... Tony Hoffman is an active observer, astrophotographer, AAA board member, Managing Editor for PC Magazine, and writer for Sky & Telescope, as well as other publications. ... The project's first images demonstratthe star, about half of a percent of that light remains in the ing a new technique that creates extremely precise "dark form of a bright speckled background superimposed on the holes" around stars of interest were presented in July at the solar systems of interest. ...

... 20.02.2001 . ... Today is 15 years since Orbital Complex "Mir" first module (its core module) was launched.It was delivered to Earch orbit by "Proton" which lifted off form the launch pad in Baikonur at 00:28:23 Moscow time. ... Priroda" module attached to the "Mir" Orbital Complex in 1996 was the last to complete the orbital facility assembly. ... Currently, the cargo craft "Progress M1-5" launched on Jan 24 2001 docked the Orbital Complex on Jan 27 2001, it is still in orbit as part of the Station...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

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... 1980 . ... A three-stage version of China's CSS-X4 intercontinental ballistic missile is being developed for various space applications. ... The rocket - to be known as "Long March 3"- has four gimbal-mounted engines in the first stage developing a com?bined thrust of some 280 tonnes. ... Four small gimbal-mounted motors provide thrust-vector control. ... The third stage, which employs LO 2 /LH 2 propellants, has four gimbal-mounted thrust chambers. ... CHINESE ASTRONAUTS. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

... All the galaxies are divided into 4 groups depending on the environment type; every subsample contains more than 10 galaxies. ... An effect of environments is seen both for the nuclei and for the bulges: if we consider the clusters (Virgo and Ursa Ma jor) and group centers as dense environments and the field and group periphery as sparse environments, then in the dense environments the stellar populations of S0s are in average older by 4­5 Gyr than in the sparse ones. ...

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. ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...