Astronomy Picture of the Day . APOD: 2009 April 6 The International Space Station Expands Again . ... Credit: STS-119 Shuttle Crew , NASA Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. In a recently completed mission, the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery visited the ISS and added components that included a new truss and new solar panels. ... International Space Station: Find the Astronaut . ... The International Space Station Transits the Sun . ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... Free Telescopes for Schools in Northern Ireland . ... The Society for Popular Astronomy is leading a project to give 1000 telescopes to secondary schools, with support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Astronomical Society, to encourage schools to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. ... ТЗ School display on astronomy . ... Register with all Ireland astronomy schools competition 2009. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... A SERIES OF ATLASES ON METHODS OF SPACE IMAGES INTERPRETATION AS A NEW TOOL FOR REMOTE SENSING EDUCATION IN EARTH SCIENCES . ... Special manuals in the form of atlases of satellite images and their interpretation results are within the best tools for support of the geographical and ecological research and thematic mapping. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

... Archives . ... Announce] AstroStat Summer School at Penn State . ... Mar 25th, 2009| 10:13 am | ... The ?International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy & Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg? ... 4th Heidelberg Summer School: . ... IMPRS Heidelberg invites graduate students and postdocs to its 4th Heidelberg Summer School. ... Tags: 2009 , Announcement , AstroStat , August , Heidelberg , IMPRS , IMPRS-HD , inference , Max Planck , summer school . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... 25 Comments Space is something that fascinates many.€а Every day there are technological advances, new research being carried out and even historical space related anniversaries.€а Where would we be without those valuable [ ] . ... No Comments A new image from the European southern ObservatoryтАЩs Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy €а(VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young [ ] . ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... Partly based on observations performed with radio telescopes of IAA RAS (Federal State Budget Scientific Organization Institue of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences). c . ... Partly based on observations with the 100-m telescope of the MPIfR (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy) at Effelsberg . ... NRAO facilities . The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... Monday 28.04.2014 is the last day when LOC can help you to arrange an official invitation letter for business visa if you concern about this type of visa to enter Russia. ... After this dead line it will only be possible to make a tourist visa. ... Passport number: 9. ... Most people travel to Russia on tourist visas. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

... John Backus in New Mexico, 1976 . ... Other manufacturers came later with Fortran compilers for their machines and in 1962 IBM introduced the extended Fortran IV, which was the base for the 1966 agreed American standard ANSI X3.9 - 1966. ... An HTML version of the Fortran 77 Standard is now available! ... The purpose of the work on a new standard version was to make Fortran usable and efficient language for scientific and technical computations during the nineties. ... Parallel execution . ...

... TV research areas include design and building application CCD camera for investigation of nightglow emissions, investigation parameters of CCD chip and camera, calibration camera. ... Lapchuk V.P., Zhuravkov O.V., Ivchenko V.M. CAMERA ELECTRONICS FOR THE CCD FOURIER SPECTROMETER. ... CCD table . ... Photomultiplier tube housings, intensified CCD cameras, Monochromators, optical choppers, photometers, fiber optics ,... http://www.hpk.co.jp/ - HAMAMATSU Photonics Photomultiplier tube and more . ...

... Contacts . ... Registration . Participants . ... The deadline for the registration is 13th April 2015. ... The final list of participants will be given by 15th April 2015. Participants will have to confirm by 20th April 2015 that they will attend the school. ... The fee should be paid before the registration deadline by direct bank transfer to the INAF account (IMPORTANT please write as "Populonia 2015 First_Name Last_Name" as the bank tranfer motivation): . ...

... Prof. V.G. Farafonov, chair of Applied Mathematics . ... Prof. V.V. Karjukin . ... Voshchinnikov N.V., Farafonov V.G. (1993) Optical properties of spheroidal particles. ... PDF file ] . ... PostScript file ] . Farafonov V.G., Voshchinnikov N.V., Somsikov V.V. (1996) Light scattering by a core-mantle spheroidal particle. ... Farafonov V.G., Il'in V.B., Prokopjeva M.S. (2003) Light scattering by multilayered particles: a set of methods. ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

... Third IAA Symposium on SEARCHING FOR LIFE SIGNATURES Photo credit: http://ivs.nict.go.jp/mirror/public ations/gm2004/finkel/ Call for Papers St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30, 2011 http://iaaweb.org/content/view/295/434/ The Inter national Academy of Astronautics cr eated a SETI committee in the seventies now established in Per manent Study Group. ... Tentative Program Monday, June 27: Morning: PASSIVE SETI - Current and Near-Future Searches. ... Afternoon: ACTIVE SETI - Societal Issues. ... June. ...

... STELLAR DYNAMICS: FROM CLASSIC TO MODERN . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia . ... The proposed meeting is being organized by the St.Petersburg State University, assisted by an international Scientific Organizing Committee, and marks the centennial of Professor K.F.Ogorodnikov's birth. ... The conference will be organized by the Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St.Petersburg State University in the building of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. ...

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

... Procedure . ... The alignment telescope is delicate and extremely expensive; treat it carefully. ... Manhole cover" and associated shoulder screws and pins: the fixture used to mount the alignment telescope to the 2.5m instrument rotator. ... Adjust the focus of the crosshairs of the alignment telescope by rotating the eyepiece. ... Record the position of the alignment telescope's crosshairs on the secondary mirror's dimple (e.g. by making a sketch). ... Adjust the mirror until it is collimated: . ...