... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

You Can't Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... Did you know that when you look at a non-stellar object through a telescope that it's usually dimmer than looking at it with your naked eye? ... The light enters the eye through the cornea and passes through the pupil which is the opening of the iris. ... Our own pupil effectively stops this large telescope to 700mm, so the image is not any brighter than in the 27.6" telescope and no brighter than the naked eye view!! ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... ClassљIndex . ... StelRendererStatistics Class Reference . Stores and provides access to statistics about a StelRenderer backend. ... getNext (const char *&name, double &value) . Get next statistic name and value. ... Access statistic with specified index to modify it. ... while (statistics.getNext(name, value)) . ... Name of the statistic will be stored here (only a pointer to it). value . ... A clean way to do this is to use an enum with name corresponding to the name of the statistic. ...

... 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; . ...

Main Organizers Invited speakers Program Abstract template Travel information Tribute to I.F. Schegolev . Announcement: The conference is organized jointly by the Institute of Solid State Physics , the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences), and by the InQubit company. The previous conference was held in Chernogolovka in 1999. ... Superconducting Hybrid Structures . ... Institute of Solid State Physics . ...

This module uses cookies to provide for a clickstream log of user activity on a site. ... In Apache 1.2 and later this module has been renamed the "user tracking" module, mod_usertrack. ... Instead, a configurable log format file should be used to log user click-streams. ... When used, this directive determines whether the cookie used for user tracking is created using the default ("normal") format (eg: decimal values for items like the PID) or using a more compact format (eg: hexidecimal values). ...

Geophysical rocket R-11A . ... Rocket R-11A has been designed to take measurements of atmospheric pressure at different altitudes from 60 to 160 km, define optical properties of upper atmospheric layers, measure concentration of positive ions, record a number of the container collisions with micrometeorites. Rocket P-11A was first launched from the Novaya Zemlya in October 1958. The rocket reached an altitude of 103 km. ... SEA LAUNCH . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Май 1998 . ... Дата: 07 мая 1998 (1998-05-07) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: National Space Society Calls for President to Act on ISS Привет всем! ... Дата: 07 мая 1998 (1998-05-07) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Most Powerful Explosion Since The Big Bang Challenges Gamma Ray Burst Subject: Most Powerful Explosion Since The Big Bang Challenges Gamma Ray Burst Привет всем! ...

... The catalog contains SAO number; the right ascension and declination with a B1950.0 equinox and epoch; annual proper motion and its standard deviation, photographic and visual magnitudes; spectral type; references to sources; the Durchmusterung (DM) identifier if the star is listed in the Bonner DM (BD), Cordoba DM (CD), or Cape Photographic DM (CP); component identification; The Henry Draper (Extension) (HD or HDE) number; and J2000 positions and proper motions. ...

... In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is in a waiting mode continuing its deceleration in Earth atmosphere. During the previous day the OC "Mir" onboard systems were subject to a routine check out, the current trajectory parametres were registered. The processed information confirms the MCC readiness for the final stage dynamis operations with the OC "Mir". ... The first corrective impuls ( the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" 8 control engines are fired): . T burn start - 03.32; . ...

... M111 Jan 2008 . ... New Members . ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74-kilobyte ?hard drive.? ...

. F IGURE . 2. Metallicity (a), galactocentric distance (b), and distance from the galactic plane (c) are plott