Lessons Learned By One Old Timer Authors: Peter Bealo and Charlie McDonald Project Astro-Boston and the Amateur T elescope Makers of Boston I've been an amateur astronomer for over 25 years now, having been bitten by the bug the first time I viewed Saturn at a public star party. By the time I was 15 I too had begun participating in public star parties with my local astronomy club. ... If its a multi-class star party, involve the PTA from the start, they can help with refreshments, etc. ...

Return to Flight Space Shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center July 26, ending a two-and-a-half year wait for the historic Return to Flight mission. ... Astronaut Soichi Noguchi, representing Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Steve Robinson, STS-114 mission specialist, did three successful spacewalks at the International Space Station and Discovery transported tons of equipment and supplies to and from the station. ... Discovery was about 600 feet from the station. ...

THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . ... Flights Chronology . ... Sea Launch . ... Land Launch . ... History of flights . ... Land Launch - Injection Profile . ... 1-st burn of Block DM-SLB (Injection into reference orbit) . ... LV two stages provide the orbital block injection into the open orbit with negative perigee; by three burns of the Upper Stage main engine the spacecraft is injected into the given target orbit. ...

J/AstL/vol/page SAI Open Clusters Catalog (Glushkova+, 2009) ================================================================================ Automated search for star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... Color excesses E(B-V), distance moduli and ages were determined for 141 new and 27 known, but poorly studied clusters. We present the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Open Clusters Catalog (SAI OCL Catalog) of coordinates, diameters and main physical parameters of these clusters. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Астронавты космического корабля многоразового использования Discovery Пирс Селлерс и Майк Фоссум начали в среду свой последний в ходе нынешней экспедиции выход в открытый космос. ... Свой первый выход в открытый космос он совершил в ходе нынешнего полета Discovery к МКС в минувшую субботу. Затем оба астронавта выходили за пределы станции в понедельник, 10 июля. ... Астронавты Discovery вышли в открытый космос, чтобы потренироваться в устранении повреждений . ...

. This Directory contains Model of distribution of density, temperature and effective collision freguency of electrons. Yu.K.Chasovitin. 1998. This Directory contains The program RIM98 for calculating the parameters of the ionosphere to use the "Reference Ionospheric Model-98" (RIM-98).Yu.K.Chasovitin. 1998.