... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

To the Deputy Head of the Administration of Russian Federation President Mr. A.V.Ogarev . ... First the international space station (ISS) Alpha, which is under construction now, will compare to the OS Mir on the amount of information only in 5-7 years. ... Thirdly, the participation of Russian Federation in the international space projects, including work on the international space station (ISS) Alpha, is to be aimed first of all at the providing of Russian interests. ...

... Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM . This month's meeting will feature four members speaking on different astronomy - or telescope - related topics. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM in Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA ). ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

MAJOR MAGNETIC STORMS 1932-1997 ACCORDING TO THE Ap* CRITERIA To view a plot of the number of magnetic storms v.s. sunspots, go to ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/APSTAR/magstorm.gif A simpler global index of magnetic activity (other than Kp or Km) is produced in France from the K indices of two nearly antipodal magnetic observatories in England and Australia. ... An AA* index has been derived that is the counterpart of Ap* but is available for the longer span of years. ...

... The main design features of the mirror system of the RT-32 are as follows [1]: . The carcass of the primary mirror is formed as a three-dimensional, welded steel tubular rod system that is highly statically indeterminate and therefore very durable. ... The supporting and driving maschinery of the antenna is T-shaped, so it has a very massive vertical stanchion (its length is 15m and diameter 2.3 m). ... Diameter of the primary reflector, D - 32 m . ... 1997 год . ... Нар.газета N 107 11.06.1997 . ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

... It appears that, billions of years after the big bang, following the formation of galaxies, some form of dark energy that is causing the expansion rate to accelerate overtook the Universe. ... The transition from big crunch to big bang automatically replenishes the Universe by creating new matter and radiation. ... By dispelling the myth that the big bang is a beginning of space and time, superstring theory opens up new possibilities for the cosmological history of the Universe. ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

... The authors compare different standpoints on historical process of ethnoses emerging and developing on the area of Ancient Russ and Great Steep: a) the concept of M.Adgi ("panturkism"), Turks ethnos was prevailing on the area; b) the concept of G.V. Nosovskiy and A.T. Fomenko ("paslavyaism"), the Slav ethnos was prevailing on the area; the concept of L.Gumilyev ("passionarnost" theory), the ethnoses were living together without dominating one over the other. ...

... Подписка на рассылку обзоров astro-ph на Subscribe.Ru . ... Обзоры УФН . ... Результаты WMAP . Изучение центра нашей Галактики . ... Разрыв Вселенной" . ... звезды , . ... Короткое эссе об электронных препринтах . ... Самые интересные препринты astro-ph января 2003 года по материалам обзоров Архива на сайте Scientiic.Ru " . ... Authors: A. M. Ghez et al. astro-ph/0306220 Геометрическое определение расстояния до центра Галактики (A Geometric Determination of the Distance to the Galactic Center) . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

Estimations of dome seeng by results of optics quality tests with Shack-Hartman wavefront sensor. ... Measurements on AZT-22 Telescope diameter: 1000 mm F/7.7 Effective subaperture: 37.5 mm Exposure time: 100 ms Time between exposures: 5 s Individual image with tilts in X direction AZT-22 tower The spatial spectrum evolution (top) and wind direction in measurements processes . AZT-22. ... ZTSH dome Zeiss-1000 dome The spatial spectrum evolution (up) end wind direction through time. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

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... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Although their determination is based on the scattering process model, independent check-ups by rocket experiments have shown their correctness in experimental applications. ... Ionospheric data analysis, especially during strong disturbances, cannot be without some other kinds of diagnostic tools. ... The lack of data has always been a challange in this case. ...