... Путеводитель астронома по Inter Net. (9 лучших линков в интернете на каждую астрономическую тему) . ... Астрономические данные в Интернете. ... Официальные астрономические учреждения России. ... Лучшие астрономические персональные страницы - AstroTop. ... Приведу некоторые www-страницы астрономических учреждений России, которые могут послужить хорошей отправной точкой в поиске нужной Вам информации по астрономии. ... Недаром на данный ресурс есть ссылки со многих астрономических страниц России. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

Truebloodb,g, K. Zelayab Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221 USA; bNational Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Street, Tucson AZ 85719 USA; cCerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena ... USA ABSTRACT We describe the design, construction and measured performance of the Kitt Peak Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph ( KOSMOS ) for the 4-m Mayall ... Optical layout for KOSMOS and COSMOS. ...

... Press release for Jan. 28, 2001 a.m. (Moscow time) . The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5"operations scheduled for Jan. 27-28 completed. ... The MCS (motion control system) is in free drift. ... The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5" onboard systems checkout is shceduled for 28-29 Jan. On Jan 25"Progress M-43' undocked the Station at 08.20 a.m. (Moscow time), its de-orbit is scheduled for Jan.29.The calculated time of jets firing for breaking - 05,12 a.m. (Moscow time) . ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

Space Agencies and Centres . Space research . ... BNSC - British National Space Centre . ... CNES - Centre National d' tudes Spatiales, France . ... NASDA - National Space Development Agency (Earth Observation Center), Japan . ... NASA Spacelink , includes information about the Mir station . ... John F. Kennedy Astronomy Observatory , contains rich list of astronomy sites . ... LIFE Magazine Space Links . ... Copyright RSSI 1993-1997, Space Research Institute RAS Network Information Centre ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...