... 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...

... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

The infrared satellite IRAS. The main task of the IRAS telescope was the search of a longwave infrared radiation, composing the maps of the sky in the infrared range. IRAS telescope helped to discover new galaxies, to study the properties of the dust particles in our galaxy, which opens the character of a star hiding somewhere in the sky. ... For 6 months of observation it discovered 6 new asteroids, allowed to find out the nature of the dust zones between Mars and Jupiter orbits. ...

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 . ...

... Space flight . ... The "ATLAS Aerospace" company was set up at the end of 1999 to perform the commercial training of "cosmonaut-researchers" and "space tourists - participants of a space flight" and to accomplish commercial space missions on board the Russian "Soyuz" space vehicles, as well as on the Russian segment of the International Space Station. ... For first time in the world we offer an opportunity to acquire a unique experience in the course of training sessions for space flight. ...

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? ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Декабрь 1998 . ... Дата: 22 декабря 1998 (1998-12-22) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Cassini Update - December 18, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 22 декабря 1998 (1998-12-22) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: NEAR Update - December 18, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 22 декабря 1998 (1998-12-22) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Sky Telescope News Bulletin - December 18, 1998 Привет всем! ...

IGFR(International Geomagnetic Reference Field) - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/model/model_home.html . ... Space Physics Models of NSSDC - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/model . ... Reference book for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Institute of Nuclear Physics, MSU(Moscow)- http://www.kosmofizika.ru . ... Institute for Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy SB RAS (Yakutsk) - http://ikfia.ysn.ru/ . ... Space Research Institute RAS (Moscow) - http://www.iki.rssi.ru/eng/index.htm . ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

... 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. ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . Space technologies - to serve the society" Kyiv, Khreschatik street, 2 24-28 August 2001 . Exhibition Official Site Site Map Eng Rus Ukr . About exhibition . ... Are You going to visit space exhibition in Kiev? ... I'll try . I'd like, but I can't . ... No, I'll follow the site . ... Space-inform " Company ...

... 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. ...