... Four planets shine in the twilight sky above them. Spread out near the plane of the ecliptic are Mercury , Venus , Mars , and Saturn , along with bright Regulus , alpha star of the constellation Leo. ... In fact, these four planets still shine in western skies at sunset, with Venus, Mars, and Saturn grouped much more tightly this weekend and in early August . By August 12 , a young crescent Moon will join the four planet sunset. ... July . ... Publications with keywords: ecliptic - planets . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... expansion rate . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 16 - 22.04.2012, Forecast on 23 - 30.04.2012, КЭРРИНГТОНОВСКИЕ ОБОРОТЫ 2122, 2123 (31,93.03, 28,19.04.2012) SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE PAST PERIOD GRADUALLY INCREASED FROM THE AVE- RAGE TO HIGH AND AGAIN TO AVERAGE OF LEVELS. ... NEXT WEEK THE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW. THE CALCULATED MOST LIKELY WEEKLY AVERAGE VALUE OF SUNSPOT NUMBER IN THE INTERNATIO- NAL SYSTEM FOR THE NEXT WEEK W=060+20/-10. ...

... Posts tagged ?Earth? ... Posted by vlk . There is a new report from Bernabei et al. ( arXiv:0804.2741 ) of the direct detection of the effects of Dark Matter that is causing a lot of buzz. ... Category: arXiv , News | 2 Comments . ... Tags: astrostatistics , curve fitting , Earth , ellipses , epicycles , Galileo , history , inference , iTunesU , Kepler , Mars , Owen Gingerich , planetary motion , Ptolemy , Quotes . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... SSAU scientists Sergey Zvonov, Engineer of Software Innovation Management, and Andrey Gavrilov, Head of Administration on Scientific Personnel Training, presented developments of the University at the International Exhibition- Seoul International Fair (SIIF-2014). International Forum was held in Seoul (South Korea) from November 28 to December 1. ... SSAU experts presented four developments that aroused a great interest among the exposition visitors. ...

Gravitational four-fermion interaction and dynamics of the early Universe I.B. Khriplovich, A.S. Rudenko Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia October 2013 According to common beliefs, present expansion of Universe is result of Big Bang. Quite popular idea is that this expansion had been preceded by compression with subsequent Big Bounce. ... Its energy density is = n4/3, is numerical factor, n1/3 is typical energy per particle. ... Solution of FLRW equations. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... Hints of the fourth planet in the ? ... This star is currently believed to host 3 giant planets having orbital periods about 4.6 days, 240 days и 1280 days [1]. ... Therefore, this seasonic periodicity is caused, most probably, by systematic errors. ... Taking into account the requirement of the dynamical stability of the system allows us to mark a few regions in the parameter space, where the orbit of the putative fourth planet (e) can be located. ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

... Hartmann Test Using a Screen With Four Holes 2 Hartmann test with four holes screen The theoretical concept of the primary aberrations measurement by four apertures Hartmann test introduced by "Malacara" * and "SalasPeimbert et. al. ... Black curve show the calculated coefficients for phase screens which have 8 modes of Zernike aberrations and red curve show the calculated coefficient for original phase screen. (a) astigmatism 45 (b) astigmatism 090 14 Coma Coma modes of Zernike aberration. ...

... CREO plans to produce an optical tape storage system with a capacity of 1000 GBytes per tape. ... The drive fits in one rack and average power consumption is 1000 W single phase. ... Hence the drive will just do the job if we store raw data, and with a moderate amount of data compression before storage, we will get a comfortable margin. ... We were concerned about drive reliability. ... The Exabyte 8 mm drives currently available write 2 GByte at a maximum data rate of 0.25 MByte/second. ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

... Up: Data Archives . ... The Data Archive and Distribution System (DADS) manages the Hubble Data Archive (HDA), a WORM Optical Disk Archive which contains over two terabytes of Hubble Space Telescope data. ... We describe a system which uses the database request logs as input to a flexible cache model. ... The Cache Model consists of three major components. ... The model provides the basis for an operational cache index since it uses the same data as DADS uses to obtain datasets from optical disks. ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

Lensing Statistics with Realistic Galaxy Models: E ects on the Cosmological Constraints David Rusin University of Pennsylvania, USA Gravitational lensing o ers a potentially powerful tool for con- straining the cosmological density parameters, particularly the cosmological constant(  ). ... The introduction of advanced analysis techniques is required to make the most of this data and assess the reliability of the derived cosmological constraints. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Images . ... Automatic Space Systems . Universal Space Platform . ... Crew 43/44 . ... Experiments Program . ISS-43 Images . ... Seventeenth Russian Visiting Crew . ... Sixteenth Russian Visiting Crew . ... Eighteenth Crew . ... Fifteenth Russian Visiting Crew . ... Seventeenth Crew . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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