... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

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. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Invited Talks and Testimonials . ... Dr. Plait has given talks about Bad (and good!) ... Dr. Plait can also give talks on almost any topic in astronomy given a few weeks notice (for example, for a talk at a science museum he created a talk about current astronomical satellites and the work they are doing to further scientific knowledge -- this talk is updated as new observatories are launched), and will be happy to talk to you about your needs . ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

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The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...

... RSC Energy General Designer . ... The possibility of continuing the exploitation of the complex in the conditions of the inevitable obsolescence and depreciation of the on-board equipment providing the achievement of the necessary level of safety has been one of the most important and always controlled problems during all the term of exploitation of the complex Mir. ... The technical condition of the complex Mir gives the opportunity to continue its exploitation in a piloted mode till 2002 and more....

... This site is devoted to Russian cosmonautics, its principle is "it's better to see once, than to hear 100 times". Here you will find photos (including rare ones), schemes, and the most important - 3D models of spacecraft and launch pads. webmaster - Alexander Chernov, chernov@vsm.host.ru . ... 1997 . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

... 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 . ...

THE KAIDUN METEORITE: WHERE DID IT COME FROM? ... The formation of the subalkaline and alkaline clasts of the Kaidun meteorite, apparently also requires deep differentiation of material in a fairly large parent body. ... These differences in structure of two genetically linked clasts, due to the different encounter speeds of the clasts with the parent body of Kaidun, obviously indicate that these two events were separated in time. ... References: [1] Ivanov A.V. et al. ... 16] Ivanov A.V. et al. ...

The Calendar of Bloody A.tecs. Living in Central Mexico from the XII century to the being of the XVI century warlike A.tecs devoted much time to sciences including astronomy. For needs of agriculture A.tecs, using the knowledge received from the forecomers, developed the exact calendar system. 52 years of the moon-and-the sun cycle formed the basis of it (something like our conception of "a century"). ... A.tecs year was divided into 18 months with 20 days each. ... Mesopotamian astronomy. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

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... part 1 | ... Part 3 . The new circuit of global tectonics of the planets and their satellites . ... The "too hot" substance (magma) is formed of combination of different sort of atoms of chemical elements, spontaneously arising in the entrails of the pre-Earth cosmogenic vortex (and equal in entrails of other celestial object of spherical form). ... The water dropped out from the last it gradually was condensed and formed the widths of uniform Global ocean. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... Январь 1998 . ... THIS WEEK ON GALILEO January 19-25, 1998 The Galileo spacecraft has resumed transmitting pictures and science data to Earth at normal speed. ... Дата: 23 января 1998 (1998-01-23) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: MISSION TO PLANET EARTH ENTERPRISE NAME CHANGED TO EARTH SCIENCE Привет всем! ... Дата: 23 января 1998 (1998-01-23) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: EARTH SWINGBY PUTS NEAR SPACECRAFT ON FINAL APPROACH TO EROS Привет всем! ...

Kiselev A.A., Kiyaeva O.V., Izmailov I.S., Romanenko L.G., Shakht N.A., Kalinichenko O.A., Vasilkova O.O., Vasileva T.A., Poliakow E.V. (Pulkovo Observatory, Russia): Title: Results of reduction of photographic plates taken with 26-inch refractor in Pulkovo observatory Abstract: We present the results of narrow-field reduction for about 8000 photographic glass plates taken with the Pulkovo 26-inch refractor in the period from 1958 to 2007 years. ...

... 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. ...