... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

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. ...

THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...

... 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. ...

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). ...

Sternberg astronomical institute activities on site testing programs review Victor Kornilov comprehensive/characterization/of/astronomical/sites > kislovodsk/russia/2010/october/4-9 > Introduction This presentation responds on our activity in 5 last years only, inspite of that in SAI site testing researches have been started many years ago. ... More detailed discussion is devoted to MASS and DIMM measurements processing, some additional effects which were taken in account in last year. ...

... 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. ...