... The program Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on The Moon? seen on FOX television network (2/15/01) advanced the claim that NASA's Apollo Moon missions were a giant hoax. ... In our view the Apollo pictures were faked. ... Illumination in Shadow: FOX narrator: "On the Moon, the astronaut's only source of light was the Sun.. ... The two side-by-side photos show a test I conducted with a model of the lunar module and a toy astronaut placed in its shadow as in the Apollo image above. ... Apollo 11 Faked? ...

... Research . ... A rare hybrid morphology radio galaxy . ... In this project we will be able to investigate the environmental effect on star formation and galaxy evolution in individual galaxies falling into the cluster through radio observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Current models of galaxy evolution regulate the star formation rates within the simulated galaxies by invoking radio-mode feedback from AGN. ... Julie.Banfield@anu.edu.au . ...

... We have examined the evolution of merged low-mass double white dwarfs which become low-luminosity (or high-gravity) extreme helium stars. ... After a certain mass is accumulated, a helium shell flash occurs, the radius and luminosity increase and the star becomes a yellow giant. ... We conclude that the merger between two helium white dwarfs can produce a star with properties remarkably similar to those observed in at least one extreme helium star, and is a viable model for their evolutionary origin...

... A2046 Date Received: 2005-Feb-01 14:22:08 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Extragalactic 65 Hours HI content and dynamics of low luminosity galaxies We prop ose HI sp ectroscopy for a large, homogeneous sample of extremely low luminosity galaxies (-12 >Mr - 5 log h >-15) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). ... Part of the observing run. ...

... The improvement will be more pronounced in our crowded Wide Field Camera (WFC) images, and may be increased further through use of a more sophisticated method of combining the individual dithered images. Our analysis allows us to check for point spread function shape variations in the HST Planetary Camera (PC) field. ... In crowded field images, we are deriving information about the faint end of the luminosity function (LF) from the texture of the image background. ...

This is a progress report on the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey as was presented at the Second Coral Seas Cosmology Meeting on Dunk Island, September 1999. Three talks about the survey were presented at the conference. The others were.... QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | << - Meeting Proceedings | Talk Overview - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

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The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

... The host galaxies of low-z quasars . ... High-redshift quasars. Motivation: host galaxies and quasar evolution . ... The estimated galaxy luminosities are consistent with the values obtained for low- z quasars of the same luminosity. quasars, host galaxies . ... Conversely, quasar surveys provide an easy method of locating galaxies at large redshifts, so knowledge of the properties of quasar hosts offers a means of investigating the history and evolution of galaxies themselves. ...

... разработка теории и методов расчета лучевых дифференциалов первого, второго и третьего порядков в градиентных оптических системах; . ... разработка методов расчета геометрических аберраций второго и третьего порядка осесимметричных оптических систем, содержащих асферические поверхности и градиентные среды типа "псевдоаксикон"; . ... получены формулы для расчета смещения изображения и геометрических аберраций второго порядка в градиентных оптических системах с малыми нарушениями осевой симметрии; . ...

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...