Authors: Yu.G. Shevelev , V.A. Marsakov , . ... We have constructed and investigated properties of metallicity function of disk stars with different ages, proceeding from the statistically restored real altitude distributions of stars at the solar galactocentric distance. It is shown that the metallicity distribution of stars in each age range is not of Gaussian form, but it may be considered as a superposition of two normal distributions centered at -0.2 and 0.0 dex. ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

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... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

... history, facts, technology, space ships . ... Posted by Askar under Launch Centers . ... Создан в 1960 году. ... С Плесецка запускались ИСЗ серии ?Космос? , связные типа ?Молния? , метеорологические типа ?Метеор? ... С Капустина Яра проведены успешные пуски первых индийских научно-исследовательских ИСЗ ?Ариабхата? (19 апреля 1975 года) и ?Бхаскара? (7 июня 1979 года), а также французского ИСЗ ?Снег-3? (17 июня 1977 года) с помощью РН типа ?Космос? ... Russian Astronauts . Russian Launch Centers . ...

THE AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON PRESENTS THE 23nd ANNUAL JERSEY STARQUEST Held at the Hope Conference and Renewal Center , Hope , NJ Beginning at 3 PM Friday, September 6, 2013 and running through 12 PM Sunday, September 8th 2013 Featuring Stargazing at a star ... available: Fishing, Hiking, Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own equipment) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 ... TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN (Ages 6 ­ 12)? ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

Empty Pages by Traffic Found someone who can comfort me But there are always exceptions And she's good at appearing sane But I just want you to know She's the one makes me feel so good When everything is against me Picks me up when I'm feeling bad So I got something to show Staring at empty pages Centered 'round the same old fire Staring at empty pages Burning ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

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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...

... The general goal of the project is determination of the materials, design and technology that provide possibility to manufacture extremely sensitive Josephson devices based on metaloxide superconductors with high-critical temperature for detection of weak electromagnetic radiation in a wide frequency range. ... Development of bicrystal design and fabrication technique of novel Josephson junctions with the tilt-type grain boundary. ...

... 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. ...