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... ASTROPHYSICS 105 113 114 116 121 126 132 135 137 141 147 150 THE KINEMATICS PARAMETERS OF THE GALAXY USING DATA OF MODERN ASTROMETRIC CATALOGUES Akhmetov V.S., Fedorov P.N., Velichko A.B., Shulga V.M. .. ... Subsection "VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES AND INTENSIVE DATA" 166 168 171 175 181 186 COMPARISON OF ZERO ZONE CATALOGUES OF THE FON PROGRAM BASED ON THE KYIV AND KITAB OBSERVATIONS Andruk V.M., Relke H., Protsyuk Yu.I., Muminov M.M., Ehgamberdiev Sh.A., Yuldoshev Q.X., Golovnia V.V. .. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

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... How the Night Sky Network can help . ... The NASA Night Sky Network provides a variety of resources specifically designed to meet the needs of astronomy clubs and streamline club management. ... It displays the events you added to the Night Sky Network. ... Sharing the Universe videos are produced by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from research conducted by the Institute for Learning Innovation, the ASP, and from astronomy clubs like yours. www.astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse . ...

... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

... Correlation between ratio of peak fluxes of flare microwave bursts at 8.8 and 15.4 GHz (parameter S 9 /S 15 ) and spectral index of solar proton fluxes (parameter ?= lg (J 10 /J 100 ) calculated by measurements near the Earth in the >10 MeV and >100 MeV channels. ... The following events are marked by numbers (numeration according to Main Table): 41 - 14.07.2000, 43 - 12.09.2000, 59 - 26.12.2001, 63 - 15.07.2002, 81 - 20.01.2005. ...

... 25.01.2001 . OC "MIR") . ... Flight orbit number (day) . ... Orbit period (in min) . ... Mean orbit altitude (km) . ... solar F 10.7 flux . ... Date of the orbit parameters calculations 25.01.2001. ... Cargo ship "Progress M-43" (№243) undocked the station, burn ~ 9.5 m/s was executed to break it out from the Station "Mir" . ... 08.19.23 "Progress" 243 undocked OC "Mir". Progress" 243 breakout from the Station performed ( н V=9,5 m/sec); the Station is switched to the spinning mode. ...

The purpose of the space-physics lab exercises is to introduce the students to the methods of the measurements, to the modern conception of near-Earth space structure and the physical processes and phenomena occured in it. ... At present the reasearches and the teachers of the University and of other institutes participating in the project continue development of the the special space-physics lab exercises, and they are interested in your ideas concerning the future exercises. ...

... 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. ...