... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The system of SOS (Small Orbit Station) must base on the operation in various combinations of the following orbital objects - standard elements of SOS: . ... The cargo module-spacecraft "Docking module" (DM) designed for ISS, . ... Service power module (SPM) on basis of DM, . ... SPM, analogously to DM, is delivered (is actively docked) to the board of SOS within the cargo module-spacecraft. ... Projects / Space hotel: General description . ...

... To make it easier to "read" this celestial calendar, they grouped the brighter stars into readily recognizable shapes, the constellations. ... From Star Maps , [AS 289] a constellation slide set, available from the ASP . Our modern constellation system comes to us from the ancient Greeks. ... The ancient Greek tradition was to name stars by their position within a constellation. ... And it explains why we have a system of Greek constellations with Latin names containing stars with Arabic names. ...

ADC CATALOG HOLDINGS SHORT TITLE LIST March 29, 2002 (adapted from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/key) Category 1: Astrometric and Positional Data - March 29, 2002 1090 Positions of 502 Stars in Pleiades Region (Eichhorn+ 1970) 1107A Washington Cat Visual Double Stars 1984.0 (Worley, Douglass 1984) 1131A SAO Star ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... The VSM: Lunokhod-2 25-year anniversary . Luna-21 with Lunokhod-2 landed on Moon 16 January 1973. ... All photos here except full Moon and Mare Serenitatis were made by author in NPO Lavochkina museum. ... which is very similar to Lunokhod-2, except its cameras. Luna-21 landed 15 Jan at 23:35 GMT inside 55-km Le Monnier crater on the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis. ... Frame - Mare Serenitatis . ... Any wheel could be permanently disconnected from its motor if the motor gets stuck. ...

... 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. ...

This section of library contains information about "classic" Star Catalogs. ... For a Henry Draper Catalog 272149 stars have received a total of 531,211 identifications in 7 сatalogs: . 270456 - in Astrographic Catalogue ( "Carte du Ciel", 4M), . 251943 - in Guide Stars Catalog (GSC), . ... A file with information on the components of 1788 of multiple systems in catalog HDEC (3681 component, or a combination thereof, with 4054 recording). ... A file with information about 21971 variable stars. ...

Клуб Скептиков] [Конференция] . ... Seeking skeptical contacts from Russia . Dear russian skeptic ! ... read a little russian language but can not write . ... I am now especially interested in claims concerning scientific investigation of paranormal in Russia and . ... Alex Посмеемся.. ... Seeking skeptical contacts from Russia 25-Окт (11:16) Archy re: Seeking skeptical contacts from Russia 27-Окт (10:10) DoctoR re: Seeking skeptical contacts from Russia 27-Окт (16:21) Alex re: Посмеемся.. ...

I was born on April 12, 1958, in Moscow, USSR, and I have a Russian nationality. I graduated the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1981, obtained there my Ph.D.degree in 1984 (the topic of the dissertation: "Stellar populations and evolution of galaxies") and a degree of Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences in 1994 (the dissertation "Stellar population of galactic nuclei"). Since 1984 I hold a permanent position at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow). ...

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