Prague, August 16, 2006 . I am going to suggest the IAU Division V and Commission 27 a draft of a new GCVS classification scheme. ... It will also be available, after the GA, at the GCVS web site ( http://www.sai.msu.ru/groups/cluster/gcvs/ ) . We will start applying the scheme in the nearest future but are ready to take into account the future C27 suggestions, probably to be finally approved during the next GA of the IAU. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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 , . ...

... Declined commitment to national space programs and drastic cuts in ICBM demand create a strong economy-driven trend to proliferate missile and space-related technologies to new markets. ... to establish a regime to provide space launch services to potential proliferators as an incentive against development of rocket launch capabilities of their own. ... Under such a condition new space powers definitely would not give up the development of independent space launch capabilities. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... В теме В разделе По форуму . ... Научная панорама ? Пятый релиз Слоановского обзора . ... 24.07.2007 [10:04:54] ? данные arxiv:0707.3380 Пятый релиз Слоановского Цифрового обзора неба (The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) . ... Over the course of five years, SDSS-I imaged more than 8,000 square degrees of the sky in five bandpasses, detecting nearly 200 million celestial objects, and it measured spectra of more than 675,000 galaxies, 90,000 quasars, and 185,000 stars. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

... 322, L29 ± L36 (2001) The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey ± V. The 10k catalogue S. M. Croom,1w R. J. Smith,2 B. J. Boyle,1 T. Shanks,3 N. S. Loaring,4 L. Miller4 and I. J. Lewis1 1 2 3 4 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead CH41 1LD Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE Department of Physics, Oxford University, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH Accepted 2001 March 7....

... 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. ...