... Vibration Measurements on an LX200 . This information is for those interested in telescope motion, vibration and oscillation. ... One is to show that for this telescope and mount there are specific deflection characteristics related to the position of the applied force and the various bearings which make up the mount. ... Force applied to the tripod head back and forth and side to side gave a resulting motion of 2 arc-sec. ... Force applied to the fork side to side:   motion  15  arc-sec. ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

THE AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON PRESENTS THE 23nd ANNUAL JERSEY STARQUEST Held at the Hope Conference and Renewal Center , Hope , NJ Beginning at 3 PM Friday, September 6, 2013 and running through 12 PM Sunday, September 8th 2013 Featuring Stargazing at a star ... available: Fishing, Hiking, Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own equipment) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 ... TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN (Ages 6 ­ 12)? ...

... Head of the Department of Emission-line Stars and Galaxies of SAI MSU . ... Structure and kinematics of galaxies . ... Strasburg Database . Hubble Telescope Archive . ... CFHT Archive . ... Chinese evolutionary synthesis Yunnan . Korean evolutionary synthesis Yonsei . Evolutionary synthesis database BaSTI . ... Electronic Journal "New Astronomy" . Electronic Astrophysical Journal . Electronic Astronomical Journal . ... Questions and comments send to Olga Sil'chenko olga@sai.msu.su ...

... 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) . ...

The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...

... Lagoon Nebula, Trifid Nebula and the NGC 6559 Complex . The summer Milky Way brings with it the bright Messier nebulas of M8 (Lagoon) and M20 (Trifid) as well as the NGC 6559 Nebula Complex in Sagittarius. The Lagoon takes its name from the dark nebula that bisects the nebula. ... The NGC 6559 complex (upper left nebulosity) consists of the emission and reflection nebulas of IC1275, IC1274, IC4681 and IC4685. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

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. ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

Первое Всесоюзное совещание по проблеме "Внеземные цивилизации". Бюраканская астрофизическая обсерватория, Бюракан, Армения. 20-23 мая 1964 г. Организаторы . Государственный Астрономический институт им. П.К.Штернберга, Астрономический Совет АН СССР, Бюраканская астрофизическая обсерватория АН Арм.ССР. Труды . ... Бюракан, 20-23 мая 1964 г. Ереван: Изд-во АН Арм.ССР, 1965. 152 с. Extraterrestrial Civilizations. ... Первая советско-американская конференция по проблеме CETI. ... 1972. ...

Uranus: around the Sun, "lying in the side". Uranus . ... Mass . ... The period of rotation . ... The average distance from the Sun . ... Excentricity of the orbit . ... Uranus is the seventh from the Sun great planet of the Solar system. ... The theoretical model of Uranus structure is following its upper layer is a gasoliquid shell under which is an icy cloak (the water and ammonia ice) then comes the core of the solid soils. The cloak and the core mass is about 85-90% of all Uranus mass. ...

AAL Guestbook . Please Sign Our Guestbook . Guestbook Entries: 147 . Add Entry | ... Previous Page | Next Page . ... Wiltz/Luxembourg, . ... Great site !!! i like the design, the pages are very well structured. ... For example for the gallery page it took more than 4 minutes to load. ... Signed on at . ... nice site, well structured. it's worth a bookmark. keep on like this. greetings to lea lucien. r. Signed on at . ... Luxembourg, . ... Current time around the World . ...

... Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: Progress Report" . ... The VISTA Project: a review of its progress and lessons learned developing the current programme , McPherson, Emerson, Born & Sutherland, in Ground-based Telescopes, eds Oschmann & Tarenghi, Proc of SPIE, 5489, 638, 2004 . Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: overview Emerson and Sutherland, in Survey and Other Telescope technologies and Discoveries, eds Tyson & Wolff, Proc of SPIE, 4836, 35, 2003 . ...

... The Torsion Field Fraud updated Jan. ... The Russian Academy of Sciences claims A.E.Akimov and G.I.Shipov are frauds. ... Russian : . ... Открытое письмо академику А.Т.Фоменко . ... Рассказывается о создателе ничего не генерирующих ' аксионных генераторов' . ... Комментарии российских физиков о теории Шипова . ... Потомков "детей лейтенанта Шмидта" нельзя оставлять без присмотра - академик Э.П.Кругляков . ... на Президиуме РАН 16 марта 1999 г - председатель комиссии академик РАН Э.П.Кругляков . ...

... 2006 . ... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Судьба нового марсохода Mars Science Laboratory, который NASA планирует запустить к Красной планете в конце 2009 года, находится в руках обычных американцев. ... Однако за последние 40 лет неудачные пуски космических кораблей NASA привели к выбросу в атмосферу Земли 3 кг плутония. ... Окончательный отчет NASA представит в ноябре, а решение о судьбе MSL вынесет к концу 2006 года. ... NASA может перенести запуски шаттлов в 2007 году . ...

... запланированная на 2011 год программа изучения гравитационного поля и внутреннего строения Луны космическими аппаратами. ... Гравитационная карта Луны, сделанная космическим аппаратом Lunar Prospector в 1998-1999 годах . Эта миссия подобна ранее начатому проекту Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, изучавшему гравитационное поле Земли. ... 1М (космический аппарат) . ... 2МВ (космический аппарат) . ... Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory . ... Союз (космический корабль) . Союз 7К-Л1 . ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

StarShine-3: . ... The satellites are covered by nearly 1000 small, front-surface aluminum mirrors that are machined by technology students in Utah and polished by tens of thousands of students all over the world. ... And this is only small story about it. ... We will be able to measure the angular position of that satellite by observing sunlight flashes from small mirrors mounted on the surface of the satellite, as it passes across the starry sky before sunrise and after sunset.. ... Starshine 3 . ...

... 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. ...