... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Next: Observations and data reduction Up: HS 0822+3542 - a Previous: HS 0822+3542 - a . ... I Zw 18, a BCG with the lowest known oxygen abundance among the galaxies (O/H 1/50 (O/H) , Searle & Sargent [ 1972 ]; Izotov & Thuan [ 1999 ]), has been suggested as a candidate to be a truly-local young galaxy, experiencing its first short SF episode. ... 1998 ]). ... In this paper we describe the data obtained for the third most metal-deficient galaxy, HS 0822+3542 with O/H = 1/36 (O/H) . ... 0822+3542 1 . ...

... Dr. Prestwich, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro Physics in Cambridge, and her team, recently discover a new type of black hole in the galaxy M82, using the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory Satellite Telescope. ... After reading about Dr. Prestwich's team discovering a new type of black hole in the Boston Globe, Charlie contact Dr. Prestwich and requested she give a lecture on black holes for the 25 member astronomy club. ... Charlie McDonald thinks so. ... Club Newsletters...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... The 2014 year marks the 100th anniversary of Yakov Zeldovich . ... John Carlstrom (University of Chicago) . ... Lyman Page (Princeton University) . ... The conference will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI) in Moscow, Russia, on June 16-20, 2014 . ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 2014 Space Research Institute, Moscow Русская версия ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Regularity and chaos for planetary orbits in binaries D. Benest Observatoire de Nice, Nice, France 1. ... Previous papers showed that stable planetary orbits, around either the lightest or the heaviest component of several nearby binary systems, exist up to distances from their primary of the order of more than half the binary's periastron sep­ aration. ... Chaos: bounded or sticky? It is now well­known that planetary dynamics may include some proportion of chaos. ...

... 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. ...

of the RadioAstron Teleconference 4 . ... The agenda of the teleconference and the list of participants are attached as an Appendix A to the Minutes. The main intents of the teleconference were to discuss the results of Pushchino tests, to develop actions in order to overcome the problem of aging of 6-cm and 18-cm receivers and to understand situation with NASA support for the project. ... Andreyanov informed the participants about the procedure and main results of Pushchino tests. ...

... Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corp. ... Meade Autostar Supplementary Software Downloads . ... To upgrade your Autostar first click on the link below to download the Autostar Update (ASU) Client Application for Windows. ... The most recent versions of AutoStar Update automatically check for the newest versions of the AutoStar Updater and download it if necessary. ...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

This document explains how to install, configure and run Apache 1.3 under Novell NetWare 5.x and above. ... Apache 1.3 is designed to run on NetWare 5.x and above and is installed by default on all NetWare 6 servers. ... You will need to compile apache and copy the files over to the server manually. ... Follow these steps to install Apache on NetWare from the binary download (assuming you will install to sys:/apache): . ... Copy the MIME.TYPES and magic files to SYS:/APACHE/CONF directory . ...

Libraries in this directory are an older version from Jan Soldan's website, and the rules file is one that we found worked on a Suse 10 installation. If the recent library does not work (for example, in the Suse 10 system ccd and xmccd1 compiled but gave a floating point errors on execution), try copying libsbigudrv.so in this directory to /usr/local/lib/ after compiling, for use during execution. The udev rules file in this directory may be needed on some older Suse installations. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... 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 UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Scientists from G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics- Syberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Science, became the first people in the world obtained terahertz non-diffractive twisted Bessel beams and used them for the first time the formation of surface electromagnetic waves on the metal surface. ...

... 18941904; Bespalov P.A. Effective saturation of absorption in a plasma magnetospheric maser. In book: Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, R.Z. Sagdeev -Editor-in-Chief, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p.339-346]. Magnetospheric plasma maser [Bespalov P.A, Trakhtengerts V.Yu., ... In a magnetospheric plasma maser (MPM) the relatively dense magnetised plasma and the conjugate ends of a magnetic trap form a quasioptical resonator for electromagnetic waves. ...