... Specialists from the TESIS Control Centre, at the FIAN Laboratory of Solar X-ray Astronomy, have succeeded in fixing a malfunction in one of the observatory's central telescopes, which occurred in the second half of May. ... The main version of events pointed to a malfunction in the drive mechanism's reducer, which is responsible for the rotational power from the main shaft of the motor to its output shaft, which is connected to the shutter. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ...

In the current version .. ... Apogee Alta . Many SBIG cameras and filter wheels . ... FITS file format with exposure, camera, telescope, object and filter header information . Interactive image display and analysis with latest SAOimage ds9 . Interactive data processing in real time with AstroImageJ . ... XmCCD creates FITS image files with comprehensive header information and displays the images using ds9. ... Latest version 5.1 for Apogee and SBIG cameras updated June 17, 2015 . ...

... In the course of the BURAN orbiter development, suborbital and orbital launches of BOR-4 and BOR-5 flight vehicles have been produced for aerodynamic analysis and working capacity of thermal protection structures verification. ... The flights of the SPIRAL prototype and BOR-4 and BOR-5 flying vehicles have allowed not only to speed up the BURAN orbiter development, but also to justify the choice of the aerodynamic scheme of the orbital stage of the advanced MAKS aerospace system. ... Buran Orbiter ....

... ПЛУТОН. В.П.Рыльков. Плутон: положения 1930-1994 гг, новые элементы орбиты и анализ разностей (О-С). ... 210, 1996, с. 52-67. ... V.P.Ryl'kov, V.V.Vityazev, A.A.Dement'eva. Pluto: Analysis of Photographic Positions Obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph in 1930-1992, Astron. and Astrophys. ... В.П.Рыльков, Ю.А.Чернетенко. Плутон: анализ Пулковского ряда наблюдений 1930-1994 гг. и новые элементы орбиты. 1995б СПб, ДЕП в ВИНИТИ, N 1826-B95, с. 1-4. ... Astron. and Astrophys. ... 1996. ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

... Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 8930.9968 153.8 134.6 59.8 22.6 9021.6846 154.0 137.0 59.0 22.9 8939.7717 163.7 146.0 66.1 22.9 9024.6766 151.4 134.6 58.4 22.1 8940.8936 153.2 135.8 59.2 22.6 9030.5334 156.7 139.1 59.0 22.4 8944.7380 161.7 142.2 63.7 23.1 9032.6650 151.8 136.5 57.7 22.6 8951.8637 148.4 131.3 58.3 21.7 9036.7067 155.1 137.1 58.8 ...

... Molecular beam epitaxy . Surface analysis . ... Molecular beam epitaxy and fundamental studies of semiconductor heterostructures (with quantum wells, quantum dots and superlattices) based on: . narrow gap III-V compounds for optoelectronic and electronic applications; . wide gap II-VI compounds, as well as ZnO, for visible range and UV optoelectronics and basic studies in the field of spintronics; . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... I expressed skepticism of the result, as any scientist would, though I speculated on its impact. ... He showed that even though the Universe is accelerating, it is also closed. ... What we think of as ``closed'' means the Universe has a finite extent. Think of the surface of a balloon (a flawed analogy, but good enough for my purposes here). ...

... 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 . ...

... The ideas of Dark Matter and Dark Energy are certainly revolutionary. ... What is Dark Energy? ... The galaxies are much more massive than expected and consist of matter we can detect and something else we can't see i.e. Dark Matter. ... How does Dark Energy fit into the evolution of the universe? ... The mutual gravitational attraction between this matter slows the rate of expansion · Once the universe is beyond a certain size Dark Energy, which is a repulsive force, forces galaxies apart. ...

arxiv:1202.5852 Планетные кандидаты по данным наблюдений на Кеплере, III: Анализ данных за первые 16 месяцев (Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data) . Authors: Natalie M. Batalha et al. arxiv:1202.4758 Пространственная вариация постоянной тонкой структуры - новые результаты на VLT/UVES (Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant -- new results from VLT/UVES) . ... Authors: C. Majeau, E. Agol, N. Cowan . ... Authors: B. Mueller, H.-Th. ...