High-resolution near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modeling of the OH/IR star OH 104.9+2.4 D. Riechers1 , T. Drieb e2 , Y. Y. Balega3 , K.-H. Hofmann2 , A. B. Men'shchikov4 , and G. Weigelt2 1 2 3 4 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn Special Astrophys. ... The reconstructed visibility reveals a spherically symmetric, circumstellar dust shell (CDS) surrounding the central star. ...

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... Prof. J. Hough (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) . ... Astrophysics Research and Light Scattering Groups, University of Hertfordshire, UK (6 persons) . Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany (4 persons) . Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg State University, Russia (5 persons) . Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia (5 persons) . ... The site of the previous INTAS project (Open Call 1999 grant 652) . ...

... Fit the ring around the equator and then change its inclination from 0 degrees (equatorial orbit used by geosynchronous satellites) to 28.5 degrees (space shuttle orbit) to 51.6 degrees (space station orbit) to 90 degrees (polar orbit used by spy satellites). by Rob Landis, Space Telescope Science Institute . ... With so many satellites now in orbit, it is likely that you have seen an artificial satellite zipping across the night sky. ... http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftpsoft.html . ...

... Space Res., 12, 265, 1992 planetary magnetic dipole: Mizutani, H., et al., ... Astrobiology, 7, 167, 2007 CME induced H+ ion pick-up loss at 0.05 AU for ` Hot Jupiters ' HD209458 b Mass loss ~1011 g/s even for weak CMEs Mmax strong magn. protection in reality Exoplanet magnetospheres - importance of magnetodisk Relatively large amount of observed Hot Jupiters (27%): survival of close-in giants indicates their efficient protection against of extreme plasma and radiation conditions ...

... We find a transition of LBV star from the LBV instability strip to the region of classical WN for the first time. ... Numerical modeling of the atmospheres of these objects are very important for understanding the evolutionary relationship WR and LBV stars, as well as of the physical causes of LBVs variability. We studied spectra of two very luminous stars in the M33 galaxy - LBV V532 and late WN star FSZ35. ... Bottom: The spectrum of FSZ35 with the final model . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Astronomical Data Center . ... You can access the files described here in three ways: . ... Use CDS' VizieR Service at ADC to explore the data files. ... Get the data files via anonymous FTP. ... 1981) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1a Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1b -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ...

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... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

... title='TRIBORD' border='0' align='left' width='120' style='margin-right: 20px;' hspace='7' vspace='5'/> Мощное освещение, маленькие габариты . Цвет: черный . ... Модель: TK-100 TK-100 Модель: 22681651 . ... Цвет: Разноцветный . ... С помощью специальной электронной системы вспрыскивания поверхность чугунной посуды равномерно обрабатывается патентованным растительным маслом особой формулы, а затем проходит окончательную закалку в печи. ...

Участник первого набора астронавтов . ... Родился в 1975? году. ... Преподаватель Института авиационной технологии (Institute of Aviation Technology) Университета Куала-Лумпура (University of Kuala Lumpur). ... В декабре 2005 года был назван одним из 27 полуфиналистов первого набора астронавтов в Малайзии для полета на российском корабле на МКС в 2007 году с экспедицией посещения. ...

Sternberg Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow State University Time Series Prediction Leonid Zotov Fulbright Scholar 2008-2009 San Juan, Puerto Rico, 8 May 2009 FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY PEOPLE TRIED TO PREDICT FUTURE "We remember only past events, not future ones." ...

. Field of research interest . Telecommication networks and systems , Programming. Scientific Degree . Student of MIPT. Position . Laboratory assistant of IKI. Department Number . 902 (Space Monitoring Information Support) . Postal Address . Space Research Institute . Russian Academy of Sciences . Profsoyuznaya St. 84/32 . Moscow, RUSSIA . Postal Code . 117810 . Telephone Number . +7(095) 333-53-13 . E-mail . andrew@d902.iki.rssi.ru . If you want to get more information click here

Drawing and Part Configuration Management and Release Procedures: . ... Context: This procedure is intended for use by APO Telescope Drafting and Engineering personnel for the development, release and maintenance of telescope related models, drawings, and other controlled documents to facilitate the sharing of information between the various institutions and personnel that have need of technical information and engineering files regarding APO telescope design and development. ... Release Procedure: . ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Apple have recently made it possible for you to БЂњgiftБЂќ one of their applications to someone as a present, and how amazing would it be for you astronomy loving friend to be able to use their ipod or ipad as a personal star chart to identify everything you see in the sky at any given time? ... If you love the idea of this for yourself, but are feeling the pinch with Christmas coming, there are also theб  free apps Pocket Sky and Space Brains . ...

... 2001 - present-day Researcher in Theoretical Department of Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute ot RAS . ... Department Number . ... Astro Space Center . ... arna@lukash.asc.rssi.ru . ... Arkhipova N.A., Komberg B.V., Lukash V.N., Mikheeva E.V., "Population of Cosmic Voids", Astronomy Reports 51, pp 787-796 (2007) . ... Surdin, V.G., Arkhipova, N.A., "Influence of dissipation and dynamical friction on the number of globular clusters in a galaxy", Astronomy Letters, Vol.24, p.343 (1998) ...

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