... 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. ...

... Making a Case for METI . ... Many leaders of the modern SETI community oppose the deliberate transmission of messages from Earth to the stars in attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). ... Like Arecibo, our transmissions include scientific information. ... METI is not scientific . ... So, to increase the likelihood of effective communication across interstellar space, we include in our METI transmissions non-scientific messages: text, audio, video, art, music, etc. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Investigations of the ionospheric response to strong magnetics storms which are usual for our latitudes, are of great interest. ... In the figure, we present ionospheric parameter dynamics during three perturbed days in July 2000. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 05 - 11.03.2012, Forecast on 12 - 19.03.2012, Carrington Rotations 2121 (04,62.03.2012) SOLAR SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE LAST PERIOD WAS ON AVERAGE LEVEL. ... IMPORTANT OF FLARE ACTIVITY STARTED MARCH, 4th AND TO 11.03 IN CAR OCCUREN- CED X-RAY CLASS X - 3, CLASS M - 12 FLARES, 5 OF WHICH ARE LARGE. ... Class E(1-8A) AR RII/IV CME X/opt. ... NEXT WEEK MARCH, 12 IN ENVIRONMENT WILL COME THE DISTURBANCE FROM LARGE SOLAR FLARE OF MARCH 10. ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration. ... One of the main tasks of the Space Camp program is to facilitate cooperation with educational institutions in Russia and abroad in proliferation and mastering of acquired knowledge in a form of space-related quizzes, contests, scientific experiments, on line- and videoconferences. ...

... Full silvery Moon illuminates terrain. ... Begun a next moon eclipse, when Land barriers a Moon from the Sun and throws its shade on it. ... Drawing 1. ... Drawing 6 Drawing 6 shows a splendid photo of full moon eclipse 18-19 november 1975 during is packed phases doing Dennis de Chikko. ... Eclipse, which will occur 9 november 2003, is a repetition through сарос (cycle of repetitions of eclipses equal 6585 days or 18 years 11 days) full moon eclipse from 28 octobers 1985 with the maximum phase 1,07....

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Планеты . ... Строение атмосферы Юпитера . ... Фосфину также приписывают окраску самой известной детали Юпитера - Большого Красного Пятна. Большое Красное Пятно (БКП) - это овальное образование в облачном слое изменяю щихся размеров, расположен- ное в южной тропической зоне. ... Большое Крас- ное Пятно - это долгоживущий вихрь в атмосфере Юпитера, со вершающий полный оборот вокруг своего центра за 6 земных суток. ... Помимо БКП на Юпитере имеются и другие 'пятна-ураганы', меньшие по размерам. ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

... NOAA 16 . ... Автоматическая классификация ледовой обстановки . ... Карта-схема ледовой обстановки. Белое море. ... ИСЗ Океан-7 . ... Радиолокационное изображение ледовой обстановки на Востоке Восточно-Сибирского моря. ... Карта температуры поверхности Атлантического океана. ... Температура поверхности Баренцева моря. ... Температура поверхности Балтийского моря. ... Температура поверхности Белого моря. ... Температура поверхности Черного моря. ... Температура поверхности Каспийского моря. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT  INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... Uralov A.M., Grechnev V.V., Lesovoi S.V., Sych R.A., Kardapolova N.N., Smolkov G.Ya., ... Altyntsev A.T., Dutov A.A., Grechnev V.V., Konovalov S.K., Krissinel B.B., Lisysian E.G., Miller V.G., Rosenraukh Yu.M., Smolkov G.Ya., ... Altyntsev A.T., Grechnev V.V., Konovalov S.K., Lesovoi S.V., Lisysian E.G., Treskov T.A., Rosenraukh Yu.M., Magun A. On the apparent size of solar microwave spike sources. ...

Maxim Tarasenko , a leading Russian space history scholar and a member of Space Policy?s editorial board, who contributed greatly to the elucidation of the Russian space programme in the journal and elsewhere, died in 1999. In order to commemorate his pioneering work in space policy, Elsevier Science has decided to hold an annual competition, open to all law school students and graduate students of space policy, to find the best essay. ...

SDTP-2007 starts on June 30, 2007. ... The SDTP-2007 program was renewed. ... Our forums . Unofficial SDTP forum . Official YSC and SDTP forum. This forum means for news, dialogues and questions related to all YSCs' programs. (by Yaskevich Nikita). http://spacedtp.proboards61.com . Our galleries . SDTP-2006 Gallery . This's the gallery of most interesting photos from the annual international students' workshop SDTP. (by Elena Chernetsova) . ... Presented by Nikita Yaskevich.) ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Solar Data: f.e. X-ray . Night Sky Live . ... Heavens-Above: Sky chart, Satellites, Iridiums and astronomical objects For Moscow For SAO Baksan . ... ESO-MIDAS page . ... Tutorials for Astronomy . ... Asteroid and Comet Hazard . ... Observable Comets: This page lists links to orbital elements and ephemerides of (potentially) observable comets. ... Leonid page - a lot of information for years Comets and Meteor Showers . The American Meteor Society . ... North American Meteor Network Home Page . ...