... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe . Articles | ... Learning about the universe, or the study of astronomy, can be fun for the individual or for the whole family. ... Learning a few simple terms will help you with this fascinating study. ... You will use a telescope or binoculars for your observation of the sky at night. ... Celestial Terms . ... Meteor or a shooting star – the light caused when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... now - return the registration form . May 10 - deadline for conference registration and accommodation form . ... July 1 - final information to participants . ... RETURN] . ... Please send the abstracts to LOC. E-mail address: astro@te.net.ua . ... All participants are requested to fill in the enclosed Registration Form and send it to us before May 10, 1999 (via electronic mail to astro@te.net.ua ) . ... Please complete and return this form (even if you sent the pre-registration form) . ...

... February 2016 Monthly Meeting - The World At Night (TWAN) . Babak Tafreshi   . Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:00 PM . This month, we are pleased to welcome Babak Tafreshi, founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN) . ... He is the founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN), a board member of Astronomers Without Borders, a contributing photographer at Sky magazine and the European Southern Observatory. ... 2016 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The SAO ( Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ) Summer Intern Program is a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work on astrophysics research with an SAO/Harvard scientist. ... On-line Application Form -- is OPEN for the 2016 SAO Summer Intern Program . ... SAO Summer Intern Program . ... Recent SAO Summer Intern Program Events . ... June 2015 . ... For more information about the SAO Summer Intern Program and other programs/opportunitities that may be of interest: ....

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

. Shutter video (to view, right click on the link, download to your machine and use Quicktime, VLC viewer, or Windows media player) . Note: This presentation will use gotomeeting to better show the assembly of the instrument. Meeting code is: 244-576-637. Once on the gotomeeting page select "Join a Meeting" in the upper right of the page. Enter the code we will provide.

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

Minutes of the INTAS meeting, Amsterdam, October 28 2000. ... After this, the different groups participating in the INTAS programme presented their interests and expertise within the light scattering context. ... Karine Chamaillard (Paris, not formally taking part in INTAS): light scattering of rough surface spherical particles, DDA method. ... The meeting then proceeded with a discussion on possible projects to be done within the coming 6 months to 1 year. ... Amsterdam, October 30, 2000 Rens Waters ...

The Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT- 2009 : UNIVERSITY SATELLITES in SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION 28 September ­ 1 October, 2009 and The Sixth HANDS-ON SPACE SCHOOL FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND TUTORS 2 ­ 4 October, 2009 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow , ... UNIVERSAT-2009 is a satellite symposium of the Space 2009) announced by Space Research Institute of Russian (Moscow, Russia). ... Projects of Future University Missions, 3. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Missions Archive . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... News archive . Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... The (very) slow rotation of magnetic Ap stars. ... Magnetic stars in young clusters and associations. ... Magnetic fields in low-mass stars from high-resolution infrared spectroscopy. ... Magnetic field measurements of late B-type starss. ... Measurement of magnetic field of FK Com. ... Magnetic field of white dwarfs. ... The magnetic star evolution project (teleconference). ... Conference-2014 . Program . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of RAS . ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

Chandra X-Ray Observatory CXC 1. ... BI CCD CTI Correction for ACIS Paul Plucinsky, Dan Dewey, & Joseph DePasquale 1 Paul Plucinsky EPIC Cal October 2006 Chandra X-Ray Observatory Gratuitous Pretty Pictures of E0102 S3 Summed Data ~100 ks CXC RGS Spectrum (Pollock 2006) Objective: develop a spectral model which can be used by RGS, HETG, EPIC & ACIS, etc. Paul Plucinsky 2 EPIC Cal October 2006 Chandra X-Ray Observatory What's New Since the Iceland 2006 Meeting? ...

The main points of the realized programme of the Olympiad are the following: . Wednesday September 26 . ... Guided walking near Nauchny . ... Excursion to caves . Unofficial opening of the Olympiad (welcome party prepared by school of Nauchny) . ... Excursions to the main telescopes of CrAO . ... Monday October 1 . ... Excursion to radio telescope of CrAO . ... of the International Olympiad of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society, . ... International Astronomy Olympiad Home Page . ...

... Special Astrophysical Observatory of . ... Nizhnij Arkhyz, Karachaevo-Cherkesia, . ... The IX Russian-Finnish symposium is an international meeting on solar physics and AGNs, radio astronomical methods and instrumentation with an emphasis on radio observations, particularly those from the RATAN-600 and the Metsahovi radiotelescopes. The previous symposium was held in Pulkovo Observatory (Russia) in 1999. ... Pulkovo chaussee 65/1 . ... Sunday, Oct. 15 . ... invited reviews and reports . ...

... LINKS . ... Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... Club News . ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . by title : PDF File Download (640KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ... SOME LINKS . ...

ASTRONOMY IN UKRAINE - 2000 AND BEYOND . ... Kyiv, Ukraine, 5-8 June 2000 . ... The primary objective of the conference is to consider the integration of astronomical research in Ukraine into the international astronomy. ... VLBI for Astronomy and Geodynamics Convenors: Kees van't Klooster (The Netherlands), Leonid M. Litvinenko (Ukraine), Chopo Ma (USA). ... Planetary Astronomy Convenors: Teodor Kostiuk (USA), Robert Nelson (USA), Yuri Shkuratov (Ukraine). ... The "general" registration fee: 100 USD. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...