... Study of Mg-Fe-silicate glasses of variable composition. ... With the new data, the astrophysical discussion started in Paper I was continued and focussed on the comparison of the olivine glass data with IRAS LRS spectra of O-rich circumstellar envelopes around Mira stars. ... The new olivine glasses point to the interesting consequence that the temperature for silicate dust grains at the inner edge of circumstellar envelopes must be considerably higher than the values often given in the literature....

... Scientific staff of LEK . ... PhD, Head of laboratory, Lecturer of the Solid State Physics Chare of MIPT . ... Dr. S., main research scientist, Dean of the General and Applied Physics Department of MIPT . ... PhD , senior research scientist . ... PhD, research scientist . ... Students and PhD students . ... post graduate student of the Institute of Solid State Physics . ... student of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . ... Institute of Solid State Physics , Russian Academy of Sciences ...

RECREATIONAL TELESCOPES . ... ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES . ... Home Products Telescopes Astronomical Telescopes ASTELE™ 152MN . ... Whatever eyepiece you're using at the time is your finder eyepiece. ... 152MN is 4.4, so, unlike telescopes with much longer ?-ratios, you're able to use low magnification (27.4 X, 2.3° with the 25 mm PlЖssl eyepiece) which produces bright images and wide fields of view for those dim galaxies, nebulae, and very large star clusters, but the ASTELE? ... BK7 optical glass . ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... The questions was: "During a flight, I saw a round rainbow shaped like a doughnut. ... However, she said that all rainbows are actually circles, and that she could not find a name for this phenomenon. ... One is that rainbows really aren't full circles. ... Basically, rainbows are due to light getting bent ("refracted") inside of raindrops. ... It's called a "glory", and is formed in a somewhat different way than rainbows. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

Computer Ephemeris. Second order reduction quantities. Explanations. This page consist of four little tables. First and second tables contains J a (in 0.000001 s ) and J d (0.0001") for nothern declination, third and fourth contains the same information but for southern declination. Each table have 13 informational columns headed with right ascension values, and some amount of rows, labelled with date. ...

... It is a simple 1 X finder scope that mounts to almost any telescope. ... It projects three red circles into space, allowing you to center the scope on bright stars or planets. ... In many cases it is the only finder scope you'll need. (in bright city skies, it will be more difficult to use). Place the Telrad circles between the bright stars shown around the Messier object you wish to view, and with you widest field eyepiece (usually the lowest power) you should find the Messier Object very easily. ...

... Moscow Centre for Continuous Mathematical Education . ... In Arbat street you can find many places to eat and to buy presents for your relatives and friends. ... Moscow underground, or metro, is arguably the most reliable and easy public transport in the city. There are two metro stations closest to the Independent University, namely metro Kropotkinskaya and metro Smolenskaya , see them again on this map and now on this map , also showing connections to the airports and hotel NICEVT. ... Metro . ...

MICROSATELLITE PROGRAM KOLIBRY MS MS PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION . INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . MICROSATELLITE PROGRAM . ... RSC Energia's contribution to the above project will be the following: to ensure the Kolibry MS/International Space Station (ISS) integration, including satellite delivery into orbit and launch into open space, as well as involvement of the required experts from the corporation in the project. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Smoking is a conscious choice of the human. ... As a result - some people smoke, and other are trying to fight against this harmful habit. ... Smoking was mentioned in ancient annals, however until middle ages smoking was a part of religious rites. ... Since the second part of XVI century smoking became very popular among reach people. But soon the fight against smoking started and in 1604 some articles about harmful effects of smoking written by one of the english kings were published. ...

. To the main page . Astrology . The following articles are translated from Russian. If you find any grammatical errors, please send me a note . Astrology is an excellent means for brainwashing (interview with scientist) [new] . Russia under the sign of jackass [new] .

JSC History . ... JSC History Collection - NARA . Fort Worth Regional Facility - http://www.archives.gov/facilities/tx/fort_worth.html . Finding Aids (choose guide to Archival holdings) - http://www.archives.gov/facilities/tx/fort_worth/finding_aids.html . ... http://www.archives.gov/facilities/tx/fort_worth/holdings_guide_04.html . Public Services available at Fort Worth Regional Archive (choose historical research) - http://www.archives.gov/facilities/tx/fort_worth/public_services.html . ...

Andromeda. It is easy to find this constellation. It lays to the east from Big square of Pegasus, which in the autumn evening is in the southern part of the sky. ... According to the Greek myth Andromeda is a daughter of Ethiopian tzar Cefeus given to the sea monster, but Perseus saved her. The remarkable objects in this constellation are: the galaxy M 31 (Andromeda nebula) and both her satellites M 32 and NGC 205. Diameter is about 120 thousand of the light years. ...

... The NICMOS Parallel Program . Analysis . ... NICMOS observations made in parallel with the other HST instruments have produced an archive of over 2,000 images, covering a wide range of Galactic latitudes. ... The maximum sensitivity of these images is approximately 0.1 Jy, which should allow the detection of such astrophysically interesting sources as brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood and star-forming galaxies out to z 3. ...

Gliese . Our next planet is Gliese we landed on it 3 days ago and launch robots to investigate area around our ship. Although our central computer didn't find any signs of life we still hope to find some creatures. ... Our robots copied text and try to decipher it. But unfortunately they can't. So we send it to our central computer and it translated a headline. ... But it still can't translate whole text, so YOUR TASCK is to decipher the ancient text and send it to our central computer. ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . We are glad to report that a timetable of the conference are now available on this website ( http://site2010.sai.msu.ru/timetable ) . On sections pages one can find lists of reports with abstracts. If you cannot find your report in timetable, please inform us. Also we ask all participants who haven't sent already abstracts to do this.

Multi-Wavelength investigations of the Sun and modern problems of solar activity . SAO RAS . ... Representation of the last findings in the field of experimental and theoretical investigations of solar activity. The analysis of the maximum of the 23d cycle of solar activity and connection with Space Weather. ... Solar corona study. ... Solar activity and disturbances of the solar wind and cosmic rays. Modern observational methods for solar investigations. ... Copyright © 2006 SAO RAS . ...

... This method has no equal as of its versatility and short observation times. ... First observations were made on RATAN-600 with a unique MARS-3 16-channel (32 inputs) Matrix Radiometric System that has no analogue in Russian radio astronomy. ... Centre for Analysis of Multiwave Observations Created on RATAN-600. An on-line processing centre for analysis of multiwave radio observations of the Sun on RATAN-600 was created in the St.Petersburg Branch of SAO RAS, see http://www.spbf.sao.ru/prognoz/ . ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 2002. Current Novae can be found on the main page . Nova NGC 2403 2002 , ATEL 1638 , discovered 2002/12/30.124 by K. Hornoch . Found in NGC 2403 at R.A. = 07h37m38s.36, Decl. ... Nova M31 2002 6 , IAUC 7970 discovered 2002/08/04.13 by K. Hornoch . ... Nova M31 2002 5 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/22.5 by LOTOSS . ... Nova M31 2002 4 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/20.5 by LOTOSS ; Observatory G. Colombo . ...