... The Second International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Problems to solve, 8-10 Form Text of these problems is available in Russian too. ... Two stars have the same absolute magnitude. ... The orbital period of Mars is 687 days. ... See problem 2. for 8-10 Form. ... Problem to solve, 9-12 Form Text of the problem is available in Russian too. ... Problem is about Doppler-effect, to find velosities of two stars using their spectra and spectrum of our Sun, to estimate speed of the Earth moving around the Sun...

PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... According to the National Space Program of Ukraine on 1998-2002 the experimental space system WARNING has to be designed and launched in 2001. ... Composition of scientific payload is implemented in the international cooperation. ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRC), Ukraine. ... Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (SRI), Kiev, UKRAINE; . ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRI), Lviv, UKRAINE; . ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

... Contemporary Mathematics Summer School . Second half of July, 2009; Ratmino cultural center in Dubna, Russia) . ... Around a hundred students from the last two years of high school and the first two years of university take part in the ten days program. ... The words, Contemporary Mathematics, in the title are not an exaggeration, as often courses have finished with a discussion of open problems. The school is unique because of its students and professors. ... This was continued in 2008. ...

... Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D) . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Dr. Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including , 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks. ... Following 183 orbits of the Earth in 269 hours and 46 minutes, the eleven-day mission ended with Space Shuttle Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...

This module provides for determining the MIME type of a file by looking at a few bytes of its contents. ... string . ... belong . ... For example, this can recognize gzipped files and set the encoding for them. # gzip (GNU zip, not to be confused with [Info-ZIP/PKWARE] zip archiver) 0 string \037\213 application/octet-stream x-gzip This module is not for every system. ... When compiling an Apache server, this module should be at or near the top of the list of modules in the Configuration file. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

The program "Moon" . ... Moon - 2" has falled and was broken in the Sea of Rains in September, 1959, and in October "Moon - 3" has left into circular orbit around of moon and has transmitted first-ever photos of its back side. ... In January, 1966. the USSR has achieved tremendous success automatic vehicle " Moon - 9 " has made soft landing to a surface of moon. its chambers have transmitted to the Earth of a panorama of a lunar landscape in a landing area, appearing as plain filled with a lava. ...

... ASTRO LINKS . Here you will find thousands of links divided by categories. ... Please report any broken links to webmaster@wro.org . ... Amateur Clubs Home Pages . Literally Thousands of clubs listed from AROUND the WORLD!! Amateur Clubs around Ohio . ... Astronomy History . Find out the "How's and Why's" in Astronomy . ... We are not the only observatory on the web (just the best) . ... Miscellaneous Astro Links . ... These pages are just a little bit on the technical side. ...

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. ...

... There are two stars in the binary system: a donor star on the right and a black hole on the left (an infinitely small point in the center of a complex figure). ... The wind is ejected as a hollow cone; it has a funnel (the funnel opening angle in the figure) and thick walls (wall opening angle in the figure). The observer looks at the whole system and the supercritical disk from the right, and sees everything up to the wind photosphere (the red color in the figure). ...

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Programs to generate color spectra ================================== These programs were developed to produce realistic color spectra from digital data. ... The distribution here contains the original source code for colorspec and solar in C, and a version of solar written in Fortran. ... It will produce a color spectrum of any digital spectrum. ... The 800x50 image solarflux.ppm was generated by colorspec and the file fluxatlas.dat, a reformatted NSO Solar Flux Atlas in the data directory. ...

... supernova images . Supernova Search and . ... How to report a supernova discovery . ... General Supernova information When you are looking for information on the latest Supernovae, the first place to look (Besides the Bright Supernovae page ) is the Recent IAU Circulars page, Recent CBET Circulars and IAU 's List of Recent Supernovae and List of All Supernovae , as well as the Headlines page web page. ... Arcturus Observatory SN images . ... Joseph Brimacombe's supernova images New 2009/12/17 . ...

EARLY LUNAR ACTIVITIES OF THE USA, AND AN AMERICAN VIEW OF THE EARLY SOVIET LUNAR PROGRAM James D. Burke, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology 13 January 2000 ABSTRACT This paper summarizes the starting phase of American robotic lunar programs. ... Though the early lunar missions yielded only limited scientific information, they did set both nations' programs on a path toward later great advances in our understanding of the Moon. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...