... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Texas-sized computer finds most massive black hole in galaxy M87 . ... Astronomers Karl Gebhardt from The University of Texas at Austin and Jens Thomas from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black hole at the heart of M87, one of the largest nearby giant galaxies, is two to three times more massive than previously thought. ... Giant galaxy M87 finally sized up . ...

... According to the current estimates, a few percent of Main Sequence B5-F5 stars reveal strong surface magnetic fields reaching the values of tens of kilogauss, which is an order of magnitude greater than the maximal magnetic field in sunspots. ... An important direction in the study of magnetic stars is the study of binary and multiple systems with magnetic components using the techniques of spectroscopy and high angular resolution interferometry. ...

... Operation of the Precision Error Correction (PEC) in the LX200 Drive . ... The basic concept is to correct the speed of the drive motor to compensate for the fact that the worm drives the worm wheel a bit faster or slower as it rotates.  This is done by going into a training mode and manually training the computer to compensate for the mechanical defects.  ... It can not do a perfect job because correcting for one turn of the worm takes account of only one tooth of the worm wheel.  ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... The third-order space-by-time relation . ... Тема: The third-order space-by-time relation . ... The mass m experiences a gravity force toward the sun and . ... will experience the Coriolis force or Coriolis acceleration. ... differentiated space-by-time twice and discovered equation2. ... If one differentiates . ... time differentiation of space-by-time. ... third-order space-by-time relation. ... understand the third-order space-by-time relation. ... MAO NASU . ...

... Institute for Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy (IKFIA) (Yakutsk). ... IRE RAN (Moscow). Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Moscow). ... Institute for Remote Environmental Research AEN (Moscow) . ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (Moscow) . ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography KamchNIRO. ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography. ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography VNIRO. ...

... Schools . ... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Systems Department . Electronics and Control Systems Department . Systems and Technologies Modeling Department . Theoretical and Applied Systems Engineering Department . ... End of 1999 - Department of Systems and Technologies Modeling have been forming on the basis of the teaching staff of the Mechanics and Mathematics School and Technical Physics School of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. ...

... The R.A.P. Project (Reviews of Astro-Ph) . ... Astronomy search engine . ... PhysicsWeb Home Page . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Astro Space Center Home Page . SAO RAS Home Page . ... Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics . ... AAS Home Page . ... HEASARC/GSFC Home Page . NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY Home Page . ... Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page . ... Sky & Telescope: The Essential Magazine of Astronomy . ... Springer LINK - Physics Online Library . ...

... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

The purpose of the space-physics lab exercises is to introduce the students to the methods of the measurements, to the modern conception of near-Earth space structure and the physical processes and phenomena occured in it. ... At present the reasearches and the teachers of the University and of other institutes participating in the project continue development of the the special space-physics lab exercises, and they are interested in your ideas concerning the future exercises. ...

... 12.03.2001 . ... March 12 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operations sheduled with OC "Mir" for March 11 are fully complete. The station continues in free drift. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the Complex arrays generate enough electricity, the thermal mode is normal. Today on the Station (core block) the Motion Control System (MCS) digital central computer was powered on, it is being loaded with command software. The next status report is scheduled for March 13 2001. ...

... The analysis shows, that asteroid ­ rubble pile loses its fast fragments in no time but the retaining fragments forms a compact structure immersed in dust ­ gas atmosphere, created by interaction of interplanetary medium with dispersed product of collisional evolution of asteroid. By interaction of an asteroid ­ rubble pile with interplanetary medium structures asteroid can increase its brightness on account of blowed up dust simulating phenomenon of distant comet's brightening. ...

The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . ... The main goal of this workshop is to consider (via invited and contributed talks and posters) the scientific problems in the field of high energy astrophysics which are possible to solve using the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory INTEGRAL as well as to present and discuss the scientific results already obtained by this observatory and its coordinated observations with on-ground telescopes and other spacecrafts. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...