... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... This image is a single frame of a GREAT animation made of several images of Jupiter and its moons by Antonio Cidadao. You can actually watch the moons orbit Jupiter! ... So it surprises me that no ancient texts describe the moons of Jupiter. ... If Jupiter were painted black, the four moons would be pretty easily seen with the naked eye from a dark site. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... Research Innovation . ... In 2009 Plan for University Research comprised 130 research projects (89 fundamental and 41 applied research projects) funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and in 2010 the University works on 132 research projects. ... In 2009 the University worked on 14 agreements to conduct research under governments funding, funds from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the University Fundamental Research Fund as well as international grant...

The VLT Survey Telescope: a year after its coming into operation Massimo Capaccioli Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II National Institute of Astrophysics - VST center at Naples The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope located at the Cerro Paranal Observatory of ESO in the Chilean Andes. ... The wide field is sampled by OmegaCam, a camera with a mosaic of 32 CCD for a total of 256 Mpixels, provided by the homonymous consortium. ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Next to "What telescope should I buy?" this is the most common question I usually get asked. ... What you can see depends on a lot of factors, including the type of telescope you bought, the quality of your local seeing conditions, and your level of skill. ... As a result, an experienced observer might enjoy deep sky objects in an 80 mm refractor, while a beginner with a light bucket next door is still struggling to find the Orion Nebula. ...

Copyright ї 1994 by Maxim V. Tarasenko. ... The end of confrontation, associated with the Cold War, led to political feasibility and economic desirability of extended international cooperation in space. ... For example, during the first half of 1994 the Russian Space Agency got only 10 per cent of its annual request. ... Another aspect of an inter-FSU cooperation is what was supposed to be a joint use of results from space activity, both in terms of scientific research and space applications. ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

Introduction This catalogue contains mainly the atomic data needed in the astrophysical investigations of low-density plasma. It is a revised and extended version of the "Catalogue of Atomic Data for the Rarefied Astrophysical Plasma" (Golovatyj et al. ... Low-density plasma. ... In the present study we represent only the atomic data for computation of sp ectra of low-density astrophysical plasma (most known kinds of it are gaseous nebulae), their thermal and ionization structure. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... 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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... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... Cosmic masers are natural generators of high-intensity radio waves. ... Up to now a great experience in spectral radio observations of molecular masers has been acquired by the French and Russian teams. ... Project participants: Pierre Colom (France), Evgueny Lekht , Mikhail Pashchenko and Georgij Rudnitskij (Russia) . ... Molecular Universe. ... Colom P., Lekht E. E., Pashchenko M. I., and Rudnitskij G. M. OH and H 2 O maser variations in W33B. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 575, A49 (2015) . ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

... Anomalous magnetosheath dynamics: magnetosheath crossings by spacecraft in few minutes and flow balancing by plasma jets Sergey Savin, Ermanno Amata, Lev Zelenyi, Viacheslav Budaev, David Sibeck, Natalia Borodkova, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Jean-Lous Rauch, Eugene Panov, and Jan Blecki Comparison of Two Successive Substorms Observed on August 1, 1998 Natalia Borodkova, Vladimir Parkhomov, and Georgy Zastenker ...

... Practical 1 / 8 Ebony Violin Peg Instrument Accessory . Size: SIZE 1 / 8 . ... Type: Violin Peg . For: Violin . Material: Ebony . ... Product size (L x W x H): 6 x 1.8 x 0.7 cm / 2.36 x 0.71 x 0.28 inches . Package size (L x W x H) : 7 x 3 x 2 cm / 2.75 x 1.18 x 0.79 inches . Musical Instruments . ... Package Contents: 1 x Violin Peg . ... Повседневные (casual) платья . ...

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