... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... The first two working group reports (on Extrasolar Planets and the Herschel--ALMA Synergies) were released in 2005 and 2006, and this third report covers the area of Fundamental Cosmology. The Working Group's mandate was to concentrate on fundamental issues in cosmology, as exemplified by the following questions: . What are the essential questions in fundamental cosmology? ... What are the appropriate methods with which these key questions can be answered? ...

Venus under the clouds. ... Venus is the second from the Sun and the nearest to the Earth planet of solar system. ... As for Venus, it has the densest atmosphere, the smallest rotation around the axis and the least eccentricity of the orbit Venus is the only planet whose own rotation is opposite it’s rotation around the Sun. ... The radiolocation survey of Venus by the soviet station "Venera - 15" and "Venera - 16" brought out in 1984 in the planets satellite`s orbit shoued the tarces of long walls. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Constructing the Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), shown above during construction, was opened in 1988. ... More images are available in our large collection of CSIRO science images , which includes 70 astronomy images. The whole science image archive currently holds 4127 images and videos. ... archive | ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... Telescopes . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... LX - Rear Thread Aluminum Dust Cover . ... Rear Thread Aluminum Dust Cover for SC and ACF optical tubes. ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. ... Space Science . Military Space . ... This is on-line version of Russian magazine Novosti Kosmonavtiki. This electronic version covers Russian and International space news. Those who wish to obtain the full, translated copy of an article will be charged an additional price, which varies with the size of the article. ... 2002 CosmoWorld.ru. ...

... Home Observing This Month?s Sky This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ February 2016 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ April 2016 . This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ March 2016 . This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ February 2016 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

... Ronald J. Garan, Jr. COLONEL, U.S. AIR FORCE, RET.) NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... ORGANIZATIONS: Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Engineers Without Borders, Association of Space Explorers, Member of the Launch.org Council, and Founder of the Manna Energy Foundation. ... In 1991, Garan was reassigned to the U.S. Air Force Weapons School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, where he served as an F-16 Weapons School Instructor Pilot, Flight Commander and Assistant Operations Officer. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... News . ... The rocket and space system Zenith-3SLB consisting of a launch vehicle (LV) Zenit-2SB with the upper stage Block DM-SLB has put the 3.2-ton telecommunications spacecraft Intelsat 18 into its target geotransfer orbit. ... The mission analysis was conducted by RSC Energia specialists within the Lead Operations Control Team working at the Mission Control Center for upper stages and unmanned spacecraft (RSC Energia at Korolev). ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

These images were taken at Moore and Mt. ... Late afternoon on February 27, 2007 at 16:52 local time, 21:52 UTC . Night of August 23, 2011, at 00:15 local time, 04:15 UTC . ... Movie on the Night of August 26, 2011, from 0:53 to 3:53 local time, 4:53 to 8:53 UTC . Aurora in the northern sky on the night of October 24, 2011, at 21:38 local time, 01:38 UTC . Dawn on October 25, 2011, at 06:30 local time, 10:30 UTC . Night of May 19, 2007, at 18:19 local time, 05:19 UTC . ... Google Sky . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

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. E. Swedenborg (from "Heavenly City") . List of scientific publications . List of preprints in the ArXiv . Lectures etc. (*.ppt) . My CV . Photos . Old version of the HomePage . Our paper . on the cover of . A . Phone: +7 (495) 939-50-06 . Review (in Russian); Poster on CNOC3: Gould Belt; Poster for SN1604: kicks.

The accommodation fees for the V APAO : . ... Team fee: 380.– Euro/team . ... Euro . ... Supplement fee for extra days (before 12:00 of October 7 th or after 12:00 of October 14 th ): . ... Two days before and two days after the Olympiad are possible in the Damyang Youth Camp (i.e. since 12:00 October 5 th till 12:00 October 7 th and since 12:00 October 14 th till 12:00 October 16 th ). ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... Master . ... Zel'dovich asteroid . ... August 29, 2013: Asteroid (11438) Zeldovich discovered 40 years ago . ... Asteroid (11438) has quite an elongated orbit with a period of 3.25 yr and eccentricity 0.19 (twice that of Mars). ... Asteroid will be located in Cancer constellation at the distance of 1.63 AU from Earth and 2.62 AU from the Sun (near the aphelion of its orbit), with the magnitude being 17.0m. Telescopes of MASTER network will definitely observe asteroid (11438) Zeldovich in early 2014....