... Stars and Planets ? A project in Astronomy . ... During the first few months of 2001 year, students at our teacher training institutes (six in St. Petersburg, ten in Amsterdam, three in Stockholm and one student in Vietnam) have been working together in an international project in Astronomy. ... In this paper, we report on the project. ... While studying their topics, students in each country had regular contact with their tutor (at least once a week during the ten-week period of the project). ...

. 1. Raguzova N.V. 3-year graduate student. Evolution of close binaries, Be-stars with relativistic companion on different stages. 2. Lipunova G.V. 1-year post-graduate student. 3. Drozdova Dasha. 5-year undergraduate student. 4. Bichkov Andrey. 5-year undergraduate student. 5. Abubekerov Marat 4-year undergraduate student

In 1950 Jan Oort noticed that . no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... Its orbit is intermediate between the Kuiper Belt and what was previously thought to be the inner part of the Oort Cloud. ...

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... As the outcome of the meeting we expect some identification of joint research projects which would benefit Glasgow-Pulkovo collaboration and FP-7 "RadioSun" staff exchange scheme. Where : The workshop will be hosted at Pulkovo Observatory, Saint Petersburg. When : August 11-15, 2014 . ... This is the format of the workshop we had for Glasgow-Meudon collaboration ) We anticipate that each speaker will have 45 mins, which includes 30 mins to present material and 15 minutes for questions. ...

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StarShine-3: . ... The satellites are covered by nearly 1000 small, front-surface aluminum mirrors that are machined by technology students in Utah and polished by tens of thousands of students all over the world. ... And this is only small story about it. ... We will be able to measure the angular position of that satellite by observing sunlight flashes from small mirrors mounted on the surface of the satellite, as it passes across the starry sky before sunrise and after sunset.. ... Starshine 3 . ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

... After all we cannot send a probe to the star Altair to confirm that it is 17 light years away. ... The "Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni was about ten light years away" Earth goes around the Sun in one year, so in six month it is in the opposite position in its orbit. ... In 1838 Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni had a parallax of 0.314 arcseconds and therefore the star was about ten light years away (today the distance is more precisely measured to be 11.4 light years). ...

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... Lecture course (2015/2016) "Galactic Astronomy" (PPT, PPTX) (for 2nd grade students, in Russian) . ... Lecture course (2015/2016) "Astronomical Distances" (PPT) (for postgraduate students, in English) . Lecture course program "Galactic Astronomy" (DOC, for 2nd grade students, in Russian) . Lecture course program "The Elements of Stellar Dymamics" (for 4-5th grade students, in Russian) . Tutorials on astronomy (PDF, PS, DJVU, HTML) . ... My Reviews and Talks (In Russian) . ...

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... 2001 - present-day Researcher in Theoretical Department of Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute ot RAS . ... Department Number . ... Astro Space Center . ... arna@lukash.asc.rssi.ru . ... Arkhipova N.A., Komberg B.V., Lukash V.N., Mikheeva E.V., "Population of Cosmic Voids", Astronomy Reports 51, pp 787-796 (2007) . ... Surdin, V.G., Arkhipova, N.A., "Influence of dissipation and dynamical friction on the number of globular clusters in a galaxy", Astronomy Letters, Vol.24, p.343 (1998) ...

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... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

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