... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... If the Universe is flat, it is forever balanced between open and closed; it will expand forever, but always slowing, just balancing gravity. ... Basically, if the Universe is open (will expand forever), closed (will eventually contract again) or flat (expanding just fast enough to balance gravity), you will see differences in the way the SN behave. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context Proceedings IAU Symposium No. ... The presence of exponential bulges and anti-truncated disks has been noticed in many lenticular galaxies. ... Among our findings in unbarred spiral galaxies, only one galaxy, NGC 5533, has a LSB outer disk (Sil'chenko et al. ... In the frame of this model, the Exponential bulges and antitruncated disks 5 inner disk must be more bright and compact than the usual large-scale stellar disks of spiral galaxies are. ...

... Be s k i n , 1, 3 S. Karpov,1 S. Bondar,2 A. Perkov,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 V. Sasyuk,3 A.Biryukov4 and A.Shearer5 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... Here we give a status report on the next generation, multiob jective and transforming monitoring system, MiniMegaTORTORA, with two variants (MMT-6 based on image intensifiers with fast CCDs and MMT-9 equipped with Andor Neo sCMOSes) now under construction and commissioning at SAO RAS. ...

World Space Congress 2002 Schedule Space Ops 2002 O c t. 9-12 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS The Space Generation Summit O c t. 11-19 Space Policy Summit O c t. 11-13 Space Rocks! ... Space Ops 2002 is fully integrated with the World Space Congress and a single registration fee covers both events. ... World Space Congress 2002 is expected to surpass its predecessor in both scope and content making it the largest space event ever held. ... It's World Space Congress 2002 coming to Houston this October. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Январь 1998 . ... This monitoring will aid observation planners later in the Galileo Europa Mission, when the spacecraft approaches its close flyby of Io in late 1999. ... Дата: 27 января 1998 (1998-01-27) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: NEAR Completes Flawless Earth Swingby Привет всем! ... Дата: 27 января 1998 (1998-01-27) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: NASA Comet and Jupiter Missions Offer Educator Fellowships Привет всем! ...

General Information . ... Local Information . ... The city represents great cultural value because in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. ... Double room with full pension (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - 2620 rubles per person per night. solnechniy . ... Citizens of most countries need visa to enter the Russian Federation. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (chair) . ...

21.10 news 887 MH 19/10/04 2:15 pm Page 887 news Russians fear privatization of state labs Bryon MacWilliams, Moscow Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding. ... We agree that Russian science does need reform," says Boris Stern, a particle physicist at the academy's Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. ...

... Objectives of the study . To survey and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of European initiatives by start-up companies, for privately-funded crew vehicles for commercial human space flight. ... New commercial markets, among them space tourism, have a great potential to become major drivers in space technology development. This study aims at the assessment of the feasibility of European initiatives to address these new markets through the development of crewed space vehicles. ...

Course : Social media for civil society Lecturer: Olga Guzhva, Assistant Professor, Vice dean of International cooperation department of sociology, general editor of SCS Journal( www.scsjournal.org) The course consist of main thematic chapter as I theory and practise of e-Democracy, overview of channel of communication and social media , social media tools ( practical cases)) Theme /Modules Theme 1 Introduction to the course ... Discussion involves participants in active learning. ...

back to "Astrology" . ... Russia under the Sign of Jackass . I'll venture to outspeak a truism: there is nowhere such a country except our Russia, where people zig and zag from one extremity to another. ... Lummy, where are the brain-convolutions of millions of people, who have been educated in secondary school? ... No, it is quite sufficient to be an average man with average intellect and average (secondary school) education. ... Another analogous question. ... and an average education . ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

VISTA Telescope Mount ­ Factory testing prior to optics integration Paul Jeffers*a, Brian Stobiea, Stan Hermannb, Brad McCreightb a UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK b VertexRSI ­ General Dynamics C4 Systems, 1217 Digital Drive, Richardson, TX 75081, USA ABSTRACT VISTA1 is a survey telescope which will deliver 0.5 arc second images over a 2 degree diameter unvignetted field of view. ... Thermal affects during the period of the test. ...

... The unlocked gate at the entrance to the observatoryтАЩs gravel driveway should remain closed to prevent the public from driving back to the observatory. ... This means that if there are still members of the public present at the observatory who do not wish to leave by 11:30 PM they will be locked in the park until a keyholder leaves and secures the gate(s) behind him/her. ... Roll the roof back using the hand crank near the computer room. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...