... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

Program "Ма riner ":research of Venus . ... It was established also, that the period of rotation of Venus around axis - long, about 243 earth day is, more, than cycle time around of the Sun (224,7 day), therefore on Venus "day" is longer than year and the calendar is completely unusual. ... This vehicle has only once passed about Venus. ... They also have confirmed, that the period of rotation of the upper layer of clouds only 4 day, so a structure of a Venus atmosphere not similar on earth. ...

... Students Life . ... February 14, 2014 . ... According to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities that comes out twice a year, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University holds the third position among over 300 Ukrainian higher educational institutions and the 1,705 th position among almost 22,000 universities of the world. ... Statement of the Academic Board of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University as to Situation in Ukraine . ... Copyright 2010 V.љN. Karazin Kharkiv National University. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

Nickolai Copernic: "making the Sun stop, pushing the Earth". ... The aim of Copernic's investigations is improving the calculating schemes. ... In heliocentric system appeared an opportunity of calculating real proportions of Solar system using the radius of the Earth's orbits as an astronomical unit. Copernic's book "About Rotation of Celestial Bodies" contains a discription of astronomical devices as well as a new more exact catalogue of stable stars. ...

International Workshop NAROO-GAIA "A new reduction of old observations in the Gaia era", Paris Observatory, June 20-22, 2012 Registration of participants of Workshop NAROO-GAIA Before the first meeting OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP The natural planetary satellites are observed since centuries in order to understand their dynamics and their evolution. ... Science results, reports, data mining. ... L. Beauvalet: Strong need of a new reduction of Pluto's old observations W.Thuillot: very important. ...

... Full silvery Moon illuminates terrain. ... Begun a next moon eclipse, when Land barriers a Moon from the Sun and throws its shade on it. ... Drawing 1. ... Drawing 6 Drawing 6 shows a splendid photo of full moon eclipse 18-19 november 1975 during is packed phases doing Dennis de Chikko. ... Eclipse, which will occur 9 november 2003, is a repetition through сарос (cycle of repetitions of eclipses equal 6585 days or 18 years 11 days) full moon eclipse from 28 octobers 1985 with the maximum phase 1,07....

TIME EVENT # EVENT DATE DATE START - END (UT) 001 28 February 1942 420228 002 07 March 1942 420307 003 25 July 1946 460725 004 19 November 1949 491119 005 23 February 1956 560223 020000 - 030000 006 31 August 1956 560831 110000 - 120000 007 17 July 1959 590716 220000 - 240000 008 04 May 1960 600504 090000 - 100000 009 03 September 1960 600902 230000 - 240000 010 12 November 1960 601112 120000 - 130000 011 15 November 1960 601115 010000 - ...

... Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 8930.9968 153.8 134.6 59.8 22.6 9021.6846 154.0 137.0 59.0 22.9 8939.7717 163.7 146.0 66.1 22.9 9024.6766 151.4 134.6 58.4 22.1 8940.8936 153.2 135.8 59.2 22.6 9030.5334 156.7 139.1 59.0 22.4 8944.7380 161.7 142.2 63.7 23.1 9032.6650 151.8 136.5 57.7 22.6 8951.8637 148.4 131.3 58.3 21.7 9036.7067 155.1 137.1 58.8 ...