... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

... Table 2 List of Spectral Lines Used in the DEM Reconstruction N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Ion Fe xi Fe xi Fe x Ni xvi Ca xiv Fe xii Fe xxi Fe xi Fe xi Fe xxiv Fe xii Fe xi Ca xvii Fe xii Ca xiv Fe xii (е) 180.41 182.17 184.54 185.23 186.61 186.89 187.93 188.23 188.30 192.03 192.39 192.83 192.85 193.51 193.87 195.12 log Tm (K) 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.4 6.6 6.3 7.1 6.2 6.2 7.2 6.3 6.2 6.8 6.3 6.6 ... Columns correspond to different flares; rows denote different spectral lines. ...

EVIDENCE FOR AGE DELAY BETWEEN THE FORMATION OF THE OLD HALO AND THE THICK DISK. ... The metallicity function of globular clusters of thick disk and old halo is shown on Fig.1Ю There are a two approximately the same normal distribution with well-defined gap between them with width [Fe/H] 0.2 dex. ... Metallicity function (left panel), and age distribution (right panel) for the old halo and thick disk globular clusters. ... Plots of V S against cos for the thick disk and the old halo samples. ...

... Proposals will be accepted until 1 May 1997 and should be sent to: Mary A. Cragg Mount Wilson Institute 740 Holladay Road, Pasadena, CA 91106 USA e-mail: mwi@mtwilson.edu Haystack Observatory Call for Proposals ---------------------------------------- Haystack Observatory invites proposals for the use of the 37-m radio telescope for observations in the following wavelength bands: 3-mm (85-115 GHz ) 7-mm (35-49 GHz ) 1.3 cm (21-25 ...

... The VSOP Symposium proceedings, "Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI" have been published and have been distributed to participants. ... Following the successful launch of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) satellite HALCA in February 1997 there have been many exciting results from space VLBI observations. ... Also, check the newly revised getting to ISAS page which has links to pictorial "Getting to ISAS from Fuchinobe" and "Getting to the Dai-Ichi Hotel from Fuchinobe" pages! ...

August 18-29, 2002 . BMSTU, SM,YSC, supported by RSA, organised Educational Europe Tour for 40 students study space science and space technologies. ... June 28, 2002 . ... The final program is available now. ... Youth Space Center started preperations to International Summer Space Workshop. June 30 - July 10. ... April 16, 2002 . Youth Space Center arranged annual meeting with russian cosmonauts - Bauman graduates . ... SpaceDTP-2002 opening ceremony in Russian Space Agency . ...

... The accuracy of the RESIK measurements allows photospheric and coronal abundance sets, important for the free­bound continuum, to be discriminated. ... The FB emission depends on the set of abundances used in the calculations, a coronal set (Feldman 1992; Fludra & Schmelz 1999) giving rise to greater emission than a photospheric set (Grevesse et al. ... Right panel: continuum fluxes compared for coronal (Feldman 1992) and photospheric (Grevesse et al. 2007) abundances for Te = 15 MK. ...

... CVS . ... ASM Kislovodsk . ... Anonymous CVS access through CVS protocol: . cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . Anonymous CVS browse through ViewVC: . ... Rs485 CVS . ... ASM Dome demon CVS . ... CVSROOT at curl.sai.msu.ru is located in /srv/cvs/cvsroot . You may access to CVS repository via SSH only using your curl's account login/password. ... export CVSROOT=curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . ... CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d user@ curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot command . ...

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R.A.S. Online Application . Form Updated on September 17, 2008 . ... Type in requested information on form. ... Print form (ctrl-p) and mail form & check (or money order) to RAS. ... Hit submit form button, then mail in your check to RAS . RAS Membership is $40.00 per year. ... Email RAS president for details. First name: Last name: . Email: . ... Any additional information: . Send check/money order (made out to RAS) to: . ... Email Tammy Plotner . ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. LENTICULAR GALAXIES AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE LEO II GROUP: NGC 3599 AND NGC 3626 O. K. Sil'chenko1 1 3 ,2 ,4 , A. V. Moiseev3 , and A. P. Shulga1 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow 119992, Russia; olga@sai ... moisav@gmail.com Received 2010 January 19; accepted 2010 August 14; published 2010 October 15 ABSTRACT We have studied unbarred S0 galaxies , NGC 3599 and NGC ... Figure 3 shows the LOS velocity fields for the stars and for the ionized gas in NGC...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

... ---------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- catalog .dat 269 36020 Revised NLTT Catalogue and 1st Supplement Description of catalog columns (see Paper II for details): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Information 1) NLTT number (drawn consecutively from 1 to 58,845) 2) binary component 3) RA ( 2000 ), epoch 2000 ( ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

STARTEST IMAGES GALLERY . STARTESTING TELESCOPES WITH AN AUTOCOLLIMATOR . ... This website is a joint effort of Markus Ludes from APM-Telescopes and Cor Berrevoets ( Aberrator free startesting Software ). The site aims at explaining the different aspects of star-testing telescopes. ... Markus Ludes (APM telescopes) used a high quality 10" Maksutov Newtonian (Zygo tested at 632,8 nm with the following errors: 1/10.1 wavefront p.t.v. and 1/51 wavefront RMS) as collimator in single pass scheme. ...

... Other Planned Activities Include Solar Observing Astrophotography Presentations and CCD Demo's Field Trip to AAAP Observatory at Jenny Jump Workshop: Learning to Use Your New Telescope Plus Swimming (life guards provided), Fishing, Volleyball, Basketball, Hiking, Game room Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 per person ($45 after June 9) Bunkhouse -- $45.00 per ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Май 1998 . ... Lunar Prospector Mission Status Report #30 May 1, 1998 - 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft continues to perform very well and instruments are collecting good data. ... Дата: 08 мая 1998 (1998-05-08) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Full Data Sets From Galileo's First 7 Orbits Now Available Привет всем! ...