... I'd also like to wish you Kung Hee Fat Choy, which is Happy New Year's in Chinese although Chinese New Year does not begin until February 4th or 5th. ... Here on Oahu, it is legal to burn firecrackers but not aerial fireworks. Many aerials were brought in illegally and although the police confiscated and arrested a few people, there were thousands of aerials being used. ... Here in Kailua, many dead birds were found along Kailua Beach and this is . being blamed on the fireworks. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York February 2008 Volume 56 Number 2, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE Will Dark Energy Become Less Mysterious? ... The National Academy of Sciences has endorsed further evaluation of three concepts for Joint Dark Energy Missions for a possible new "Hubble-class" space telescope, Riess observed. ... The Moon will be in Leo as it was last March, but will be picturesquely placed between the bright star Regulus and the ringed planet Saturn. ...

... We present a new method of the ionospheric irregularity investigation based on using of temporal structure function of the phase of the vertical sounding signal. ... Theoretical relation between structure functions of the phase variations and the irregularities can be obtained in the framework of a simple model of frozen irregularity horizontal drift. ... structure function ?? ... The irregularity structure function can be easily calculated if the irregularity spatial spectrum is known. ... Figure 1...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

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) . ...

Surveys in Geophysics (2005) 26: 95­133 DOI 10.1007/s10712-005-1874-4 с Springer 2005 MAGNETOSHEATH INTERACTION WITH THE HIGH LATITUDE MAGNETOPAUSE S. SAVIN1, A. SKALSKY1, L. ZELENYI1, L. AVANOV1, N. BORODKOVA1, S. KLIMOV1, V. LUTSENKO1, E. PANOV1, S. ROMANOV1, V. SMIRNOV1, YU. YERMOLAEV1, P. SONG2, E. AMATA3, G. CONSOLINI3, T. A. FRITZ4, J. BUECHNER5, B. NIKUTOWSKI5, J. BLECKI6, C. FARRUGIA7, N. MAYNARD8, J. PICKETT9, J. A. SAUVAUD10, J. L. RAUCH11, J. G. TROTIGNON11, Y. KHOTYAINTSEV12 and K. STASIEWICZ12

... Многоапертурный детектор атмосферных мерцаний (MASS) разработан для продолжительного мониторинга параметров оптической турбулентности в свободной атмосфере на существующих обсерваториях и при выборе мест для новых обсерваторий. ... The Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS) is intended for continuous monitoring of free atmosphere parameters at different observatories and potential observational sites. ... Mainly, the site is designed for Sternberg Astronomical institute MASS group itself. ...

... Title: The infrared polarizations of high-redshift radio galaxies . Authors: Gareth Leyshon . ... Title: Deep Lyman alpha imaging of radio galaxy 1138-262 at redshift 2.2 . ... Title: Detection of Iron Emission Line from the Galaxy Cluster Including the Radio Galaxy 3C220.1 at z=0.62 . ... Title: Infrared Spectroscopy of the High Redshift Radio Galaxy MRC~2025-218 and a Neighboring Extremely Red Galaxy . ... Matches 101 to 200 from a total of 261 matches for the search pattern radio galaxy . ...

... 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. ...

... Space research, space communication including TV and radio communication with using satellite systems, Earth and ecological monitoring, the use of satellite, navigation and topogeodesic systems, manned missions, material production in space and lots of other operations could be related to space activity. ... A special 5-year program was developed involving regular Shuttle missions with join crews. ... БИК 2-3 system and "Symbol D" system telemetry data are used to control the Station; . ...

... Declined commitment to national space programs and drastic cuts in ICBM demand create a strong economy-driven trend to proliferate missile and space-related technologies to new markets. ... to establish a regime to provide space launch services to potential proliferators as an incentive against development of rocket launch capabilities of their own. ... Under such a condition new space powers definitely would not give up the development of independent space launch capabilities. ...

2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 2007-2009 WORK PLAN: TOWARD CONVERGENCE DRAFT 1 for Technical Review COVER NOTE The following is the first version for a three-year plan for GEO, 2007 to 2009. ... Page 1 of 38 2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 ACRONYMS ADM AMDAR AMMA APAN AVHRR CBD CEOS CERN DAPHNE DEM EC EPA EPIDEMIO FAPAR FDSN GEANT GEO GEOSS GIS GMES GOFC-GOLD GOS GPM GSN IGCO IGDDS InSAR INSPIRE IPY ITU MODIS NASA NGO NIEHS SAR SBA SPOT -VGT SST THORPEX UN UNFCCC COP ... Task No. ...