K 125-i godovshine so dnya rozhdeniya Artura Stenli Eddingtona
A. I. Eremeeva/GAISh, Moskva, 24 dekabrya 2007

Artur Stenli Eddington (28.12.1882 –22.11.1944) ( k 125-i godovshine so dnya rozhdeniya) Artur Stenli Eddington – vydayushiisya angliiskii astronom i fizik, odin iz osnovopolozhnikov teoreticheskoi astrofiziki. Okonchil Manchesterskii universitet (1902); Triniti-kolledzh Kembridzhskogo universiteta (1906); do 1913g. sotrudnik Grinvichskoi observatorii; v 1914g. izbran «plyumianskim professorom» (nekogda titul N'yutona) Kembridzhskogo universiteta. S 1914g.

OON ob'yavila 2009 god Mezhdunarodnym godom astronomii
22.12.2007 13:20 | Astronet

20-go dekabrya 2007 goda 62-ya General'naya Assambleya Organizacii Ob'edinennyh Nacii provozglasila 2009 god Mezhdunarodnym godom astronomii. Rezolyuciya byla predstavlena Italiei, rodinoi Galileo Galileya. Mezhdunarodnyi god astronomii 2009 (MGA-2009) yavlyaetsya iniciativoi Mezhdunarodnogo astronomicheskogo soyuza i YuNESKO.

Zimnee Solncestoyanie – 22 dekabrya 2007 goda
22.12.2007 9:31 | Astronet

V subbotu, 22 dekabrya 2007 g., v 06 ch 08 min po UT (v Moskve nado pribavit' 3 chasa) sostoitsya Zimnee Solncestoyanie. Eto znachit, chto budet samyi korotkii den', samaya dlinnaya noch' i nachalo astronomicheskoi zimy (v severnom polusharii, v yuzhnom – leta). Pozdravlyaem vseh astronomov! Po povodu samyh korotkih dnei rekomenduyu prochitat' zametku K.

Astronomicheskaya nedelya s 24 po 30 dekabrya
21.12.2007 19:18 | Aleksandr Kozlovskii

Osnovnym sobytiem nedeli stanet protivostoyanie Marsa, kotoroe v 2007 godu ves'ma neobychno. Proizoidet ono 24 dekabrya v 19 chasov 59 minut po moskovskomu vremeni, kogda planeta budet nahodit'sya v sozvezdii Bliznecov na granice s sozvezdiyami Voznichego i Tel'ca. V etot zhe den' nastupit i polnolunie, a yarkii disk Luny pokroet Mars!

ZhANSEN P'er Zhyul' Sezar
19.12.2007 14:08 | Lyudmila Zavadskaya/GAISh, Moskva

23.12.2007 - ispolnyaetsya sto let so dnya smerti francuzskogo astronoma - Zhansena P'era Zhyulya Sezara. P.Zh.S. Zhansen rodilsya v Parizhe. V 1852 godu okonchil Parizhskii universitet, zatem prepodaval v licee, rabotal domashnim uchitelem. V 1862 godu oborudoval sobstvennuyu nebol'shuyu observatoriyu v Parizhe, v kotoroi nachal nablyudeniya Solnca.

Mezhdunarodnaya Konferenciya "100 let Tungusskomu fenomenu: proshloe, nastoyashee, budushee"
18.12.2007 16:57 | D. Yu. Klykov/GAISh, Moskva

26-28 iyunya 2008 g. v zdanii Rossiiskoi akademii nauk budet prohodit' mezhdunarodnaya konferenciya, posvyashennaya stoletiyu tungusskogo fenomena

Rossiiskaya otkrytaya zaochnaya shkol'naya astronomicheskaya olimpiada – 2008
18.12.2007 16:42 | Astronet

Nachinaetsya Rossiiskaya otkrytaya zaochnaya shkol'naya astronomicheskaya Olimpiada – 2008. Olimpiada provoditsya v odin teoreticheskii tur i nosit zaochnyi harakter. V Olimpiade mogut prinimat' uchastie uchashiesya srednih i special'nyh uchebnyh zavedenii, vozrast kotoryh na moment podachi reshenii ne dolzhen prevyshat' 18 let. Uchastnik dolzhen samostoyatel'no napisat' resheniya zadach Olimpiady na russkom ili angliiskom yazykah.

Vserossiiskaya nauchnaya konferenciya Kosmos, astronomiya i programmirovanie
17.12.2007 19:09 | Astronet

Sankt-Peterburgskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, Sankt-Peterburgskii Institut Informatiki i Avtomatizacii RAN, Institut Teoreticheskoi i Prikladnoi Astronomii RAN, Voenno-kosmicheskaya akademiya (VKA) imeni Mozhaiskogo, planiruyut organizovat' Vserossiiskuyu nauchnuyu konferenciyu Kosmos, astronomiya i programmirovanie (Lavrovskie chteniya), posvyashennuyu 85-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya chl.- korr. RAN S.S.Lavrova. Konferenciya budet prohodit' s 27 po 29 maya 2008 goda.

Astronomicheskii kalendar' na 2008 god
14.12.2007 9:40 | Aleksandr Kozlovskii

Vyshel v svet Astronomicheskii kalendar' na 2008 god(4 vypusk v serii "Astrobiblioteka", prilozhenie k zhurnalu "Nebosvod"). Eto ezhegodnik, soderzhashii opisanie osnovnyh astronomicheskih yavlenii, kotorye dolzhny proizoiti v 2008 godu. Kalendar' soderzhit efemeridy Solnca, Luny, bol'shih planet, komet i asteroidov, dostupnyh dlya nablyudenii lyubitel'skimi sredstvami.

Bredihinskaya premiya – 2007
13.12.2007 21:43 | Astronet

Pozdravlyaem Leonida Nikolaevicha Berdnikova, Alekseya Sergeevicha Rastorgueva i Nikolaya Nikolaevicha Samusya (INASAN/GAISh) s prisuzhdeniem Premii im.F.A.Bredihina 2007-go goda za cikl rabot "Kompleksnye issledovaniya klassicheskih Cefeid"!