... 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. ...

Schools were attached to monasteries and churches to educate clerics who were the civil cervants and the scholars of the time as well as monks, nuns and priests. Education had no direct control by the state, the church had been almost a monopoly of literacy and education .Existed chantry schools for boys from poor families, beating was highly recommended in chantry schools and was an importany part of school and home education ; song ... So in 1902 Balfour's Education Act was established. ...

... 000, 1­12 (2009) Printed 11 February 2010 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands I1gor V. Chilingarian1 2 ,2,3 , Anne-Laure Melchior 1,4 and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2010 February 01; in original form 2009 August 14 ABSTRACT To compare photometric properties of galaxies at different redshifts, the fluxes need to be corrected for the changes of effective rest-frame wavelengths of filter bandpasses, called K -corrections. ... Table 1. ...

... With the beginning term of a new Board of Trustees, AAAP would like to thank Michele Novatski (past Program Chair) and Mark Jaworsky (past Secretary) for their dedicated work for the club in 2004-05. ... The AAAP Observatory is in top gear now, with public star watch sessions held the first and last Friday of each month throughout the spring and summer at the AAAP's Washington Crossing Observatory. ... Newly elected program chair Ken Kramer requested member suggestions on future programs for the...

General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database, Version 2013Jun) . Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Zharova A.V., et al. ... General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2012), VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/gcvs . ... Query forms by files . The values in the input file must be separeted by comas or arranged in columns. ... Enter the file with the GCVS names: . ... Enter the file with the coordinates J2000.0: . ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. LENTICULAR GALAXY IC 719 : CURRENT BUILDING OF THE COUNTERROTATING LARGE-SCALE STELLAR DISK Sternberg Astronomical Institute, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia; katkov.ivan@gmail.com, olga@sai ... In this gas-rich S0 galaxy, its large-scale gaseous disk counterrotates the global stellar disk. Moreover, in the IC 719 disk, we have detected a secondary stellar component corotating the ionized gas. ... Figure 7. ...

... LINKS . ... Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... Club News . ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . by title : PDF File Download (640KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ... SOME LINKS . ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...