The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . ... Travel support . Past workshops . ... Visa support . ... All foreigners are required to obtain visas to enter Russia. If you travel alone, the cheapest option (saves you $30) is to obtain a "business visa" using an official invitation from IKI. ... The ESA representatives can obtain an official invitation for a "business visa" from the ESA Office in Moscow. ... If you travel alone, IKI can generate an invitation for "business visa". ...

Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Washington Crossing Observatory Guide First draft 1/2000 K. Alexander, revised 7/2000 W. J. Murray, revised 1/2001 R.A. Parker Keyholder Duties Along with the privilege of having full access to the AAAP's telescopes and observatory facilities, all keyholders must participate in the AAAP's public observing programs as outlined below, and are expected to contribute to occasional maintenance and work sessions at the observatory. ... Note dead batteries in log. ...

Об институте . ... Отдел физики и эволюции звезд . ... исследовательская группа нестационарных звезд . ... Научно-исследовательская группа физики звездных и планетных систем . Отдел экспериментальной астрономии . Научно-исследовательская группа ?Спектр-УФ? Научно-исследовательская группа наземной поддержки космических проектов . ... Научно-исследовательская группа динамики малых тел Солнечной системы . ... Терскольский филиал ИНАСАН . ... Наука . ... Российская виртуальная обсерватория . ...

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Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

... According to the estimations of the RSC Energia it will take at least 10 years and 500-600 million $ (cost of adjustment, preparation, equipment's launching and accompaniment of carrying out of the experiments is included) to build up a similar experimental complex. ... It was carried out successfully. ... Radiation researches on the station Mir, carrying out by Moscow State University, gave rise to the construction of the dynamic picture of radiation zones' changes during the sun activity cycle. ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... The seasons, the seeing ( a clear sky is not always associated to calm , stable air ) and most important how dark your observation site is. ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... The Nine Planets . ... This is true, and so I have updated this page with a tidal force calculation. ... That way we can see right away how strong the other planets are; a gravity of 10 means the planet pulls on the Earth 10 times as much as the Moon does. ... So, in units of Moon gravity and tides, below are the forces on the Earth from rest of the planets (the data for masses and distances are from the wonderful page The Nine Planets ). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... Planets, moons, asteroids and comets contain resources such as water and minerals, valuable to astronauts and potentially to Earth, with other elements such as platinum as a byproduct of the extraction. ... Lewis hoped we could defray cost s b y "bringing inexpensive products down to Earth. ... We could make travel to Mars cheaper by "bringing just enough fuel [to get there], then use the Martian CO2 atmosphere to go home. One ton of equipment will be able to produce 100 tons of fuel." ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... USING NEW NANO-SATELLITES FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH . ... Search for economically efficient options in creating research satellites are aimed at simultaneous satellites weight and size reduction and at their service life expansion. ... For example, now a research satellite with the following performance specifications is feasible: Weight 10 25 kg, including research equipment - 2 8 kg. ... Service radio-link 145/435 MHz, 1200/9600 bps. ...

... 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...

... Alexander Gusev, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . Andrei Tokovinin, National Optical Astronomy Observatory . ... Antonia M. Varela, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias . ... Behnam Javanmardi, Shiraz University-Biruni Observatory . Boris Safonov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Davoud Afshari, Zanjan University . ... Florian Kerber, European Southern Observatory . Gianluca Lombardi, European Southern Observatory . ... Hiroshi Matsuo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan . ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

... It is created for freeware distribution as an attempt to show the achievements of the Russian space industry and tell a story of the reusable orbital ship "Buran" . On your screen you will see a stunningly realistic picture of near-Earth space, as well as several spacecraft, created or envisaged by the really talented Russians: . ... demonstration mock-up of the military orbital laser station "Polyus" ("Pole") , which suffered a failure during its launch on May 15, 1987; . ... Texture . ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

... I would like to add my voice to those who are mourning to loss of Maxim Tarasenko. ... Maxim was born in Protva, in the Kaluga Region south of Moscow on 20 June 1962. ... This was just one of many international speaking engagements of his. ... The list of papers and international places is too long to go into at this point. ... My first trip to Moscow was in 1995, and Maxim kindly made arrangements for me for transportation and access to a number of space program related facilities in the Moscow...