... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... The first two catalogues (the one has been calculated using all input catalogues and the second one using only catalogues obtained with CALC/SOLVE software) provide a stochastic improvement of the ICRF 2. and the last two of them one allow us to account also for systematic errors in the current ICRF version. ... Input Catalogues and Comparisons Table 1. ... In result, the combined catalogue PUL08C01a and PUL08C01b (only input catalogues constructed using CALC/SOLVE were used) were constructed. ...

Classroom Activity: Pinhole Protractor Gene Byrd and Renato Dupke . ... We cannot directly perceive the distances or sizes of far-away objects. Instead, our eyes only detect the angular size of objects. ... In Part II, which will appear in a future issue of The Universe in the Classroom, students will see how astronomers use parallax -- an extension of binocular vision -- to determine the distances of stars in the Sun's neighborhood. ... distance = 57.3 x physical size angular size (in degrees). ...

. F IGURE . 6. Properties of metal-poor subsystems of RR Lyraes with low peculiar velocity (top row) and high peculiar velocity (bottom row). The first column shows histograms in the rotation velocities. The second column shows the distribution of Z (see text for details), and the curves approximate the reconstructed distributions with exponential law The third column shows relations between maximum height above the galactic plane and metallicity. discussion in the text | privious figure | next figure .

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

... INTERCOSMOS 19 . ... Personnel . Get the data . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . Team . The ionospheric station ION-1 and the sounder IS-338 installed onboard the Intercosmos-19 were designed and manufactured by talented scientists and engineers of elder generation of IZMIRAN: M.D.Fligel, L.P.Goncharov, Yu.V.Kushnerevsky, and G.V.Vasiliev under supervision of Academician V.V.Migulin. ... Participants in this work were S.P.Gaidash, A.T.Karpachev, and S.A.Pulinets, young researchers at that time. ...

... Maxim was one of the leading analysts of Russia space activities, those who set the basis for the open independent analysis of then-Soviet space program. q In the early 1990s the small blue paperback book became a real breakthrough. In the time being, almost everything is allowed; in that time, even the title of the book - The Military . ... I believe that to open Maxim's files and archives for the experts and Russian space program enthusiasts would be a best thing we can do in memoriam. ...

Next: Contents . Cover Illustration: The background image used on the cover is taken from a photograph by Bob Fosbury showing the bay in Sardinia close to where the conference took place. It is reproduced at far lower resolution than the original. The upper insert is one of the ESO VLT firstlight images and is a true colour view of the core of the globular cluster Messier 4. ... More details of the VLT first light are given in the VLT First Light paper. ... Next: Contents Norbert Pirzkal . ...

... Я попытался выделить самые интересные сюжеты, в основном связанные с наблюдательной астрономией и появившиеся в Архиве препринтов в 2006 г. Большинство из этих работ описывались в моих обзорах и было включено в число "лучших из лучших" . ... Непопадание в список каких-то важных работ связано в основном с тем, что "на лету" трудно определить важность статьи вне своей области интересов, кроме того этот год выдался для меня непростым.. ... Authors: Jason W.T. Hessels et al. Статья в Обзорах . ...

... Space flight . ... Baikonur . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... On May 5, 1957 acceptance act of the first launch complex was signed, and as early as on May 6, 1957 the first "R-7" missile was erected on the site. The cosmodrome consists of nine launch complexes with fourteen launchers, thirty-four engineering complexes, three fuelling stations for space vehicles and two aerodromes. ... Services / Baikonur: General description Technical description Shedule of launches Photo gallery Price . ...

... The dynamics of silicate and graphite particles with radii of (0.1-2) 10 -5 cm in the vicinity of the Milky Way is considered. The equation of motion of dust grains is integrated with gravitational attraction, radiation pressure, gas drag, and dust destruction taken into account. The effect of other factors on the motion of grains are discussed. ... Dust is swept out of the Galaxy by radiation pressure from stars at a rate of 0.04 M o yr -1 . ...

orion@gao.spb.ru THE ASTROMETRIC DATABASES OF THE PULKOVO OBSERVATORY: PHOTOGRAPHIC CATALOGUES, RESULTS OF OBSERVATIONS OF SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES, DOUBLE STARS. ... Pul2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS [13]. ... Pul2 59646 149 ­5 +90. ­ 9 mas/. Pul2 . Pul-3 58483 ­5 +90 ICRS/Tycho-2. ­1963.25. ­ 80 mas, ­ 3 В 12 mas/. UCAC2 Pul-3, Pul-3, 50- UCAC2 . ... UCAC2 Pul-3. ... 2В4 mas/, UCAC2 - 3В5 mas/. ... web­ . 2 web- (Data access form), , Pul-3 SE. , , , , (v) . ... 1995 . ... 26- , 2004 . ...