This directory contains prototypes for scripts that may be called by the camera driver. ... The script set_camera_filter should take a filter number as an argument and send a command to a filter wheel. The SBIG filter wheel is supported internally and does not use this script. If you have another filter wheel, then a script such as this would allow you to use XmCCD to control the filter wheel. ... Simply "make" the routine in the ifw directory, and then "make install". ...

The lost world: Pluto and Haron. Pluto . ... Mass . ... The period of rotation . ... Pluto is the ninth from the Sun big planet of the solar system. ... The careful processing of the snapshots with the images of the star sky parts, where the new planet was thought to be found was not successful at that time (later on when Pluto had been discovered the snapshots of 1991 were processed again and there were the four very weak and invisible earlier imeges of the planet seen). ...

. MASTER supernova search . 2006 02 08.96 UT . Klick for full image .

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

I was born on April 12, 1958, in Moscow, USSR, and I have a Russian nationality. I graduated the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1981, obtained there my Ph.D.degree in 1984 (the topic of the dissertation: "Stellar populations and evolution of galaxies") and a degree of Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences in 1994 (the dissertation "Stellar population of galactic nuclei"). Since 1984 I hold a permanent position at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow). ...

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 . ...

RUSSIAN PEREPLET . Culture, Science, and Education Portal . Science Space Culture General Discussion Scientific Discussion Seminars . News: The best of Russian Science and Technology . ... MASTER Team Science Release: Discovery of the Black Hole Ergosphere? ... The International Conference "The International Conference" . ... MASTER is the first russian asteroid factory . ... New Russian "Volga" . ... MASTER - is the first russian robotic telescope for observations Gamma-Ray Bursts . ...

... Master . ... SAI MSU . Conference was supported by PLC "MO "OPTIKA" . ... Morning session . Chair Hugo Levato (ICATE, Argentina) . ... Vladimir Lipunov ( MSU , SAI ) . ... Evgeniy Gorbovskoy (MSU, SAI) & . А lexander Belinskiy (MSU, SAI) . ... Chair Claudio Mallamaci (OAFA, Argentina) . ... Using MASTER Net in the MSU educational process . ... Chair Victor Kornilov (MSU, SAI) . ... Nikolay Budnev (ISU ) . ... Excursion to the Moscow Kremlin . ... Joint MASTER and Russian Pereplet session. ...

SETI = Search for Extraterrestrial Inteligence . Поиск Внеземного Разума . Данная страница содержит материалы, относяющиеся к деятельности в области SETI в СССР и России. ... В литературе по проблеме "Внеземные цивилизации", наряду с термином SETI (Search for Exstraterrestrial Intelligence - поиск внеземного разума), используется также термин CETI (Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence - связь с внеземным разумом). Исторически первым появился термин CETI. ...

... Официальное зеркало Astronomy picture of the day на сервере NASA ?? ... написанным профессиональным астрономом . ... Слухи о странной Вселенной . ... Во-первых, энергия, связанная с лямбда-членом, очень непохожа на другие известные составляющие Вселенной, во-вторых, наблюдения накладывают жесткие ограничения на возможные значения космологической постоянной , и, наконец, для объяснения ранее полученных данных вполне успешно применялись гораздо менее странные космологические модели без лямбда-члена. ...

Multipurpose Aerospace System (MAKS) . ... Up to date the main components of the orbital stage construction have been worked up, external fuel tank mock-up has been made, significant work has been already done on the propulsion system MAKS consists of the subsonic carrier aircraft and an orbital stage with an external fuel tank mounted on it As the first stage the An-225 MRIA aircraft originally intended for the BURAN transportation is used. ... CREATION AIRFRAME OF THE BURAN ORBITAL SPACESHIP . ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...

... 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. ...