The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Adam Block . ... space flight . ... DNA building blocks can be made in space . ... NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... 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. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

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2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 2007-2009 WORK PLAN: TOWARD CONVERGENCE DRAFT 1 for Technical Review COVER NOTE The following is the first version for a three-year plan for GEO, 2007 to 2009. ... Page 1 of 38 2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 ACRONYMS ADM AMDAR AMMA APAN AVHRR CBD CEOS CERN DAPHNE DEM EC EPA EPIDEMIO FAPAR FDSN GEANT GEO GEOSS GIS GMES GOFC-GOLD GOS GPM GSN IGCO IGDDS InSAR INSPIRE IPY ITU MODIS NASA NGO NIEHS SAR SBA SPOT -VGT SST THORPEX UN UNFCCC COP ... Task No. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

Astronomy Department was found in Kyiv University in 1834 together with other twelve departments of the Faculty of Philosophy. ... At that time V.Struve was a World famous astronom, and helped V.Fedorov in creation of Kyiv University Astronomical Observatory. ... M.Khandrikov successfuly modernized the Observatory. ... Researches of the history of Kyiv Observatory say about an important contribution into development of orbits theory made by the famous Kyiv astronoms I.Illinsky and I.Putilin. ...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . Space technologies - to serve the society" Kyiv, Khreschatik street, 2 24-28 August 2001 . Exhibition Official Site Site Map Eng Rus Ukr . About exhibition . ... Are You going to visit space exhibition in Kiev? ... I'll try . ... No, I'll follow the site . ... M. Makarov Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant (Yuzhmash), Production Association . ... 0562) 34-39-04 . Fax: (0562) 34-43-79 . ... Space-inform " Company ...

Our School Observatory: . N56.2/E94.6 deg. and ~200m above sea level) . Our small observatory is located near Zelenogorsk (Siberia), in 170 kms to east from Krasnoyarsk - our regional main city. It includes a tower with a rotary dome (D=3.5m) on a roof of one of buildings. ... Our basic instrument is homemade D=150mm & F=695mm Newtonian reflector. Despite of its small size, we have learned to receive rather detailed views of heavens. ... HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus) ...

... 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...

НОВОСТИ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ ИСТОРИЯ СТАНЦИЯ МИР ENGLISH . ... Мои публикации . ... Realization of the scale project, called to revive interest of Russians to a problem of space exploration, have started in Saint-Petersburg. ... The project utilizes reconstructed buildings of TzNII RTK and the adjacent territory of a public garden: it's made by the 'city inside the city' principle and includes many transport, trade, hotel, museum, business and entertainment structures. ... А.Железняков , 1997-2002. ...

Director: Rex Parker (609) 730-0670 drexparker@aol.com ereal times id s The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton ... vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Volume 34 From the Director January 2005 Number 1 Jan 11, 2005 AAAP meeting Following last month's remarkable presentation on CCD imaging hardware design, we will turn our attention in January's AAAP ... Happy New Year and Dark Skies! ...

... Lester Lyles (USAF, ret.) stated firmly that NASA will Asimov continued on page 9 When a Tight Budget Brings Space Dreams Back to Earth By Evan Schneider When Hayden Planetarium director Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and others were planning the 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate some months ago, they may not have had any idea of how topical the subject, Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where Next for the Manned Space Program? would be. ... Mars fades from magnitude 0.2 to a stillbrilliant 0.7 during April. ...

June 3, 1998 . ... An example of the chain revealed by various space and ground-based images. A clear chain of relatively large and perhaps double, bright points goes from the N-E limb to the N-W sector of the disk or even to the N-W limb. ... This chain have being developed during June 2 and existed about two days. Some other chains can be seen as well, especially on the SOHO/EIT images. Back to the page of the SOHO/EIT and Yohkoh/SXT chains . Back to the parent page . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... 33-98 Paris, France 15 October 1998 "THE UNIVERSE AS SEEN BY ISO" Latest ISO results to be presented at an International meeting in Paris -- 20-23 October Nearly 400 hundred infrared astronomers will attend a conference in Paris from October the 20th to the 23rd to review and discuss the latest results from the European Infrared Space Telescope, ISO. ... The launch is scheduled Oct. ...

... 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. ...