. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

The astronomic instruments on the Earth and in the space. Galilei's telescope . Newton's telescope . The refractor ( 19th century) . ... A mirror telescope . ... The modern telescopes . The giant radio-telescope . Radio-telescope . The Space observatories . ... X-ray observatories. ... Gamma observatories . ... Comptons observatory . The space expeditions along the solar system. The Moon investigation. ... Mars and its satellites investigations. Mars-3" . ...

... 16-mm/2.8 Fish-eye . ... I set up my Edixa Prismaflex TTL on a tripod outside the dome at Zeiss 50" and opened the camera for several hours. The 2.6 m Shain reflector is visible at center. The time exposure of about 5 hours duration showing circumpolar stars. The dome can be seen to blur slightly due to their motion during the exposure. Back to Astronomical Images Home Page . ...

... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

... Russian Academy of Sciences, . Sibirian Department, Yakutsk Scientific Center . Directors: Germogen F. Krymsky, Director, corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences . Evgeny G. Berezhko, Deputy Director . ... The main scientific directions are physics and astrophysics of cosmic rays, physics of solar-terrestrial interactions, investigations of interplanetary and near-the-Earth space, physical processes in magnetosphere and ionosfhere of the Earth. ...

... G.S.Bisnovatyi-Kogan Gravitational radiation in neutron stars formation and merging. ... Experience SAI MSU в?' INFN collaboration in the GW - experiment . ... V.M.Lipunov Gravitational Waves Sky . ... Michael B. Mensky and Valentin N. Rudenko High-frequency GW detectors based on electromagnetic-gravitational resonance . ... Fulvio Ricci Low Temperature and Gravitational Wave detectors . ... A.M.Cherepashchuk Chairman (SAI MSU, Moscow) . ... V.A.Matveev (INR RAS, Moscow) . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...