Armagh Observatory is to lead a new effort to understand the formation of stars through a collaboration of institutes spread throughout Europe. ... In addition to the Observatory, the project involves astronomers stationed in Germany, Russia, Armenia and Spain: the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russia, Byurakan Observatory in Armenia and Calar Alto Observatory in Spain. ... Michael Smith: Armagh Observatory, N. Ireland . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... 9, N 16 (2009) . ... Star Name: . USNO-A2.0 1350-06316386, USNO-B1.0 1416-0177942 . ... A new Algol-type variable star was discovered by me during observations of comet C/2006 OF2. ... The observations were conducted over 25 nights from January 22 to March 17, 2009 using the remotely controlled Maksutov-Newtonian telescope (D = 356 mm, F = 1330 mm) of the Tzec Maun Observatory (New Mexico, USA) equipped with an unfiltered SBIG ST-10XME CCD camera. ...

... Commission News The most intensely discussed and controversial issue in timekeeping has been the proposal before the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to redefine Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) so as to replace leap seconds by leap hours. ... NICT The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) changed its name from CRL at April 2004, has covered the wide area of time and frequency research activities. ... UTC(ORB) remains within 0.06 microsecond of UTC. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... The first contract research activity to be performed on the ISS Russian Segment is ESA-provided Global Time System experiment. ... Testing the characteristics and accuracy of a time signal transmitted from a low-altitude near-earth orbit to the ground in real space conditions. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...

MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTER RUSSIAN FEDERATION National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements (VNIIFTRI) e ­ mail: pasynok@vniiftri.ru, ru bezmenov@vniiftri.ru JOURNEESE 2014 VNIIFTRI as the Russian Main Metrological Center of Time, Frequencies and Earth Rotation Service th ti carried out the rapid EOP processing based on GNSS, VLBI and SLR observations for many years. 2 VNIIFTRI takes participation in GNSS and SLR observations of IGS and ILRS too. ...

... U.S. statements regarding today's United Nations 62nd General Assembly declaration of 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy . J. Craig Wheeler, president of the American Astronomical Society, said, "I am thrilled that we have received official United Nations designation for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The American Astronomical Society has been a vigorous and leading supporter of this initiative. ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

... SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED RECEIVER V.P. Koshelets, P.N. Dmitriev, A.B. Ermakov, L.V. Filippenko, A.V. Khudchenko, N.V. Kinev, O.S. Kiselev, A.S. Sobolev, M.Yu. Torgashin Kotel'nilov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Science, Mokhovaya 11, 125009, Moscow, Russia A Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) [1, 2] was proposed more than 10 years ago and finally has been developed for practical applications [3]. ... Supercond.", vol. 17, pp 336-342 (2007). ...

... Collaborations with ESO . ... ESO . ... ESO has welcomed the prospects of a closer, future collaboration with Australia, in particular because of the acknowledged expertise in that country within the important field of optical interferometry, a main feature of the VLT project. ... At the request of the Australian Government, a high-ranking Australian delegation will visit the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany) in order to explore with ESO in some detail possible modes of future collaboration. ...

ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK (in Russian) . ... It contains the ephemerides of the Sun, the Moon, major planets, and stars computed with the maximum precision in the accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). From AY-2016 the ephemerides EPM2011 developed at IAA RAS was used as a ephemerical basis for the calculation of ephemerides of the Sun, the Moon and major planets with accuracy adequate to DE ephemerides. ... ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK . ...