... Paul J. Francis . ... 3mm] Joint appointment with the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics . I present a way of adapting the techniques of Problem Based Learning (PBL) to undergraduate astronomy classes. A fictitious astronomical mystery is invented, and presented to the class. The students, working in small groups, propose observations to crack the mystery. ... Two case studies of this technique are presented and discussed. ... Student Briefing . Running the Exercise . ...

... Initially SAI Supernova Catalogue was presented in the form of filebased system. ... The current version of SAI Supernova Catalogue presents data on supernovae together with data on their parent galaxies. ... The main source of data for the galaxies was LEDA database. ... In some cases our data were compared with the ones from the Asiago Supernova Catalogue and from List of Supernovae at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, but the compilation of our Catalogue is carried out independently. ...

... Up: Algorithms . ... The imaging problem can be described as an optimizing problem in mathematics. ... Computer simulations of rotating modulation collimator imaging show that the quality of images from this method is better than that from the traditional cross-correlation method. ... The imaging problem is: . ... The results show that this algorithm can be used in the imaging problem and usually results in a better image than that obtained from a traditional method such as cross-correlation. ...

. Next: Abstract . On the problem of Super Ratio in Astrophysics . V.M. Lipunov . Sternberg Astronomical Institute, . Universitetskij pr., 13, 119899, Moscow V-234, Russia . E-mail: lipunov@sai.msu.ru . Abstract . Fermi's Paradox . Simple Universe . Tsiolkovskii's Paradox . Scientifically discovered God . Endlessly Complicated World . References . About this document ... Lipunov V.M. Sun May 3 16:35:20 MSD 1998

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... A brief discussion of the potential and problems of the Astronomy Thesaurus and UDC classification system took place. ... The introduction to the thesaurus explains its use and construction in detail (Shobbrook & Shobbrook 1993a). ... Discussion ensued about the use or rather non-use of the thesaurus by the editors of the core astronomy journals. ... A sprinkling of hands was raised in answer to the question of who uses UDC and those people were invited to form a separate discussion group. ...

Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Information & tools for observers . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ...

... Recent Topics . ... Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future . ... В?д: "Cambridge Scientific Publishers" . ... Тема: FW: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Subject: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Re: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... I read about your recent conference: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and . ... Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) as a special issue . ...

Recursive solution of light scattering problem for multi-layered axisymmetric particles V.G.Farafonov St.Petersburg University of Aerocosmic Instrumentation St.Petersburg, 190000, Russia and V.B.Il'in Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg University, St.Petersburg, 198504, Russia ABSTRACT Light scattering by inhomogeneous (layered) particles is the problem that often arises in optics of the atmosphere and ocean, biophysics, astrophysics, etc [1]. ... Farafonov V.G., Il'in V.B. (2000) Opt. ...

Bigbang Forum Message . Forums: . ... Big Bang | ... PROBLEMS WITH COSMOLOGY? ... I have read about problems with 'Big Bang theory' and Einstein’s relativity theories. ... This was written by a physicist: an enthusiast and expert in string theory! ... It is indeed this problem which Greene (2) shows string theory is set up to solve." ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

The WEB structures at small scale related to the 0 problem M.D. Suran et al. Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, ROMANIA In the present paper, using a variety of N-body and gas codes, we study the large scale structures (LSS) and the small scale struc- tures (LSS) (nonlinear regime in di erent cosmological scenari- ous). ... The WEB theory is used to constrain the cosmological parameters of the in ation-based 0 CDM models. ...

... LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS . Radio sources identification is one of the most important tasks of the current radio astrophysics. ... Optical idetification. ... Optical identifications of subsample of steep spectra radio sources from RC catalog using 6m SAO telescope of SAO RAS: optical observations. ... Astronomy Reports. ... Identification of radio sources with data of various radio catalogs allows one to construct continual spectrum of the object and its radio structure. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Rotation theory of celestial bodies: dynamical relations of the pole motion and nutation Yu. ... Problem By construction Earth rotation theory the studies of the precession--nutation motion and pole motion are considered usually separately. ... The angle Q between the polar axis of inertia and axis of rotation is small (of order 10 \Gamma6 ). ... The perturbation theory of the Earth rotation has been constructed in the elastic Andoyer and angle--action variables. ...

... Астрономическая неделя с 11 по 17 апреля 2016 года . ... Александр Козловский . ... День открытых дверей на Пущинской РадиоАстрономической Обсерватории 09 апреля 2016 года . ... Полное солнечное затмение 9 марта 2016 года . ... Полное лунное затмение 28 сентября 2015 года . ... Затмение, которое произойдет 28 сентября 2015 года, является повторением через сарос (цикл повторений затмений равный 6585 дней или 18 лет 11 дней) полного лунного затмения от 16 сентября 1997 года с максимальной фазой 1,20.....

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