... A non-linear relationship is observed between the sky brightness on clear and overcast nights, with a change in behavior near the rural to urban landuse transition. ... The great variation in skyglow radiance observed from site-to-site and with changing meteorological conditions underlines the need for a long-term international monitoring program. he introduction of artificial light has caused an unprecedented disruption to the nighttime environment over large areas of the Earth. ... Data processing...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

... Barbara Hubal . Mike Unsold . ... Hidden Hollow 2008 . Workshops . ... The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory will be back again this year the weekend of May 2nd - 4th! ... Mike is the developer of the ImagesPlus camera control and astronomical image processing software, which was listed as a "hot product" by Sky & Telescope in 2004. ... The Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) has hosted Mike's workshops for the last two year, and they both sold out! ...

... part 1 | ... Part 3 . The new circuit of global tectonics of the planets and their satellites . ... The "too hot" substance (magma) is formed of combination of different sort of atoms of chemical elements, spontaneously arising in the entrails of the pre-Earth cosmogenic vortex (and equal in entrails of other celestial object of spherical form). ... The water dropped out from the last it gradually was condensed and formed the widths of uniform Global ocean. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

... IAU planet classification Observing with a Telescope Large Scale Structure The observables: Local Group (size 1 Mpc) Virgo cluster (size 2+ Mpc) Virgo supercluster (size ~33 Mpc) Voids (size ~ 10-150 Mpc), Walls and sheets, aka filaments (size ~ 50-80+ Mpc) 1 parsec The nearest star is 1.2 parsecs away (Proxima Centuri). ... Virgo supercluster Voids, Sheets Filaments The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 18.0 Mpc away in the constellation Virgo. ...

... In 1998, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) formed a special Commission for the struggle against falsification of scientific research. ... Misconception #1: G.I.Shipov has succeeded in generalizing Einstein’s General Relativity Theory. ... A.E.Akimov and G.I.Shipov do not have any of these degrees. ... The point is that these are two different Academies; and frauds-sciolists A.E.Akimov and G.I.Shipov are nowise connected with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Russian) . ...

... The solar regions . ... NOAA 11300's . ... The description of the solar regions . ... The long bipolar chain of small sunspots were observed at the 29th parallel of the Southern hemisphere since 6.04 to 14.04.02. ... The bipolar combination of sunspots crossed the Sun disc since 7.04 to 19.04.02 along the mid latitudes of the Northern hemisphere. ... The short-time bipolar sunspots were marked at the low latitudes of the Northern hemisphere since 12.04 to 15.04.02, in the Western part of the Sun...