... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

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To obtain more information about satellites observing the sky in x-rays and gamma rays, you can contact the archive of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at Goddard Space Flight Center. Some documents in that archive can be linked directly from here: . General Information . ... Small Astronomy Satellite 3, a follow-up mission. HEAO 1 , High Energy Astronomical Observatory 1. ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . Official GSFC Home Page .. NASA WWW Home Page . ...

To obtain more information about satellites observing the sky in x-rays and gamma rays, you can contact the archive of the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at Goddard Space Flight Center. ... Uhuru, the first small x-ray satellite. Small Astronomy Satellite 3, a follow-up mission. HEAO 1 , High Energy Astronomical Observatory 1. ... Other space missions observing x-rays and gamma-rays from the universe can be reached from the first site of the ones listed above . ...

Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

Next: Meteors in Planetary Atmospheres Up: A. Christou, Research Astronomer Previous: A. Christou, Research Astronomer . Work was concluded on the Phobos eclipse experiment, which was to have taken place in February 2004 on the Beagle 2 lander. The lander reached Mars on Christmas Day 2003, but subsequent attempts to contact it were not successful. The aim of the experiment was to use the shadow of one of the Martian moons, Phobos, to locate the lander on the surface. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . GSC 3710-00312, USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 . ... Variability type: . ... USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 is located at the distance of 15?.7 from the X-ray source 1RXS J031707.9+572942, which is larger than the position error of the source (12?), but its hardness ratio HR1 = 0.03 0.29, typical of chromospherically active stars, and its character of variability allow us to assume that the star is related to the X-ray source. ... Eclipsing variability . Sine wave 1 . ...

Physics of Solar corona, physics of aurorae, Solar-Terrestrial connections, lithosphere-ionosphere connections. Practical Astrophysics . General Astrophysics . ... N.I.Dzubenko. Heating of the upper atmosphere during auroral and auroral . ... N.I.Dzubenko, V.M.Ivchenko, G.P.Milinevsky. ... N.I.Dzubenko, A.P.Zhilinsky, I.A.Zhulin et. al. ... solar activity cycle by photometric data. ... Kyiv, 1994. 240p. N.I.Dzubenko. The response of aurora to sharp variations of the state of . ...

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