of the moment of the rotational pulse of the Galaxy. ... Besides this new approach to the pre-solar system as a system of the destroyed vortex structure, we can understand now a number of other peculiarities of the Solar system's structure. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... A non-linear relationship is observed between the sky brightness on clear and overcast nights, with a change in behavior near the rural to urban landuse transition. ... The great variation in skyglow radiance observed from site-to-site and with changing meteorological conditions underlines the need for a long-term international monitoring program. he introduction of artificial light has caused an unprecedented disruption to the nighttime environment over large areas of the Earth. ... Data processing...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2015 (in Russian) . Foreword . ... NAY) is the daily visual geocentrical equatorial ephemerides of brightest navigational stars ? the Sun, the Moon, four major planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) and of the 69 brightest stars, and the time of the rising and setting of the Sun and the Moon, the time of the beginning and the end of civil and navigational twilights, the azimuths of the upper limb of the Sun on rising and setting. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

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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; . ...

SYSTEM COMPOSITION . ... RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL MONITORING . THE COMPOSITION OF AUTOMATIC SYSTEM . ... Weather hardware to measure wind velocity distribution in the near-earth layer and at altitudes up to 300 m. Satellite data transmission stations. RSC Energia communication satellite; . ... Automatic radiation and ecological station. ... Control and monitoring of the automatic continuous measurement system. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

THE SUBSYSTEMS OF THE MILKY WAY HALO. ... A catalogue of homogeneous fundamental astrophysical parameters for 145 globular clusters is composed on the base of the data of compilative catalogue by Harris (1997) and from another literature. ... In addition, it has large rotation velocity ( V rot =77?33 km/s), appreciable radial and vertical metallicity gradients equal by value, and has the oldest average age (subsystem of the old halo). ... Characteristic parameter of globular cluster subsystems. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... The versatile and efficient INVERTOSCOPE? combines the highest optical performance with unsurpassed mechanical quality, and is backed by LOMO's unique lifetime warranty, the most comprehensive in the industry. ... A 15X focusing eyepiece with two interchangeable reticles (a 10mm/100div scale and a 10mm x 10mm/400sq grid) for convenient measuring and counting. ... A set of stage inserts and extension plates to accommodate a variety of sample vessels such as Petri dishes, flasks, microtest plates, etc...

... and on-board accelerometer . ... All these peculiarities of high-orbit SVLBI can be used to increase the sensitivity (longer possible integration time for a given UV-point) and the accuracy of measurements of position of radio sources. ... In this Memo we consider the advanced methods of ground radio telescopes and tracking stations (TS) operation, on-board H-maser frequency standard (SHM - already planned for the mission) and high-accuracy on-board accelerometer applications to solve this objective...

... For the experimental investigation IRE has installed several radiometers in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, having the same frequencies as the Priroda- IKAR radiometers (13, 22.2, 37 and 90 GHz), close to a 19 GHz dual polarisation radiometer and meteorological equipment of DLR (2 raingauges, a distrometer for measurements of the size of rain drops, and sensors for humidity, temperature and pressure). ... N, 17 deg. ... 1000 . ... Table 1: Specifications of ground based radiometers in Oberpfaffenhofen. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Particle distribution: dN d - with =1- ln pcn ln g Electron-photon conversion e + _ + _ electron _ e e electron/ positron high- energy photon e+ positron -25 cm cross-section, 10 8 6 4 2 0.5 1.0 center-of-momentum energy , MeV (log scale) 2 e + _ Proton-neutron conversion cm cross-section, 10 proton u +2/3 2 -28 d -1/3 6 u +2/3 4 resonance _ u d d+1/3 -1/3 d u+2/3 +2/3 -1/3 2 150 340 center-of-momentum ... Does the peak (cut-off) energy decrease with observation angle? Not always. ...