News archieve . February 4, 2013 . ... January 15, 2013 . On January 29 XXXVII Annual Academic Korolyov Readings are starting. The schedule of the conference is divided into 21 sections each section for specific theme. The conference lasts on February 1st. ... The new academic year has already started and it's time to think about what you're going to do next summer. We suggest you taking part in our annual summer students workshop "Space development: theory and practice." ...

... The unlocked gate at the entrance to the observatoryтАЩs gravel driveway should remain closed to prevent the public from driving back to the observatory. ... This means that if there are still members of the public present at the observatory who do not wish to leave by 11:30 PM they will be locked in the park until a keyholder leaves and secures the gate(s) behind him/her. ... Roll the roof back using the hand crank near the computer room. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

In 2002, the Division V “Geomagnetic Observatories, Surveys and Analyses” of the International Association for Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) embarked on a new initiative to create an “Old Analogue Magnetograms Inventory”, where it was proposed to the worldwide geomagnetic community to begin converting old analogue magnetograms to the digital, computer-readable images. ... This project has successfully been completed and reported back to ICSU: . ... 2003 ICSU Grant Report . ...

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... A Ministerial Committee (hereinafter the Committee) chaired by a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay A. Anfimov has been set up by the state authorities of Russia to investigate the cause of the Dnepr LV mission failure. ... The conclusions made by the Committee were delivered to the State Committees of Russia and Kazakhstan established with the aim to investigate the Dnepr launch failure consequences. ... Mission profile . ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... BIK-01 digital channels . ... MSU-E (1) . ... MSU-E ( n ) - data from MSU-E instrument (channel number in brackets). ... In modes 708...712 (when both MSU-E scanners operate simlutaneously), video information from same spectral channels of both scanners is transmitted line-interlaced in single corresponding channel of BIK-01. ... 701 - all MSU-E channels, no MSU-SK data; . 703 - all MSU-E channels, MSU-SK channels 2 and 4 (line-interlaced); . 706 - all MSU-SK channels, no MSU-E data. ...

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ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

Giant radiotelescope in Aresibo. The biggest radio-telescope (300-metres) with the parabolic aerial was created in Arisibo on the Puerto Rico. ... In the height of 150 m above the giant mirror the 600-tones platform is fixed by the steel ropes. People can rise there by the haning bridge or a cable way. ... The computer controlled cabin with the radiation sourses and receives moves on the reels along the platform that is how radio-telescope is set on the investigated sourse. ...

... Seminar archive . ... Seminar archive 2012 14 September . ... The VLT Survey Telescope: a year after its coming into operation" . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope located at the Cerro Paranal Observatory of ESO in the Chilean Andes. ... VST features an active optics system which guarantees an overall instrumental resolution of 0.5 arc-seconds over a field of view of 1 x1 , with only marginally elongated images. ... All seminars: . ...