... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

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• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: McCanney's Nonsense
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: Astrology
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: The Glass Worm

Where and how are we looking for evidence of life? ... Because the universe is an immense place, it makes sense to search for evidence of life in more than one way. In addition to focusing on what we know about life on Earth, especially in extreme environments, astrobiology currently comprises three basic types of searches in space, each employing different technologies, looking in different places, and expecting to find different kinds of data: . ... The search types ? ... Extrasolar Planets vs. ...

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• ASP: What Have We Learned About Halley's Comet?
• ASP: Past Pricilla and Bart Bok Award Winners
• ASP: National Astronomy Education Projects

... Imaging GRIN Rod Lens (HAG's) | Relay Rod Lens (LAG's) | ... The Refractive Index Distributions (RID) in GRIN lens preforms are made by multi-stage optimized ion-exchange diffusion between silicate mineral glasses and salt melts. ... In the LAG lenses - L ow A perture GRIN the nature of the changing of refractive index in glass via ion-exchange lies mainly in molecular volume increase. ... LAG lenses are specially treated to create the dark anti-flick surface coating (Fig.2). ...

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• Telecom Optics

... 8 February , 2014 SAI seminar (Ryde et al 2010) 5 Thermal emission from GRB jet progenitor observer photon jet Photosphere (=1) Ї Ї Ї Ї Photons are not produced at the photosphere We have to calculate radiative transfer We need to know where the photons are produced We construct the expression for effective optical depth in relativistic flow considering random walk process in relativistic flow SAI seminar 6 8 ... 8 February, 2014 SAI seminar 28 ...

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• Ya.B. Zeldovich All-Moscow Seminar of Astrophysicists

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• Index of /archive/books/astronomy_calendar
• StarCalc Home Page [English]
• Index of /archive/books/astronomy_calendar/1997

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

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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 ...

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... Первая десятка | ... Первая десятка "Русского переплета" Темы дня: . ... PET: A Proton/Electron Telescope for Studies of Magnetospheric, Solar, and Galactic Particles. ... Geosciencies and Remote Sensing, 31, 535, 1993. ... 1 D T distributions, obtained in GAMMA-1, SAMPEX PET, MARIA-2 and ELECTRON experiments (M>4, D L< ? 0.1). Fig.2 D T distribution, obtained on board SAMPEX (M>5, D L< ? 0.05) . ...

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• Quakes

The sky inhabitants - the constellations. ... The constellations of Zodiac. The constellations of Zodiac are very popular. ... They were counted from the point of vernal equinox. ... As a result all the Zodiac row of constellations as if displaced in the two positions the count traditionally begings from the constellation where the point of a vernal equinox is. ... That is why the Sun comes to each Zodiac sign two - five weeks before the time when it comes to the constellation of the same name. ...

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... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

91. Space Scientific and Education project of Lomonosov Moscow State University

92. http://www.uafo.ru/msg/zr_2014_08.doc

93. Index of /txt/2009/presentations

94. History of Armagh Planetarium

95. Telescope Accessories

96. Index of /groups/cluster/gcvs/digit/mdv

97. ASC site, Russian version

98. source comment

99. http://sn.sai.msu.ru/~sil/preprints/postbr1.pdf

100. Active To Do List