... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... at the ISSP RAS. ... MSU student Kostretsova N.B. successfully defended her thesis entitled "Investigation of Thermal and Chemial Expansivity of Ceria-Based Solid Solutions". ... V.A. Kolotygin successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite-Like Oxide and Composite Anode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Functional Properties and Electrochemical Behavior in Contact with Gallate- and Silicate-Based Solid Electrolytes" and was awarded PhD degree in the area of Materials Science and Engineering ....

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project - project data along a line or great circle , generate a profile track, or translate coordinates. project [ infile ] -F flags -C cx / cy [ -A azimuth ] [ -Dd|g ] [ -E bx / by ] [ -G dist ] [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -L [ w ][ l _ min / l _ max ] ] [ -M [ flag ] ] [ -N ] [ -Q ] [ -S ] [ -T px / py ] [ -V ] [ -W w _ min / w _ max ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] project reads arbitrary ( x , y [, z ]) data from standard ... H Input file(s) has Header record(s). ...

The stars. The Stars - are the shining (plasma) spheres like the Sun. ... The star’s masses M are from 0,04 to 60 л ¤ , luminary (L) from 0,5 to hundreds thousand L ¤ (see later). ... On the definite step of the stars evolution the stars come through the period of nonstationarity (see "nonstationary stars" ). Depending on mass the stars become at the end of evolution the white dwarfs or the neutron stars or the black holes . ... The supernew stars. ... The nebula Loop of the Swan . ...

Work related with IAU C52: RIFA M.H. Soffel and W. Han Les Journees 2014, St. Petersburg, September 22 Main work - ecliptic in a relativistic framework - fully documented relativistic VLBI model Related work - the post-linear metric (PPN-metric for light rays) - models for bodies with higher spin-multipole moments Les Journees 2014, St. Petersburg, September 22 Ecliptic IAU 2006 Resolution B1: Recognizing 2. the need for a definition of the ecliptic for both astronomical and civil purposes .. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...