... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... Scheduled for completion about 2006, the completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. ... The assembled space station will provide the first laboratory complex where gravity, a fundamental force on Earth, can be controlled for extended periods. ... Hospitals, business parks and solar electric power stations that beam clean, inexpensive energy back to Earth are likely to dot the "space-scape" 40 years from now. ...

... 0,50-0,59 (0,50-0,59) µm . ... Swath Width . ... at end of visibilty area . ... Visibility Area Width . ... Ground Resoultion in Nadir: . along swath . ... across swath . ... Ground Resolution at End of Visibilty Area: . ... 200 lines per second . ... at least 200 . Ground resolution corresponds to normal flihgt altitude 650 km. For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... List of pages . ... Links . ... Then you will discover that many guidebooks are lousy, and that you can relatively easily find information on a small number of top attractions (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Novgorod, the Golden Ring, Transsiberian Railway) but almost nothing beyond that. ... The information is subdivided into parts: General information; Attractions (if possible, with pictures); practical information (transport, food, hotels); and also collection of links (most of them in Russian). ...

... The second "Hey, I already thought of that!" experience I had was when I read the quote from you saying that modern physics seems to have left consciousness out of the equation. ... I forget if it was in response to Chisholm's book, but sometime for that course, I wrote a short paper outlining my theory, which was that the conscious experiences we have are not part of today's physics Standard Model (they didn't call it that in 1969). ... A model is like a road map. ... Sincerely, Mark Trueblood ...

... 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; . ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... 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 . ...

The best way to explain what the logical actors are, is to consider an example. ... An example of logical actors (the Actors.A program). ... The principle of logical actors. -- ------------------------------------------- project : (( 'Main' )) ------------------------------------------- class 'Main' specializing 'Dialog': -- identifier = "input" ; x = 27 ; y = 8 ; -- i; j; -- w1 = ( 'TextPage', value_1=i, value_2=j, text_color='White', background_color='Red', x= 9 , y= 4 ) ; . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљMembers . ... StelMainScriptAPIProxy Class Reference . Because the core API runs in a different thread to the main program, direct function calls to some classes can cause problems - especially when images must be loaded, or other non-atomic operations are involved. ... Connect signals from the StelMainScriptAPI to the instance of this class running in the main thread and let the slots do the work which is not possible within StelMainScriptAPI itself. ...