This home page belongs to small group of scientists working at . Sternberg Astronomical Institute which is a part of Moscow State University . ... Электронная библиотека научно-технической и художественной литературы (доступна только из ГАИШ) . ... Local staff . Dr. Edward Kononovich (konon -at- sai.msu.ru), Associate Professor . ... Dr. Sergey Ayukov (asv -at- sai.msu.ru), Research Fellow, Webmaster of the group . ... Joint seminar of Solar Studies Structure Group and Solar Photometry Group . ...

... 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 . ...

... The administrative centre, library, scientific laboratories, computer centre, hotel and apartment houses of the Observatory are located in the Observatory campus called as settlement Nizhniy Arkhyz, which is in 25 km to the south from village Zelenchukskaya. ... It is possible to reach Nizhny Arkhyz only by motor transport. ... SAO RAS organizes motor transport for delivery and departure of conference participants. ... Conference-2014 . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of RAS . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Sky this Week . Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Seasonal Observing . ... Observing Basics . ... International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Archives . ... I began to study statistics with the notion that statistics is the study of information (retrieval) and a part of information is uncertainty which is taken for granted in our random world. ... The statistician?s task is to articulate the scientist?s uncertainties in the language of probability, and then to compute with the numbers found : cited from The Philosophy of Statistics by Dennis V. Lindley (2000). ... where clients can be replaced with astronomers. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ...

... 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. ...

One of the main purposes of the Department is preparation of highly skilled specialists in the fields of astrophysics, astrometry and space physics. ... Annualy 2-7 graduates of the Department become post-graduates. ... Among over 500 Department graduates there are ~30 Doctors of Science, 130 Candidates of Sciences, 2 Member-Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and 1 of Ukrainian one, 4 Ukraine State Prize laureates, Directors of science and industrial institutes. ...

... In LABORATORY OF RADIO ASTROPHYSICS OF SPECIAL ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY OF RAS . ... History . ... Current problems of the group research interests: . study for cosmic microwave background, . study of radio galaxies (identification, evolution, statistical investigation of population), . investigation of the RATAN-600 antenna, . observations in the survey mode with RATAN-600 and their analysis, . creation of the software for data analysis. vo @ sao.ru ( Oleg Verkhodanov ) ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... W5: Pillars of Star Formation . ... How do stars form? A study of star forming region W5 by the sun-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope provides clear clues by recording that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. ... A Colorful Side of the Moon . ... Orange Sun Scintillating . ... Taken just last week, the Sun was captured sporting numerous interesting features including one of the larger sunspot groups yet recorded: AR 1339 visible on the image right. ...

Lunar Orbiter 4 . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . ... The Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... This experiment consisted of a dual-lens camera system designed to satisfy the primary mission objective of providing photogaphic information for mapping and for the evaluation of Apollo and Surveyor landing sites. ...

... Lecture course (2015/2016) "Galactic Astronomy" (PPT, PPTX) (for 2nd grade students, in Russian) . ... Lecture course (2015/2016) "Astronomical Distances" (PPT) (for postgraduate students, in English) . Lecture course program "Galactic Astronomy" (DOC, for 2nd grade students, in Russian) . Lecture course program "The Elements of Stellar Dymamics" (for 4-5th grade students, in Russian) . Tutorials on astronomy (PDF, PS, DJVU, HTML) . ... My Reviews and Talks (In Russian) . ...

... Other direction of my work is collection and systematization of all information - parameters and identification charts - concerning close binary systems on late evolutionary stages - the AM Her stars (polars), intermediate polars, symbiotic stars, double white dwarfs and binary pulsars, SU UMa stars. The results of this work was published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk~A.M., Katysheva~N.A., Khruzina~T.S., Shugarov~S.Yu. Catalog of Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars. ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

Architect's Drawing: ARC 3.5-mTelescope This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Astrophysical Research Consortium's (ARC) 3.5-m Telescope (1994 - 2014) dedication. ... It was a pioneer telescope in remotely operating the telescope and instruments. ... Four telescopes are currently operated: The Sloan Foundation 2.5-m Telescope, the ARC Small Aperture 0.5-m Telescope, the New Mexico State University 1.0-m Telescope, and the ARC 3.5-m Telescope. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The Ursa Major group is a nearby stellar supercluster which, while not gravitationally bound, is defined by co-moving members. DD UMa is a Scuti star whose membership in the Ursa Major group is unclear. The objective of this study is to confirm the membership of DD UMa in the Ursa Major group, as well as perform a detailed spectral analysis of the star. ...

... Consequently, it is inappropriate to expand and in ordinary spherical harmonics. The proper expansion expresses both and simultaneously in terms of a particular order of generalized spherical harmonics. ... Generalized spherical harmonics start at , and for each , . ... Generalized spherical harmonics obey a sum rule analogous to a familiar one for ordinary spherical harmonics, but it includes an explicit phase factor which depends on the orientation of the two lines of sight. ...

... Bogod V.M. head of the laboratory . Korzhavin A.N. leading researcher . ... Golubchina O.A. senior researcher . ... Peterova N.G. senior researcher . Kaltman T.I. senior researcher . ... Tokhchukova S.Kh. senior researcher . ... Chukanov O.V. leading engineer . Sokolov B.M. engineer . Angeljuk M.A. technician . ... Last update: 26/12/2008 ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... Scientific rationale . ... Conference venue...