GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

In order to assist folks upgrading we are now going to maintain a document describing information critical to existing Apache users. Note that it only lists differences between recent major releases, so for example, folks using Apache 1.1 or earlier will have to figure out what changed up to Apache 1.2 before this document can be considered relevant. Old users could look at the src/CHANGES file which tracks code changes. ... There have been numerous changes to the default config files. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

NOTE: The storm sudden commencement data file was updated on 18 Feb 1998. o Revised data for 1968-1975 were taken from IAGA Bulletin No. ... Indices aa and storm sudden commencements"; see also IAGA Bulletin 39: " Supplementary Geomagnetic Data 1957-1975", including a new list of ssc's 1968-1975). ... From the monthly reports of Rapid Variations prepared by 43 magnetic observatories (see list page 121), a combined list of all events is compiled. ...

... 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 ...

Currency in Crimea and Ukraine is "grivna", 1/100 of "grivna" = 1 "kopijka". abbreviated name - grn. lettered code - UAH . ... There are now (September 2001) in circulation: . ... The currency "grivna" and its one hundredth part - "kopijka" was put into circulation. ... banknotes of the following denominations: 1 grivna (1992, 1994, 1995), 2 grivnas (1992, 1995, 2001), 5 grivnas (1992, 1994, 1997, 2001), 10 grivnas (1992, 1994, 2000), 20 grivnas (1992, 1995, 2000), 50, 100 and 200 grivnas; . ...

. The changing of the comet's orbit. The changing of the comet's orbit under the Jupiter gravitation. As it seen from the picture not only the orbit may be changed but also the direction of the comet motion. Back .

Here's a little better image of SN 1998s from last night (98 Mar. ... I went crazy last night trying to get an image of the new SN without a lot of scattered (the streak of light above the galaxy) light from Chi UMa which is close by. I'm going to change a few things in my camera/reducer setup an try again on the next clear night. I'll send you a better image then. ... Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies . Back to Supernova 1998S images . ...

THE SUBSYSTEMS OF THE MILKY WAY HALO. ... A catalogue of homogeneous fundamental astrophysical parameters for 145 globular clusters is composed on the base of the data of compilative catalogue by Harris (1997) and from another literature. ... In addition, it has large rotation velocity ( V rot =77?33 km/s), appreciable radial and vertical metallicity gradients equal by value, and has the oldest average age (subsystem of the old halo). ... Characteristic parameter of globular cluster subsystems. ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

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RADIO EMISSION OF THE MOON BEFORE AND AFTER THE LUNAR PROSPECTOR IMPACT Berezhnoi A.A.*, Gusev S.G.**, Khavroshkin O.B.***, Poperechenko B.A.**, Shevchenko V.V.*, Tzyplakov V.A.*** * Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskij pr., ... For the registration of lunar RSR after the Lunar Prospector impact radio observations of the Moon on the two 64-m radio telescopes of the SDO MEI at Medvezh'i Ozera and Kaliazin were conducted during July 30 - August 2, 1999. ...

... Our AAAP regular season program concluded with an outstanding Jersey StarQuest in early June followed by our final meeting of the season. ... Email: ken@princetonastronomy.org Ken Kremer Science Outreach and Exploration Update Jersey Starquest: Hope, NJ, June 3-5, 2005, Attendee's enjoyed my afternoon presentations on "Deep Impact at Comet Temple 1", "Mars and Saturn in 3D" and the "Solar Sail". ... All were given simple star maps with location/info about the Deep Impact mission. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

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... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) . ... In the Fall of 1993, NASA Science lnternet (NSI) and the Russian Space Science lnternet (RSSI) began a cooperative effort to provide lnternet communications to selected Russian institutions in order to promote sponsored scientific cooperation between the two countries. ... This change, limiting full lnternet access via NISN for NASA selected Russian institutions, will take place no later than July 1998. ...

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 . GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer)? (http://eros NULL .usgs NULL .gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info) . ... You are currently browsing the Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии blog archives for August, 2012. ... Наши публикации . ... Публикации за 2010 . Публикации за 2011 . ... Лаборатория лазерной интерферометрии is proudly powered by WordPress . ...

... Master . ... Zel'dovich asteroid . ... August 29, 2013: Asteroid (11438) Zeldovich discovered 40 years ago . ... Asteroid (11438) has quite an elongated orbit with a period of 3.25 yr and eccentricity 0.19 (twice that of Mars). ... Asteroid will be located in Cancer constellation at the distance of 1.63 AU from Earth and 2.62 AU from the Sun (near the aphelion of its orbit), with the magnitude being 17.0m. Telescopes of MASTER network will definitely observe asteroid (11438) Zeldovich in early 2014....

... Submitted by Ben Kleschinsky on 11/02/2013 02:18:51 . Summer Solstice Super Moon 6/23/13 . Taken on the night of the Summer Solstice around midnight June 23, 2013. ... Camera: Nikon D5100 Lens: 70-300mm ED VR . Shutter-Speed: Unknown ISO: Unknown . POST PROCESSING: . ... Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...