... 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. ...

... Making a Case for METI . ... Many leaders of the modern SETI community oppose the deliberate transmission of messages from Earth to the stars in attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). ... Like Arecibo, our transmissions include scientific information. ... METI is not scientific . ... So, to increase the likelihood of effective communication across interstellar space, we include in our METI transmissions non-scientific messages: text, audio, video, art, music, etc. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Investigations of the ionospheric response to strong magnetics storms which are usual for our latitudes, are of great interest. ... In the figure, we present ionospheric parameter dynamics during three perturbed days in July 2000. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 05 - 11.03.2012, Forecast on 12 - 19.03.2012, Carrington Rotations 2121 (04,62.03.2012) SOLAR SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE LAST PERIOD WAS ON AVERAGE LEVEL. ... IMPORTANT OF FLARE ACTIVITY STARTED MARCH, 4th AND TO 11.03 IN CAR OCCUREN- CED X-RAY CLASS X - 3, CLASS M - 12 FLARES, 5 OF WHICH ARE LARGE. ... Class E(1-8A) AR RII/IV CME X/opt. ... NEXT WEEK MARCH, 12 IN ENVIRONMENT WILL COME THE DISTURBANCE FROM LARGE SOLAR FLARE OF MARCH 10. ...