This is an advanced course for those students who have sufficient fluency in speaking Russian but have some difficulties in writing (spelling and punctuation), misusage of words, limited vocabulary. The main purpose is to develop all four language skills (speaking, writing, reading and understanding of oral speach) systematically. ... writing of essays; . ... Thematically this course is based on socio-cultural material and includes information on Russian history and geography. ...

... Solar B XRT: The Design and Development of the X-Ray Telescope for Hinode . Peter Cheimets . ... Peter Cheimets will talk about the Solar B XRT: The design and development of the X-Ray telescope for Hinode. ... Peter has an undergraduate mechanical engineering degree from MIT and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering with concentration in control system design, and mechanical dynamics from Stanford University. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Sky this Week . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mars mission given green light by NASA to proceed to development . ... NASA announced today that the University of Colorado at Boulder-led mission to Mars to investigate how the planet lost much of its atmosphere eons ago has been approved by the space agency to move into the development stage. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Appointments · Board of Governors · Management Committee The Depar tment of Culture, Ar ts and Leisure is seeking to appoint a Governor to the Board of Governors and two Members to the Management Committee of Armagh Observator y and Planetarium. ... The Depar tment wishes to bring a strong skills mix par ticularly in the area of corporate governance and public accountability to its Ministerial Appointments on all Boards of DCAL's sponsored bodies. ...

. 3rd Volga Space Plasma Physics Summer School Information . Vatican Observatory Summer Schools . The Young Universe . The Non-Sleeping Universe Conference . http://www.dstu.univ-montp2.fr/GRAAL/agb98-1.html . INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMY MEETINGS . TIPTOP: . TIPTOP: Physics Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools . Open Society Home page (Soros) . Open Society Open Pages . US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) . The Andrei Sakharov Foundation . Российский Фонд Фундаментальных Исследований .

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

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... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

Comparison of reusable space systems . Space Shuttle " (USA) and " Energiya-Buran " (USSR) . ... Official beginning of development: 1972 г. The first space flight : 12.04.1981 . Total cost to 1983: $17,8 billions (1982) . ... Total cost to January 1 1991: 16,4 billions rub. ... Certainly the "Energiya-Buran" system is more effective space complex. ... Certainly for past years "Space-Shuttle" was exposed to numerous updatings but it has main advantage before "Buran": it flies.. ...

... ORAL SESSION . ... Registration /Coffee . ... Sergey Bogachev : Space solar investigations in the Lebedev Institute: from Sputnik-2 to future missions . ... Splinter session. S1 : SOLARIS mission proposal (chair - S.Kuzin) . ... Morning Coffee . ... The Sun from radio to gamma rays: new results from space and ground-based observatories (part 1) . ... Szymon Gburek : SphinX and XRT observations of active regions . ... Artem Ulyanov : Nanoflares in the quiet solar corona: a view from SDO/AIA . ...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

Cairo, Egypt . Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle East. Although Cairo itself is only about 1,000 years old, parts of the metropolis date back to the time of the Pharaohs. ... In the 19th century, one of the city's rulers, Khedive Ismail (1863-1879), sought to transform Cairo into a European- style city. ... Although a housing crisis has been broadcast by the international news media, it is estimated that Cairo may have a surplus of some 1 million housing units. ...

... Home Gallery Club Events Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburgh, Russia . ... Clear Sky Chart . ... Beyond New York City . ... Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburgh, Russia . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by ....

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

... A group of children sang Russian folk songs. The songs were different: one was about the celebration of "Masleniza", another one was about our Motherland. Our guests really liked a young boy who played "balalaika". ... It helped British girls to learn more about our country, our traditions and culture. ... We also saw Russian Ballet. A nice beautiful girl was dancing for our guests. ... Last year when another group of British teenagers came to our school she also danced for them. ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

... Active Skepsis . ... Probably, one should know the results from any actions. ... As a result, a sceptic, who discredits, for example, the tales of Christian wonders, has to follow the practical recommendations of Christianity or any other belief knowing how to act. ... As a result, scepticism restricts itself with discrediting secondary wonders, permanently replacing one doubtful interpretation with another and telling nothing of life and action. ... Yuri Tikhonravov, Ph.D. Translated from Russian ....

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