... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 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 . ...

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Results of the project "Beautiful Places - Open Hearts" . The Department of International Educational Projects at the Centre of Education in Zelenogorsk, Russia have conducted from November 2001 to March 2002 the project: "Beatiful Places - Open Hearts" with the intention to discover creative gifted children from over the world. In this project, 196 pupils in age of 7-18 have participated: 105 school children from abroad and 91 children from Russia. ... Participants of the project . ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

... A single archive was created for Okean-O, Resurs and Meteor-3M data. ... SST for Barents Sea (NOAA Satellits) . ... New section is opened: NOAA satellite data regional archive . ... 5/10/1999 . ... Data from West-Siberian Ground Center are now being submitted to RESURS Data Catalogue on a regular basis . ... RESURS O1 N4 . ... 23/12/1998 . ... Operational Archive of RESURS Data (New Version). ... Archive of GOMS Data. ... Operational Archive of RESURS Data. ... SPUTNIK Web-server has been launched ....

... In Memoriam Maxim Tarasenko . Russian page . ... 04 May 2002 . M. Tarasenko "The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics" . 15 April 2000 . The works of Maxim Tarasenko . ... Russian Military Space Activity" . ... MAXIM TARASENKO (1962-1999) - Russian Space Analist . 18 March 2002 . The Maxim Tarasenko Award The Journal "Space Polic" has created a new award for essays in space policy open to graduate students. The Institute of Space Policy (Russia) . ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...