PROJECT SUMMARY (max 3000 characters) The principal goals of the project are the observational and theoretical investigation of complex cosmic objects where the processes of dust scattering, absorption and emission play significant roles. ... Development of light scattering theory and computer codes to calculate the optical properties of non-spherical inhomogeneous particles and laboratory measurements of light scattering characteristics of irregularly shaped particles. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

... Archive 2003: . The longitudinal magnetic field of the young star of T Taurus (150 + 40G) an order of magnitude weaker than expected has been first measured at the 6m telescope. It is shown that the magnetic field does not play an important part in the formation of jets and to explain them, magnetic fields of accretion disks should be involved. ... Archive of scientific results "Galaxy" . ... Last update: 26/12/2008 ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Russian Apache web server software on this system was successful. ... This page is here because the site administrator has changed the configuration of this web server. ... The Apache Software Foundation, which wrote the web server software this site administrator is using, has nothing to do with maintaining this site and cannot help resolve configuration issues. ... You are free to use the image below on an Apache-powered web server. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

COSMOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES ASP Conference Series, Vol. 409, c 2009 J. A. Rubino-MartЄ J. A. Belmonte, F. Prada and A. Alberdi, eds. ~ in, A New Test of Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Ancient Solar Eclipses G? oran Henriksson Department of Astronomy and Space Physics, Uppsala University, Box 515, SE-751 20 Uppsala Abstract. ... The Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) of the distance to the Moon makes it possible to check if there is any significant deviation from Kepler's third law of motion. ... 2002). ...

... 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. ...

Elsevier Ed itorial System(tm) for JASR 2006 Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: Title: Determination of K, Ar, Cl, S, Si and Al flare abundances from RESIK soft X-ray spectra Article Type: Contributed Paper Section/Category: E2.4 - Solar Magnetic Field and Activities Keywords: solar physics; X-ray flares ; spectroscopy; abundances Corresponding Author: Dr. J. Sylwester , Corresponding Author's Institution: Space Research Center First Author: J ... All flares were observed early Fig. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... 2001 - present-day Researcher in Theoretical Department of Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute ot RAS . ... Department Number . ... Astro Space Center . ... arna@lukash.asc.rssi.ru . ... Arkhipova N.A., Komberg B.V., Lukash V.N., Mikheeva E.V., "Population of Cosmic Voids", Astronomy Reports 51, pp 787-796 (2007) . ... Surdin, V.G., Arkhipova, N.A., "Influence of dissipation and dynamical friction on the number of globular clusters in a galaxy", Astronomy Letters, Vol.24, p.343 (1998) ...

Truebloodb,g, K. Zelayab Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221 USA; bNational Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Street, Tucson AZ 85719 USA; cCerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena ... USA ABSTRACT We describe the design, construction and measured performance of the Kitt Peak Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph ( KOSMOS ) for the 4-m Mayall ... Optical layout for KOSMOS and COSMOS. ...

The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context Proceedings IAU Symposium No. ... The presence of exponential bulges and anti-truncated disks has been noticed in many lenticular galaxies. ... Among our findings in unbarred spiral galaxies, only one galaxy, NGC 5533, has a LSB outer disk (Sil'chenko et al. ... In the frame of this model, the Exponential bulges and antitruncated disks 5 inner disk must be more bright and compact than the usual large-scale stellar disks of spiral galaxies are. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York July 2007 Volume 55 Number 7, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE AAS Meeting Illustrates Changing Nature of Astronomy By Rachel Berger Connolly Standing in the Honolulu Convention Center for my first American Astronomical Society meeting in May, I realized that time and technology does a lot to a field of research so dependent on imaging and automation. ... On July 1, only 47 arcminutes separates Venus from Saturn. ... July's Constellations. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

PENTICTON SOLAR RADIO FLUX VALUES (from SGD Explanation of Data Reports) Daily Solar Flux Values - Penticton -- Daily measurements of the integrated emission from the solar disc at 2800MHz (10.7cm wavelength) have been made by the National Research Council of Canada since 1947. ... The data are tabulated in two forms: the "observed flux" (S), and the "adjusted flux" (Sa). ... The "observed flux" values are useful in ionospheric physics and other terrestrial consequences of solar activity. ...

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 ...

... Seminar archive . ... Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have an important role to measure a distance to an anonymous galaxy because they have a good correlation of the decline rates of the light curves with the absolute luminosity. ... First, super-Chandrasekhar SNe which have extremely high luminosity, slow decline rate of the light curves, slow expansion velocity and strong carbon features. ... As another example of diversity of SNe Ia, I would like also to introduce Type Iax SNe. ... All seminars: . ...

ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ґ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ґ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...

The monitoring of the optics quality of DIMM instrument V. Kornilov, B. Safonov May 24, 2010 1 Intro duction A quantitative theory of measurement of optical turbulence (OT) with Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM) is based on certain priori assumptions [1]. ... Bottom: behavior of the instrumental Strehl's number for the left (triangle to the left) and right (triangle to the right) DIMM images during the period of measurement the maintenance of an additional correction factor seems superfluous. ...