... SPECIAL HONORS: Eagle Scout; Sam Houston Area Council 1976 Distinguished Eagle Scout Award ; Presidential Medal for Freedom, 1970; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; two Navy Distinguished Flying Crosses; 1967 FAI De Laval and Gold Space Medals (Athens, Greece); the American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award ; City of New York Gold Medal in 1969 ; City of Houston Medal for Valor in 1969 ; the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences special Trustees ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2009-2010 Lecture Series 2009-2010 ? Best Targets for Amateur Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe? ? ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Dr. Ruben Kier, a radiologist with a special interest in astrophotography, will wrap up the AAA?s 2009-10 lecture series on Friday, May 7, when he discusses ?Best Targes for Amateur Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe?. ...

... Prague , 2006 . ... The draft classification (version August 9, 2006 ) for new GCVS versions . Along with the "+" sign (coexistence of two types), it is suggested to introduce the "|" sign (meaning "or") - for classification options for the same object, e.g. EC|Ell, EC|RR. Pulsating variables . ... DCEP , DCEPS , CEP ( B ) DCep , DCep 0, DCep 1, DCepB 01, DCepB 12 . ... Eruptive variables . ... PN, WD, WR Remove from the classification, indicate through the spectral type or Remarks . ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

Охотники за потенциально опасными астероидами получили гранты на исследования . ... Получатели грантов Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants прошлых лет открыли много ранее неизвестных астероидов, в том числе астероид 2004 GA1, который является первым потенциально опасным астероидом размером более 1 км в поперечнике, открытый астрономом-любителем (им был Джон Броутон (John Broughton)). Кстати, получить грант имени Джина Шумейкера может и профессиональный астроном и астроном-любитель. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 18.06.2013 . ... J142023.5-485540. ... MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 относится к редкому подклассу . ... Астронома ATel #5144: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5144 . ... The brightest MASTER's dwarf nova discovered in Argentina! ... astronomical object - dwarf nova MASTER OT J142023.5-485540 in Lupus . ... record (12.6m) belonged to the dwarf nova in Perseus MASTER . ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Previous . Next Click the image to view it in fullsize. Previous . Next . ASM in twillight. Bright object above the tower is Venus, Mercury is just above the horizon and Saturn between them.

... Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . 119017, Pyatnitskaya str., 48, Moscow, Russia . ... About me: . ... I observed different objects (minor planets, satellites, variable stars, gamma bursts, etc.) by myself at Zeiss-600 and 2-m telescope. Also I had some experience with observational data from the 6-m telescope BTA (SAO, Russia), VLT (ESO, Chile), 1.5-m telescope in Maidanak (Uzbekistan) and infrared space telescopes Spitzer and Herschel. ...

Main . ... About meteorites . ... Press about meteorites . Meteorite Press . ... Meteorite movies . ... Pestovo "space rock" . ... Meteorite Dronino . Meteorite descriptions . ... About laboratory . ... Meteorite collection . ... Meteorite web resources . ... Early in the morning Nina Mikhailovna Veselova went to get milk. ... On January 20, 2003, a small sample arrived at the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences from Nina M. Veselova of Pestovo, Novgorod Oblast. ...

... ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Nonstellar objects Description: NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). ... The order of the new catalog is strictly by right ascension, the NGC and IC objects being merged into one machine-readable file. ... The book also contains a table of right ascensions for NGC and IC objects. ...

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. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

Multipurpose Aerospace System (MAKS) . ... Up to date the main components of the orbital stage construction have been worked up, external fuel tank mock-up has been made, significant work has been already done on the propulsion system MAKS consists of the subsonic carrier aircraft and an orbital stage with an external fuel tank mounted on it As the first stage the An-225 MRIA aircraft originally intended for the BURAN transportation is used. ... CREATION AIRFRAME OF THE BURAN ORBITAL SPACESHIP . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... Дата: 09 октября 1998 (1998-10-09) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: MGS Aerobraking Update - October 3, 1998 Привет всем! ... October 8, 1998 CONTACT: Don Savage NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202-358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301-286-5017) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410-338-4514) PRESS RELEASE NO.: ...

... Общероссийская неделя "Астрономия на тротуаре" - 15-17 апреля . ... Астрономия и компьютеры (Модераторы: Deimos , Ed_Vazhorov ) ? Чем Linux полезен ЛА? . ... Ответ #40 : 20.11.2003 [14:31:07] ? ... Записан . ... Цитата: Sumo от 20.11.2003 [13:56:29] Тогда хочется знать кто и для каких целей использует Xephem. ... А еще Linux полезен тем, что под ним можно записывать DVD+-R/RW ;-) . ... Views: . ... New Image Gallery, fully cross-linked with Sky View. ... Sky View now displays Milky Way boundry. ...

... Solar Data: f.e. X-ray . Night Sky Live . ... Heavens-Above: Sky chart, Satellites, Iridiums and astronomical objects For Moscow For SAO Baksan . ... ESO-MIDAS page . ... Tutorials for Astronomy . ... Asteroid and Comet Hazard . ... Observable Comets: This page lists links to orbital elements and ephemerides of (potentially) observable comets. ... Leonid page - a lot of information for years Comets and Meteor Showers . The American Meteor Society . ... North American Meteor Network Home Page . ...

The Database of Close Binary Systems . ... Team . ... This web-based interactive database is being developed and maintained by a team at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . The project is an on-line extension of our catalogue on "Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars" (volumes I, II) published by Gordon and Breach in 1996. As of September 2009, the database (both the software and the content) is in its development/testing phase. ...