This is a progress report on the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey as was presented at the Second Coral Seas Cosmology Meeting on Dunk Island, September 1999. Three talks about the survey were presented at the conference. The others were.... QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | << - Meeting Proceedings | Talk Overview - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... Piotrovich Main Astronomical Observatory, Pulkovo, St. Petersburg, Russia Received May 24, 2006; in final form, July 7, 2006 Abstract--We have used two astrometric methods developed at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences--the method of apparent-motion parameters (AMP) and a direct geometrical method (DGM)--to derive the orbit of the star S2 around the Galactic center, and thereby the mass of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. ... Relative positions. ...

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

fluxes are measured in mJy . ... Source, Images & Lens . ... VLA (8.5-43 GHz), MERLIN, VLBI . ... availavle maps: VLBA (1.7 GHz and 5 GHz) . ... 1] "A gravitationally lensed quasar with an unusual radiomorphology", Winn et al., astro-ph/0107435 . ... 104(+-3) Total flux at 5 GHz: 1209 mJy . ... 4] "MERLIN/VLA imaging of the gravitational lens system B0218+357", Biggs et al., astro-ph/0011142 . ... 58 Total flux at 5 GHz: 997 mJy (see CASTLES) . ... Total flux at 5 GHz: 316 mJy; 1.4 GHz: 576 mJy . ...

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... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....

... Wang, Y. M.; Ye, P. Z.; Wang, S.; Zhou, G. P.; Wang, J. X. A statistical study on the geoeffectiveness of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from March 1997 to December 2000, // J. Geophys. Res. ... Gosling J. T. , The solar flare myth// J.Geophys.Res., ... Lindsay G.M., Luhmann J.G., Russell C.T., Gosling J.T. Relationship between coronal mass ejection speeds from coronagraph images and interplanetary characteristics of associated interplanetary coronal mass ejections// J.Geophys.Res. ...