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 . ...

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... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Call for applications to the PhD program of the API/GRAPPA, Amsterdam . ... Тема: Call for applications to the PhD program of the API/GRAPPA, Amsterdam . ... We are now advertising the Call for Applications to the PhD Program of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API) and the Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) Centre, at the University of Amsterdam. ... Applications need to be submitted on or before December 11th, 2014. ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

International Programs: . ... YSC carries out the workshop for space enthusiasts every year in July to give russian and foreign participants an opportunity to discuss the results of the year passed in space focusing on Russian and International programs, see and touch the real space hardware and meet people working on the frontedge of space science and technology. ... Home Programs: . ... A series of lectures on various aspects of space technology for BMSTU students studying spaceengineering. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Январь 1998 . ... Lunar Prospector Mission Status Report #15 January 26, 1998 - 07:00 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. PST) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft continues to operate well according to Mission Control at NASA's Ames Research Center. ... Дата: 29 января 1998 (1998-01-29) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Space Pioneers Recall 1st US Satellite Launch Upon 40th Anniversary Привет всем! ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

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... On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. ... Six years later, continuing research by Hubble and others forced Albert Einstein to renounce his own cosmic model and finally accept the astonishing fact that the universe was not immobile but instead expanding. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... A new version of a polarization analyzer ensuring parallel measurements of six polarization components of spectral lines is considered. ... A new version of the polarization analyzer, which ensures simultaneous measurements of six polarization components of a spectral line, is considered. ... One of the widespread schemes for magnetic fields measurements includes an tunable optical filter, an adjustable polarization analyzer, and a two-dimensional CCD array placed in the solar image plane [1, 2]. ...

... 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 . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... 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). ...

Microsymposium 38, MS015, 2003 (letter format) MARS: MOVEMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL POLES AND DEFORMATION OF ITS SURFACE. ... The global analysis of the Earth linear structure elements has allowed to define the position of geographical poles in the different geochronological periods [3, 4]. ... It is the curves that unite sequences of geographical poles - poles of symmetry of faults in the global stress field fixed by faults on a surface of the mantle during its rotation around of the core. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

Elsevier Ed itorial System(tm) for JASR 2006 Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: Title: Determination of K, Ar, Cl, S, Si and Al flare abundances from RESIK soft X-ray spectra Article Type: Contributed Paper Section/Category: E2.4 - Solar Magnetic Field and Activities Keywords: solar physics; X-ray flares ; spectroscopy; abundances Corresponding Author: Dr. J. Sylwester , Corresponding Author's Institution: Space Research Center First Author: J ... All flares were observed early Fig. ...

The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Washington Crossing Observatory Guide First draft 1/2000 K. Alexander, revised 7/2000 W. J. Murray, revised 1/2001 R.A. Parker Keyholder Duties Along with the privilege of having full access to the AAAP's telescopes and observatory facilities, all keyholders must participate in the AAAP's public observing programs as outlined below, and are expected to contribute to occasional maintenance and work sessions at the observatory. ... Note dead batteries in log. ...

Vertical Structure of the Galactic Disk in the Solar Neighborhood . ... It was found that the Sun lies 9?2 pc above the plane of hte Galactic disk in the direction of North Galactic pole and that F0-F9 stars contribute 0.0035M /pc 3 to the density of the Galactic disk. ... THE DENSITY OF F STARS IN THE PLANE OF THE DISK љљљљљSince our sample is comlete to within 50 , the Z obs distributions shown in Fig.2 make it possible to determine the number of F stars per unit volume of the Galactic disk. ...

Contact with possible Extraterrestrial Life . Recommendation for the human Contact Team to Interact with Unknown Life Forms . Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form must be prepared for severe psychological impact. Extreme anxiety response will almost certainly occur. The personality traits of individuals who can withstand extreme anxiety must be determined and such individuals selected to comprise the team. ... Contact team report. ... Our Contact team continue investigation. ...