... Rough topography, a large mountain, impact craters, grooves, and steep scarps characterize this region. ... Dawn Science Team Presents Early Science Results . ... Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are sharing with other scientists and the public their early information about the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta. ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...

... Moscow Region ? ... Zaraysk was founded prior to 13th century, first as a part of Ryazan' principality. ... the period in the beginning of 17th century, when Russia was in chaos and the statehood was in danger ? ... Between 17th and the beginning of 19th centuries Zaraysk established itself as an important trade center, but lost its significance in the second half of 19th century, when the highway and the railroad from Moscow to Ryazan' and further South bypassed the town. ... Photo: Denis Kabanov ....

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... The Nine Planets . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... What Color is Mars? ... Hoagland's Credentials . ... A discussion of Mars colors is ongoing on the Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board . ... Hoagland's loathsome Enterprise Mission website . An interesting web page which purports to show how images on Hoagland's website were manipulated. ... Hoagland's page on the "glass worm" . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... To mark coordinate net in plot, first select Plate in menu bar and then Coordinate net in drop-down menu. ... User has possibility to save plot of sky or to print it using standard means. To save the file select File item in menu bar and then Save As... in drop-down menu. ... To print plot of plate select File item in menu bar and then take advantage of options Print Preview , Print Setup , Print. ... To return to the list of centers click on x button in title bar. ...

... 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. ...

... 1994: . Deep CCD images of the bright gamma-ray bursts GRB790418 and GRB790613 localization regions were obtained for the first time. In both cases, a faint blue star-like object (V = 24.5 m , BV m ) was detected within the region of localization of gamma-ray bursts. ... Based on sixty daily instantaneous spectra of the object SS433, obtained on the RATAN-600 in April-May 1994, we traced its variability in four very powerful flares at five frequencies. ... Archive . ...

... VOLKOV, SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH . ... SOYUZ TMA-M COMMANDER . ... INSTRUCTOR-test-cosmonaut OF yU.a. gagarin cosmonaut training center, russia . ... From September 2001 February 2003 Volkov completed training as a Soyuz commander and ISS pilot of the ISS 7 backup crew. ... From May 2006 to April 2008 Volkov trained as an ISS 17 prime crew commander and Soyuz TMA commander. From December 2009 he has been training as a Soyuz TMA-M commander and ISS flight engineer in the ISS-25/26 backup crew. ...

. Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . My observations . NGDC's observations . The solar regions . Links . About authors . Russian pages . The solar regions . NOAA 11300's . NOAA 11200's . NOAA 11100's . NOAA 11000's . NOAA 10900's . NOAA 10800's . NOAA 10700's . NOAA 10600's . NOAA 10500's . NOAA 10400's . NOAA 10300's . NOAA 10200's . NOAA 10100's . NOAA 10000's . NOAA 09900's . NOAA 09800's . NOAA 09700's . NOAA 09600's . NOAA 09500's . NOAA 09400's . NOAA 09300's .

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... SphericalPolygon Class Reference . SphericalPolygon (const QVector< QVector< Vec3d > > &contours) . ... SphericalPolygon (const QVector< Vec3d > &contour) . ... virtual SphericalRegionType љ . ... virtual boolљ . ... contains (const SphericalPolygon &r) const . ... virtual SphericalRegionP љ . ... virtual const QVector< Vec3d > &љ . ... multiUnion (const QList< SphericalRegionP > &regions, bool optimizeByPreGrouping=false) . ... const QVector< Vec3d > &љ . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... March . ... The extent of the solar eclipse of 3 November€а 2013 at 13:22 UTC as seen from Accra, Ghana. We will see a similar sight.€а (Image credit: Kwabena under Creative Commons Licence) . ... Your viewing location is not important as long as it offers an unobstructed view of the south eastern sky.. ... You can use ?eclipse glasses? to view the Sun, these are made from aluminized Mylar filter material. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Getting Closer . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Harvey on November 4, 2002 02:45:30 UTC . ... If this labelling of components of 'Ultimate Reality' is something that 'can be' done by you, then do it. ... D: I am not seeking to quantify 'Ultimate Reality' at all. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

In the regular experiments carried out with the RAS radio telescopes at Pushchino during 1999-2002, the study of the radial dependence of scattering of compact natural radio sources was extended to remote regions of the solar plasma environment. ... The stream in the transalfvenic region displays the same typical radial structure as observed in the transonic region, i.e., the existence of a "precursor" - a narrow band of reduced scattering preceding a wide region of enhanced scattering. ...

... Chapter 1. ... Problems of observational radio cosmology (6) . ... Analysis of radio astronomical data (32) . ... Data analysis system (33) . ... Actuality, goals and results to depend (45) . ... Interactive processing of continuum radio spectra of radio sources (72) . ... Creation of the astrophysical catalogs data base CATS and its application for selection and analysis of radio galaxy samples (112) . ... Data and methods (176) . ... Results of analysis of known radio galaxies data (179) . ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

... 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. ...