Scotland is a land of scenic beauty. ... Scotland is bounded in the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and in the east by the North Sea. The mainland stretches 440 kilometres from the north to south, has a maximum width of 248 kilometres and in grinded by numerous islands, of which the principal group are the Orkney and the Shetland islands to the north and the Hebrides to the west. ... The area comprises some 77100 kilometres of land and 1700 square kilometres of island water. ...

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... 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. ...

FIGURE 4: PATH Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22 Handan Linfen Tongchuan Pingliang Xingtai OF THE E CLIPSE THROUGH C HINA 0 80% 200 NASA 2009 Eclipse Bulletin , Espenak Anderson Kilometers Xining 400 Lanzhou Baiyin 600 Anyang Jining-Shandong Tianshui 90% CHINA 01:10 UT 04m43s 34° Guangyuan Hanzhong Xi'an ...

... 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 . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Site . Weather . Roof Status . ... Average Max. ... 0.0 . ... In 2004, the roof was operated manually, while in 2005 through 2007, it was operated automatically by computer, but was not closed by weather sensors. ... The "Closed" column includes those nights outside the Monsoon season when the Observatory was closed due to weather (the usual cause), equipment failures, or vacation by the Winer staff in 2004 through 2006. ...

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... The VSOP Survey Continuum Source List . The radio sample for the VSOP continuum survey was defined to include all extragalactic radio sources with: . a total flux density at 5 GHz, S>=1.0 Jy . ... The sample also included all sources in the sky with a 5 GHz flux density S>5 Jy, regardless of spectral index and galactic latitude. ... The source would then be included in the VSOP sample (three of the sources were found with a flux density above 1 Jy and added to the sample). ...

... We consider the astrophysical evolution of the Galaxy over large time scales, from early stages (an age of ~10 8 yrs) to the end of traditional stellar evolution (~10 11 yrs). ... In the model considered, the basic stages of Galactic evolution are as follows. ... Essentially all other basic parameters of the Galaxy vary little. ... The final "stellar epoch" in the life of the Galaxy is completed ~10 13 yrs after its formation, when the evolution of the least massive stars comes to an end. ...

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... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

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Prague, August 16, 2006 . Another problem that was making it difficult to automatically merge GCVS and survey catalogs has been recently solved: 'old' variable stars also had only very rough coordinates. The GCVS has been identified, on a star-by-star basis, with positional catalogs. ... The total number of stars we were unable to identify, at least tentatively, is only 200, most of them from two or three sources of especially unreliable positional information. ...

... Phys., 45, 409-419 10.02.2010 , . PLHR: o 50 / 60 / 100 / 120 o MLR: o 50 / 60 / 100 / 120 o o , - PorojДrvi 17/11/1993 Total power -5 dB 1,8 -15 1,7 -25 1,6 14.09 14.11 Time(UT) -35 14.13 Frequency (kHz) 4,2 4,1 4,0 07.30 -30 -40 07.45 Time(UT) 07.00 10.02.2010 Frequency (kHz) PorojДrvi 25/01/1993 Total power 4,3 -20 dB , . ... 10.02.2010 , . ... f1 < < fn < fn+ 1 20 ms 128 Frequency (kHz) 1,8 1,8 Frequency (kHz) 4 dB 0 -20 1,7 1,7 1,6 0 10.02.2010 30 Time(sec) 60 1,6 -40 0 0,3 Time(sec) 0,6 , . ...

. Высота - 11 м. Диаметр - 1,254 м. Размах стабилизаторов - 3,36 м. Стартовая масса - 747 кг. Двигатели - РТТД . Total impulse - 221 kNs . Максимальная скорость - 223 м/сек . Высота подъема носителя - около 1.7 км (5 541 фут). Первый старт - 22 ноября 2001 года . Ракета оборудована парашютами, на которых она опускается на Землю после активного участка полета. Назад . Starchaser Industries . Энциклопедия .

... Viking 253 1.173. VNREDSat-1 253 1.174. WIRE (Wire Field Infrared Explorer) 253 1.175. ...

Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

. Coordinates . Charged particles flux . Ultraviolet radiation . The periods of high geomagnetic activity in 2005. 10 MeV, the data from the NOAA series satellites) . January 20-26 . May 5-20 ( data is available ) . June 16-19 . July 13-21 ( data is available ) . July 26 - August 6 . August 22 - September 3 ( data is available ) . September 7-20 ( data is available ) . Charged particles flux measured by Coronas-F satellite