The VLT Survey Telescope: a year after its coming into operation Massimo Capaccioli Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II National Institute of Astrophysics - VST center at Naples The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope located at the Cerro Paranal Observatory of ESO in the Chilean Andes. ... The wide field is sampled by OmegaCam, a camera with a mosaic of 32 CCD for a total of 256 Mpixels, provided by the homonymous consortium. ...

Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Washington Crossing Observatory Guide First draft 1/2000 K. Alexander, revised 7/2000 W. J. Murray, revised 1/2001 R.A. Parker Keyholder Duties Along with the privilege of having full access to the AAAP's telescopes and observatory facilities, all keyholders must participate in the AAAP's public observing programs as outlined below, and are expected to contribute to occasional maintenance and work sessions at the observatory. ... Note dead batteries in log. ...

... Multiexposition 34 images Sun 1/1000 sec f/22 and 1 image background. ... It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year. Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth's globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time. ... Previously, the position of the Sun on the sky was calculated with computer as well as optimal moments of time for taking each of the exposures. ...

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... March 13 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operation with OC "Mir" scheduled for March 12 is complete. During the previous day apart from routine OC "Mir" onboard systems checkout and orbit parametres monitoring, command software was uploaded into MCS Central Onboard computer. The MCS is in free drift. The received telemetry data was used to assess the onboard systems performance, thermal and humidity condition and complex pressure integrity. ... The complex remains in free drift. ...

... 2008 . ... 2006 . ... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Специалисты из European Southern Observatory утвердили план, согласно которому через три года европейскими учеными начнется сооружение гигантского оптического/инфракрасного телескопа European Extremely Large Telescope. ... Он даст наземной астрономии новые, до этого невиданные, возможности. ... Первое зеркало телескопа будет состоять из 906 шестиугольных сегментов, каждый размером в 1,45 метров. ... Решение по этому вопросу будет принято к 2008 году. ...

... Anomalous magnetosheath dynamics: magnetosheath crossings by spacecraft in few minutes and flow balancing by plasma jets Sergey Savin, Ermanno Amata, Lev Zelenyi, Viacheslav Budaev, David Sibeck, Natalia Borodkova, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Jean-Lous Rauch, Eugene Panov, and Jan Blecki Comparison of Two Successive Substorms Observed on August 1, 1998 Natalia Borodkova, Vladimir Parkhomov, and Georgy Zastenker ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

... Yu.A.Shokin Accurate positions of variable stars in the western part of the Large Magellanic Cloud bar (published in IBVS (No.5047, 14 March 2001) and SAI Proceedings) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij The list of 2821 Venus positions (VINITI depository Oct 08 2007, N 956 B2007) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij, E.N. Fedosseev The experience in processing long series of photographic observations of planetary positions (VINITI depository Apr 01 2008, N 274 B2007) . ...

Space Agencies and Centres . Space research . ... BNSC - British National Space Centre . ... CNES - Centre National d' tudes Spatiales, France . ... NASDA - National Space Development Agency (Earth Observation Center), Japan . ... NASA Spacelink , includes information about the Mir station . ... John F. Kennedy Astronomy Observatory , contains rich list of astronomy sites . ... LIFE Magazine Space Links . ... Copyright RSSI 1993-1997, Space Research Institute RAS Network Information Centre ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...