... Henry Draper, a doctor by trade, was a prominent American amateur scientist and an early pioneer of astronomical photography. ... Aside from the star catalog bearing his name, Henry Draper is best known for obtaining the first photograph of an astronomical nebula, recording the Great Nebula of Orion on the night of September 30, 1880. ... Draper, Henry", by Charles A. Whitney, 1971, in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography , ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie (New York: Scribner), v. 4, p. 178 . ...

One of Project ASTRO's primary goals is to help teachers (and . also other types of educators, e.g., youth group leaders) improve their astronomy and science teaching by working closely with someone with special knowledge of astronomy. ... Our first step is to pair interested teachers and astronomers who can commit to work together for the school year and agree to at least four astronomer class visits per school year. ... Project ASTRO Partnerships: . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. email: andrei [dot] romashchenko [AT] gmail [DOT] com . ... Born February 22, 1975 in Moscow, Russia. ... Charg de Recherche (du CNRS) at Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique de de Micro lectronique de Montpellier , the project team: Escape . ... Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic information theory, Shannon's entropy, computational complexity, reliable computations and tilings. ... Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences? Ph.D.) received in 2001. ...

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Time has come for me to move to a new longitude, but not before following the tradition and updating you on the work I have been doing in the latest stages of my PhD (and beyond). ... This presentation would of course not be complete without a final attempt at convincing you of the potential of some excitingly new technology to publish multi-dimensional datasets in 3-D. Hence, I shall also tell you about the newly developed X3D pathway Chris Owen and I have been developing lately. ...

Instruments and Methods 129 Multi-element MMIC focal array for radio telescope V.B. Khaikin1, E.K. Ma jorova1 , Yu.N. Parijskij1, M.D. Parnes2 , R.G. Shifman2 , V.A. Dobrov2 , V.A. Volkov2, V.D. Korolkov2, S.D. Uman2 , N.A. Esepkina3 , and S.K. Kruglov3 The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences Karachai-Cherkessia, N.Arkhyz, 357147, Russia, E-mail: vkh@brown.nord.nw.ru Svetlana", Rezonance", Ascor", 194156, Engels pr. ... Four-element sub-array prototype is shown in Fig.2. ...

... RAS members working in ISSP . ... The Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) was formed by the USSR Academy of Sciences on February 15, 1963, with a view to realize an efficient combination and interaction between fundamental research in condensed matter physics and materials science. ... Main Directions of Scientific Research Institute of Solid State Physics RAS (ISSP RAS) . ... Address: Institute of Solid State Physics RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, 2 Academician Ossipyan str., ...

Catastrophism : . ... During the late 18th and early 19th century, a German mineralogist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, proposed that all of the Earth's rocks were formed by rapid chemical precipitation from a "world ocean," which he then summarily disposed of in catastrophic fashion. Though not directed toward the genesis of landforms in any coherent fashion, his catastrophic philosophy of changes of the Earth had two major consequences of geomorphic significance. ... Thermal Plate Tectonics : . ...

... Laser GLONASS" is a combination of methods and technology that will radically reduce that error. ... 2 LASER GLONASS Purpose of creation of laser technologies and systems Achievement of GLONASS target characteristics Component of error of position and time determination due to the space segment real time ­ up to 0.6 m and 0.1* m (base values ­ 2.8 m and 1.0* m) in posterior mode ­ up to 0.03 m (base value 0.1 m) up to 1 ns (base value ... 14 LASER GLONASS Thank you for your attention! ...

One of the prominent scientists of the 20th century Gamow was born in Odessa on March 4, 1904 in the family of a secondary school teacher. ... In 1994, in the year of his 90-th anniversary, an International Conference "Astrophysics and cosmology after Gamow" was held in Odessa and St.Petersburg. The idea of this conference is supported by the UNESCO representation in Russia and by the International Renaissance Foundation (Odessa branch) (affiliation of the Soros Foundation). ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) will take an active part in the work of space activities of the United Nations organization (UNO). ... The road map shape on inclusion of Samara University into implementation of the UN Program on Space Applications was outlined at the roundtable discussion with the University teachers and specialists and at the meeting with SSAU Rector Yevgeniy Shakhmatov. ...

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STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... LX600 Series . ... LX200 Series . ... 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. ... LX200/LX600 Level/North Sensor Array. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

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... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Work starts on the worldт??s largest radio telescope . ... Work starts this week on the next phase of development for what will soon be the world s largest and most sensitive radio telescope the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project. The latest stage of the project will see the United Kingdom taking a major role in contributing to the overall final design of the world s largest radio telescope. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Universe . ... One of the Hubble Space TelescopeтАЩs goals was to accurately observe Cepheids in the most distant galaxies known (we knew they were far away, the problem was saying just how far). ... This work is becoming ever more refined; in January this year astronomers revealed that they had identified the farthest galaxy yet seen in a Hubble image. ... Thanks to the Hubble Space TelescopeтАЩs superb observations we can say that the universe is 13.75 billion years old. ...

... Sun-like stars are forming - and probably planets too - hidden inside Lynds 1551, an interstellar cloud of molecular gas and dust in the constellation Taurus. ... The North Pole Of Mars . ... M61: Virgo Spiral Galaxy . ... M61 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. Visible in M61 are a host of features common to spiral galaxies: bright spiral arms, a central bar, dust lanes, and bright knots of stars. ... 18 Miles From Deimos . ...