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 ... Remember to mark each Friday starting April 4th as our Simpson Observatory Open House event. ... John Miller asked if Jeff could send out the call for event participants to the entire membership. ...

IVS name -- the 8 letters long name of the source adopted by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . This is either IAU B1950 name of a common name.

... The VSOP Symposium proceedings, "Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI" have been published and have been distributed to participants. ... Following the successful launch of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) satellite HALCA in February 1997 there have been many exciting results from space VLBI observations. ... Also, check the newly revised getting to ISAS page which has links to pictorial "Getting to ISAS from Fuchinobe" and "Getting to the Dai-Ichi Hotel from Fuchinobe" pages! ...

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SRI was organized in 1991. ... SRI consists of 12 laboratories which conduct investigations in two major directions: space-based monitoring of the state of atmosphere and Earth; space-based material science. There are 122 employes in the staff of the institute, 71 of them are scientific workers, 7 are professors and 30 PhD. SRI participated in the development of the program of the flight of Kazakhstan cosmonauts including the orbital complex "Mir". ... Tel: (007)-(327-2)-61-58-53 . ...

... All the galaxies are divided into 4 groups depending on the environment type; every subsample contains more than 10 galaxies. ... An effect of environments is seen both for the nuclei and for the bulges: if we consider the clusters (Virgo and Ursa Ma jor) and group centers as dense environments and the field and group periphery as sparse environments, then in the dense environments the stellar populations of S0s are in average older by 4­5 Gyr than in the sparse ones. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) Project has been established in April, 1993 after joint decision of Russian co-chairmen of Working Groups on Space Research and NASA to improve cooperative activities under the Agreement Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Concerning Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes (1992). ... NASA PSCN provides the telecommunications infrastructure from NASA to Space Research Institute RAS. ...

... 20-02-2007 . Протон-М" выведет на орбиту канадский спутник Ciel-2 . ... Контракт предусматривает подготовку и запуск в 4 квартале 2008 года ракеты-носителя "Протон-М" с разгонным блоком "Бриз-М", которые выведут на орбиту космический аппарат Ciel-2. Космический аппарат массой 5575 кг, созданный компанией Alcatel Alenia на платформе Spacebus-4000 C4, будет находиться на геостационарной орбите в точке 129 град. западной долготы. ... Новости астрономии . ... Законы космоса . ... rin.ru . ...

... Status of spherical tokamak Globus-M, Proc. International Congress on Plasma Physics and 25th European Physics Society Conf. ... Globus-M experiment at the final stage of preparation, Proc. 17th IAEA Fusion Energy Conf. ... Globus-M spherical tokamak, Techn. ... First plasma experiments on spherical tokamak Globus-M, Proc. of EPS-27 Conf. on Contr. ... Plasma Formation and First OH Experiments in Globus-M Tokamak, Proc. 18 IAEA conf on Fusion Energy, 4-10 October, 2000, Sorrento, Italy, EXP1/03 . ...

International Workshop NAROO-GAIA "A new reduction of old observations in the Gaia era", Paris Observatory, June 20-22, 2012 Registration of participants of Workshop NAROO-GAIA Before the first meeting OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP The natural planetary satellites are observed since centuries in order to understand their dynamics and their evolution. ... Science results, reports, data mining. ... L. Beauvalet: Strong need of a new reduction of Pluto's old observations W.Thuillot: very important. ...

... Страна-разработчик МКА Южная Корея. ... Средство выведения МКА РН 'Днепр'9. Масса МКА 113 кг13. Научная аппаратура (полезный груз) МКА Камера EOS-A с разрешением 10 м18. ... Страна-разработчик МКА Малазийя. Заказчик - Национальное космическое агентство Малайзии ANGKASA (Agensi Angkasa Negara). МКА совместно разработан южнокорейской компанией Satrec Initiative Со. ... Назначение МКА далее . ...

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) . ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... If you want to calculate equatorial coordinates of object: . Click the " File " menu, and then click " Open " ; or press  on toolbar. Choose a file with image. ... Also see section " Viewing of image ". ... Before, if it is necessary, you must make an account dark current and flat field (See section " Preliminary processing of images ".) ... Measure the marked stars. ... Click the " Calculations " menu, and then click " Coordinates " or . ...