Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Images . ... Bad Astronomy site . The following are high-resolution images suitable for promos, newspapers, brochures, and the like. Clicking on the thumbnail image will bring up the high resolution image. High resolution (1.3 Mb) . Medium resolution (550 kb) . ... Dr. Plait giving a TV interview at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the transit of Venus in 2004. ... Dr. Plait posing with a model of the Apollo 11 landing site. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... New observations with the European Southern Observatory (ESO)тАЩs Very Large Telescope of some of the most distant galaxies ever detected are revealing the mysteries of this important phase of the early Universe. ... These powerful instruments are essential for exploring this early period in cosmic history as they alone can enable the accurate observations of €аthese extremely distant and faint galaxies. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

... The "ATLAS Aerospace" company invites all the volunteers to pass a course of space training in the simulators of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ... The main simulators, trainers and stends are: . ... Don - 732" specialized simulator, which is used for a crew training on manual-mode control of the "Soyuz-TM" space vehicle and its systems in the course of approach and docking to the orbital station; . ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

... 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. ...