... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

... The solar regions . ... The description of the solar regions . ... The recurrent sunspots crossed the Sun disc since 2.03 to 14.03.03, along the mid latitudes of the Northern hemisphere. ... The fine bipolar sunspots were observed at the mid latitudes of the Southern hemisphere since 7.03 to 12.03.03, in the Western part of the Sun disc. ... The small bipolar group was observed at the 32rd parallel of the Northern hemisphere since 13.03 to 17.03.03, in the Western part of the Sun disc. ...

LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

... General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database, Version 2012 Feb.) ... The cross-identification tables of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) contain all GCVS (including extragalactic variables from vol.V), NSV (New catalogue of Suspected Variable stars) and Supplement to the NSV stars as well as stars from the name-lists of variable stars nos. 67 - 80; it also makes it possible to find out identifications between the GCVS and the NSV catalogue. ... I-III) names are included. ...

... Anomalous magnetosheath dynamics: magnetosheath crossings by spacecraft in few minutes and flow balancing by plasma jets Sergey Savin, Ermanno Amata, Lev Zelenyi, Viacheslav Budaev, David Sibeck, Natalia Borodkova, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Jean-Lous Rauch, Eugene Panov, and Jan Blecki Comparison of Two Successive Substorms Observed on August 1, 1998 Natalia Borodkova, Vladimir Parkhomov, and Georgy Zastenker ...

Памяти Джорджа Олкока.. ... В возрасте 18 лет молодой любитель астрономии впервые попал на заседание Британской Астрономической Ассоциации, которое было посвящено деятельности известного английского наблюдателя метеоров В.Ф.Деннинга (к тому же первооткрывателя пяти комет и Новой звезды в созвездии Лебедя). ... В общем-то именно этот случай и заставил Джорджа Олкока вновь вернуться к проблеме поиска вспышек Новых звезд в нашей Галактике. ... Джордж Олкок умер в возрасте 88 лет, 15 декабря 2000г... ...

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... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

. Эмблема полета РН Falcon-9 с макетом корабля Dragon . для проведения аэродинамических испытаний . (Dragon Qualification Spacecraft). Фото с сайта компании SpaceX .

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... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . SMIS PUBLICATIONS . ... M. Andrrev, V. Efremov, M. Gostev, G. Dmitriev, Yu.S. Krasheninnikova , E. Loupian , A. Mazurov , R. Nazirov , A. Proshin , E. Flitman A System for Operational Remote Access to Archives of Data from Russian Earth-Observation Satellite Systems . The paper is devoted to general information system architecture, developed at IKI RAN for building information systems for access to satellite data and derived products. ... Preprint IKI RAS. ...