Captain of a crew of the space station is sure that 13 years for it is not an age. On Saturday an international expedition consisting of Russian Viktor Afanasiev, French Jean-Pierre Eniere and Slovak Ivan Bella set off from launching pad Baikonur to the space station Mir. ... The station is set in order. ... As a captain of maybe the last crew of the station Mir, what do you think about the planned sinking of the station? ... The International Space Station (ISS) will begin working not very soon. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . ... During 1992-2003 timeframe, a team of Russian and Ukrainian companies together with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) were involved in developing a commercial space launch system based on the technology of the SS-18 ICBMs being withdrawn from service. ... ISC Kosmotras was assigned the role of a team leader to build and commercially operate this SS-18 ICBM based space launch system and the entire program was given the name Dnepr . ... Dnepr LV ...

... Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov, . ... The seminar considers the questions related to generation of magnetic fields in astrophysical plasmas, effect of the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in strong magnetic fields, the origin and propagation of cosmic rays, the flares and other non-stationary phenomena in the solar atmosphere and solar wind, Sun Earth connections and physical processes in the heliosphere. ... On the Topological Models and Topological Trigger of the Solar Flares...

... Contents of the Tycho Catalogue Over view of the Tycho Catalogue: The Tycho Catalogue provides astrometr y (positions, parallaxes and proper motions) and two-colour photometr y (in B T and VT ) for more than one million stars brighter than VT = 11.5 mag. ... Stars in ver y dense clusters and other dense fields thus leaving the resulting Tycho Catalogue incomplete in such regions `R' in Field T42). ... The number of non-Hipparcos stars with Tycho Catalogue parallaxes larger than 40 + 4 mas is 1245. ...

... Properties of Stellar Populations in Isolated Lenticular Galaxies I. Yu. ... The resulting average ages of the stellar population in bulges and discs fill an entire range of possible values from 1.5 to 15 Gyr which indicates the absence in the isolated lenticular galaxies, unlike in the members of groups and clusters, of a certain epoch when the structural components are formed: they could have been formed at a redshift of z > 2 as well as only several billion years ago. ... 69 NGC 2350 No. ...

Characterization of Precipitable Water Vapor at the TMT Candidate Sites in Northern Chile: The Importance of Surface Data A. OtАrola T. Travouillon, M. SchЖck, S. Els, R. Riddle W. Skidmore, R. Dahl, D. Naylor, R. Querel Kislovodsk , October 4-9 , 2010 1 Outline Location of sites tested by TMT in northern Chile Synoptic-scale meteorological conditions Monitoring of ... Kislovodsk, October 4-9, 2010 16 Results: Overall & Seasonal Site Alt. (m) PWV (mm) GOES PWV (mm) Surf. ...

... 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. ...