Охотники за потенциально опасными астероидами получили гранты на исследования . ... Получатели грантов Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants прошлых лет открыли много ранее неизвестных астероидов, в том числе астероид 2004 GA1, который является первым потенциально опасным астероидом размером более 1 км в поперечнике, открытый астрономом-любителем (им был Джон Броутон (John Broughton)). Кстати, получить грант имени Джина Шумейкера может и профессиональный астроном и астроном-любитель. ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... Home Articles Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 1: Beginning Observers Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 3: Advanced Observers . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 4: Magazines and Miscellany . ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... Russian Robotic Net MASTER of Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered the Most Powerfull Object in the Universe . ... Using the 40-cm (16-inch) f/2.5 reflectors equipped with 16-Mpix CCD cameras they have found the brightening of the poorly studied flat spectrum radio quasar CGRaBS J0809+5341 = FIRST J080941.7+534125 with the known redshift z=2.133. ...

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... Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . 119017, Pyatnitskaya str., 48, Moscow, Russia . ... About me: . ... I observed different objects (minor planets, satellites, variable stars, gamma bursts, etc.) by myself at Zeiss-600 and 2-m telescope. Also I had some experience with observational data from the 6-m telescope BTA (SAO, Russia), VLT (ESO, Chile), 1.5-m telescope in Maidanak (Uzbekistan) and infrared space telescopes Spitzer and Herschel. ...

... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... Earth Seen By NASA's Moon Mapper On India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft . A new image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. ... ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... 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. ...