... 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. ...

... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946 and analyzes "genealogical trees" of the original enterprises (NII-88, NII-885, OKB-456, etc.) to reveal typical features of this evolution. ... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946, when an original set of institutions was established. ... The study demonstrates, that the evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry is more complicated, than usually...

pine is a mail program developed at the University of Washington. It has easy-to-remember single character commands and a menu interface which displays those available at each point. You might choose to use pine if you like learning new tools by exploration rather than reading a manual. The menu system is designed to handle mistakes by new users, and the on-line help system offers advice specific to whatever screen you are currently viewing. Start using pine with the command: pine . ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

... Baksan Neutrino Observatory of INR RAS . ... There will be several transport runs from Mineral Waters airport to Nizhnij Arkhyz as Workshop participants arrive. ... breakfast . ... Vlasyuk V.V., Sokolov V.V., Petkov V.B. The Workshop opening. Session 1. ... Head Christian SPIERING . ... coffee break . ... Petkov V.B. Prospects of the detecting the QCD phase transition in the Galactic supernova neutrino burst with 20-kton scale liquid scintillation detectors . ... Head Sokolov V.V. 10:00 - 10:30 . ...

... Unlike the previous digital-only Messages, Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999, the TAM has complex, three-section structure with different forms of information. Section 1 represents coherent sounding radio signal with slow Doppler wavelength tuning to imitate transmission from Sun's center. ... Section 2 is an analog information and represents musical melodies, performed on the Theremin. ... There were seven musical compositions in the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. ...

AAL Guestbook . Please Sign Our Guestbook . Guestbook Entries: 147 . Add Entry | Top | ... Previous Page | Next Page . Top Quark . ... I really appreciate this great homepage. ... Signed on at . ... a gas station at Remmich ;-) Your page is really great! ... Wei och emmer et geseit ganz nett aus :-) . ... Grьяe auch aus Deutschland! ...

SUNWORLD .. , , sw@newmail.ru STOKES PROFILES CALCULATIONS FOR SOLAR UMBRA AND PHOTOSPHERE MODELS ­ DATA STRUCTURES AND TYPES OF CALCULATIONS OF PROGRAM "SUNWORLD" S.G.Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru For many years we design and use a software package SunWorld, which simulates the process of formation of spectral lines in the solar photosphere. ... SunWorld. ... Variator . ... Auer L.H., Heasley J.N., Milkey R.W. // Kitt Peak Natl. ...

P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute Astro Space Center Russian Academy of Sciences S.A. Lavochkin Association, Roscosmos RADIOASTRON The Ground ­ Space Interferometer: radio telescope much larger than the Earth The Spectr-R Project http://www.asc.rssi.ru/ radioastron / High- Resolution HI 21 cm Mosaic of M 33 galaxy GENERAL OUTLINE The RadioAstron ... Such forecast could be used to prepare a long time-scale schedule of scientific observations. ...

... Monday 3, 17:35 Concert of chamber music by the Kazan State Chamber Orchestra ?La Primavera? after the opening of the conference and before reception. Wednesday 5, 15:00-18:00 Excursion to Kazan Kremlin. ... The Local Organizing Committee in Kazan has proposed organizing an excursion to the ancient city of Bulghar , 130 km down the Volga River, just south of where the Volga joins with it's main tributary, the Kama, and widens considerably . ... Agriculturers palace on Palace square in Kazan . ...

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. ...

... In 1965, in view of the fact that the country's leadership put S.P.Korolev in overall charge of the effort to land a man on the Moon and bring him safely back to Earth, Korolev decided to focus the work of his team on the manned space flight, while the work on the lunar robotic craft was turned over to Lavochkin Design Bureau headed at the time by G.N.Babakin. ... This flight was considered as an initial phase of preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. ...

Minsk bibliography on light scattering . Information about the project . ... Here we will give information on the project and people who participated in it as well as thanks to other contributors and supports. The work was partly supported by the INTAS grant 99/652, the Russian federal program Astromony and the RFBR grant for the scientific school of V.V.Sobolev. ... 1990,2001 Victor Babenko (Bibliography compiling) . 2001 Serge Beletsky (Design & Programming) . ...

Home . Overview . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... Draft documents describing the QC pipeline design. Calibration Plan v1.4 . Data Reduction Library Design v1.6 . ESO Calibration Workshop 2007 talks . ... Calibration for VISTA . ... The VISTA Data Flow System . ... SPIE talks . 2006 SPIE talk - VDFS Status . 2004 SPIE talk - VDFS Overview . ... ESO ][ VISTA Home ] ...

MICROSCOPES . ... NIGHT VISION DEVICES . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... LOMO® has designed and manufactured optical devices ranging from microscopes and endoscopes to telescopes and night vision devices . ... Since the end of the Cold War LOMO ® has been able to continue its tradition of quality and innovation by offering its diverse products and technologies to the scientific, medical, industrial and educational communities in North America. ... LOMO PLC has received the ISO 9001 Certificate . ...

... 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. ...

... Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1986 the launching of the Core Block marked the beginning of the Mir Orbital Station construction. Currently the Mir Station consists of 6 modules. ... The Mir Station total mass is near 130 tons. ... For sinking unburned Mir Station fragments after reentering atmosphere a Southern Pacific Ocean area limited by the following point coordinates: 53 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 132 њ W; 30 њ S, 127 њ W; 30 њ S, 90 њ W; 53 њ S, 90 њ W is choosen. ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

... Brian Simpson Observatory (609) 737-2575 (Director, continued from page 1) past year, the contributions of many club members stand out. ... And perhaps the most "quintessential" piece of AAAP, our monthly astronomy lecture program at Peyton Hall, maintained its very highest level of excellence, thanks to the fine work of Ken Kremer, Program Chair. THANKS to all members who helped make AAAP in 2006 one of the best amateur astronomy clubs in the country. ...

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...