The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Bill Murray (609) 298-1179 strgazr@comcast.net Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano OPEN (609)-737-6518 michael.mitrano@worldnet ... (609) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and (609) 448-8644 kane@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 38 From the Director December ... The speaker will be the AAAP's own John Church. ...

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Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Founder of ISC Kosmotras, Member of the Board . ... Peaceful and rational use of RS-20 ICBMs after their withdrawal from service with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been in the main focus of Dr. Andreev s attention since early 1990s. Dr. Andreev is one of the founders of an international cooperation program and process called the Dnepr Program . ... Dnepr Program . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 02 февраля 1998 (1998-02-02) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Lunar Prospector Update - January 29, 1998 Привет всем! ... Lunar Prospector Mission Status Report #16 January 29, 1998 7 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. PST) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft continues to operate well according to Mission Control at NASA_s Ames Research Center. ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

Добро пожаловать, Гость . ... Общероссийская неделя "Астрономия на тротуаре" - 15-17 апреля . ... Новости астрономии и космонавтики (Модераторы: Karen , recarrion , LeMay ) ? orbit@home . ... Открывается новый проект распределенных вычислений orbit@home . ... Записан . ... а не попадалась ли вам информация о проектах распределенных вычислений, которые платят участникам за аренду вычислительных мощностей? ... Поиск по форуму нашел родственные темы: Еще одна orbit@home и Распределенные вычисления . ...

... Lester Lyles (USAF, ret.) stated firmly that NASA will Asimov continued on page 9 When a Tight Budget Brings Space Dreams Back to Earth By Evan Schneider When Hayden Planetarium director Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and others were planning the 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate some months ago, they may not have had any idea of how topical the subject, Moon, Mars and Beyond: Where Next for the Manned Space Program? would be. ... Mars fades from magnitude 0.2 to a stillbrilliant 0.7 during April. ...

. Звезды - . Кандидаты . для METI . HD number HD 50692 HD 71148 HD 76151 HD 95128 HD 126053 HD 193664 HD 197076 . HD number HD 50692 HD 71148 HD 76151 HD 95128 HD 126053 HD 193664 HD 197076 . С.Гурьянов . 2001

... Schools . ... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... School of Physics . ... Academician I.M. Lifshyts Theoretical Physics Department . ... Crystal Physics Department . Experimental Physics Department . ... School of Physics andљEnergy . ... The Chair was founded in 2003 at V.N.Karazin Kharkov National University. ... F. Shmalko was elected as professor and head of the Chair of Physics of Alternative Energy Technologies and Ecology and during some years he was a Dean of the Department. ...

... On the basis of hypothesis about Solar s ystem formating from endo-Galactic Vortex, stated by е.л. Trunaev, who have acquainted the author of the present work with his manuscript in 1991 during personal contact , the results of attempt to apply its main rules to some calculations at the Solar system actually and at planets satellite systems are below stated. ... orbit in . ... All satellite systems of planets, as well as the Solar system, are formed from two- branch pre-planetary (pre-Solar)...

НОВОСТИ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ ИСТОРИЯ СТАНЦИЯ МИР ENGLISH . ... Мои публикации . ... About a year has passed since I wrote the article 'Gagarin was still the first' in Orbit no 51, trying to systematize and analyze rumours and gossip about flights into space which allegedly happened during the Soviet era but have been ignored in official history. ... One more rumoured Soviet 'manned flight to the Moon' was delivery of 'Lunokhod-1' - to the Moon's surface. ... Под эгидой Федерации космонавтики России. ...

The possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in umbrae by line width differences S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. This article studies the possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in the photospheric layers of sunspot umbra by the Difference of the Line profile Absolute Widths of neutral zirconium ? ... 2) Line profiles for cold models have extended wings. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

... The OC "Mir" orbit parametres before the final burns . ... Orbit period (in min) . ... Mean orbit altitude (km) . ... solar F 10.7 flux . ... F 10.7 <= 100 - low level; 100 < F 10.7 < 150 - medium level; F 10.7 >= 150 - high level . Orbit 86328(15) - the first burn bulding the descent orbit  D V 1 =9.3 m/s. After burn altitude H min = 188.2 km, H max = 219.2 km. Orbit 86329(16) - the descent orbit second impulse D V 2 =10.4 m/s. After burn altitude H min = 158.9 km, H max = 218.5 km. ...

... In this case, the main vortex in the Benard cell is decomposed into smaller ones as a result of ten perioddoubling bifurcations. It is shown that the resulting turbulence is coherent and determinate; the fractal character (local selfsimilarity) of its spectrum is found. ... It is shown that the real atmospheric turbulence is the result of mixing of different coherent structures. ... COHERENT STRUCTURE IN A CLOSED ROOM The scheme of measurements in the LSVT spectrograph pavilion is shown in Fig. ...

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This section of library contains information about "classic" Star Catalogs. ... For a Henry Draper Catalog 272149 stars have received a total of 531,211 identifications in 7 сatalogs: . 270456 - in Astrographic Catalogue ( "Carte du Ciel", 4M), . 251943 - in Guide Stars Catalog (GSC), . ... A file with information on the components of 1788 of multiple systems in catalog HDEC (3681 component, or a combination thereof, with 4054 recording). ... A file with information about 21971 variable stars. ...