... In 1999, there comes a year before an end of the XXth Century, when modern Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics appeared, evolved and formed. ... Cosmology, particle physics, relativistic astrophysics and cosmoparticle physics are widely discussed at the now being traditional International Conferences on CosmoParticle Physics "Cosmion-94", "Cosmion-96" and "Cosmion-97" held in Moscow. ... The main topics of the 4 International Conference "Cosmology.Relativistic Astrophysics. ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

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... Alien Life . ... Earth Satellites . ... The Lone Signal Project was founded by several entrepreneurs and scientists and is based at the Jamesburg Earth Station in California.б  You may have heard of this station before as it supported the Apollo 11 Moon landing and actually received ... televised images of the astronauts setting foot on the lunar surface. б The station will now be utilised to transmit messages into space !б  The project will beam messages in any Earth language into ...

... The distributions of orbits eccenttricities and of angular momenta for the halo stars and the old disk population are considered. The distributions have gaps separating the halo from the disk and dividing the halo population into three groups. ... Рассмотрены распределения звезд гало и старого населения диска по величине эксцентриситета орбит и угового момента. Распределения имеют провалы, отделяющие гало от диска и делящие населения гало на три группы. ...

... Active Skepsis . ... Probably, one should know the results from any actions. ... As a result, a sceptic, who discredits, for example, the tales of Christian wonders, has to follow the practical recommendations of Christianity or any other belief knowing how to act. ... As a result, scepticism restricts itself with discrediting secondary wonders, permanently replacing one doubtful interpretation with another and telling nothing of life and action. ... Yuri Tikhonravov, Ph.D. Translated from Russian ....

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

Piloted complex Mir has been functioning in orbit more than 12 years. ... We propose to consider piloted complex Mir as an international one and to call the states of the space association for share financing and its joint exploitation according to the international treaty. ... The Russian side is ready for the constructive negotiations on setting up the International space station on the basis of share participating of the countries (owners) in the exploitation of the complex Mir. ...

... ACTIVE GALAXIES NEWSLETTER Dear all, In the following e-mail message I will send the first edition of the Active Galaxies Newsletter. This newsletter has been formed following the success of similar publications such as the Star Formation Newsletter and AGB Newsletter. ... Also thanks to Bo Reipurth for his LaTex macros. ... Following the first edition of the newsletter will follow the LaTeX template for abstract submissions. It is VERY simple and requires no knowledge of LaTeX to fill out. ...

... The Triplet Lenses are manufactured by LOMO PLC of St. Petersburg Russia, one of the world's largest and most advanced optical manufacturers. ... This day the official web site of St.Petersburg company, lomo.ru, became accessible. ... LOMO VOTING PAPERS PROCESSING COMPLEXES TESTED SUCCESSFULLY . On December 16, 2001 during elections to Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Region, Russia, pilot pieces of the new Voting Papers Processing Complex created at LOMO PLC were used for the first time. ...

. Space vihicle "Renger". “Ranger” is a series of american interplanetary stations for the Moon's shooting, the programme of their development and starts. The mild landing on the Moon was not considered. Some "Rangers" were brought out into the Earth orbit. Maximum mass is 367 kg. In 1961 - 1965 nine "Rangers" were put into the orbit. "Ranger-7" shot the Moon from the close distance (1964). Back .

... ORAL SESSION . ... Registration /Coffee . ... Sergey Bogachev : Space solar investigations in the Lebedev Institute: from Sputnik-2 to future missions . ... Splinter session. S1 : SOLARIS mission proposal (chair - S.Kuzin) . ... Morning Coffee . ... The Sun from radio to gamma rays: new results from space and ground-based observatories (part 1) . ... Szymon Gburek : SphinX and XRT observations of active regions . ... Artem Ulyanov : Nanoflares in the quiet solar corona: a view from SDO/AIA . ...

... 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. ...