... I am fond of astronomy from school time. When I was eleven years old, I built my first telescope. ... I had renewed my hobby when I was 33 and when I already had a family and two sons. The 110-mm Newtonian is my first serious self made instrument and I built it during five years. ... In the Russian version of this site there are some articles, wich I wrote and the bibliography of the astronomy and ATM literature. ... Alexander Zencovich. ...

... By means of deep optical images obtained at the Special Astrophysical Observatory 6-m telescope it was discovered that some Seyfert galaxies that were earlier considered to be non-interacting objects displayed signatures of elongated tidal envelopes belonging to satellite debris. ... Our results suggest that statistic studies based on popular imaging surveys (for example SDSS) can lead to an underestimation of the fraction of minor mergers among galaxies with active nuclei (AGN). ...

... 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. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Abstract Submission List of submitted abstracts . ... The abstract you have submited . Design and implementation of BAUMANETS microsatellite . ... Several options of satellite layout, considered at concept design stage are shown. ... Peculiarities of connection of the satellite with rocket launcher at launch facility are shown. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

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... 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 . ...

... For many ATMs, having a good ray trace program on hand is pretty valuable. ... http://www.willbell.com . ... It is a slick Windows package with great graphics, but my most recent machine (Win95 OSR2) now encounters many error messages. ... OSLO LT : This is the freeware Windows version of OSLO - it is limited to 12 surfaces, but is otherwise amazing. ... KDP : This is another powerful, freeware Windows raytrace package. ... ZEMAX : This is yet another powerful, Windows raytrace package. ...