GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... The acquisition data base of meteorological temporal data including systematic and chronologic cataloque for Global Tropical Cyclogenesis (on the whole of World Ocean's aquatorium) for 1983-1992 time interval is developed and based on personal computer IBM PC/AT. ... The data base consists of the following units: 1. ... This data base offers a unique opportunity to analyze macro- and synoptic-scale temporal features of global tropical cyclogenesis as indivisible physical process. ...

... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomy 101 . ... Astronomy Day . ... Astronomy and astrophysics rely heavily on computer modeling, but being neither a physicist nor computer scientist, I cannot relate to the term "computer model." What is such a model, and how do scientists build one? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Finescale Modeler | ... Model Railroader | Model Railroader Video Plus | ...

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20-23 September 2016, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... Registration to the Symposium will be held in the main building of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Monday 19th September, from 18:00 to 21:00 . ... Registration will also be available on Tuesday September 20th from 8:00 to 9:00 at the conference venue. ... Conference dinner will take place in the Palace of Grand duke Vladimir (Academics House) on Wednesday 21th September, from 19:00 to 22:00 . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... with the organization and carrying out observing schools. ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ...

The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

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Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... GSC 04232-02059, NSVS 3145727, NSVS 3145773, NSVS 3173757 . ... 13.1-13.6 (R, NSVS); . ... To combine our unfiltered photometry with publicly available NSVS (Wozniak et al., 2004; http://skydot.lanl.gov/nsvs/nsvs.php) data, we shifted the zero point of our light curve to match its magnitude at maximum light to the magnitude at maximum of the NSVS light curve. ... Light Curve . The light curve of GSC 4232-02059 in the magnitude scale of NSVS 3145773. ...

Welcome to the AAAP Simpson Observatory 2016 season information page. The Simpson Observatory is located in Washington Crossing State Park, [on the NJ side] several miles south of Pennington, NJ. The observatory is a slide-roof design, allowing for optimal viewing of the sky in any direction. http://www.princetonastronomy.org/directions.html . ... THE OBSERVATORY WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC . ... Enter Washington Crossing State Park (NJ side) off of Bear Tavern Road . ...

Astronomy Department was found in Kyiv University in 1834 together with other twelve departments of the Faculty of Philosophy. ... At that time V.Struve was a World famous astronom, and helped V.Fedorov in creation of Kyiv University Astronomical Observatory. ... M.Khandrikov successfuly modernized the Observatory. ... Researches of the history of Kyiv Observatory say about an important contribution into development of orbits theory made by the famous Kyiv astronoms I.Illinsky and I.Putilin. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... 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 . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

Russian . Main . ... RadioAstron User Handbook: English version . Protocol of the functional constraints for RadioAstron mission elements: Russian version . RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook: English / Russian version . ... The status of the 92 cm receiver: English / Russian version . ... Memo 8 - Multifrequency receiver for RadioAstron mission - July, 2006, (in Rus). ... Memo 1 - A new science strategy of the RadioAstron mission with a high apogee orbit - February, 1998. ...

Trace: volinks . start : volinks . ... SAI VO Projects . ... Help on Wiki search . ... IVOA - International Virtual Observatory Alliance . ... Spectral Data Model . ... CDS , CDS Webservices . PLASTIC - PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterConnection is a communication protocol for client-side virtual observatory tools. ... HTM - Hierarchical Triangular Mesh . Q3C - Indexing the sky with PostgreSQL, download from sourceforge. ... VOPlot - a tool for visualizing astronomical data . ...

... Minutes Group a (photocopy of the table with signatures and stamps) – one page. ... Theoretical round problems a – one page. ... Practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Grid-lines for the practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Picture to fill for problem 8 b – one page. ... Solutions of the practical round problems – not ready full (LOC jobs not done) – ?? pages. ... Observational round problems – one page. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...