Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Video clips . ... Bad Astronomy site . ... Also, in 2007, Dr. Plait started a video podcast (a vidcast or vlog) called "Q and BA" where he answers listeners' questions about astronomy. ... Here, he answers an audience member's question: "Do you believe in UFOs?" (3 min 14 sec) . KXTV Sacramento News interview about bad astronomy in movies from February, 2004 . 3 min 18 sec) . ... Fox News: Lunar Eclipse of January 20, 2000 . ...

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. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... Academics . Research Innovation . ... University Psychological Counseling . ... Center for International Education . ... Research Institutions . Research Institute of Astronomy . Research Institute of Biology . Research Institute of Chemistry . ... About the Department . ... The Research Institute of Chemistry (established in 1929) is the first research institute founded at Kharkiv University. ... Chemistry. ... Research Affairs Record Manager of the Research Institute of Chemistry . ...

This section of library contains information about "classic" Star Catalogs. ... For a Henry Draper Catalog 272149 stars have received a total of 531,211 identifications in 7 сatalogs: . 270456 - in Astrographic Catalogue ( "Carte du Ciel", 4M), . 251943 - in Guide Stars Catalog (GSC), . ... A file with information on the components of 1788 of multiple systems in catalog HDEC (3681 component, or a combination thereof, with 4054 recording). ... A file with information about 21971 variable stars. ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

... В Национальном космическом агентстве США (NASA) создан материал имеющий рекордно низкую плотность. ... Создатели нового материала говорят, что он достаточно прочен, чтобы перенести старт и условия открытого космоса. ... Создатель аэрогеля Доктор Стивен Джонс (Steven Jones) из Лаборатории реактивного движения NASA уже получил официальный сертификат от компании Guinness World Records, как создатель самого легкого в мире твердого материала. ... другие статьи >>> . Александр Бардаш, 2000 ...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

Cosmic Ray laboratory of . ... Neutron Monitor (Cosmic Ray Observations) . is situated in Irkutsk (Russia) . ... Height - location above sea level . ... Height: . ... For recording the CR (Cosmic Rays) neutron component at Irkutsk, . neutron monitor NM-64 is used, which is an installation with 18 two-meter proportional counters filled with BF 3 (boron trifluoride gas) in which the B 10 90 per cent of the total boron. ... The neutron monitor is located at 475m above sea level. ...

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... If you are a hippy or love Russian rock you found the right page at this site! Here we tried to tell you about Russian rock groups and rock movement in Russia. ... Altogether, fans of rock group (for example: Russian rock group) usually are read more than fans of pop music. ... Boris and Dave Stewart, one half of the Eurhythmics, recorded the album in London, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles with vocal contributions from Annie Lennox (Stewart's partner) and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. ...

... In accordance with the de-orbit plan the OC "Mir" is in a waiting mode continuing its deceleration in Earth atmosphere. During the previous day the OC "Mir" onboard systems were subject to a routine check out, the current trajectory parametres were registered. The processed information confirms the MCC readiness for the final stage dynamis operations with the OC "Mir". ... The first corrective impuls ( the cargo ship "Progress M1-5" 8 control engines are fired): . T burn start - 03.32; . ...

Space Development: Theory and Practice 2005 . ... During the conference the participants had an exclusive opportunity to visit such Russian enterprises associated with Space industry as Scientific and Production Association “Zvezda”, which designs and produces helmets, spacesuits and emergency evacuation systems for aviation; Khrunichev Space center which is one of the world’s leaders in launch vehicle and spacecraft development ; Rocket and ...

... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...

... 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 . ...

... Dr Lanzerotti is an expert in solar and planetary geophysics and space plasma physics, and will be speaking about research using the NASA/ESA spacecraft Ulysses. ... Leonardo da Vinci, on the eye NEAF 2004 April 17, 18 The largest astronomy forum and astronomy equipment show in the Northeast, hosted by the Rockland (NY) Astronomy Club and Sky & Telescope, will take place in Suffern NY (about 2 hr drive from Princeton). See the website http://www.rocklandastronomy.com/neaf. ... Dark Skies! ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...