... The VSM: Lunokhod-2 25-year anniversary . Luna-21 with Lunokhod-2 landed on Moon 16 January 1973. ... All photos here except full Moon and Mare Serenitatis were made by author in NPO Lavochkina museum. ... which is very similar to Lunokhod-2, except its cameras. Luna-21 landed 15 Jan at 23:35 GMT inside 55-km Le Monnier crater on the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis. ... Frame - Mare Serenitatis . ... Any wheel could be permanently disconnected from its motor if the motor gets stuck. ...

... Space research, space communication including TV and radio communication with using satellite systems, Earth and ecological monitoring, the use of satellite, navigation and topogeodesic systems, manned missions, material production in space and lots of other operations could be related to space activity. ... A special 5-year program was developed involving regular Shuttle missions with join crews. ... БИК 2-3 system and "Symbol D" system telemetry data are used to control the Station; . ...

... The aerospaceplane project dated 29 June 1966 provided for the development of a 115-t orbital system consisting of three winged VTOL reusable aircraft: the 52-t HLA reusable hypersonic air-breathing launch aircraft, designated '50-50'; the RB expendable two stage rocket booster; and the OS manned orbital aerospaceplane, designated '50'. ... ORBITAL AEROSPACEPLANE DIMENSIONS . ... Instead, he came out with an initiative to start up the Buran programme in the USSR as a response to the US Shuttle. ...

... In 1930, Trumpler noticed that linear diameters (LD) of open clusters increase with distance (D) from the Sun. ... Since that time, the interstellar absorption has become one of the best studied factor in astrophysics, and we may hope that current OCL distance scales are free from this LD-D correlation. To verify if this is the case we have chosen several modern OCL distance scales and test them with the same clusters and the same angular diameters that Trumpler had used back in 1930. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Soc. 376, 1033­1046 (2007) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11549.x Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653 I. V. Chilingarian,1 1 2 ,2,3 P. Prugniel, 2,4 O. K. Sil'chenko1 and V. L. Afanasiev 5 Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, Universitetsky pr. ... Fitting the spectra with synthetic single stellar populations (SSP), we found an SSPequivalent age of 5 Gyr and nearly solar metallicity [Fe/H] =-0.06 dex. ... 2007 The Authors. ...

... The glass was cold polished for a year. ... I hope to see you ther e. Rich Rosenberg, president@aaa.org, (718) 522-5014 Gamma-ray Talk May 6 Wraps Up AAA's 2010-11 Lecture Series David J. Thompson, a deputy project scientist for the Fer mi Ga mma-ray Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will wrap up the AAA's 2010-11 lecture series Friday, May 6 when he speaks on "Exploring the Extreme Universe with the Fer mi Ga mma -ray Space Telescope." ... What is dark matter?...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... These Facts and Questions pages mainly tell you how to use the Aberrator-interface and also explain the nature of the aberrations. ... Airy disc: the brightest spot of light when you look at a star in focus. This disc can contain a maximum of 84% of all the light that arrives from a star (perfect refractor telescope). MCT : Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. A closed-tube mirror-telescope with a secondary obstruction. Less common than the SCT, this telescope uses a corrector (real glass). ...

... Система электропитания Солнечные батареи при выведении уложены вдоль корпуса и повторяют его форму 12.3. ... MMP (Magnetic Mapping Payload) - аппаратура Датского института космических исследований для измерения параметров магнитного поля Земли и изучения взаимодействия солнечного ветра с магнитным полем. ... DCS (Data Collection System) - система сбора данных предназначена для приема данных по состоянию природной среды с дешевых наземных платформ. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

... Aerobatics team "Strizhi" ("Swifts") is a member of the 237-th Proskurov Guards Aircraft Demonstration Centre rewarded with the Red Banner, Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky Orders named after three-times Hero of the Soviet Union Air Force Marshal I.N.Kozhedub. ... Aerobatics team "Rus" ("Russia") - Under this symbolic and proud name there performs its flights a synchronous aerobatics team of Viasemskiy Aviaclub "ROSTO". ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact ....

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) . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...