... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... Russian Institutions Eligible to Receive Full lnternet Access Via RSSI - NISN . ... Space Research Institute, RAS (IKI) . Moscow . ... Keldish Institute of Applied Math-LAN-1 . ... Aerospace (ASC) Lebedev Inst.Physics LAN . ... IKI LAN Dept 54 . ... IKI MAIN LAN . ... IKI LAN Lab 902 . ... IKI LAN- Terminal Server - DIAL-UP . ... Astronomical Institute . ... 255.255.255.0 . Babakin Research Engineering Center . ... Mission (Flight) Control Center . ... IRIS Moscow Data Analysis Center . ...

... SRC "Planeta" is executing operative control and guidance management of ground system for receiving and processing satellite data that includes three regional centers: European Center (SRC "Planeta", Moscow, with branch offices in Obninsk and Dolgoprudny), Siberian Center (regional department in Novosibirsk) €а& Far-Eastern Center (regional department in Khabarovsk). ... Catalogues of received and processed satellite data are available on€а SRC "Planeta" web-sites: . SRC "Planeta" . ...

... 25 июля 2000 . ... Почему звезды мерцают . ... Как можно видеть невооруженным глазом , звезды находятся так далеко, что видны нам, как бесконечно малые точки. Однако земная атмосфера неоднородна и различные части воздуха делают различные изображения единичной точечноподобной звезды. Так как атмосфера всегда меняется и перемещается , то число и положение изображений также всегда изменяется и в результате звезда кажется мерцающей . ... А. Сергеев , оформление, 1999, 2000. ...

... Declined commitment to national space programs and drastic cuts in ICBM demand create a strong economy-driven trend to proliferate missile and space-related technologies to new markets. ... to establish a regime to provide space launch services to potential proliferators as an incentive against development of rocket launch capabilities of their own. ... Under such a condition new space powers definitely would not give up the development of independent space launch capabilities. ...

... Elena Seifina and Lev Titarchuk "On the nature of the compact object in SS433: observational evidence of X-ray photon index saturation" 2010, Astrophysical. ... A.M. Cherepashchuk, R.A. Sunyaev, E.V. Seifina, E.A. Antokhina, D.I. Kosenko, S.V. Molkov, N.I. Shakura, K.A. Postnov, A.N. Timokhin, I.E. Panchenko "INTEGRAL Observations of SS433: Analysis of Precessional and Orbital X-ray Periodicities" 2007, 6th INTEGRAL Workshop, Eds. S. Grebenev, R.A. Sunyaev, p.411 (astro-ph/0610235) . ...

Initial orbit determinations of NEO-2005 with Pulkovo AMP-method O.P. Bykov Central Astronomical Observatory of RAS, Russia, 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye shosse 65/1 Abstract Pulkovo Apparent Motion Parameters Method (the AMP-method) was proposed by prof. A.A.Kiselev and developed by his colleagues for initial orbit determinations of Artificial Earth Satellites, Space Debris, Asteroids, and Comets on the base of very short observational arc. ... Table 4 Apparent Motion Parameters for 2005 EE. ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1222 AUTOMATED LASCO CME CATALOG FOR SOLAR CYCLE 23: ARE CMEs SCALE INVARIANT? ... CME RATE DURING CYCLE 23 Figure 2 shows the daily CACTus CME rate for cycle 23 in red, with the International Sunspot Number (e.g., Vanlommel et al. 2004) superimposed in gray as solar cycle reference. ... The CACTus CME speeds Figure 12. ... A comparison of a sample of common events shows that on average the CDAW CME width is wider than the CACTus CME width. ...