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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... NEW: see the Leonids LIVE! ... I have added a list of live webcasts that will let people all over the Earth see what the shower is doing from the points which may get the predicted max from the meteors. ... A dark site is best, but Leonids are known for fast bright meteors, so even a bright sky is not so bad. ... Here is a list of web sites that will be broadcasting the Leonids live over the web. ... Leonids Live! ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The VC-4 flight tasks were successfully completed. The manned transfer vehicle Soyuz TM-34, been a part of ISS orbital complex since April 27, 2002, as a rescue vehicle and been the earlier manned space vehicle modification of Soyuz type, was replaced by Soyuz TMA-1, the new modification, designed by the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia specialists in cooperation with its subcontractors from Russian rocket and space industry. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Appendix: COODINATES OF OBSERVATORIES . This list is the extension of Marsden's list of observatories published in тАЬMinor Planet CirculariesтАЭ. ... тАЬThe Astronomical Year-Book for the year 1942тАЭ, 1941, p.355-360, in Russian . ... The numbers 0-999 were taken in according to Marsden (Ref.1), the numbers from 1000 were appropriated by us. ... For observatories with numbers 0-999 and code of reference 1* the heights were taken by maps . ... For numbers 0-999 the code equals 1 usually. ...

Welcome to Siberia! This is a small part of our "Astronomy from Siberia" web-site. ... This pages were created especially for our foreinger partners and mostly as a part of our participation in the " International School Observatory " project. ... I'm Sergey Guryanov (Mr.) - an astronomy and physics teacher from the small Siberian town Zelenogorsk (it means something as a Green mountains town). ... Welcome to our "Yuri's Night" world space party: ( 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 ) . ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Previous Click the image to view it in fullsize. Previous . The BTA (Bolshoi Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, Eng:Large Altazimuth Telescope) is a large 6 m optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory. The BTA-6 was the largest telescope in the world between its first light in 1975 and 1993.

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...