The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... Latest Supernovae . ... Sorted by Name For the years covered, 7501 supernovae and 114 extragalactic novae were reported. 376 of these supernovae were named by CBAT, 1714 were given possible supernova designations, and 5411 were not reported to CBAT. 219 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 874 were found in named galaxies 341 objects were discovered by amateurs 4 were brighter than 13th Magnitude 208 were brighter than 16th Magnitude 1079 were brighter than 18th Magnitude 1349 ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

If you already know the catalogue abbreviation or numbering, enter it below : . Alternatively you can find the catalogue by selecting wavelength or mission or other keys: (More on how to select catalogues) . ... Mission . ... A preliminary list of catalogues available in VizieR (still growing). The acronyms and symbols in use to designate astronomical catalogues in the literature are explained in the Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects . Location : CDS Strasbourg, France . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Research areas . ... SSAU History . ... Yulia Krasovskaya, Junior Research Associate of SSAU Research and Educational Centre of Gas-Dynamics Research, took a two-month internship at the Swedish University of Lund. ... Within two months Yulia conducted studies to determine the flame propagation rate of the jet fuel substitutes by applying the unique facilities of the Physics Department Laboratory of Swedish University. ... Lund University was founded in 1666. ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

ATMoB "Messier Marathon Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in an all-night Messier Marathon. ... For each Messier object observed, check the space in the "Seen" column on the attached Messier Checklist and note the time and method of observation. ... Challenge Levels: Beginner Intermediate Master Observe and record information on 25 Messier objects in the attached worksheet. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you thought our tour of the solar system ended with Neptune and Pluto, you are setting your sights way too low. The planets of the solar system mark time relatively close to the Sun compared to interstellar space. Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind-numbing 260,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Pulkovo Photographic Plate Database . To find a certain plate, type its number, choose instrument and click button FIND Instrument: Normal Astrograph 26-inch refractor Plate number: . To find plates with a certain sky area: choose instrument, type coordinates (R.A. and Dec.) of the center of this area, type radius of this area, type (optionally) names of required objects, and click button FIND . ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

... The Workshop is dedicated to QCD Phase Transitions and observational signals of these Transitions related to formation of compact astrophysical objects. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the problems of the behavior and observability of matter under critical conditions achievable in such astrophysical objects as 'strange' or 'hybrid' stars and in laboratories at heavy-ion collisions to discuss fundamental issues and recent developments. ...

Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... Re: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET . x203a; x203a; x203a; в ответ на: Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L. : An alternative theory . ... Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter Space.com 07 January 2007 01:37 pm ET Abramyan G.L., 10.01.2007 01:10 . ... Re: Прочел и привожу текст, меня вомутивший. Анатолий Рыков, 11.01.2007 08:53 . ...

... Observations . Objects . ... Canis Major . ... Canis Minor . ... Leo . ... Leo Minor . ... Ursa Major . ... Ursa Minor . ... Herschel 2500 . ... Herschel 400 (I) . ... Globular Clusters . ... AL Globular Club . ... AL Planetary Club . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... Telescope . ... Low and medium resolution imaging spectrometer TFOSC (TUBITAK Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera) was build at Copenhagen University Observatory, and is similar in its layout to DFOSC at Danish 1.54-m, ALFOSC at NOT and to other instruments of this serie. ... CCD camera --- 2K x 2K Firechild, 30.72 x 30.72 mm. The field of view --- 13.3' x 13.3'. Filters --- Bessel (UBVRI), SDSS (u'g'r'i'z'), narrow-band filters. ... crossdispersion . ... 12.0 . ...

... OBJECT имя объекта MODEL тип модели спектров (пока 2 значения: PEGASE1 и GISSEL98) G_TYPE тип галактики (E, S0, Sa, Sb, Sc или Sd) FILT_MAG_STR список данных по фильтрам с ошибками, формируется как строка из заданных фильтров, например: FILT_MAG_STR="B=23.73+0.21 V=23.57+0.2 R=22.36 I=20.81" Z_FIXED заданное красное смещение z Z_LIMITS пределы поиска z, когда красное смещение неизвестно AGE_LIMITS пределы поиска возраста EXTINCTION ключ задания вычисления экстинкции в заданных фильтрах RA | ...