... I am fond of astronomy from school time. When I was eleven years old, I built my first telescope. ... I had renewed my hobby when I was 33 and when I already had a family and two sons. The 110-mm Newtonian is my first serious self made instrument and I built it during five years. ... In the Russian version of this site there are some articles, wich I wrote and the bibliography of the astronomy and ATM literature. ... Alexander Zencovich. ...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... Contents of the Tycho Catalogue Over view of the Tycho Catalogue: The Tycho Catalogue provides astrometr y (positions, parallaxes and proper motions) and two-colour photometr y (in B T and VT ) for more than one million stars brighter than VT = 11.5 mag. ... Stars in ver y dense clusters and other dense fields thus leaving the resulting Tycho Catalogue incomplete in such regions `R' in Field T42). ... The number of non-Hipparcos stars with Tycho Catalogue parallaxes larger than 40 + 4 mas is 1245. ...

Главная Проекты Mars Exploration Rover . ... With far greater mobility than the 1997 Mars Pathfinder rover, these robotic explorers will be able to trek up to 100 meters (about 110 yards) across the surface in a Martian day. ... The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. ... Where Pathfinder had scientific instruments on both the lander and the small Sojourner rover, these larger rovers will carry all their instruments with them. ...