... M111 Jan 2008 . ... New Members . ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74-kilobyte ?hard drive.? ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

... 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. ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Bochkarev Nikolai Gennadievich . astrophysics researcher: . born: Moscow, May 19, 1947; . ... Jr. researcher Sternberg Astronomical Inst., ... Soviet (Russian) Working Group on Interstellar Matter, Moscow , 1979-; . ... Madison, 1991. ... ALocal Interstellar Matter, 1990, . Basic Physics of the Interstellar Matter, 1992; co-author: . ... Physics of Interstellar Matter, 1979; . ... All-Union Astronom. Geodesical Soc., ... Astronom. ...

... 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 . ...

... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

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... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

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 ...

... 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. ...