The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

Piloted complex Mir has been functioning in orbit more than 12 years. ... We propose to consider piloted complex Mir as an international one and to call the states of the space association for share financing and its joint exploitation according to the international treaty. ... The Russian side is ready for the constructive negotiations on setting up the International space station on the basis of share participating of the countries (owners) in the exploitation of the complex Mir. ...

GCVS Variability Types and Distribution Statistics of Designated Variable Stars According to their Types of Variability ======================================================================== I. GCVS Variability Types. ... Amplitudes usually do not exceed 0.1 mag. ... RR Variables of the RR Lyrae type, which are radially-pulsating giant A-F stars having amplitudes from 0.2 to 2 mag in V. Cases of variable light-curve shapes as well as variable periods are known. ... RV Variables of the RV Tauri type. ...

GCVS Variability Types and Distribution Statistics of Designated Variable Stars According to their Types of Variability ======================================================================== I. GCVS Variability Types. ... The new variability types (ZZO, AM, R, BE, LBV, BLBOO) have been added in the Name-Lists 67- 72 and in the GCVS vol.V. ZZO ZZ Cet type variables of the DO spectral type showing HeII and and CIV absorbtion lines in their spectra. ... RCB Variables of the R Coronae Borealis type. ...

... This method is based on putting space modules, vehicles and EVA-suit donned cosmonauts in the swimming pool under conditions of neutral buoyancy, indifferent equilibrium and unsupported state. ... You can also dive into the swimming pool with the SCUBA equipment in order to examine the mock-ups of space stations and vehicles and pass a course of rehabilitation in a hyperbaric oxygenation complex. ... Services / Hydrospace: General description Technical description "Orlan" suit Photo gallery Price . ...

ASTRONOMY IN UKRAINE - 2000 AND BEYOND . ... Kyiv, Ukraine, 5-8 June 2000 . ... The primary objective of the conference is to consider the integration of astronomical research in Ukraine into the international astronomy. ... VLBI for Astronomy and Geodynamics Convenors: Kees van't Klooster (The Netherlands), Leonid M. Litvinenko (Ukraine), Chopo Ma (USA). ... Planetary Astronomy Convenors: Teodor Kostiuk (USA), Robert Nelson (USA), Yuri Shkuratov (Ukraine). ... The "general" registration fee: 100 USD. ...

... 4 .D.Dolgov (INFN, Ferrara, Italy) STOCHASTIC BACKGROUND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FORM PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES OF G.Tsarevsky (PRAO ASC LPI) PROJECT "RADIOASTRON" AND THE FUTURE OF SPACE RADIOASTRONOMY V.N.Melnikov (VNIIMS, Moscow) SCALAR FIELDS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODELS IN GRAVITY AND COSMOLOGY Wednesday, 24.08.2011 Cosmology, Gravitation and High Energy Physics Conference hall "Sovinyon" 09.00 ? ... 8 Section 2. Astrophysics University Recreation Centre "Chernomorka" (2 ) Tuesday, 23.08.2011 14.30 ? ...

October 14, 2006 ---------------- Version 3.1 ----------- As of this version, XmTel is considered stable for routine use. and it is useful for the control of telescopes for both amateur and professional uses. ... XmTel does not yet include the suite of pointing corrections that are already in the menu system (but disabled). ... With the offset correction a well-aligned small telescope will point to arc minute accuracy and well enough to put an object in a CCD camera field of view. ...

... Synchronous Evolution of Galaxies in Groups: NGC 524 Group O. K. Sil'chenko and V. L. Afanasiev 245 ISSN 1990-3413, Astrophysical Bulletin, 2012, Vol. ... Four of the five galaxies revealed synchronized bursts of star formation in the nuclei 1­2 Gyr ago. The only galaxy, in which the ages of stellar population in the nucleus and in the bulge coincide (i.e. the nuclear burst of star formation did not take place) is NGC 502, the farthest from the center of the group of all the galaxies studied. ...

... Fifteen years ago, on February 20, 1986 the launching of the Core Block marked the beginning of the Mir Orbital Station construction. Currently the Mir Station consists of 6 modules. ... The Mir Station total mass is near 130 tons. ... For sinking unburned Mir Station fragments after reentering atmosphere a Southern Pacific Ocean area limited by the following point coordinates: 53 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 175 њ W; 23 њ S, 132 њ W; 30 њ S, 127 њ W; 30 њ S, 90 њ W; 53 њ S, 90 њ W is choosen. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... Membership . ... The name of this organization shall be Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Incorporated (hereinafter abbreviated as AAAP). ... General membership shall be open to any person paying dues with the proviso that any member under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult while at any AAAP meeting, other function, or observatory. ... A. Director The Director shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees and at all general membership meetings. ...

... Institute for Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy (IKFIA) (Yakutsk). ... IRE RAN (Moscow). Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Moscow). ... Institute for Remote Environmental Research AEN (Moscow) . ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (Moscow) . ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography KamchNIRO. ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography. ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography VNIRO. ...

... The VSOP Symposium proceedings, "Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI" have been published and have been distributed to participants. ... Following the successful launch of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) satellite HALCA in February 1997 there have been many exciting results from space VLBI observations. ... Also, check the newly revised getting to ISAS page which has links to pictorial "Getting to ISAS from Fuchinobe" and "Getting to the Dai-Ichi Hotel from Fuchinobe" pages! ...

МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЕ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ, ВЕДУЩИЕ РАБОТУ В ОБЛАСТИ ДИСТАНЦИОННОГО ЗОНДИРОВАНИЯ ОКЕАНА. ... Типы представленных данных . ... Данные ДЗЗ . ... NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) отдел дистанционного зондирования океана . ... Данные MOMS, METEOSAT, NOAA . ... Данные ERS, ENVISAT . ... Лаборатория дистанционного зондирования океана университета Джона Гопкинса . ... Данные ERS, Radarsat, NOAA . ... Дополнительную информацию Вы можете получить по адресу: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

FF Aqr DW Period is significantly greater than typical value for DW type. According to Pojmanski [45] this star is DCEP-FU: variable. According to Sipahi et al. [263] it is one of the few binary systems which consists of the hot subdwarf and cool chromospherically active giant components. ... Belongs to long-period RS CVn systems, secondary is more massive and more larger (volume of the secondary is approximately 100 times larger than that of the primary component). ... So may be SA system? ...

Астрономия и Космос Вселенная Галактика . ... Они состоят только из темной материи. ... Уже есть много доказательств того, что яркие галактики содержат большие количества темной материи, масса которой часто в десять раз превышает массу всех звезд галактики . ... В некоторых галактиках, которые доступны наблюдениям, звезд явно недостаточно, чтобы они были способны составлять галактику и существовать как галактика. ... Таким образом возникает вопрос: как искать эти темные галактики ? ...

... 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. ...