Experimental rocket R-1A . To mature mass and operating characteristics of rocket R-1, its designers proposed to use an integral fuel tank and a warhead separated from the rocket at the ascent phase completion. In this case, only the ascent phase appeared to be rated for the launch vehicle and considerably more favorable regarding mechanical and thermal loads as compared to the atmospheric portion of the descent phase of the flight trajectory. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by NASA JSC Image Repository and Terry Slezak . ... from the primary NASA humidity-controlled cold storage vault built for the permanent preservation of spaceflight films. ... the other vault, situated in a remote corner of the NASA property, is used to store a complete duplicate set of the films, . ... at 0 F (-18 C) and 20% RH, houses a second duplicate set of backup copies and documentation of the spaceflight films. ...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

... A.Tsivilev (Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory) "Investigation of Orion A nebula by radio recombination lines". ... T.D.Dorokhova (Astronomical observatory of Odessa national university) «Researches of rapidly oscillating Ap stars». ... N.V.Grabko (Odessa State Ecological University), M.I.Ryabov (Odessa Observatory of IRA NANU) "Space Weather and us: influence of change of a condition of solar and geophysical activity on reaction of various systems of an organism of the person". ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

Mark your calendars to reserve Tuesday, December 13 for a sensational astronomy meeting! The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is presenting astronomer and author Kim Weaver for a presentation titled: "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with the Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes," and will highlight violent processes and dust-enshrouded objects revealed only by searching for signatures in x-ray and infrared light. ...

... Participant : The person whose name appears on the booking form. ... Participation Fee/ Optional Program Price . ... Passport and Visas . ... Travel insurance is highly recommended for all Participants while attending SpaceDTP-2016 and any related optional trips arranged by the Organizer. ... This booking condition states that the Participant must assume that he/she is not covered by the Organizer insurance policy including all liability insurance, for death, injury, damage or any other loss. ...

... A non-linear relationship is observed between the sky brightness on clear and overcast nights, with a change in behavior near the rural to urban landuse transition. ... The great variation in skyglow radiance observed from site-to-site and with changing meteorological conditions underlines the need for a long-term international monitoring program. he introduction of artificial light has caused an unprecedented disruption to the nighttime environment over large areas of the Earth. ... Data processing...

Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . ... Satellite data ] . ... The program is a powerful tool for multi-purpose image analysis and processing. It operates on files in main standard image storage formats: TIFF, BMP, GIF, PDF. The program contains a rich collection of operations for visual image quality improvement: linear and logarithmic normalization, equalization, brightness transformation by arbitrary look-up table, etc. ... ALMAZ-1 satellite data processing . NOAA satellites data processing . ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . ... The solar regions . ... The description of the solar regions . ... The growing bipolar group had appeared at the tenth parallel of the Southern hemisphere 30.04.04, to the West from the central meridian. ... The sunspot with perceptible symmetrical penumbra was observed at the mid latitudes of the Southern hemisphere since 11.11 to 23.11.04. ... The small bipolar group was observed at the tenth parallel of the Southern hemisphere since 16.11 to 20.11.04. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Dronino . ... New iron meteorite shower found! Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... Dronino iron meteorite . ... Mr. Gus'kov felt that further efforts by Milanovsky were likely to be unsuccessful, so he searched further and found our Meteorites Laboratory. The Laboratory's analysis showed that the Dronino Iron has a meteorite origin. ... Dronino is the 111th meteorite and only the third iron-meteorite shower found in Russia in the last 250 years. ...

... Maps of six sources (0420+022, 0420-014, 1308+326, 1345+125, 1803+784, and DA 193) obtained with milliarcsecond resolution are presented and discussed, together with their broadband (1­22 GHz) spectra obtained on the RATAN­600 radio telescope at epochs close to those of the VLBI observations. ... The image (Fig. 5) shows that the source structure at 18 cm is compact, consisting of a VLBI core and two jet components, with the outer component lying 5 mas (30 pc) to the northwest of the core ( = 54 ). ...

... 0,50-0,59 (0,50-0,59) µm . ... Swath Width . ... at end of visibilty area . ... Visibility Area Width . ... Ground Resoultion in Nadir: . along swath . ... across swath . ... Ground Resolution at End of Visibilty Area: . ... 200 lines per second . ... at least 200 . Ground resolution corresponds to normal flihgt altitude 650 km. For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... 322, L29 ± L36 (2001) The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey ± V. The 10k catalogue S. M. Croom,1w R. J. Smith,2 B. J. Boyle,1 T. Shanks,3 N. S. Loaring,4 L. Miller4 and I. J. Lewis1 1 2 3 4 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead CH41 1LD Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE Department of Physics, Oxford University, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH Accepted 2001 March 7....