... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Pulkovo Photographic Plate Database . To find a certain plate, type its number, choose instrument and click button FIND Instrument: Normal Astrograph 26-inch refractor Plate number: . To find plates with a certain sky area: choose instrument, type coordinates (R.A. and Dec.) of the center of this area, type radius of this area, type (optionally) names of required objects, and click button FIND . ...

... The "ATLAS Aerospace" company invites all the volunteers to pass a course of space training in the simulators of the Yuri Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training. ... The main simulators, trainers and stends are: . ... Don - 732" specialized simulator, which is used for a crew training on manual-mode control of the "Soyuz-TM" space vehicle and its systems in the course of approach and docking to the orbital station; . ...

... G.S.Bisnovatyi-Kogan Gravitational radiation in neutron stars formation and merging. ... Experience SAI MSU в?' INFN collaboration in the GW - experiment . ... V.M.Lipunov Gravitational Waves Sky . ... Michael B. Mensky and Valentin N. Rudenko High-frequency GW detectors based on electromagnetic-gravitational resonance . ... Fulvio Ricci Low Temperature and Gravitational Wave detectors . ... A.M.Cherepashchuk Chairman (SAI MSU, Moscow) . ... V.A.Matveev (INR RAS, Moscow) . ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

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... Imaging GRIN Rod Lens (HAG's) | Relay Rod Lens (LAG's) | ... The Refractive Index Distributions (RID) in GRIN lens preforms are made by multi-stage optimized ion-exchange diffusion between silicate mineral glasses and salt melts. ... In the LAG lenses - L ow A perture GRIN the nature of the changing of refractive index in glass via ion-exchange lies mainly in molecular volume increase. ... LAG lenses are specially treated to create the dark anti-flick surface coating (Fig.2). ...

... history, facts, technology, space ships . Some facts about former Soviet and now Russian space program. Facts, history, technology, spaceships, orbital stations, astronauts. Posted by Alex under Uncategorized . Comments Off . ... Russian Astronauts . Russian Launch Centers . Russian Moon Rovers . Russian Research Ships . Russian Rocket Engines . Russian Rockets . ... Russian Space Probes . Russian Space Ships . Russian Space Stations . History of Wars . ...

... You must have the frames with a dark current and flat field for preliminary processing of the images. ... The flat field is necessary for the account of the variations in the sensitivity of pixels. ... 1) Open the frame with a flat field by . ... In the dialogue choose a frame with a dark current. There will be a subtraction of the dark frame from the flat field. ... 3) Apply the flat field by . Note  If several files are open, a dark current and flat field will apply for all. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... Gamma-Ray Bursts observations . Theory of Gamma-Ray Burst formation . ... MASTER (Global Robotic optical monitoring system) . ... All news ...

... 8 AAAP Meeting The Space Elevator is coming to Princeton! ... Program Chair Michele Novatski has invited Michael J. Laine of the LiftPort Group, Bremerton, WA, (http://liftport.com), who will present "Space Elevator- Countdown to 2018". ... To bring this vision to Winter Observing. ... For me, CCD astronomy is the way to go. life requires commitment and work by the members. ... Swift has successfully begun its mission to study gamma-ray bursts and identify their origins. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

... This new concept of cosmogony is based on two given conditions: unity of reason and unity in the nature of physical processes which determine the development of the galaxy and all of its affiliated elements: stars, solar systems, and satellites about the planets. ... That is why uniform physical laws determine the general development of the above structures. in detail . ...

... Equinox of object coordinates BJ = 18.87 / bJ magnitude UMBJ = -0.69 / u - bJ colour BJMR = 0.22 / bJ - r colour NOBS = 1 / Number of 2dF observations available IS_ BEST = 'TRUE ' / TRUE if this file contains the best 2dF observa DATEBEST= '24/09/00' / Date of best 2dF observation (DD/MM/YY) ID_ BEST = 'QSO ' / ID from best 2dF observation QUALBEST= 11 / Data quality flag from best 2dF observation Z_ ...

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) . ...

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: . ...