... Piotrovich Main Astronomical Observatory, Pulkovo, St. Petersburg, Russia Received May 24, 2006; in final form, July 7, 2006 Abstract--We have used two astrometric methods developed at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences--the method of apparent-motion parameters (AMP) and a direct geometrical method (DGM)--to derive the orbit of the star S2 around the Galactic center, and thereby the mass of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. ... Relative positions. ...

... CERN, ESA and ESO Launch "Physics On Stage" [1] . ... Beginning in February 2000, three major European research organisations are organising a unique Europe-wide programme to raise the public awareness of physics and related sciences. Physics on Stage" is launched by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), with support from the European Union. ... Physics on Stage" in 22 European Countries . ...

VSA74 Manned and man-related spaceships by Sergei A. Voevodin . Launch, docking/undocking and landing times, designations and more. The document can be found in PDF format at Russian Aerospace Guide site.

... I would like to add my voice to those who are mourning to loss of Maxim Tarasenko. ... Maxim was born in Protva, in the Kaluga Region south of Moscow on 20 June 1962. ... This was just one of many international speaking engagements of his. ... The list of papers and international places is too long to go into at this point. ... My first trip to Moscow was in 1995, and Maxim kindly made arrangements for me for transportation and access to a number of space program related facilities in the Moscow...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

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? ...

... The solar regions . ... The description of the solar regions . ... The fine bipolar formation was noticed between the groups 10498 and 10499 since 8.11 to 12.11.03. ... The bipolar group crossed the Sun disc along the equator since 13.11 to 25.11.03. ... The fine bipolar formation was observed at the high latitudes of the Southern hemisphere since 16.11 to 24.11.03. ... The high latitude bipolar chain of fine sunspots crossed the Sun disc in the Southern hemisphere since 23.11 to 6.12.03. ...

... License agreement. All copyrights to Izmccd are exclusively owned by the author- Igor Izmailov. ... THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE. You may not use, copy, emulate, clone, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program, or any subset of the licensed program, except as  provided for in this agreement.  ... Igor Izmailov. ...

... Солнечные затмения 2004-2024 . ... Short report about viewing of Venus Transit at 8 June 2004. ... The same situation was at Berdyansk at the June, 8, 2004, when Venus Transit occur. ... At the photo below, you can see how cloudy it was when the transit began. ... You can see it at the picture 1. ... I would like to thank Illya Pustovit, who kindly gave me a permission to use his digital camera for taking pictures of this Venus Transit and helped me a lot with working on gotten pictures. ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... On the basis of hypothesis about Solar s ystem formating from endo-Galactic Vortex, stated by е.л. Trunaev, who have acquainted the author of the present work with his manuscript in 1991 during personal contact , the results of attempt to apply its main rules to some calculations at the Solar system actually and at planets satellite systems are below stated. ... orbit in . ... All satellite systems of planets, as well as the Solar system, are formed from two- branch pre-planetary (pre-Solar)...

Cairo, Egypt . Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle East. Although Cairo itself is only about 1,000 years old, parts of the metropolis date back to the time of the Pharaohs. ... In the 19th century, one of the city's rulers, Khedive Ismail (1863-1879), sought to transform Cairo into a European- style city. ... Although a housing crisis has been broadcast by the international news media, it is estimated that Cairo may have a surplus of some 1 million housing units. ...

... Active Skepsis . ... Probably, one should know the results from any actions. ... As a result, a sceptic, who discredits, for example, the tales of Christian wonders, has to follow the practical recommendations of Christianity or any other belief knowing how to act. ... As a result, scepticism restricts itself with discrediting secondary wonders, permanently replacing one doubtful interpretation with another and telling nothing of life and action. ... Yuri Tikhonravov, Ph.D. Translated from Russian ....

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Освоение космоса (Модератор: Chepurny ) > . SOHO . ... Оффлайн . Сообщений: 3 . Благодарностей: 0 . 16 Январь 2011, 23:09:22 ? ... Записан . ... Сообщений: 5037 . ... Ответ #1 : 16 Январь 2011, 23:22:09 ? ... SOHO зафиксировал , как довольно яркая комета "нырнула" в Солнце (10-11 мая 2011). ... Ньютон 200мм.EQ-5 (полный фарш) Ньютон 150 мм ЕQ3-2 МТО-1000 Canon PowerShot SX160 IS . ... Цитата: Stainless_steel от 15 Декабрь 2011, 23:24:29 Горизонтальные белые линии - это SOHO "слепнет"? ...

... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 1 Contents of the work A sample of H2O maser emission sources has been observed since 1980. ... Rudnitskij et al. ... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 4 Maser in a protoplanetary disc (S255) Flux density, Jy S255: H2O line profile 5 February 2002 Radial velocity, LSR, km/s Rudnitskij et al. ... Twenty-Six Year Monitoring of Water Masers IAU Symposium 242, Alice Springs 12 ...

Space Agencies and Centres . Space research . ... BNSC - British National Space Centre . ... CNES - Centre National d' tudes Spatiales, France . ... NASDA - National Space Development Agency (Earth Observation Center), Japan . ... NASA Spacelink , includes information about the Mir station . ... John F. Kennedy Astronomy Observatory , contains rich list of astronomy sites . ... LIFE Magazine Space Links . ... Copyright RSSI 1993-1997, Space Research Institute RAS Network Information Centre ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 2007-2009 WORK PLAN: TOWARD CONVERGENCE DRAFT 1 for Technical Review COVER NOTE The following is the first version for a three-year plan for GEO, 2007 to 2009. ... Page 1 of 38 2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 ACRONYMS ADM AMDAR AMMA APAN AVHRR CBD CEOS CERN DAPHNE DEM EC EPA EPIDEMIO FAPAR FDSN GEANT GEO GEOSS GIS GMES GOFC-GOLD GOS GPM GSN IGCO IGDDS InSAR INSPIRE IPY ITU MODIS NASA NGO NIEHS SAR SBA SPOT -VGT SST THORPEX UN UNFCCC COP ... Task No. ...