Nickolai Copernic: "making the Sun stop, pushing the Earth". ... The aim of Copernic's investigations is improving the calculating schemes. ... In heliocentric system appeared an opportunity of calculating real proportions of Solar system using the radius of the Earth's orbits as an astronomical unit. Copernic's book "About Rotation of Celestial Bodies" contains a discription of astronomical devices as well as a new more exact catalogue of stable stars. ...

... Discussion of Declination Drive Design . ... It is held in my personal stock of parts to replace a drive that might go out of service for some reason on one of the two LX200 telescopes that I am responsible for keeping in good repair.  ... The photocells detect light from a pair of small lights through the encoder mask and encoder wheel encased in the gear box housing. ... In one case of declination drive runaway, the cause was breaking of one of the leads to one of the photocells.  ... All fixed!! ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Milky Way . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... At its close on Saturday 23 April, there will be the Cosmic Threats to Earth Public Lecture Event (followed by the End of the World Ceilidh to cheer everyone up). ... аThere have been several such impacts in EarthтАЩs history. ... Of the three my greatest concern would and asteroid impact; simply because it has happened before. ...

ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ­ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ­ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...

The results of a search for ultrarapid variability of galactic water maser sources at the wavelength 1.35 cm on a timescale of several minutes to 1 h are reported. A special observational technique was developed. ... Among those, several sources that have shown such variability were found. ... Clear evidence for such a variability type was found in at least two sources: W49N and W33B. Variability of this kind displays itself only in certain states of the water masers. ...

... We are from Siberia, city Krasnoyarsk. ... We don't know the meaning of the word "Siberia" in our time. ... But we believe that this word comes from the tatarian language and means "sleeping . ... One of the streets is named after voivode Andrey Dubenski who put ashore a detachment of 300 cossaks in spring of 1628 right where the little but rough Kacha river falls into the Yenisei. ... This word of Tungus origin "ionessi" means "high water".Some windows of our school face at the Yenisei. ...

... Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 8930.9968 153.8 134.6 59.8 22.6 9021.6846 154.0 137.0 59.0 22.9 8939.7717 163.7 146.0 66.1 22.9 9024.6766 151.4 134.6 58.4 22.1 8940.8936 153.2 135.8 59.2 22.6 9030.5334 156.7 139.1 59.0 22.4 8944.7380 161.7 142.2 63.7 23.1 9032.6650 151.8 136.5 57.7 22.6 8951.8637 148.4 131.3 58.3 21.7 9036.7067 155.1 137.1 58.8 ...

. Recent data from the Cassini spacecraft revealed geyser-like plumes, intense heat flux, and tectonic features including large fractures that cut across the pole, a ring of ridges (red), and radial rifts (blue) on Enceladus, imaged above. The origin of these tectonic features and the relation among the tectonic features, the heat transport, and the plumes is discussed by using a unified thermo-mechanical model of Enceladus. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Khrutskaya E, Berezhnoy A, Kalinin S. Title:Old photographic plates in the Gaia era: archive plates of Pulkovo observatory, its digitization, results of astrometric reduction, error analysis. ... The results of astrometric reductions for 1800 plates with asteroids, digitized by a flatbed scanner, and the results for the 223 plates with asteroids and Pluto, digitized by the Damian digitizer in the ROB, are shown. ...

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Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

The Youth Space Center of Bauman Moscow State Technical University conducts the workshop for space enthusiasts (only students) every year to provide participants with an opportunity to discuss the results of the year passed in space focusing on Russian and International programs, see and touch the real space hardware and meet people working on the front edge of space science and technology. ... You will go to Mission Control Center and see how the International Space Station is controlled. ...

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 . ...

... 5 Commerce Way Auburn, NY 13210 www.volpiusa.com Contents 1 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Historical Overview Fundamentals of Light Propagation in Light Guides Total Internal Reflection Numerical Aperture of a Light Guide Guided Light Outside the Core Medium Phase Shift of Total Reflection 3 Light Guides - Modes 3.1 Mode Equation 3.2 Mode Number of a Light Guide 4 Light Intensity Distribution in a Light ... Such a light guide is referred to as a coherent fiber bundle or image bundle. ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

COSMOLOGY ACROSS CULTURES ASP Conference Series, Vol. 409, c 2009 J. A. Rubino-Martґ J. A. Belmonte, F. Prada and A. Alberdi, eds. ~ in, A New Test of Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Ancient Solar Eclipses GЁ oran Henriksson Department of Astronomy and Space Physics, Uppsala University, Box 515, SE-751 20 Uppsala Abstract. ... The Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) of the distance to the Moon makes it possible to check if there is any significant deviation from Kepler's third law of motion. ... 2002). ...

... FEATURES OF OBTAINED IMAGES All images obtained by the TESIS have a number of artifacts, i.e., the dark current, flat field, blurring (related to the feature of input shutters and CCD matrices of the equipment), and frame damage caused by the entry of cosmic particles. In addition, poor accuracy of the spacecraft stabilization leads to the fact that separately taken images of the Sun have a ran dom displacement and rotation relative to the CCD matrix. ... Methods of image recording of the TESIS. ...

... Here we briefly summarize our long period experience of constructing and operating wide-field monitoring cameras with sub-second temporal resolution to look for optical components of GRBs, fast-moving satellites and meteors. General requirements for hardware for such systems are discussed along with algorithms of real-time detection and classification of various kinds of short optical transients. ... The wide-field monitoring systems currently in operation, such as WIDGET (Tamagawa et al. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...