... 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 . ...

... It is being organized jointly by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) and the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS). ... LIST OF LECTURERS AND LECTURES : Dr. Vladimir AIRAPETIAN (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA): Physics of Winds from Cool Evolved Stars Dr. Don BARRY (Cornell University ... (observation techniques and theory) Dr. Michel DENNEFELD (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France): Introduction to spectroscopic observations Dr. Serguei DODONOV (Special Astrophysical ...

Program "М ariner ": Research of Mars. ... Маriner-8" and "Маriner-9", started in 1971, were put into orbit around of Mars, in order to receive and transmit the information, including photos, during one month, instead of several days. ... Satellites of Mars Phobos and Damos there are less than moon. The nature of satellites of Mars remains not clear, but on photos "Маriner-9" it is possible to assume that either Phobos, or Damos are stone monoliths. ...

... Paper analyses Russian view of its involvement into international space cooperation and associated Western concerns. ... a) as a global market of space products and services, or . ... Nowadays, when the Russian rocket and space industry suffers from the end of the Cold War and transition from plan to market economy, Russia counts to benefit from offering its capabilities at the global space market. ... A principal offer of Russia to a global market is a space launch capability. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Май 1998 . ... Дата: 18 мая 1998 (1998-05-18) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: SJI's Sky And Space Update - May 1, 1998 Привет всем! ... 10, 1998. ... Дата: 18 мая 1998 (1998-05-18) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Surveyor 98 Update - May 15, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 18 мая 1998 (1998-05-18) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: The Mars Microphone: Ready To Go Привет всем! ... Are There Sounds on Mars? ...

... 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 . ...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

Supernova 2000dj in NGC 735 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000dj in NGC 735 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... We have a DSS Photometry reference image made by Odd Trondal. ... Odd Trondal's 2000dj page . ... Odd Trondal image . ... vsnet-alert 5238 ] New KAIT SN in NGC 735 . ...

... On-line Data . ... The program enables to find out the exact present Earth coordinates of the international space station and "Shuttle". ... J-Track - this program is similar to the previous one, however it knows how to display images and orbits of space vehicles. ... NASA SkyWatch - a program for those, who are fond of watching artificial space objects through the telescope, field - glass or with the unaided eye. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . ...

... Mark Jaworsky will present one early next year. ... It is theorized that Dark Matter is responsible for holding galactic (Program, continued on page 3) (Program, continued from page 2) systems together and that without it, galaxy-mass structures just would have not come into existence. ... Researchers use the theory of Dark Matter to explain this discrepancy. ... The standard theory of gravity still applies and dark matter still exists, but somehow the dark matter emulates MOND. ...

. As you enter the observatory, you are going to be greeted by a behemoth! To give you an idea of its' shear size, the lift-a-loft you see in the background is about 6 feet to the top rail! .

... NOAA 11300's . ... The law latitude recurrent pore was observed in the Northern hemisphere since 20.08 to 30.08.05, with breaks. ... The short-time mid latitudes sunspot was observed in the Southern hemisphere on 24.08 and 25.08.05, near the central meridian. ... The bipolar group of the appreciable sizes was observed at the tenth parallel from 13 to 16.12.05, in the Western part of the Southern hemisphere. 14.12 the total area of the region has reached 150 m.s.h., and sunspots quantity - ten units....

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...