Click for a video of the pendulum . ... In 1851 Leon Foucault (1819-1868) was made famous when he devised an experiment with a pendulum that demonstrated the rotation of the Earth. Joseph Ashbrook's book, The Astronomical Scrapbook , (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has a short chapter on Foucault's contributions to astronomy. ... Click here for more a detailed pdf document (5MB) about the University of Louisville's Foucault pendulum along with technical notes and the original working drawings. ...

Star Party Reports There were so many good reports of star parties this month supplement. ... As can be seen fro m school children really do appreciate our Morey School Star Party Over 100 school children, grades 1st thru 4th, enjoyed the the fifth annual Morey School Star Party on Tuesday, February 15th. ... Jack Drobot Butler Middle School Star Party We finally got a break with the weather to participate at the Butler Middle School Star Party on Wednesday, March 30th. ...

Simple harmonic motion module constants implicit none integer , parameter :: dp = kind(1.0d0) integer , parameter :: num_eqn = 2 integer , parameter :: num_steps = 100 real (dp), parameter :: pi = 3.141592653589793d0 real (dp), parameter :: xstart = 0.0d0 real (dp), parameter :: xend = 10.0d0 real (dp), parameter :: spacing = (xend - xstart) / num_steps real (dp), ...

. A little larger picture. Thanks for taking my tour! I hope you enjoyed seeing our observatory and I really hope that I was able to inspire you to come visit us. We have PUBLIC NIGHT on the SECOND Saturday of each month (March - November) or by appointment. Appointments are really easy to get, simply click here and let us know when you and/or your group can come down, we would love to have you! .

Lectures . ... тАЬOther Ways of Looking for Life in the SkyтАЭ ? Freeman J. Dyson . ... Lecture Series 2011-2012 . ... Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, one of the nationтАЩs most renowned physicists, and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will open the AAAтАЩs 2011-2012 lecture series Friday, October 21, when he speaks on тАЬOther Ways of Looking for Life in the Sky.тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann€аTheater of the AMNH. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... for Cosmic Ray Observation is situated in Irkutsk (Russia). ... Real-time (preliminary) cosmic ray data in Irkutsk . ... Online Cosmic Ray and Atmospheric Pressure Data Base . ... Real-time data Uncorrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) -- since 05.2001 . Real-time data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 min - 1 year) --- since 09.2001 . Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- since 06.2001 . Final data Corrected for pressure (Resolution 1 hour - 1 year) --- From 01.1975 To 07.2004 . ...

Еще раз да здравствует российско-американская дружба! . Александр Шихин с настоящим вашингтонским копом, апрель 1996 г. Long live Russian-American friendship once again! . Alexander Shihin and real Washington cop, April 1996

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

The presented data on solar activity prediction are out of date. Besides, it is clear now (February 2000) that the prediction was overestimating. It can be illustrated by the figure below, where blue lines are for the prognosis (with corresponding standard deviation) and red one is real monthly Wolf number.

Computer Ephemeris. Lunar orbital data. Explanations. ... mean longitude of the Moon (degrees) . ... mean longitude of lunar node (degrees) . inclination of mean lunar equator to real equator of the Earth (degrees) . angular distance from ascending node of mean lunar equator on real equator of the Earth to ascending node of mean lunar equator on ecliptic (degrees) . angular distance from real equinox to ascending node of mean lunar equator on real equator of the Earth (degrees). ...

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... Scientific Conferences . University Conferences . ... Series . ... Economics? ... February 1, 2013 . All-Ukrainian research-to-practice conference ?Financial potential of economic entities as prerequisite to steady development of market economy? Karazin University invites everyone interested to participate in the All-Ukrainian research-to-practice conference Financial potential of economic entities as prerequisite to steady development of market economy held on January, 2013. ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

. Connection between apparent and real orbits of a binary system . P. Descamps . Institut de M canique C leste et de Calcul des ph m rides, Paris, France Abstract: . No abstract Key words: . Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), celestial mechanics, binary system, apparent orbit, real orbit.

... We guess it's almost impossible to create the site nowadays where all space relative philatelic materials (postage stamps, stationary, postal marks etc.) would be registered and presented. ... We tried to make such a step in April 2005, placing at the site first images of postage stamps with portraits of astronauts (cosmonauts, spacionauts, taikonauts:). ... All illustrative material (or simply speaking, all scans of stamps) are grouped in four sections: Countries , Years , Astronauts and Flights . ...

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... In April 1991, the five-member crew of STS-37 encountered a problem deploying the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), one of four of NASA?s Great Observatories which also included the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. ... For more information on this exciting mission, be sure to read the interviews conducted with Ross and Nagel, available on the JSC History Portal: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm . ...

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Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The real-time radiosignals characteristics calculation algorithm from current VS data is carried out according to the following scheme (V.P.Grozov ,G.V.Kotovitch,V.E.Nosov,S.N.Ponomartvhuk, S.V.Pushkarev,L.P.Sergeeva,V.V.Khakhinov. Real time decameters radio systems characteristics calculation by ionosphere vertical sounding data. ... ionogram and calculation results display on monitor; . ...