Our guests had never been to Russia before. ... Though our guests seemed to be a bit tired and embarrassed, they danced and sang songs, took part in many competitions with great pleasure. Judging by their smiling faces, they liked our meeting a lot. ... Looking at us with huge eyes, asking questions about Russia, and having a nerveus smile-I was out of words. ... We divided their group into 2 teams, chose 2 first players, closed their eyes and told them draw the horse's head. ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. HIGHLY IONIZED POTASSIUM LINES IN SOLAR X-RAY SPECTRA AND THE ABUNDANCE OF POTASSIUM J. Sylwester1 , B. Sylwester1 , K. J. H. Phillips2 , and V. D. Kuznetsov3 2 Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of ... Troitsk, Moscow, Russia; kvd@izmiran.ru Received 2009 December 5; accepted 2010 January 6; published 2010 January 21 1 ABSTRACT The abundance of potassium is derived from X-ray lines observed during flares by the ...

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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. Here it seems you see only diffuse top clouds. But actually i'd like to show you the optical effect known as "Glory". It consists in formation of colored circles around the shadow of the plane . hovering under the clouds.

... 16-mm/2.8 Fish-eye . ... I set up my Edixa Prismaflex TTL on a tripod outside the dome at Zeiss 50" and opened the camera for several hours. The 2.6 m Shain reflector is visible at center. The time exposure of about 5 hours duration showing circumpolar stars. The dome can be seen to blur slightly due to their motion during the exposure. Back to Astronomical Images Home Page . ...

... Printed in U.S.A. COMPLEX FORMATION HISTORY OF THE LENTICULAR GALAXIES WITH STELLAR COUNTERROTATION: NGC 4138 AND NGC 45501 V. L. Afanasiev Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnij Arkhyz, 369167 Russia; vafan@sao.ru and O. K. Sil`chenko 2 Sternberg ... To further explore this idea, we undertook a special study of stellar population properties in the centers of two early-type disk galaxies with counterrotating global stellar disks: NGC 4138 and NGC 4550. ... NGC 4138 3.1. ... NGC 4550 4.1....

TOPSIDE AUTOMATED SOUNDER TOPAS/W . ... Table 6 TOPAS/W Subassembly Power Details . ... The TOPside Automated Sounder for the Ukrainian WARNING mission (TOPAS/W) will probe plasma densities from the altitude of the spacecraft at 600 km down to the peak of the F2-layer using only 30 W peak transmitter power. ... Upon power-up of the TOPAS/W, the TOPAS/W will load a bootstrap program from on-board EPROM, then load the operating software and the measurement and schedule tables from on-board EEPROM. ...

About V I spectral lines with overlay of Zeeman and hyperfine structure splitting in spectra of sunspot umbra S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. ... Overlay of components of the different types can allow obtain the parameters of the magnetic field by the ratio of the component intensities. ... The structure of Zeeman splitting which follows from the parameters of the line atomic levels can be seen in Figure 1. [pic] Figure 1. ...