The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Determination of short-term proper motions of fast stars with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph. ... Khovritchev Laboratory of Astrometry and Stellar Astronomy of the Pulkovo Observatory, RAS, Saint-Petersburg Observations Normal Astrograph (D/F=33 cm/3.5m), CCD camera: S2C, FOV = 18x16 arcmin, Pixel size 900x900 mas Determination of the new proper motions of 413 LSPM stars 1 epoch : CCD-surveys and catalogs -- M2000, CMC14, 2MASS, SDSS DR7 2 epoch : CCD-observations with the ...

... My mother had a 'star named for me' with the International Star Registry (henceforth ISR) as a gift for this Christmas. ... On the back of the chart, a sticker described the precise location and visual magnitude of the star, taken from the Hubble Guide Star Catalog. The first thing I noticed, was the chart was Epoch 1950. ... The coordinates were also exactly those on the ISR sticker, so I now knew that even though the ISR chart was epoch 1950, the coordinates on the sticker were epoch 1983. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York March 2008 Volume 56 Number 3, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE harnessing of these waves for scientific research. ... This worldlet, 595 miles in diameter, was the first asteroid to be discovered, in 1801. ... March 2 Moon lies near Jupiter. ... March 7 New Moon at 12:14 p.m. March 10 M oon a t p er igee, 227,607 m iles fr om E a r t h , 5:39 p.m. March 14 F ir st -quarter Moon at 6:46 a.m.; Moon lies near Mars. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

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. ...

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. ...

... Войти на сайт: Имя: . ... Автор забыл указать имя ] . ... Происхождение планеты Земля . ... За три месяца до реального возвращения на Землю экипаж МКС-17 тщательно отрепетировал все операции по экстренной посадке на корабле "Союз". ... При этом специалисты ЦУП при выполнении каждой операции предлагали экипажу все возможные аварийные ситуации и смотрели, как космонавты с ними справлялись. ... Имя: . ...

... In August Russian scientists will send radio message to one of the extraterrestrial planets. ... Additional information about SETI METI . SETI Institute - http://www.seti-inst.edu/ - Search for new life forms in space.. ... HUNT FOR LIGHT FLASHES FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE" . ... Information for sure! ... SETI at home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . ... Large classes (groups of types) : . ... Eruptive variable stars . ... Pulsating variable stars . ... Rotating variable stars . ... Cataclysmic (explosive and nova-like) variables . ... Close binary eclipsing systems . ... Optically variable close-binary sources of strong variable X- ray radiation . ... These classes are just a way to group types; in our opinion, they can be kept if slightly better described ( e.g ., remove close from item 5, simplify item 6) ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Полезное для астрономии > Атласы Луны - онлайн, PDF и пр. компьютерные . ... Просмотр полной версии : Атласы Луны - онлайн, PDF и пр. компьютерные . ... R?kl-based Index to the-Moon Wiki (http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Rukl+Index+Map) . ... Список карт и атласов Луны (http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Lunar+Maps), когда-либо сделанных (есть ссылки на загружаемые файлы, бошльшей частью исторические карты - весьма интересно) . ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...

ПУБЛИКАЦИИ - 1995 год . ... Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, - 1995, - v. 57, - v. 3, - pp. ... Observations of solar microwave spikes with high spatial resolution at the SSRT: first results. ... 1995. ... Уралов А.М. , Сыч Р.А. , Лубышев Б.И. , Нефедьев В.П., Головко А.А., Коробова З.В., Алиссандракис К.Е., Смарт Р.Н., Цанг Нонги. ... Тезисы докладов XXVI Радиоастрономической конференции (18-22 сент. 1995 г.), Санкт-Петербург, 1995, с.181-182. ... А.М. Уралов , В.М. Мишин. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

Spinar Paradigm and Central Engine of the All Types Gamma Ray Bursts V.Lipunov1,2,3 & E.Gorbovskoy1,2,3 1Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Universitetsky pr. ... A spinar is a quasi-equilibrium collapsing object whose equilibrium is maintained by the balance of centrifugal and gravitational forces and whose evolution is determined by its magnetic field. ... 10 Computed energy release during the process of collapse with low angular momentum and weak magnetic field. [pic] Fig .11. ...

My colleagues and I have recently completed a series of observations of SN1999an. ... The telescope is located at Martin Observatory in Blacksburg, VA, and is operated by the Physics Department of Virginia Tech. Our IAU Minor Planet Center Observatory Code is 841. ... Attached you will find a copy of one of our images (in .jpg format) with the supernova indicated. ... Virginia Tech Department of Physics . Back to Bright Supernovae . Back to Supernova 1999an . ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 24 апреля 1998 (1998-04-24) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Starry dream in Chile to become high-tech telescope reality [1/2] Привет всем! ... When officials in Cerro Pachon, Chile, ceremonially break ground for the new SOAR telescope Friday (April 17), a 12-year-old dream among research astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will become a reality. ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .