Infrared Detector Array Links . ... Control Software Links . Optics Links . Micro-Optics Links . ... Optical Materials Databases . ... Atmospheric Database Links . Linux Links . ... Rockwell Science Center home page. ... Santa Barbara Research Center home page. ... CCD-World home page. ... SDSU home page. ... EPICS home page. ... Optics Society of America . ... Linux on Laptops ( local site and US home page ). ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

... After the 2nd World War, the Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) made two groups in Moscow responsible for catalogues of variable stars. ... Presently, the variable-star catalogue groups still exist within the Sternberg Astronomical Institute and the Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Elena Kazarovets (variable stars in open clusters, Peremennye Zvezdy journal, GCVS) . ... Nataliya N. Kireeva (variable stars, globular clusters, GCVS) . ...

... The impact of early Soviet space accomplishments upon Western society is well documented. ... SETI vs CETI . ... This perspective precluded transmissions from Earth into space (with but a single exception, to be delineated shortly). ... At its annual meeting in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress in India in September 2007, SETI scientists embraced the San Marino scale as a rational first step in evaluating the impact of various transmissions from Earth. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... According to the estimations of the RSC Energia it will take at least 10 years and 500-600 million $ (cost of adjustment, preparation, equipment's launching and accompaniment of carrying out of the experiments is included) to build up a similar experimental complex. ... It was carried out successfully. ... Radiation researches on the station Mir, carrying out by Moscow State University, gave rise to the construction of the dynamic picture of radiation zones' changes during the sun activity cycle. ...

Drawing and Part Configuration Management and Release Procedures: . ... Context: This procedure is intended for use by APO Telescope Drafting and Engineering personnel for the development, release and maintenance of telescope related models, drawings, and other controlled documents to facilitate the sharing of information between the various institutions and personnel that have need of technical information and engineering files regarding APO telescope design and development. ... Release Procedure: . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

... This method is based on putting space modules, vehicles and EVA-suit donned cosmonauts in the swimming pool under conditions of neutral buoyancy, indifferent equilibrium and unsupported state. ... You can also dive into the swimming pool with the SCUBA equipment in order to examine the mock-ups of space stations and vehicles and pass a course of rehabilitation in a hyperbaric oxygenation complex. ... Services / Hydrospace: General description Technical description "Orlan" suit Photo gallery Price . ...

... Pushchino Observatory of the P.N.lebedev Physical Institute RAS . Russia . ... Saint-Petersburg State University . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS . ... Research institute of applied mathematics and mechanics of Tomsk State University . ... Pulkovo Observatory . ... Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg State University . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy . ...

August, 2012, Odessa, Ukraine EVENTS: Monday, 20.08.2012 Arrival 09.00 ­ 22.00 Registration of participants 20.00 ­ 22.00 Evening session : Astronomical Society news (conference hall of ONU recreation center « Chernomorka ») Tuesday, 21.08.2012 06.03 09.00 09.30 10.45 12.45 13.00 14.30 16.00 16.30 18.00 19.00 19.57 21.00 06.04 09.30 11.00 11.30 13.00 14.30 16.00 16.30 18.30 20.00 19.56 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 13.00 10.45 12.45 ... 10 Section 3. ... 14.30 ­ 15.30 Section sessions ­ .. ...