Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Bad Astronomy site . ... His numerous appearances on radio, television, podcasts, and live in front of audiences have made him a celebrity in science circles, and put him in demand as an expert on astronomical matters. ... His website, Bad Astronomy , is a virtual encyclopedia of astronomical errors, and his blog is one of the most popular science blogs on the web, with thousands of fans eagerly reading it every day. ... Phil seemed tireless!" ...

home - main - author - help english - russian . Soyuz TM . Original Soyuz . Soyuz-1 - Soyuz-9) . ... ASTP Soyuz . ... Progress . ... Interior of Soyuz-T trainer . Soyuz's MIK - montazhno-ispytatelniy korpus - assembly and testing building. Left to right: launch vehicle, 2 cosmonauts in spacesuits, Soyuz spacecraft (inside a yellow framework), . shroud (a big white object) . ... in Soyuz trainer . ... Soyuz-T after landing . Soyuz descent vehicle evacuation . ...

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The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... This trend has allowed projects and users to build customized processing systems from existing components. We present examples of user­customizable systems that can be built from existing tools, based on commonly­used infras­ tructure: a parameter interface library, FITS file format, Unix, and the X Windows environment. ... User Applications Users often need to sequence several tools. ...

... I would like to add my voice to those who are mourning to loss of Maxim Tarasenko. ... Maxim was born in Protva, in the Kaluga Region south of Moscow on 20 June 1962. ... This was just one of many international speaking engagements of his. ... The list of papers and international places is too long to go into at this point. ... My first trip to Moscow was in 1995, and Maxim kindly made arrangements for me for transportation and access to a number of space program related facilities in the Moscow...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on March 16, 2011 N. Kardashev chaired the teleconference. ... He confirmed the priority status of the mission with the launch date scheduled for late June 2011. ... N. Kardashev reminded the participants to send their willing to visit the launch site to M. Lisakov not later than March 20 2011. ... New Zeland JIVE, The Netherlands ASC, Russia NRAO, USA NRAO, USA ASC, Russia NRAO, USA ASC, Russia MPIfR, Germany ASC, Russia NRAO, USA ...

The Richland Astronomical Society is a nonprofit organization formed in 1960 to promote the advancement of amateur astronomy. ... Mike Romine - President/Board Member . ... Bob Kocar - Treasurer/Board Member/Grant Coordinator . ... Eric Heintz - Assistant Observatory Director/Board Member . ... Tammy Plotner - President Emeritus/Webmaster (www.wro.org)/Astronomical League ALCor. ... Site content is maintained by Webmaster Tammy Plotner and Assistant Webmaster Greg DeChant All rights reserved. ...

Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

e-mail: podgorny@inasan.ru . Institute of Astronomy RAS . ... Spectrum of solar flare protons // Journ. ... The active region magnetic flux correlation with flare appearance. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. Solar Flare Numerical Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation and Solar Flare Model. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. MHD simulation of magnetic field configuration above the active region NOAA. ... Podgorny I. М., Podgorny A. I. The active region magnetic field association with solar flares. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . General information Date and Location Objectives of the meeting Sponsoring Organizations International Advisory Committee Local Organizing Committee Deadlines Addresses Hotels & Accommodation Venue Visas Social Programme . First circular . ... Abstract Submission List of submitted abstracts . ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics . ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

. Main . Final stage of OC "MIR" flight . Photoarchives . RUSSIAN AVIATION AND SPACE AGENCY . CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH . MACHINE BUILDING INSTITUTE . MISSION CONTROL CENTER . Russian . Earth Orbiting Complex "Mir" . The material submitted to the UNO Science and Engineering Subcommittee 38 session on peaceful use of space (Vienna 12-13 Feb 2001) as an oficial UNO document . Press-conference at MCC February 28, 2001, U.N. Koptev

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

... ESO - Public Surveys . ESO - VISTA Surveys . ... Building VISTA: in its enclosure . image: IMG_1307-1536x2048.jpg . Credit: VISTA . ... VISTA Telescope: In the enclosure. image: IMG1815s.jpg . ... VISTA Telescope: In the enclosure. image: 05_ VISTA-Telescope-in-enclosure-1200x1600.jpg . ... Building VISTA: Lifting telescope top ring into the enclosure. image: 03_VISTA-lifting-top-of-telescope-into-enclosure-1600x1200.jpg . ... image: 04_VISTA-Telescope-in-factory-1405x1769.jpg . ...

... Be s k i n , 1, 3 S. Karpov,1 S. Bondar,2 A. Perkov,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 V. Sasyuk,3 A.Biryukov4 and A.Shearer5 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... Here we give a status report on the next generation, multiob jective and transforming monitoring system, MiniMegaTORTORA, with two variants (MMT-6 based on image intensifiers with fast CCDs and MMT-9 equipped with Andor Neo sCMOSes) now under construction and commissioning at SAO RAS. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

. Герметиченый корпус корабля 'Орион' установлен на стенд в . Neil Armstrong Operations Checkout Building Космического центра им. Кеннеди. 2 февраля 2016 г. Фотография из блога НАСА, посвященного кораблю Orion

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955). A. Einstein - one of the outstanding thinkers of all the times. ... Einstein's "tool" was not an astronomic tube but theoretical mentality. ... He had written an article "To the electrodynamics of the moving solids", which may be considered as an introduction to the special theory of gravitation (STG), which revolved all ideas about the space and the time. ... In 1916 Einstein published "The Basic General theory of relativity". ...

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