... It is generally accepted that the mechanism, widely known as the Antikythera mechanism, was made in Rhodes at the height of the Roman Republic, as the island was known as the source of interesting mechanical automata. You can tell just by looking at it that the device is part of a larger object, and it is also obvious that there are geared wheels and other rotational elements within it. The device undoubtedly is an early computer and could be seen as the first planetarium. ...

... After the 2nd World War, the Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) made two groups in Moscow responsible for catalogues of variable stars. ... Presently, the variable-star catalogue groups still exist within the Sternberg Astronomical Institute and the Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Elena Kazarovets (variable stars in open clusters, Peremennye Zvezdy journal, GCVS) . ... Nataliya N. Kireeva (variable stars, globular clusters, GCVS) . ...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

... Space Research Institute LAN Workshops and seminars Homepage . Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences is a leader in networking and communications in Russia through its networking projects and cooperations. ... Space Research Institute Interconnect Network Operation Centre staff monitors and maintains SPACENet. ... Space Research Institute Interconnect Network Operation Centre staff assists European Space Agency (ESA) technical and operation staff in supporting ESAnet connections. ...

... Afraimovich E.L. major  scientist . Grozov V.P. senior scientist . Zavorina N.Ya. engineer . Zarudnev V.E. senior engineer . Kalinichenko A.V. engineer . Kosogorov E.A. scientist . Kushnarev D.S. engineer . Leonovich L.A. senior programmer . Lesjuta O.S. engineer . Lipko Yu.V. scientist . Litovkin G.I. main specialist . Matjushonok S.M. main engineer . Medvedev A.V. senior scientist . Nosov V.E. head of laboratory . ... Sobolev A.P. senior engineer . ...

Russian page Zeiss-1000 TCS computer ( SAO RAS ) . TCS Web-interfaces . 20sm guide and TCS state Web-interface . ... Zeiss-1000 TV-cameras page . ... Common description of Zeiss-1000 new TCS software. PDF-version] . ... Web-interface for Zeiss-1000 administrator. ... Development history: annual reports of TCS software author: . ... FITS/WCS Fixer Web-interfaces page . ... TCS BTA Meteo-graphs . ... TCS Software Author . TCS Hardware Author . Computer System adminisrator . ...

16 June 2013 IAU Electronic Telegram No.3563 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University ; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau@eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat@iau.org) URL http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network SUPERNOVA 2013dj V. Lipunov, Sternberg ...

MITx This is to certify that CERTIFICATE Issued Feb. 1st, 2013 Alexander Wolf successfully completed 6.00x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming a course of study offered by MITx, an online learning initiative of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology through edX. ...