... Other Planned Activities Include Solar Observing Astrophotography Presentations and CCD Demo's Field Trip to AAAP Observatory at Jenny Jump Workshop: Learning to Use Your New Telescope Plus Swimming (life guards provided), Fishing, Volleyball, Basketball, Hiking, Game room Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 per person ($45 after June 9) Bunkhouse -- $45.00 per ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Objectives of the study . To survey and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of European initiatives by start-up companies, for privately-funded crew vehicles for commercial human space flight. ... New commercial markets, among them space tourism, have a great potential to become major drivers in space technology development. This study aims at the assessment of the feasibility of European initiatives to address these new markets through the development of crewed space vehicles. ...

... Between them, the following points are touched: ICRF-2 structure, ICRF Core sources selection, and some expected user's requirements. ... Suggested total number of sources is close to the number of sources already observed in the IVS and VCS sessions, and for most of them reliable positions are derived, mostly for declination > -40 deg. ... So, results of source position time series analysis heavily depend on method used for time series computation and should be used with care. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... August . ... August, 2007 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... You will need a formal letter of invitation to get Russian visa and we will provide it to you. ... First, we will need a copy of first two pages of your passport. The best way to do it is to find a scaner, open the passport, put it on the scaner, scan it with 300 dpi resolution in grayscale mode, save as JPEG file and then send the file to ysc@bmstu.ru and please send a copy to coordinator Irina Yurovskikh yurovskikh.i@mail.ru . ...

The Astronomical Journal welcomes new submissions at IOP Publishing . ... From: Andrew Wray < andrew.wray@iop.org > . ... On behalf of the IOP-AAS Project Team, I am delighted to announce that IOP Publishing is now processing all new submissions to the AJ. Submitting a new article . To submit a new article to the journal, go to http://authors.iop.org/aj , where you will find our beta version of the new AJ web submission site. ... Refereeing an article . ... IOP Publishing . ...

... Crystalline graphite has a strong resonant feature near 11.52 (Draine, [ 1984 ]) which is not observed... width 2 . Note that the observed weakness of the bump strength in dense clouds can be attributed to the hydrogenation of carbon (Sorrell, [ 1990 ]).. ... Its idea was first suggested by Gold ([ 1952 ])...fpell) 4 . A similar conclusion follows from calculations made by Matsumura and Seki ([ 1996 ])... ``correct'' 5 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

. The original pictures are taken at: . Biosphere-2, Tucson, Arizona - "Pray" . USS "Little Rock", Buffalo, New York - "The door" . Castelet, Copenhagen - "Mr. Hyde in October" (Oct '94) .

Proposing a METI Institute . ... Those who propose, or oppose, sending Messages to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) must contemplate the Hamlet-like question: тАЬTo send or not to send?тАЭ The science known as SETI deals with searching for messages from aliens. ... A radio message to ETI message could employ a three-section structure and incorporates three specific languages, which we can call "the language of nature", "the language of emotions", and "the language of logic". ... Arecibo Message . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

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... RSC Energy General Designer . ... The possibility of continuing the exploitation of the complex in the conditions of the inevitable obsolescence and depreciation of the on-board equipment providing the achievement of the necessary level of safety has been one of the most important and always controlled problems during all the term of exploitation of the complex Mir. ... The technical condition of the complex Mir gives the opportunity to continue its exploitation in a piloted mode till 2002 and more....

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Series 6000 APO Refractors . ... These telescopes come with all necessary equipment in the box and feature an altazimuth mount that allows for easy and quick viewing. ... NG70-SM Altazimuth Refractor . ... Meade NG70-SM Altazimuth Refractor #20218. ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . Space technologies - to serve the society" Kyiv, Khreschatik street, 2 24-28 August 2001 . ... About exhibition . ... NAME: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society". ... REASONS: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society" is being carried out according to the President of Ukraine Decree ? ... strengthen of the space industry enterprises' positions and ptoducts' manufacturing for domestic market needs, . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... 14 Bissat, an International Student Experience . ... On August 2003 an accident with the Brazilian Launcher, VLS, destroyed the UNOSAT (www.space.unopar.br) that was the first Brazilian University Undergraduate Student nano satellite. ... The name of 14 Bissat is to commemorate the 100 year of the flight of the first airplane by the Brazilian Santos Dumont in Paris and is an acronym of Brazilian International Student Satellite. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...