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General Information . ... Local Information . ... The city represents great cultural value because in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. ... Double room with full pension (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - 2620 rubles per person per night. solnechniy . ... Citizens of most countries need visa to enter the Russian Federation. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (chair) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Tour the Deep Sky . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Year of Pluto . ... The year in astronomy: a deeper look . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Planets may, in principle, exist around any type of star, but some stars are better than others as places to look just because they are amenable to our techniques. ... Our curiosity is naturally drawn to the solar-type stars (G dwarfs, roughly) since we live around one ourselves, and they are also - perhaps not coincidentally - a preferred sample when looking for planets beyond the solar system. ... A preliminary estimate of which stars these are has been made, based on existing information. ...

... This exciting photo by the Hubble Space Telescope is one of the deepest ever taken, and shows galaxies as far away as ever before photographed. ... Every bright object in this 1994 photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope is a galaxy. ... This rich cluster of galaxies, named CL 0939+4713, is almost half way across the visible universe. ... Many believe that the Hubble Space Telescope's recent distance measurement to this galaxy accurately calibrates the expansion rate of the universe. ...

This is like Global Replace, but instead of replacing every occurrence, it stops at each one and asks whether you want to replace it or move to the next occurence. ... Type M-^R . You are first prompted for the text you want to replace. The prompt will look like this: Query replace []<META>: . ... Type in the text you want to replace and press the META key. You will then be prompted for the text you want to insert. ... Type in the text you want to insert and press the META key. ...

... In the calibrated events lists generated by the pipeline, the events found to be on a bad pixel have already been removed. ... But epchain and emchain allow to generate events lists in which all events flagged for rejection (including those on a bad pixel) are still present. In that case the bad pixel flagging is reversible. ... The overwrite =Y option may be used to replace the existing bad pixels with the new ones instead of adding the new bad pixels to the old ones. ...

... Some striking examples include a shot of a tram in the morning , or another view of the Vasco da Gama bridge , and many others.. ... In the picture below, we are looking North towards Lisboa (Lisbon). ... Below is a distant view of this bridge from the millenary St. George's Castle. ... From the same Elevator, looking North, we see the Rossio square. ... Going westwards about 7 km, you see Padrao dos Descobrimentos, built in 1943 for trhe celebrations of the 800 years of Portuguese independence. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Student clubs . ... Summer School of Innovation Management, organized by the Faculty of Economics and Management finished its work in SSAU. ... Opinions of participants of the Summer School of Innovation Management: . ... Participants of the First International SSAU Summer School High-Technology Management were students of the following universities: . ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Order . Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Extra-Vehicular Activity(Hydro-Space) . ... Specify here, if you wish to get a certificate - PADI specialization on Space Suit Diver program. ... Space Vehicle Injection into the Near-Earth Orbit . ... Space Vehicle Descent . ... Services / Order: Order . ...

Next: The hardware and software Up: Keeping Time Previous: Keeping Time . ... Since the Earth is round, noon happens at different times in different places. This leads to the concept of local time . ... As soon as you need to communicate with distant places, you'll notice the need for a common time. ... Each local time is called a time zone. ... Other countries do not do this. ... In the US and some other countries, the local time zones have a name and a three letter abbreviation. ...

SAI, graduates year 1982. ... Note: when just a 7-digit phone number is shown, it refers to a phone located in Moscow (international access 007-495). "+" in front of a number means that you must dial an international access code first (or just press "+" on your mobile phone keypad). ... 939-1672(work); . ... Ataev Sasha . 1-(703)-536-8881(home) (USA); . ... Bychkov Sergey . ... 1-(410)-740-8205(home), +1-(301)-286-2150(work) (USA); . ... 1-(412)-767-0332(home), +1-(412)-608-9339(mobile) (USA); . ...

... Some people have asked why Venus appears in "different places" in these photos. ... Dave Wallace . ... It was taken from Brookline, NH using my Celestron 5" SCT through a Tutill Solar Skreen filter using Fuji Superia Reala color print film. ... Marblehead Middle School Fifth Grade Students viewed the 2004 Transit of Venus from Riverhead Beach on Marblehead Harbor when the Sun broke through the clouds at about 6:45 a.m. Eyepiece projection with my 8" Meade SCT and Televue 32mm Plossl worked well. ...

... STScI-PRC01-04 HUBBLE'S ULTRAVIOLET VIEWS OF NEARBY GALAXIES YIELD CLUES TO EARLY UNIVERSE Astronomers are using these three NASA Hubble Space Telescope images to help tackle the question of why distant galaxies have such odd shapes, appearing markedly different from the typical elliptical and spiral galaxies seen in the nearby universe. ... Light from these galaxies travels great distances (billions of light-years) to reach Earth. ... These stars emit mostly ultraviolet light. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Universe . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment Here is possibly the only joke in all of astronomy. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on October 20, 2011 | 1 Comment Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one of an enormous number of galaxies spread throughout a vast Universe, which is expanding.Everyone knows these facts now, but how do we [ ] . ... Posted on September 29, 2011 | ... Posted on June 2, 2011 | ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... From left: Yuri Kovalev, Germany and Russia (with glasses); Maria Garci Miro, Spain (adjusting sleeve); Nikolay Kardashev, Russia; and Mikhail Popov, Russia (extreme right). Two space engeneers, Nikolay Babakin and Ruslan Komaev, discuss the spacecraft. ... Leonid Gurvits and David Jauncey in animated discussion. ... Bernie Burke proposes an amusing toast to the dinner party. ... Michael Garrett explains the details of his proposed toast as Yuri Kovalev translates, and diners listen attentively. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...