... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Май 1998 . ... Дата: 13 мая 1998 (1998-05-13) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Alyeska and JPL To Develop Oil Spill Detection Technologies Привет всем! ... Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington, DC May 12, 1998 (Phone: 202/358-1761) RELEASE 98-80 NASA ADMINISTRATOR'S 1998-99 FELLOWS ANNOUNCED The participants in the 1998-99 NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program were announced recently. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. По сообщению информационного агентства "Синьхуа", китайская компания Beijing Space Satellite Application Company недавно подписала соглашение с фермером Люо Денгкиангом (Luo Dengqiang) о поставке последним семян лотоса для отправки их на околоземную орбиту. По условиям этого соглашения, Люо в течение ближайших пяти лет предоставит для космических экспериментов 3000 семян. ... Китайский фермер заплатит за проведение космических экспериментов с семенами лотоса . ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...