Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Invited Talks and Testimonials . ... Dr. Plait has given talks about Bad (and good!) ... Dr. Plait can also give talks on almost any topic in astronomy given a few weeks notice (for example, for a talk at a science museum he created a talk about current astronomical satellites and the work they are doing to further scientific knowledge -- this talk is updated as new observatories are launched), and will be happy to talk to you about your needs . ...

... 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 . ...

... Observatory . ... The Laboratory of Astrometry . Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... UkrVO . ... The purpose of research: Creating a stellar catalog to study the structure and kinematics of star systems, including open star clusters and stars with large proper motions; the enhancement ICRF / Hipparcos system to stars dawn to 17 m (V); Search of binary systems of brown dwarfs and determination of their parameters; astrometry of minor bodies of the Solar System. ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

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 Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... This site is devoted to Russian cosmonautics, its principle is "it's better to see once, than to hear 100 times". Here you will find photos (including rare ones), schemes, and the most important - 3D models of spacecraft and launch pads. webmaster - Alexander Chernov, chernov@vsm.host.ru . ... 1997 . ...

... POLAM-L . ... ABOUT LOMO . ... These include the same trinocular head with three vertical adapters, the same intermediate module with built-in Bertrand lens and analyzer, the same rugged stand with coaxial focusing, and the same precision rotatable stage that accepts the included stage clips. ... The 360° rotatable head features a built-in iris diaphragm, optical path selector and a vertical photo/video port. ... The Intermediate Module is a standard feature on every POLAM?- ... Intermediate Module ...

... DEPENDENCE OF ORDINARY WAVE ANOMALOUS ABSORPTION ON THE SOUNDING PROBLEM PARAMETERS . ... Transformation of electromagnetic wave into plasma waves plays an important role in different processes taking place in ionospheric plasma. ... According to modern point of view transformation of ordinary wave into plasma waves plays an important role in small-scale random irregularities generation when ionospheric plasma is heated by power radio wave [1,2]. ... Anomalous attenuation. ...

... 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. ...