... The 2009 New Year's Concert is the first to be conducted by Daniel Barenboim. As well as an irresistible collection of Viennese delights - including no fewer than six New Year's Concert premieres - the Vienna Philharmonic and Maestro Barenboim launch a year of celebrations marking the bicentenary of the great Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, whose "Farewell" Symphony provides the perfect finale to a very special New Year from Vienna! ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

The Calendar of Bloody A.tecs. Living in Central Mexico from the XII century to the being of the XVI century warlike A.tecs devoted much time to sciences including astronomy. For needs of agriculture A.tecs, using the knowledge received from the forecomers, developed the exact calendar system. 52 years of the moon-and-the sun cycle formed the basis of it (something like our conception of "a century"). ... A.tecs year was divided into 18 months with 20 days each. ... Mesopotamian astronomy. ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . The main GCVS problem is that it is no longer a GENERAL catalogue of variable stars (in fact, it even never was). The GCVS always was a catalogue of galactic variables, with a minor number of extragalactic stars that were included mainly by misunderstandings. ... Recently, many thousands of new variable stars were discovered in automatic survey projects (for example, some 30000 non-GCVS stars solely in the ASAS-3 project). ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

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Kiselev A.A., Kiyaeva O.V., Izmailov I.S., Romanenko L.G., Shakht N.A., Kalinichenko O.A., Vasilkova O.O., Vasileva T.A., Poliakow E.V. (Pulkovo Observatory, Russia): Title: Results of reduction of photographic plates taken with 26-inch refractor in Pulkovo observatory Abstract: We present the results of narrow-field reduction for about 8000 photographic glass plates taken with the Pulkovo 26-inch refractor in the period from 1958 to 2007 years. ...

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... Chilingarian, I., Melchior, A.-L., Zolotukhin, I. 2010: Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands , MNRAS, v. 405, p. 1409 (also arXiv:1002.2360) . ... Calculator . ... calculate spectral energy distributions , K-corrections calculator , UKIDSS YJHK , K-corrections of galaxies , spectral based k-corrections , SDSS filter set K-corrections , K correction code IDL , kcorrect IDL C , . ...

The coordinates, diameters, altitudes and morphological features of all the craters of Mars exceeding 10 km in diameter, totaling 19 308, are compiled. ... The catalogue is intended for use by investigators of Mars, students, in comparative planetology and in the selection of craters for naming. ... 1 one terrace . 2 many terraces . ... 6 many hills and one ridge . 7 one hill and many ridges . ... 1 one crater . 2 many craters . ... Sample craters of different morphological categories . ...

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. ...

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... StarCalc Home Page - Downloads . ... File . StarCalc (English version) . ... With minimal configuration, version 5.72 of StarCalc includes the next interfaces: "Horizon", "Horizontal coordinategrid", "Equatorial coordinate grid", "Constellation boundaries", "Constellation lines", "Constellation names", "Star proper names", "Bright Star Catalog", "Deep-sky objects", "Sun", "Moon" and "Planets and satellites" . Plugins for StarCalc . ... Interface to NGC 2000 (plugin + catalog file) . ...