The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano Ludy D'Angelo 609-737-6518 (609) 882-9336 ... 273-1456 (732) 469-7698 and (609) 448-8644 kane@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 38 From the Director March ... Please join us in Peyton Hall on March 10th. ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

... F-22 Raptor Airshow Demo at Langley Air Force Base . Langley School Music Project - Part 1 . ... Ливерпульская версия Памелы Андерсон . ... Биография . ... Самый богатый менеджер России' / Юрий Соловьев [88] . ... Юлия Волкова 08.04.2016 10:04:10] Юлия Волкова рассказала о своей борьбе с раком Подробнее .. ... Меган Трейнор 07.04.2016 07:04:10] Меган Трейнор выступила на iHeart Radio Awards с хитом NO Подробнее .. ZAYN 07.04.2016 05:04:47] Зейн Малик произвел фурор Подробнее .. ...

... Ракета-носитель "Энергия" . первая ступень ракеты-носителя "Энергия" . двигатели первой ступени ракеты-носителя "Энергия" . вторая ступень ракеты-носителя "Энергия" . ... Конструкторы "Бурана" . ... системы отображения информации в кабине . ... теплозащита в первом полете . ... системы планера "Бурана": . ... бортовые системы "Бурана": . ... Полет "Бурана" . ... Многоцелевая Авиационно-Космическая Система (МАКС) . ... X-20 Dyna Soar ("Дайна Сор") , США . ... Х-33, США . ... Новости сайта . ...

... Астрософт (Модератор: tlgleonid ) > . FAQ: перечень астрософта под Линукс . ... Чисто перечень астрософта под Линукс без всенародных обсуждений. ... AstroAviBrowser http://sourceforge.net/projects/astroavibrowser/ . ... Astronomy CCD Camera Control http://sourceforge.net/projects/astroccd/ . ... sastrocam (simple astronomy camera) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sastrocam/ ... через зеркальные цифровики и т.д. cccd http://sourceforge.net/projects/cccd/ . ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/cccd/ . ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

... The paper surveys status of the Russian space activity in terms of budget, operati atellistems workforce and industrial capabilities. Shown, that the situation is uneven between the companies and particularly between various tiers of production cooperation. In the current situation international cooperation, both in form of joint non-commercial ventures and integration into global space market, is considered vital for sustenance of the national space capabilities. ... number of R&D programs . ...

... Maps of six sources (0420+022, 0420-014, 1308+326, 1345+125, 1803+784, and DA 193) obtained with milliarcsecond resolution are presented and discussed, together with their broadband (1­22 GHz) spectra obtained on the RATAN­600 radio telescope at epochs close to those of the VLBI observations. ... The image (Fig. 5) shows that the source structure at 18 cm is compact, consisting of a VLBI core and two jet components, with the outer component lying 5 mas (30 pc) to the northwest of the core ( = 54 ). ...

... Марс Обсервер - автоматическая межпланетная станция, которая согласно одноименной программы НАСА, должна была производить наблюдение за Марсом с орбиты искусственного спутника планеты. ... Национальное Космическое Сообщество Франции, . ... Такая реакция могла вызвать разрыв трубопроводов с выбросом из них гелия и монометилгидразина, что заставило космический аппарат вращаться и могло нанести критические повреждения электрическим цепям. ... Mars Observer . ... Марс-96 . ... Союз (космический корабль)...

... Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias to the United States of America; Concluded March 30, 1867; Ratified by the United States May 28, 1867; Exchanged June 20, 1867; Proclaimed by the United States June 20, 1867. ... But the cession, with the right of immediate possession, is nevertheless to be deemed complete and absolute on the exchange of ratifications, without waiting for such formal delivery. ...

... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... International Economy Department . ... School of Physics . ... Department graduates' areas of employment: Social Problems Research Institutions; Public Opinion Research Centers; schools, colleges and universities; personnel, consulting and travel agencies; state and municipal government; local self-government. ... V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Students Trade Union, its activity and development perspectives in the opinion of students' Monitoring Program. ...

William Gershel (1738 - 1807). ... Gershel twice widened the Solar system and "turned" the Sun, proving its motion in the Universe. ... The Solar system became twice more. Besides he opened two satellites of Uranus (1789) with the reverse motion (1797) and two new Saturn satellites (1789). ... In 1783 Gershel discovered the Sun's motion in the Space and its direction. ... The 20 feet telescope of Gershel opened the nature of the mysterious "milky nebulas" which turned to be the star congestions. ...

... 35, No. 2, pp. 87­99. i Star Formation History in the Central Region of the Barred Galaxy NGC 4245 O. K. Sil'chenko1* , I. V. Chilingarian1, 2 , and V. L. Afanasiev 1 2 3 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. ... The galaxy has been found to possess a pronounced chemically decoupled compact stellar nucleus, which is at least a factor of 2.5 richer in metals than the stellar population of the bulge, and a ring of young stars with a radius of 300 pc. ... NGC 4245. ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

... 2. ui , i- , : 5 ui = ( - sin cos i cosi - cos i sini T ), i (1) i ­ i- OYZ; i ­ i- OYZ, i = 225 - 90 i, i = 1,.. ... 6 max ( L1 , L2 ) nmax = min ( L1 , L2 ) ( nmax + 1) , nmax = min ( L1 , L2 ) max ( L1 , L2 ) - min ( L1 , L2 ) - . ... 3) D1min1 , D1min 2 7 mi n1min1 , n2 n1 , min 2 min 2 n1 , n2 , Dlast . ... 11) OX OXY : nxy = nijk - ( nijk , ez ) ez , (12) ex , ey , ez ­ . ... nxy , ex ) ( , ( nxy , ex ) < 0 -arccos nxy (13) OX OXZ : nxz = nijk - ( nijk , ey ) ey . ... 450 B2 (+225 ) B1 (-225 )...

... The author attempts to approach the problem from the positions of systems analysis with account for the ideological grounds and history of space activities in Russia and abroad, comparing its current interpretation with the initial goals posed by leading theoreticians and practitioners who stood at the cradle of the space exploration era. ... The space systems recognized in Russia as priority projects are largely developed with violations of the systems approach principles. ...

... 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. ...