... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

In Actor Prolog a resident is a special mechanism that helps processes to inspect state of other processes. A resident observes the state of a specified (target) process and if the state of the process changes (for instance, after message handling) it proves a specified predicate of the process. ... Work of the resident. ... Any change of the list of target processes or arguments of resident function results in activation of the resident and repeated collection of information in the target worlds. ...

... Great oppositions. ... Proxima Centauri. ... Scientists proved that the problem of preserving the Earth's climate and the annual change of seasons can be solved by a small star, negligible mass, but similar to a main-sequence star, moving in a circular orbit around the Sun. ... Sombrero Galaxy. The Sombrero Galaxy, M104, is known as a holder of one of supermassive black holes. ... Roughly estimate the approximate mass of the supermassive black hole in the center of M104 (answer in solar masses m). ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... Я попытался выделить самые интересные сюжеты, в основном связанные с наблюдательной астрономией и появившиеся в Архиве препринтов в 2006 г. Большинство из этих работ описывались в моих обзорах и было включено в число "лучших из лучших" . ... Непопадание в список каких-то важных работ связано в основном с тем, что "на лету" трудно определить важность статьи вне своей области интересов, кроме того этот год выдался для меня непростым.. ... Authors: Jason W.T. Hessels et al. Статья в Обзорах . ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

. Aldebaran. Aldebaran , a Calf's, is a star of the first star value, it is translated from Arabic as "following in the tracks", because it follows the star congestion of the Galaxy. Back .

Not on-site at APO, but can be obtained on loan--contact Jeff Morgan at UWash, morgan/astro.washington.edu . CENTER( ) PASSBAND( ) NEBULAR LINE (OR CONTINUUM) . 4861 60 Hbeta 5007 60 [O III] 6301 10 [O I] -- [S III]6312A line is supressed 6563 10 Halpha -- [N II]6584 and 6583 lines are suppressed 6583 10 [N II] -- Halpha line is suppressed 6728 80 [S II]6717+6731 4686 60 He II 4760 100 blue cont or Fe II 8290 195 red cont. See also the Hodge filter set below. ... APO Filters Homepage ...

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) . ...

VII/26D Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) (Nilson 1973) ================================================================================ Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) Nilson P. =1973ugcg.book.. ... The order of the records is strictly by UGC number; i.e., the Addenda records follow their main catalogue counterparts in the file. ... Major axis of the galaxy as measured on the POSS blue print. ... References: Nilson, P. 1973, Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies, Uppsala Astron. ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. [SpaceViews] Компания PanAmSat, крупнейший мировой оператор телекоммуникационных спутников, объявила о намерении заменить на орбите спутник Galaxy 8-i, в двигательной системе которого возникли неполадки. ... Однако топливо в этом двигателе закончится к концу 2002 г. И если к этому времени не удастся восстановить работоспособность ионного двигателя XIPS, то спутник Galaxy 8-i будет потерян. ... PanAmSat разрабатывает план замены спутника Galaxy 8-i . ...

... Предисловие редактора перевода. ... Предисловие. Глава 1. ГАЛАКТИКИ И ВСЕЛЕННАЯ. ... Типы галактик. ... Почему галактики разные. ... СТРУКТУРА ГАЛАКТИК. Как построить эллиптическую галактику? ... ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ И ЭВОЛЮЦИЯ ГАЛАКТИК. ... Наблюдая эволюцию галактик. ... ЗВЕЗДЫ И СКОПЛЕНИЯ. ... Функции светимости для звезд в галактиках. Спектральные типы галактик. ... Двойные галактики. ... Карликовые неправильные галактики. ... СКОПЛЕНИЯ И СВЕРХСКОПЛЕНИЯ ГАЛАКТИК. ... Типы скоплений. ...

... GALAXY: A galaxy is made up of billions or trillions of stars bound together by their own gravity. ... HELIUM (He): The second element in the periodic table, has 2 protons, 2 neutrons, and is a noble gas. ... Helium melts at -272.2 degrees Celsius, and boils at -268.934 degrees Celsius. ... HYDROGEN (H): The first element on the periodic table, is a gas, and has an atomic mass of 1.00794 amu. ... Hydrogen melts at -259.34 degrees Celsius, and freezes at -252.87 degrees Celsius. ...

... Созвездия . ... DOS, 629 Кб (программа), 7.7 Мб (база данных), бесплатная . ... Но с появлением проекта Free Virtual Galaxy Джима Смита владельцы даже старенького 486-го компьютера смогут осуществить виртуальное путешествие по Млечному Пути. Программа Free Virtual Galaxy (FVG) воссоздает трехмерную модель звездного рукава Галактики в радиусе 1000 парсек от Земли, используя данные каталога ?Гиппарх?. ... Более подробная инструкция на английском языке по работе с FVG находится в архиве программы. ...