... Phil Creed's Astronomy Bowl! ... Hidden Hollow's Astronomy Bowl is a fast-paced question-and-answer game designed to both enlighten and challenge stargazers. ... Astronomy Bowl follows the traditional format of alternating toss-up and bonus questions, with a few tweaks. ... The host will read a toss-up question. ... Once a toss-up is correctly answered, that team is given a bonus question. ... If only 14 toss-ups are answered correctly, that means 20 toss-ups and 14 bonus questions will be read. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... The aerospaceplane project dated 29 June 1966 provided for the development of a 115-t orbital system consisting of three winged VTOL reusable aircraft: the 52-t HLA reusable hypersonic air-breathing launch aircraft, designated '50-50'; the RB expendable two stage rocket booster; and the OS manned orbital aerospaceplane, designated '50'. ... ORBITAL AEROSPACEPLANE DIMENSIONS . ... Instead, he came out with an initiative to start up the Buran programme in the USSR as a response to the US Shuttle. ...

... 11/09 - Dave's response . Some of you have probably seen this original letter floating around the internet. Read Dave's (whoever he is) response below. ... I don't know who David is, but his response is hilarious!! ... At first I rolled my eyes....then I read Dave's response and I couldn't have said it better if I had all day to do it." ... September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11 . ... Wait a sec ... just realized "YOU CAN'T HIDE" also has 11 letters! ... Help me!! ...

... B.V. Somov . head of the department . ... room 80 . ... senior research felow . ... research felow . ... research fellow . ... Our department performes the following most perspective studies: . Special analytical and numerical experimental investigations of the solar plasma involved in the magnetic reconnection process at the Sun. ... Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov. ... 27 September 2013 The Solar Physics Department was visited by journalists of the leading Russian TV channel "Vesti-1". ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...

... 14.03.2001 . ... March 14 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operation with OC "Mir" scheduled for March 13 is complete. During the previous day regular checkout of the OC "Mir" and the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" onboard systems and automatic equipment was performed with the Motion Control System on. ... The complex remains pressurized, the thermal mode is normal.The batteries generate enough electric power to provide onboard systems nominal performance and register trajectory parametres. ...