... Basic Conceptions and Tasks of Ephemeris Astronomy. ... Construction and Orientation of Frame of Reference in Space. ... Planetary, Stellar, Extragalactic Frame of Reference. Inertial, Fundamental, International Celestial, Dynamic Frames of Reference. ... Stellar, Solar, Universal, Coordinated Universal, Quasi-uniform, Ephemerid, Atomic, Terrestrial Dynamic Time. ... Theories of Solar System Bodies Motion. Kinematic and Dynamic Principles of Planetary and Satellites Motion Theories. ...

... On-line Data . ... The program enables to find out the exact present Earth coordinates of the international space station and "Shuttle". ... J-Track - this program is similar to the previous one, however it knows how to display images and orbits of space vehicles. ... NASA SkyWatch - a program for those, who are fond of watching artificial space objects through the telescope, field - glass or with the unaided eye. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . ...

. Currently . Junior Scientist . Field of research interest . Software developing, database developing. Position . Laboratory assistant of Space Research Institute . Department Number . 902 (Space Monitoring Information Support) . Postal Address . Space Research Institute . Russian Academy of Sciences . Profsoyuznaya St. 84/32 . Moscow, RUSSIA . Postal Code . 117810 . Telephone Number . +7(095) 333-53-13 . E-mail . andry@iki.rssi.ru .

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

This module provides for server-side imagemap processing. ... Configurable generation of imagemap menus. The lines in the imagemap files can have one of several formats: directive value [x,y ...] . ... The directives can come in any order, but are processed in the order they are found in the imagemap file. base Directive . ... Module: mod_imap . ... Its value is overridden by a default directive within the imagemap file. ... Its value is overridden by a base directive within the imagemap file. ...

... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...

AUTOMATED CREATION OF THE LUNAR HYPSOMETRIC MAP: TECHNIQUES OF COMPILING. ... And the second one is the database, obtained from the raster images of the Lunar Subpolar regions (higher than latitude ±60°) where brightness of each pixel depends on its height [1]. ... Due to these reasons it was necessary to develop the special 10-stage methodology of data processing and map compiling. ... The height data were obtained and the lunar hypsometric map was created according to the 10-stage methodology. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

... 18-Jan-2010 16:45 . ... Muon_Telesc(hourly_values)/ . ... Muon_Telesc(minute_values)/ . ... Neutron_Monitors(daily_values)/ . ... Neutron_Monitors(hourly_values)/ . 15-Nov-2010 15:12 . Neutron_Monitors(minute_values)/ . ... Neutron_Monitors(monthly_values)/ . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Many of the topics studied will have a local perspective, helping learners become better equipped to meet the needs of Northern IrelandтАЩs economy in an international context. ... Learners in the Space Science Technology qualification will build upon their existing skills in science, maths, engineering and ICT, and will use their new-found knowledge to solve real-life problems. ... Northern IrelandтАЩs New Space Science Technology Course | ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

... 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. ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Dear Participants! . We would like to thank everybody for coming and we hope that conference was fruitful for you. According to decision that was taken during discussion on the first day of the conference all presentations will be published on this website in section Media Files (with references from timetable) starting with summary of conference by Marc Sarazin.

... Yu.A.Shokin Accurate positions of variable stars in the western part of the Large Magellanic Cloud bar (published in IBVS (No.5047, 14 March 2001) and SAI Proceedings) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij The list of 2821 Venus positions (VINITI depository Oct 08 2007, N 956 B2007) . B.S. Vozdvizhenskij, E.N. Fedosseev The experience in processing long series of photographic observations of planetary positions (VINITI depository Apr 01 2008, N 274 B2007) . ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

... New way to the center of Earth . A NASA technique pinpoints Earth's exact center of mass to understand global climate change. ... A new NASA-developed technique estimates Earth's center of mass to within 1 millimeter (.04 inches) a year by using a combination of four space-based techniques. ... Scientists currently define Earth's center in two ways: as the mass center of solid Earth, or as the mass center of Earth's entire system, which combines solid Earth, ice sheets, oceans, and atmosphere. ...

Advances in Space Research 36 (2005) 1595­1603 www.elsevier.com/locate/asr Solar origins of intense geomagnetic storms in 2002 as seen by the CORONAS-F satellite O. Panasenco a,*, I.S. Veselovsky a,b, A.V. Dmitriev a,h, A.N. Zhukov a,i, O.S. Yakovchouk a, I.A. Zhitnik c, A.P. Ignatуev ... 2002; Huttunen et al., ... Event 279 This is a member of another vast recurrent series of geomagnetic storms observed during many solar rotations in the second half of 2002 and the spring of 2003. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...