Designed to "recognize significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity." ... CCD Imaging . ... RCrb stars/Variable Star Monitoring . ... Visual and CCD Observations of Variable Stars/Comets . ... Imaging and Image Processing . ... Computing Comet Orbits . ... Variable Stars/Comets . ... Variable Stars/Occultations . ... Variable Stars . ... Planetary Imaging . ... Photoelectric Photometry of Variable Stars . ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

Silicon/Tungsten ECal for the SD Detector ­ Status and Progress R. Frey U. Oregon UT Arlington, Jan 10, 2003 Outline · · Physics Goals for ECal ъ Resolution requirements R&D for the Si/W ECal for SD ъ Description ъ EGS4 model ъ Required simulation studies ъ Plans UT Arlington R. Frey 2 ECal Goals · Photons in Jets ъ Id. with high efficiency and measure with reasonable E resolution · ... in a very busy environment. ... ъ Begin test beam studies (2005-ish) UT Arlington R. Frey 23 ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Dr. Hoffman was awarded NASA Space Flight Medals in 1985, 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1996, NASA Exceptional Service Medals in 1988 and 1992, and NASA Distinguished Service Medals in 1994 and 1997. ... During preparations for the Shuttle Orbital Flight Tests, Dr. Hoffman worked in the Flight Simulation Laboratory at Downey, California, testing guidance, navigation and flight control systems. ...

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

... Status of the ELECTRON experiment . ... The objective of the ELECTRON experiment is to perform 3-D measurements of the plasma electrons in the energy range from 10 eV to 26000 eV, with good angular resolution, sensitivity and large dynamical range. ... Figure 1 presents the ELECTRON sensor. ... Click on the picture to view large one) . ... Figure 3 shows dynamical spectra with counting rate measurements performed by ELECTRON experiment during very multiple magnetopause crossings on February, 4, 1996...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Equipment testing began on January 4. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is equipped with six sensors that measure the magnetic field in different compartments of the device, fix electrical discharges and the impact of the space environment on the equipment functionality. ... The magnetometer Shtil-M No. 2 is the third unit of the series, which was created in SSAU Institute of Space Device Engineering led by Professor Nicholay Syomkin. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

... Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their Applications, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, October 14-16, 1992 , pp. ... A possibility of designing functional devices for various applications in terms of unified technology on the basis of CNNs is discussed on examples of an associative memory device, complex oscillations generator, devices for chaotic memory scanning and pattern recognition. ...

... RSC Energy General Designer . ... The possibility of continuing the exploitation of the complex in the conditions of the inevitable obsolescence and depreciation of the on-board equipment providing the achievement of the necessary level of safety has been one of the most important and always controlled problems during all the term of exploitation of the complex Mir. ... The technical condition of the complex Mir gives the opportunity to continue its exploitation in a piloted mode till 2002 and more....

... The goal is to analyze a full 10 MHz bandwidth in two polarization channels, yielding time series of power spectra with a minimum amount of aliasing. ... Options for recording fullrate data are discussed. ... ACHIEVABLE TIME RESOLUTION FOR PULSAR OBSERVATIONS While each FFT chip provides unity time-bandwidth product and, hence, any time resolution in powers of two of the input sample interval of 0:4s, dispersion in the interstellar medium ISM limits achievable resolutions. ...

MICROSCOPES . ... NIGHT VISION DEVICES . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... LOMO® has designed and manufactured optical devices ranging from microscopes and endoscopes to telescopes and night vision devices . ... Since the end of the Cold War LOMO ® has been able to continue its tradition of quality and innovation by offering its diverse products and technologies to the scientific, medical, industrial and educational communities in North America. ... LOMO PLC has received the ISO 9001 Certificate . ...

... Concept Spacecraft . ... The proposed lentiular design concept for the Apollo spacecraft was one of several unorthodox designs rejected in favour of the more familiar conical shape which was lighter and less complex.The lenticular design was a ?road not taken?, losing out to less challenging configurations.It is strange to think that if history had proceeded differently, each Apollo crew could have ended their lunar mission by gliding to a touchdown on a runway at Edwards AFB in a flying saucer! ...

... GIANT Magellan Telescope . Dr. Dan Fabricant . ... The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a 25 meter diameter optical-infrared telescope that will be sited in Chile. ... Dr. Fabricant, a leader in the design of new instruments for optical astrophysics, led the development of the optical and instrument design for the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) in Arizona. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... The 2014 year marks the 100th anniversary of Yakov Zeldovich . ... John Carlstrom (University of Chicago) . ... Lyman Page (Princeton University) . ... The conference will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, on June 16-20, 2014 . ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 2014 Space Research Institute, Moscow Русская версия ...

... about the status of Soyuz TMA-14 manned transportation spacecraft readiness for launch, and of the Soyuz TMA-13 for flight completion; . about Soyuz-FG launch vehicle (LV) flight readiness for the launch of Soyuz TMA-14; . ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia is the prime Russian company engaged in development and operation of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the space station and its transportation/logistics support using Soyuz/Progress-type spacecraft. ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... Spiral Galaxy NGC 2997 from VLT . ... The Galactic Center A Radio Mystery . ... Comet 57P Falls to Pieces . ... Orbiting the Sun every 5.9 years or so this faint comet - also christened Comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte for its three 1941 co-discoverers - is simply.. ... A Star Cluster in Motion . ... The stars that compose globular clusters and many open clusters all orbit the cluster center, occasionally interacting, gravitationally, with a close-passing star. ... A Setting Sun Trail . ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... ОБ ОТДЕЛЕ . ... Cеминар теоретического отдела АКЦ ФИАН . ... Новости со школы 'Струны и дуальность' . ... Председатель д.ф.-м.н. В.Н.Лукаш. Секретарь к.ф.-м.н. Е.В.Михеева ( helen@lukash.asc.rssi.ru ), . ... Пропуска заказывать у секретаря АКЦ Страут Людмилы Георгиевны по телефону 333-25-12 до 12 часов предыдущего дня, для прохода в ИКИ при себе иметь паспорт. Новости . ...

Subatomic resolution on Cu(014)-O . 3nm x 3nm STM image of the Cu(014)-O 0.5ML surface measured with MnNi tip. ... This result has been discussed in Phys. Rev. Letters, 98, 206101 (2007) (A.N.Chaika, V.N.Semenov, S.S.Nazin, S.I.Bozhko, S. Murphy, K. Radican, I.V.Shvets, "Atomic Row Doubling in the STM Images of Cu(014)-O Obtained with MnNi Tips"). Image courtesy of A.Chaika. The image was measured in constant current mode using RT STM GPI-300. Copyright ISSP RAS, LSSS, 2006-2007 . ...