Sternberg astronomical institute activities on site testing programs review Victor Kornilov comprehensive/characterization/of/astronomical/sites > kislovodsk/russia/2010/october/4-9 > Introduction This presentation responds on our activity in 5 last years only, inspite of that in SAI site testing researches have been started many years ago. ... More detailed discussion is devoted to MASS and DIMM measurements processing, some additional effects which were taken in account in last year. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The seasons are caused by the change in the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... The change in distance of the Earth to the Sun is a very minor player. ... Well, not completely wrong; certainly the Earth's distance from the Sun has something to do with the temperature, but it is a relatively minor effect. ... Basically, the temperature depends only weakly on distance changes; the temperature goes as the inverse square root of the distance of the planet to the Sun...

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. ...

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NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Crews . ... Military Space . ... Space Biology And Medicine . ... ISS Main Expedition Four Mission Chronicle: June 2002 . ... Fifth Main Expedition Blasted Off . ... Endeavour Relieves Crew Of ISS . STS-111 Crew Patch . ... ISS Main Expedition Five Mission Chronicle: June 2002 . ... The Best Way To Augment ISS Crew . ... ESA blocked 2/3 of its planned funding for ISS development for 2002-2006. ...

... The Thickness of Stellar Disks in Early-type Galaxies E. M. Chudakova* and O. K. Sil'chenko ** Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Received August 19, 2013; in final form, October 30, 2013 Abstract--We suggest and justify a new photometric method enabling the derivation of the relative thickness of a galactic disk from the two-dimensional surface-brightness distribution of the galaxy in the plane of the sky. ... The galaxies are non-interacting. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...