... Specialists from the TESIS Control Centre, at the FIAN Laboratory of Solar X-ray Astronomy, have succeeded in fixing a malfunction in one of the observatory's central telescopes, which occurred in the second half of May. ... The main version of events pointed to a malfunction in the drive mechanism's reducer, which is responsible for the rotational power from the main shaft of the motor to its output shaft, which is connected to the shutter. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ...

Teaching courses . for student of the Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy . ... Geophysics and physics of the planets (Kurt, Panteleev) . ... Close Binary Stars . ... Solar Physics . ... This is introductory course for students of the third year of education which are familiar with elementary astronomy and general physics. ... The one-year course includes theory of radiation transfer, theory of internal stellar structure with account of binary systems with compact comapnions. ...

. F IGURE . 13. The (a) metallicity and (b) age distributions of the globular clusters of Galactic origin. Different shadings are used to show the thick-disk and old-halo clusters. The curves are Gaussian fits to the corresponding histograms. discussion in the text | privious figure | next figure .

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... We've come a long way from cluster to cluster! ... Some of these objects turned out to be star clusters of various types, and other were true nebulae, or clouds of glowing gas. ... Therefore, by their reasoning, these spiral nebulae must be part of our own Milky Way. ... An established and respected astronomer, Heber Curtis, defended the idea that the nebulae were ``island universes'', clusters of stars and gas in their own right like the Milky Way. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Projects . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Donations . ... In 1995, Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (now Goodrich Optical and Space Systems Division, Electro-Optical Systems) donated to Winer a 2/3-m (26.5-inch) Corning Ultra Low Expansion ULE lightweighted mirror. Using this donation as a basis, we entered into a project with a private, non-sectarian school to design and build a telescope for the school and one for us. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVR