... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... Seminar archive . ... Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have an important role to measure a distance to an anonymous galaxy because they have a good correlation of the decline rates of the light curves with the absolute luminosity. ... First, super-Chandrasekhar SNe which have extremely high luminosity, slow decline rate of the light curves, slow expansion velocity and strong carbon features. ... As another example of diversity of SNe Ia, I would like also to introduce Type Iax SNe. ... All seminars: . ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Binoculars Instruction Manual . ... Regardless of your application bird watching, nature studies, spectator sports or sightseeing you will appreciate the superior optics and durable construction that make Meade binoculars an excellent investment. ... FOCUS LOCK SYSTEM . Meade Safari Pro binoculars include a Focus Lock feature (see diagram), permitting the locking of the Center Focus Knob to maintain precise focus of an object at a specified distance. ...

THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EJECTA LUNAR TERRAINS. ... In the previous papers we were estimated the surface roughness of the ejecta lunar terrains by means comparison of the local phase function and the average integrated lunar indicatrix. ... The Hapke's theoretical model of the lunar surface reflection. ... For THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL: S.G. Pugacheva, V.V. Shevchenko a low-albedo lunar surface parameter Bo = 1. ...

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... 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. ...