... Rain, Rivers and the Icy Landscape of Titan . ... Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:00 PM . This month’s speaker will be Dr. Taylor Perron of the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences whose research focuses on the physical processes that create landscapes, both on earth and on other planets and moons. ... Unlike rivers on Earth and Mars, Titan’s landscapes have been carved into water ice by liquid hydrocarbons. ... Mar . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

Astronomical Data Center . ... You can access the files described here in three ways: . ... Use CDS' VizieR Service at ADC to explore the data files. ... Get the data files via anonymous FTP. ... 1981) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1a Byte-per-byte Description of file : table1b -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations ...

... GALAXY: A galaxy is made up of billions or trillions of stars bound together by their own gravity. ... HELIUM (He): The second element in the periodic table, has 2 protons, 2 neutrons, and is a noble gas. ... Helium melts at -272.2 degrees Celsius, and boils at -268.934 degrees Celsius. ... HYDROGEN (H): The first element on the periodic table, is a gas, and has an atomic mass of 1.00794 amu. ... Hydrogen melts at -259.34 degrees Celsius, and freezes at -252.87 degrees Celsius. ...

... 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...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

Системные исследования и разработка спутниковых систем ДЗЗ; . Разработка и создание бортовых радиометрических средств в СВЧ-диапазоне; . Разработка методов дистанционной диагностики процессов в системе океан-атмосфера с помощью спутниковых средств СВЧ-радиометрии (синоптические океанические вихри, фронтальные зоны, течения, волны Россби, тайфуны и ураганы, явление Эль-Ниньо). ... Директор . ... 1-ый заместитель директора . ... 2014 НТЦ "КОСМОНИТ" ОАО "Российские космические системы" . ...

... 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. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Январь 1998 . ... Дата: 19 января 1998 (1998-01-19) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: 1997 - The Year Of Mars Pathfinder Привет всем! ... Дата: 19 января 1998 (1998-01-19) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Reconfigured Mars Global Surveyor Ready For Mission Based On New Orbit Subject: Reconfigured Mars Global Surveyor Ready For Mission Based On New Orbit Привет всем! ... SIRTF will enter Phase C/D in April 1998. ...

... В исследовательском центре им. Эймса космического агентства NASA идет разработка "персонального спутника-помощника" (Personal Satellite Assistant, PSA). Он будет помогать астронавтам на "шаттлах" и на Международной космической станции (МКС). ... То есть его можно использовать в качестве космического разведчика, который сможет работать там, где опасно или невозможно находиться человеку. ... Пока создан только прототип будущего "помощника астронавта", который сможет летать, думать и говорить. ...

Main News Phones Research area Brief history Institute Structure Experimental Base Observational data English/Russian . research on the site(Google) . ... 7(4112)390400 . Fax: . 7(4112)390450 . ... Division of Aeronomy . ... Phone: +7(4112) 39-04-48 . Fax: +7(4112) 39-04-50 . ... solar-terrestrial physics . magnetosphere physics . ... Laboratories: . Geomagnetism Laboratory . Ionosphere Physics Laboratory . ... Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Radioemission Laboratory . ...

Fred Ewalt image: . I revisted my series of 5 raw images on SN1999gp. The attached UGC 1993 field image is the summation of five co-aligned and added one minute raw exposures (vice averaged, which was used for the processed image I submitted yesterday). ... The probable Foreground Star, SN1999gp and the Nucleus of UGC 1993 are all apparent in this field image. The second "Inset - A image", I blew up and normalized to the same pixel count as the field image. ... Back to 1999gp . ...

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. ...

... 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; . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

... About meteorites . ... About laboratory . ... Lunar sample collection . ... July 28 - August 1, 2003, Munster, Germany . Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38 (Supplement), A28. ... Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38 (Supplement), A30. LUNAR METEORITE DHOFAR 310: A POLYMICT BRECCIA WITH DEEP-SEATED LUNAR CRUSTAL MATERIAL . ... These studies present new evidence showing that NWA 011 is significantly different from HED meteorites. 34th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference . ...

... STELLAR DYNAMICS: FROM CLASSIC TO MODERN . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia . ... The proposed meeting is being organized by the St.Petersburg State University, assisted by an international Scientific Organizing Committee, and marks the centennial of Professor K.F.Ogorodnikov's birth. ... The conference will be organized by the Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. ...

... All the galaxies are divided into 4 groups depending on the environment type; every subsample contains more than 10 galaxies. ... An effect of environments is seen both for the nuclei and for the bulges: if we consider the clusters (Virgo and Ursa Ma jor) and group centers as dense environments and the field and group periphery as sparse environments, then in the dense environments the stellar populations of S0s are in average older by 4­5 Gyr than in the sparse ones. ...

The Astronomical Journal welcomes new submissions at IOP Publishing . ... From: Andrew Wray < andrew.wray@iop.org > . ... On behalf of the IOP-AAS Project Team, I am delighted to announce that IOP Publishing is now processing all new submissions to the AJ. Submitting a new article . To submit a new article to the journal, go to http://authors.iop.org/aj , where you will find our beta version of the new AJ web submission site. ... Refereeing an article . ... IOP Publishing . ...