... 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...

... 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. ...

... Astronomy and Astronomy Education). http://www.m31.spb.ru/ - "M31" (Astronomy and Astronautics). http://shuserg.chat.ru/ - "Deep Sky and Comets", Amateur Astronomy Web Site. http://www.starlab.ru/ - "StarLab" , Amateur Astronomy Web Site. http://www.astronet.ru:8101/ - "Russian Astronomy Web". http://s985.chat.ru/Index.html - "Астроклуб"- Astro Site for Beginners. http://pages.yahoo.com/nhp?h=science/astronomy/ - Yahoo! GeoCities Astronomy. TELESCOPE MAKING . ... The ATM Web Site. ...

... Egypt, Arab Republic of . ... Libyan Arab People's Socialist Jamahiriya . ... Guinea, People's Rev. Republic . ... Benin, People's Republic of . ... Cape Verde Islands . ... Ascension Island . ... Seychelles Islands . ... Reunion Island . ... Mayotte Island . ... Faroe Islands . ... Albania, Socialist Republic of . ... Romania, Socialist Republic of . ... Falkland Islands . ... Christmas Island and Cocos Islands . ... Norfolk Island . ... Tonga Islands . ... Solomon Islands . ... 809 . ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

August, 2011, Odessa, Ukraine EVENTS: Monday, 22.08.2011 Arrival 09.00 ­ 22.00 Registration of participants 20.00 ­ 22.00 Evening session : , ( -), ( - «») Tuesday, 23.08.2011 06.05 09.00 09.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 18.00 19.00 19.55 21.00 06.06 09.00 11.00 11.30 13.00 14.30 16.30 18.30 19.53 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 13.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 ... Discussion 6 SECTION SESSIONS Section 1. ... 15.50 - 16.20 Coffee break 16.20 - 18.00 Section sessions .. ...

... 322, L29 ± L36 (2001) The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey ± V. The 10k catalogue S. M. Croom,1w R. J. Smith,2 B. J. Boyle,1 T. Shanks,3 N. S. Loaring,4 L. Miller4 and I. J. Lewis1 1 2 3 4 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead CH41 1LD Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE Department of Physics, Oxford University, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH Accepted 2001 March 7....

... Relaia noastr apropiat cu principalii productori din CERCETARE Povestea Castrol s-a desfurat atБt Нn laboratoare de cercetare, cБt i pe pistele de curse din Нntreaga lume. нnc de la Нnceput am Нneles c cele mai bune uleiuri i cei mai buni lubrifiani pot fi dezvoltai doar prin colaborarea cu cei care se bazeaz pe ele, fie c este vorba de autoturismele obinuite sau de prototipuri care depesc recordurile mondiale de vitez. ... Clasamentul Castrol EDGE este ghidul celor mai buni juctori din lume. ...