... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Accidental Astrophysics: The Devil's In the Magnitudes, Part II . ... The star second to the Sun in brilliance is Sirius. ... Recall the magnitude system, passed down to us through a hundred generations of sky watchers, as a means of quantifying stellar brightness ("Accidental Astrophysics," May/June, p. 9). ... Yes, it is a magnitude difference, but that difference is due to the distance between us and the star. ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Names of participants of the OTARIE project are underlined . ... That code was never made public. ... WANN (Weighted Approximate Nearest Neighbors) is a library of C++ classes for weighted nearest neighbor search: given the set P of points p 1 , p 2 , , p N endowed with weights w 1 , w 2 , , w N and a query point q , find p k such that | ... WANN is part of a multipurpose library for numerical transport optimization developed in the OTARIE project. ...

... The wavelet transform, time-frequency localization and signal analysis. ... IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing , 40(7):1746-1757, July 1992. ... Time-frequency window leakage in the short-time fourier transform. ... A generalised wavelet transform for Fourier analysis: the multiresolution Fourier transform and its application to image and audio signal analysis. ... IEEE. ... Signal-dependent time-frequency analysis using a radially gaussian kernel. signal processing , 32(3):263-284, June 1993. ...

... According to the big bang theory, huge amounts of energy were released, giving rise to matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... The Big Bang Theory has enabled scientists to make certain predictions. ... These particles are the building blocks of matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... This could theoretically happen if the hydrogen was shockheated to over 100000 C. The Big Bang Theory is only a theory and so there is no concrete evidence to suggest that it is entirely correct. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

... Northern Eurasian GOFC/GOLD Fire Network Workshop in support of the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative ( NEESPI ) . Satellite-based fire monitoring network in Northern Eurasia: Methods, Data Products, Applications . ... Operational systems of fire monitoring and fire situation in Northern Eurasia (Issues of system building and functioning, fire situation, available data and problems) . ... Marchenko N., Landscape-ecology methods for forest fires monitoring in Northern Eurasia. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Listed Since February 17, 1999 . ... 732) 329-0910 . ... 732) 329-9069 . Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... Molecular beam epitaxy . Surface analysis . ... Molecular beam epitaxy and fundamental studies of semiconductor heterostructures (with quantum wells, quantum dots and superlattices) based on: . narrow gap III-V compounds for optoelectronic and electronic applications; . wide gap II-VI compounds, as well as ZnO, for visible range and UV optoelectronics and basic studies in the field of spintronics; . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

INTMINS . The INTMINS Project is based on: . The Agreement between Space Research Institute (IKI) Russian Academy of Science (Director IKI - A.A.Galeev) and INSPIRE Project (President - W.W.L.Taylor); . ... INTMINS ( INT erball - M ir- INS pire) is an acronym created out of the names of three projects that are working together to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic (EM) waves from electron and plasma beams in the Earth’s ionosphere. ... ENERGIYA is in charge of MIR. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Imaging Basics . ... Sharpest-ever ground-based images of Pluto and Charon . ... Speckle image reconstruction of Pluto and Charon obtained in visible light at 692 nanometers (red) with the Gemini North 8-meter telescope using the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument (DSSI). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

... 0.01 10 Prob./0.01 -1 a) -1 b) 10 10 -2 10 -2 10 -3 10 -3 10 -4 10 -4 10 -5 10 -5 10 -6 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 ER/Ebeam 10 -6 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 EL/Ebeam Snowmass 05 3 23 August 05 ­ David Strom ­ UO · Use very tight acollinearity cut for energy tune-up OPAL Prob. ... 0.01 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 EL / Ebeam 8.75 < R < 11.75 Snowmass 05 4 23 August 05 ­ David Strom ­ UO · Make detector uniform so that no fiducial cuts in etc will b e needed. ...

Institute of Applied Astronomy Russian Academy of Sciences Method of Determining the Orbits of the Small Bodies in the Solar System Based on an Exhaustive Search of Orbital Planes Dmitrii Vavilov, Yurii Medvedev Introduction to the problem: Let we have n 3 positional observations of a body: points in time ( = 1, ) , right ascensions , and declinations . ... Determination of the orbit using the Gauss method of determining orbital elements based on two heliocentric positions and points in time. ...

... Research . ... Past and present projects and other research activities . ... These projects range from: the end-to-end systems modelling, design and commissioning of an optical to near-infra-red stellar coronagraph at the William Herschel Telescope, a European Space Agency design study into fold-out large aperture space telescopes, prototyping 'Smart' X-ray mirrors for next generation X-ray telescopes and R into future adaptive optics. ... OSCA - an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics ...

... IRAF Reduction Script . ... I have developed a protocol for reducing ARC Echelle data within IRAF, based on the pre-built IRAF scripts modified for the parameters of the Echelle. ... Object spectra . ... Not all users take biases with the Echelle, so a minor bit of editing is needed to adapt the script to biasless data sets. ... The result of operating on Echelle data with this script is fully calibrated, normalized 2-D output spectra from which scattered inter-order light has been subtracted. ...

CREW 19/20 . ... NIITsPK picture Charles SIMONYI . ... He was decorated with the Service Order (Hungary) in 2006 and the Grand Cross - the Hungarian Republic Order in 2007. ... Since September 5, 2006 he started training at Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center under the VC-12 program as the spaceflight participant. ... On December 19, 2008 by decision of the Chief Medical Board with participation of IBMP and Yu.A. Gagarin CTC specialists Charles Simonyi was allowed for the crew training. ...

... REGISTRATION . ... 119991, Leninski prospekt 53, Moscow, Russia . ... From radio to gamma rays results from space and ground based solar observatories . ... The Sun with high temporal and spatial resolution new look from SDO . ... Towards the Sun: InterHelioProbe, Solar Orbiter, PROBA-3, Solar Probe + . ... The Sun as a star: solar cycle and space weather . ... Head: E. DeLuca (SAO, USA), V. Kuznetsov (IZMIRAN, Russia) . ... June 1, 2011 (Wen) . ... Online publication of the workshop's program . ...

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