Coordinate Systems used for spacecraft trajectory description: . ... The HGI coordinates are Sun centered and inertially fixed with respect to an X-axis directed along the intersection line of the ecliptic and solar equatorial planes. ... Cometocentric (solar) Ecliptic Coordinate System (CSE) . ... CSE coordinate system for the SC POSITION: axis origin at comet center, X-axis to the SUN, Z-axis to ecliptic north pole, (X,Y)-plane is parallel to the ecliptic plane. ...

In 1995 Ukraine started operation of Vernadsky antarctic research station . The station was transfered by Great Britain, former Faraday station. ... Vernadsky is the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) former Faraday station that has been transferred free to Ukraine for Ukrainian Antarctic Center (UAC) at 7 February 1996. ... Vernadsky (Faraday) is the oldest operational station in the Antarctic Peninsula area. ... Vernadsky is the first Ukrainian Antarctic station. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Октябрь 1998 . ... Дата: 09 октября 1998 (1998-10-09) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: MGS Aerobraking Update - October 3, 1998 Привет всем! ... October 8, 1998 CONTACT: Don Savage NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202-358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (Phone: 301-286-5017) Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410-338-4514) PRESS RELEASE NO.: ...

... NASA Main Page . NASA Organizations Index . ... Marshall Space Flight Center . ... Science @ NASA: news . ... Goddard Space Flight Center: Science missions . National Space Science Data Center . data from NASA space flight missions, . ... High Energy Astrophysics Science Research Center (HEASARC) - a source of gamma-ray, X-ray, extreme ultraviolet, other wavebands observations of cosmic (non-solar) sources. ... Kennedy Space Center - Publisher's Photo Corner - Photograph Index . ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... A:link {color: # 0000BF } A:visited {color: # 0000BF } A:active {color: # 0000BF } A:hover {color: #FF0000} -- /style /style !--#config timefmt= %e -- !--#set var = DATE value = $DATE_LOCAL -- !--#config timefmt= %m -- !--#set var = NUM_MONTH value = $DATE_LOCAL -- !--#config timefmt= %G -- !--#set var = YEAR ...

The program "Pioneer" . Pioneer - 10", the first space vehicle started in March, 1972 to the Jove, has reached . ... This photo of the Jove was received December, 1, 1973 when space probe " pioneer - 10 " has come nearer to a planet on distance 2,5 million km. ... This photo was received by "Pioneer - 11" December, 6, 1974 from distance 1,1 million km from a planet. ... The picture is received in December, 12, 1974 when "Pioneer - 11" was on distance of 1207 thousand kms from the Jove. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

... Structural Analysis of Disk Galaxies of the NGC 524 Group M. A. Il'ina and O. K. Sil'chenko * Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Received February 24, 2012; in final form, March 2, 2012 Abstract--Members of the NGC 524 group of galaxies are studied using data obtained on the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the SCORPIO reducer in an imaging mode. ... NGC 502. ... NGC 524. ... Rev. Astron. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

... It is created for freeware distribution as an attempt to show the achievements of the Russian space industry and tell a story of the reusable orbital ship "Buran" . On your screen you will see a stunningly realistic picture of near-Earth space, as well as several spacecraft, created or envisaged by the really talented Russians: . ... demonstration mock-up of the military orbital laser station "Polyus" ("Pole") , which suffered a failure during its launch on May 15, 1987; . ... Texture . ...

... View from a tower . ... in the launch table . One of 2 Energia-Buran launch pads converted from N-1. There is also one more Energia launch pad called Versatile Stand-Start Complex. ... The giant N-1 tower still exists. Moreover, it looks like most photos of Buran on the launch pad were shot from this tower. One of 2 N-1 launch pads. N-1 pads were later converted for Energia-Buran program. Proton launch pad. Mobile tower is moved away from the rocket. ...

... We are still without a Program Chair for the 2009-10 season. ... Ludovicio D'Angelo, Ludy@princetonastronomy.org June 2009 Farewell to Hubble , Obama Calls, Astronauts Testify to Congress as Shuttle is Set to Land http ://www.planetary.org/ blog / article / 00001958/ Hubble Astronauts Boldly Go Where No One has Gone Before! http ://www.planetary.org/ blog / article /00001954/ Hubble Spacewalks: 2 Down, 3 to Go, Never Routine http ://www.planetary.org/ blog / article /00001945/ ...

... Разработка новых специализированных машин и аппаратов, усовершенствование технологии переработки старых шин и получения модифицированной резины' . ... В проекте предусматривают разработку новых конструкций специализированных машин и аппаратов, которые обеспечивают более эффективную работу технологической схемы переработки шин и получения модифицированной резины. ... Совместно с инвестором создается компания ' START - UP ' в соответствии с годовой сметой расходов; . ...

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. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... Bright MASTER OT105123.02+672528.3 discovery at Optical/X-ray/radio source position ATel3845, ATel3849 ATel3889 . ... All news ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...