... Most of UNIVERSAT-2009 participants will need a visa when entering the Russian Federation. ... Please take into account that the Organizing Committee needs about two months to provide this Official Invitation Letter and you will need about one month to apply for visa. For those who need the invitation letters confirming their participation in the UNIVERSAT-2009 meeting for other purposes (like funding or booking) the letters of such kind will be easily issued on the request. ...

The Calendar of Bloody A.tecs. Living in Central Mexico from the XII century to the being of the XVI century warlike A.tecs devoted much time to sciences including astronomy. For needs of agriculture A.tecs, using the knowledge received from the forecomers, developed the exact calendar system. 52 years of the moon-and-the sun cycle formed the basis of it (something like our conception of "a century"). ... A.tecs year was divided into 18 months with 20 days each. ... Mesopotamian astronomy. ...

Supernova 2011ht in UGC 5460 . This page is devoted to information on 2011ht in UGC 5460 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . ... This supernova is in the Constellation Ursa Major . ... 2011/09/29.182 . ... 2011/10/02.10 . ... JM Llapasset . 2011/10/04.144 . ... 2011/10/17.185 . ... 2011/10/18.489 . ... 2011/10/20.497 . ... Andy Cason . 2011/10/21.494 . ... Thomas Langhans . ... 2012/01/08.432 . ...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

Astrology . Skepticism . ... Skeptics Newsgroup . ... Russian . ... Are you sure all these things even exist ? ... We need proof and evidence. ... Well, articles on this website are not proofs that paranormal and supernatural phenomena don't exist: their aim is simply to encourage skepticism. ... So welcome to the Russian Skeptics Club . ... But some articles are already translated into English. ... Right now there is one article about Skepticism and two articles about Astrology. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

Sharing the Vision Johnson Space Center employees strive every day to deliver NASA's message of exploration to the community, the country and the world. ... NASA Brain Bites Does your brain need a snack? If so, go find a NASA Brain Bite. ... NASA's Digital Learning Network brings space back to school By JSC's Education and Student Program's Branch Rocket Science at Home Rocket Science at Home (RSAH), an offshoot of NASA Brain Bites, is designed to help kids explore rocket science. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Roof Status . ... If you select Winer to provide the site and maintenance for your remotely-operated telescope, your telescope will be housed in the modern roll-off roof observatory seen at left. ... The building computer and most customer telescope control computers are programmed to keep logs to assist in diagnosing problems in moving the roof or telescopes, or in controlling the instruments. ...

... It?s needs solution satellite?s orientation problem for defining location of sources of ionospheric emissions above Earth?s surface with necessary accuracy. There is possibility to define orientation of photometric devices by using TV images of star background. The CCD TV camera is designed for recording of images of star sky, Earth? limb and adjoining part of Earth? surface to fix the orbit point coordinates during the measurements by FAGOT and SICH-F devices. ...

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... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...