Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit Copyright: NASA Explanation: First, a new truss was added. ... Now, as part of the planned upgrade of the International Space Station , an Expedition 18 astronaut has upgraded her own head. The Human Extended Analog Device 9000 was attached with only minor delays, making the astronaut's remaining spacewalk s over 40 percent more efficient. ... Happy April Fools' Day from the folks at APOD . ... April . ... April 2009 . ... A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite . ...

... Armagh Observatory, 24th March 2009: The International Space Station ( ISS ) has recently become the second brightest object in the night sky тАФ even brighter than the planet Venus, and second only to the Moon. Evenings will provide the chance of a spectacular view, if the sky is clear, as for the next few days the orbit of the ISS around the Earth repeatedly takes it over Ireland. ... At its best, it is now the second brightest object in the night sky. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... One spacecraft seen from another (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . ... It shows the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Johannes Kepler soaring into orbit in the nose of an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Currently, the ISS is supported by five spacecraft: the Space Shuttle and Soyuz (which carry people too), the Russian Progress , Japanese HTV and ESAтАЩs ATV. Each ATV carries seven tonnes or so to the ISS. ...

SUBWAY.WAD - The Deimos Subway ============================== This is a fairly large PWAD that takes place in a very small subway system and the rooms attached to the stations. ... Your mission, clean out the stations and eliminate whoever is behind the invasion. ... Maybe you can find some more weapons and ammo in the subway before you buy it. Pre-mission briefing includes the fact that the subway has three stations, with several room attached to each station. ... Go get those demons! ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

These are some introductory pictures for the mapping station located in the Support building. This is a full view of the station with the camera mounted overhead and the plug and laser attachments below. Kinematic mounts are shown on plate's lip. ... The plug plate is exposed; you can barely see the gradient and small fiber plugs across the face. ... Some final pieces are the support tables for the mapping station computer, still boxed and soon to be assembled. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... Moscow Kremlin, see map . ... Moscow State University . ... Moscow City ( Vystavochnaya metro station) . ... Izmailovo Kremlin (Partizantskaya metro station) . ... Kolomenskoe (Kashirskaya metro station) . Kolomenskoe (Kolomenskoe metro station) . ... The Key Map of Moscow Kremlin . ... Interactive Moscow Metro Map . ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

... Graduated from Moscow State University in 1970 and till now in permanent staff of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University. ... Member, Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . ... Jointly with Dr. V.Konnikova, I teach a course in Radio Astronomy at the Astronomy Division , Physics Department of Moscow State University . ... Astronomical Meetings . ... Net Search: MetaCrawler . ... Moscow State University . ... Rudnitskij, Georgij M. Page last updated November 25, 2015. th . ...

... Elena Seifina and Lev Titarchuk "On the nature of the compact object in SS433: observational evidence of X-ray photon index saturation" 2010, Astrophysical. ... A.M. Cherepashchuk, R.A. Sunyaev, E.V. Seifina, E.A. Antokhina, D.I. Kosenko, S.V. Molkov, N.I. Shakura, K.A. Postnov, A.N. Timokhin, I.E. Panchenko "INTEGRAL Observations of SS433: Analysis of Precessional and Orbital X-ray Periodicities" 2007, 6th INTEGRAL Workshop, Eds. S. Grebenev, R.A. Sunyaev, p.411 (astro-ph/0610235) . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... academician, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia . M.I. Panasyuk - Vice-Chairman - professor, director of Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia . V. Alexandrov, Moscow State University, Russia . ... Ju.B. Baranov, Moscow State Geology Exploratory Institute, Russia . ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

... Maryeva O.V., Abolmasov P.K. ?Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star?, ... Maryeva O.V., Abolmasov P.K. ?Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star in Minimum Brigtness?, vol.23 pp.79-83, Odessa Astronomical Publications, (2010) . ... Maryeva Olga ``Spectropolarimetry and modeling of WR156'', Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium ``New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry'', 307, 387-388, (2015) . ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow Union "Optic" . ... Ural State University, Kourovka . ... Irkutsk State University . ... The 2 first images in different polarizatios (Eeast-telescope and West-telescope) . ... West Time GRB Mag Error (hour) 1.02097639 17.93 0.22 1.07643278 17.43 0.09 1.13188834 17.78 0.14 1.18734417 18.03 0.19 1.24280056 17.87 0.15 1.29825584 17.58 0.10 1.35371584 17.94 0.12 . ... GCN 10076) . ... GCN 10048) by internet 3422 s after the GRB time. ...

... Even future mission archives tend to concentrate more on what can be extracted out of a proposal or a Guaranteed Time Observation log than the actual extracted science out of the data itself. ... A year later the data is then publicly available. An archive researcher has then to go through a mass of data to find what may be useful without any indication as to what the actual observer's results were while using the data except the proposal, which in most cases is very general. ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

Sagan Memorial Station (Pathfinder) . This page contains some of the best images taken by Mars Pathfinder. ... Sojourner Gets Her Rock This "movie" was generated from 23 separate frames taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) and lasts approximately 8 seconds. ... Sagan Memorial Station Images . ... Yogi Rock ( JPEG ) . Yogi, a rock taller than rover Sojourner, is the subject of this image, taken by the deployed Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. ... Couch Rock ( JPEG ) . ...

... gravitational lensing . ... views of mt. maidanak . maidanak lab home page . ... E. A. Koptelova, V. L. Oknyanskij and E. V. Shimanovskaya Determining time delay in the gravitationally lensed system QSO2237+0305 .A 452, 37-46 (2006) . E.A. Koptelova, E.V. Shimanovskaya, B.P. Artamonov, M.V. Sazhin, A.G. Yagola, V.V. Bruevich, O.M. Burkhonov Image reconstruction technique and optical monitoring of the QSO2237+0305 from Maidanak Observatory in 2002 -- 2003 . ... ISIP 2003. ... 2003, Nagano City. ...

Remote Access . ... Kent server . ... Kent weather station . Infrared sky background . ... Guider field (limited access) . UofL image archive . ... Time and Weather in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia . Australian Bureau of Meteorology Clickable Map . USQ Weather Station in Toowoomba . Australian Region Infrared Satellite Image . Meteorological Satellite of Japan Infrared Image . ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...