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. ...

Next: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... The aim of this document is to describe the interfaces among the various elements of the RadioAstron Mission. For each item exchanged by mission elements, this handbook details: . ... the how (the format and naming convention), . ... File formats, naming, and structure of FTP sites for operation elements used in VSOP are conserved, but new features, related to satellite control and orbit determination are introduced into the document. ...

... Obs., vol.36, December, 2000, p.64-68. ... Solar Physics, 2000, 195, 401-420. ... A.M. Uralov, H. Nakajima, V.G. Zandanov, and V.V. Grechnev Current sheet associated radio sources and development of the magnetosphere of active region revealed from 17 GHz (NoRH) and Yohkoh/SXT data // Sol.Physics, 2000, 197(2), 275-312. ... Russian-Chinese Workshop 'Solar-Terrestrial physics and its applications (Space weather), Abstracts, 14-19 December 2000, Irkutsk, 2000, p.5 . ... V.G. Ledenev. ... 2000. ...

... They are an indicator of accuracy of the CCD positional observations for a given observatory. ... Planetary and Space Science 56 (2008) 1847 ­1850 Table 4 The best results of CCD asteroid observations from MPC database for some professional observatories MPC Observatory Code Professionals 673 Telescope 000 :07 0.07 0.08 0.06 000 :06 0.06 0.04 0.05 Year Total asteroids Total positions s a 1849 sd Type USA, table Mountain, D ј 0:61 m, FL ј 9:0 m, FOV ј 22 б ...

... Обзор LPR фильтра. Впечатления от наблюдений с LPR фильтром. ... Характеристики цветных фильтров Baader-Planetarium . Мой перевод pdf- файла о фильтрах с сайта Baader-Planetarium (379 кб) . ...

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955). A. Einstein - one of the outstanding thinkers of all the times. ... Einstein's "tool" was not an astronomic tube but theoretical mentality. ... He had written an article "To the electrodynamics of the moving solids", which may be considered as an introduction to the special theory of gravitation (STG), which revolved all ideas about the space and the time. ... In 1916 Einstein published "The Basic General theory of relativity". ...

... Astronomy news . ... Double Engine Fuels Star's Remarkable Nebula . ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). ... Interactions in this double system, surrounded by a dusty disc, may be the engine fuelling the star s remarkable nebula. The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. ...

... Participants . ... Local Information . ... Registration and accomodation of participants . ... Session "Methods and instruments to measure/monitor major site properties" . ... Session "Methods and instruments, general issues" . ... Local excursions . ... Session "Results of ELT site testing programs - I" . ... Session "Results of recent and ongoing site programs" . ... Session "The site testing programs in Antarctica and in Arctic" . ... Departure of participants, local excursions . ...

. Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications. Light Curves of New Variable Stars Discovered on Scans of Moscow Collection Plates, Field 66 Oph (MDV). MDV catalog - CDS access. Moscow plate collection (Sternberg Astronomical Institute), S.Yu. Shugarov's interactive page. Send questions and comments to N. Samus and S. Antipin .

... 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. ...