... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

... It grew from being a pleasant burgh in pretty countryside into a great city, starting first in the 17th century as a major seaport to which sugar and tobacco were imported from America, then completing its development in the last 150 years with the establishment of steelwork and large docks and shipyards along the river Clyde. ... The city is an ideal centre. ... It dates from the 12th century and the 13th century and the spire and the nave were added 200 years later. ...

Канадский коллектив, взглавляемый Брайаном Фини (Brian Feeney), взял себе довольно необычное название - The da Vinci Project (Проект 'Да Винчи'), в честь знаменитого итальянского художника, инженера и изобретателя. ... Mark I, 2000 . ... В октябре 2006 года Брайан Фини объявил об основании компании DreamSpace , которая будет разрабатывать корабли для суборбитальных полетов, используя наработки коллектива The da Vinci Project, сделанные во время подготовки к соревнованиям на X-Prize. ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . ... Continue the GCVS project for at least 3 -6 more years;  for this period, continue publication of Name-Lists for individual discoveries and for large-survey stars studied also elsewhere;  during this period, start a new GCVS version with improved data and with complete information for Name-List stars; . during this period, work on Steve Kawaler's suggestion;  pay maximum attention to improving software for period determination, automatic classification, etc . ...

... Вестник НПО . ... Также на данный аппарат возлагаются задачи получения гелиогеофизических данных, ретрансляции и обмена метеоинформацией, приема и ретрансляции данных от автономных метеорологических платформ и сигналов аварийных буев системы КОСПАС-SARSAT. ... Международная орбитальная астрофизическая обсерватория проекта "Радиоастрон". ... Орбитальная астрофизическая обсерватория "Спектр-РГ" (СРГ) предназначена для изучения Вселенной в гамма и рентгеновском спектральном диапазонах. ... Фрегат . ...

... General astronomy . ... PHYSICAL CONSTANTS.. ... Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-2002 . ... Lectures Astronomy-161 "Solar System" (Also it contains info about History of Astronomy) . ... The History of Science . ... College-Level Astronomy Courses - at American, Australian Universities and Colleges . ... Messier: . ... Science . ... Scientific American . ... JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS . ... Scientific Journals . ... American Physical Society Journals: Physical Review, Review of Modern Physics ...

... 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. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... The launch vehicle is steam ejected from its Transport and Launch Canister (TLC) by means of hot gases of black powder gas generator. ... Activation of black powder gas generator . ... Separation of black powder gas generator . ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

. F IGURE . 5. Relations between peculiar velocity and other characteristics of the RR Lyraes. The large open circles with error bars are mean values and dispersions of the corresponding parameters in narrow intervals of Vpec . The straight lines are the least-square fits for the stars lying both on the left and on the right of Vpec 280 km/s (the vertical dotted lines). discussion in the text | privious figure | next figure .

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When using a large number of Virtual Hosts, Apache may run out of available file descriptors (sometimes called file handles if each Virtual Host specifies different log files. ... Unix operating systems limit the number of file descriptors that may be used by a process; the limit is typically 64, and may usually be increased up to a large hard-limit. ... If you system falls into 1 or 2 (above), then increase the file descriptor limit before starting Apache, using a script like #!/bin/sh . ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

Molniya Triplane Aircraft . Molniya-1000 (Heracles) . ... It is intended for carrying large-sized cargo up to 450 tons or passenger modules with capacity up to 1200 persons at the external suspension. It can be used as an aircraft-carrier for aerospace systems. The HERACLES aircraft can be used on non-class as well as the first class airdromes with improved (if necessary) taxi ways. The use of low pressure pneumatics enables the aircraft operation from prepared ground airfields. ...

... 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. ...