Russian Telescope (1957)
Unissued / Unused material.
Powerful telescope at work. Pulkovo, near Leningrad. Russia (Soviet Union).
MS of Abastuman Observatory. CU telescope, pan down to designer Bagrat Ioannisikani setting it.
Pan over countryside to a dome where telescope head is poking through. CU telescope. MS's of Ioannisikani working controls. CU control board.
CU telescope head lifting. CU as he adjusts telescope. CU taken from inside dome of telescope head sticking out. CU Ioannisikani looking through telescope, another man takes notes.
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Пулковская обсерватория /Pulkovo Observatory, 1876
Пулковская обсерватория 1876 г.
Here I present an album of photographs taken in 176 of the Pulkovo Observatory in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Music by Gustav Holst: from the The Planets
The Art and Science of Designing an Observatory in the Nineteenth Century
In 1830, the astronomer Friedrich W. Struve (1793-1864) was admitted to the presence of Tsar Nicolas I (1796-1855, ruled 1825-1855), who inquired him about the observatory of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. As the latter proved unfit for an empire, it was decided that a great new observatory would be built in Pulkovo, in the outskirts of St. Petersburg. In 1839, the Pulkovo Observatory was inaugurated with pomp and circumstance, and consecrated as the central observatory of the Russian empire. It was soon recognized abroad as one of the utmost institutions of its kind. At once a monument, a showcase of astronomical paraphernalia, and a sophisticated research facility, the Pulkovo Observatory exerted a great influence on the design and organization of observatories throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century.
Adler Planetarium Curator, Pedro Raposo, D.Phil will address the inception and early history of the Pulkovo Observatory, as well as its relations with other observatory undertakings, both in Europe and in the United States. It will be shown how the quest for the ideal observatory, driven by scientific ambitions and a growing technical acumen, also meshed with issues of power, prestige and cultural credibility.
Крымская астрофизическая лаборатория / The Crimean Astrophysical Laboratory 1960
Крымская астрофизическая лаборатория
в 1960 году
Фотографии Семён Фридлянд
The Crimean Astrophysical Laboratory
in 1960
Photographs by Semyon Friedland
Music:
Mercury, the Winged Messenger: from the
Planets by Gustav Holst
Here I present a fascinating set of photographs from 1960 of the Crimean Astrophysical Laboratory, known today as the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. The Observatory is located at Nauchnyj research campus, near the Central Crimean city of Bakhchysarai, on the Crimean peninsula.
The Observatory was founded around 1900 as a private observatory of the amateur astronomer, Nikolas Maltsova. In 1926 the laboratory was given to the Pulkovo Observatory and became a fully-fledged research centre, conducting photometry of stars and minor planets.
During the Great Patriotic War the observatory was completely destroyed. However in 1945, the Soviet Government completely restored the observatory with regular observations taking place in the early 1950s........
The Moscow Planetarium
Video-tour around the Moscow Planetarium
Strange Russia UFO Ovni 5 Videos & Texas April 8-9 Same Lights?
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St. Petersburg residents were scratching their heads about the existence of UFOs on Tuesday after seeing mysterious lights hover over their city overnight.
At least four people in the north of the city captured the unidentified lights on video on Monday night and posted them to YouTube.
I filmed this out of the window in the evening, wrote one person, who identified himself only as Newnarva. There were two objects. After I ran for my camera, only one was left.
The 27-second video, titled UFO or What Is It?, shows four bright lights hovering in the pale evening sky to the side of a tall building before disappearing behind it.
One viewer wrote under the video that he also had seen the lights but had not managed to film them.
Similar videos of unidentified lights were uploaded by YouTube users stepacademymail, monplezirvideo and Marina Muskina. Voices can be heard in the videos trying to make sense of the lights.
The BaltInfo news agency said the whole city was discussing the sightings and that its offices had received phone calls from worried residents.
My daughter who lives over on Grazhdanke told me about a UFO, one caller said. I live on Komendantsky Prospekt. I looked out the window and also clearly saw an orange spot. Then one spot separated and plummeted downward. The spot flickered, disappeared and reappeared. It is visible in various neighborhoods.
At least one Leningrad region resident also claimed to have seen a UFO on Monday night. The person, ckvizecrew, wrote that the lights appeared over the Leningrad region around 6 and 7 p.m. and, after hovering for a while, sank toward the Earth for a possible landing.
Little can be seen in the 13-minute video other than bright orange points of light floating in pitch blackness. Male and female voices can be heard excitedly talking about what they are seeing.
While the authorities have not weighed in on the sightings, a St. Petersburg scientist said last month that aliens probably keep their distance from humans.
Aliens look at us as if we are idiots, undeveloped people, said Sergei Smirnov of the prestigious Pulkovo Observatory outside St. Petersburg. Perhaps they have fenced us in with their own sort of screen for the whole galaxy and are sending warnings to hundreds of billions of stars that the civilization near the Dwarf star, which we call the Sun, is dangerous.
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Aurora borealis St.Petersburg
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VICTOR HAMBARDZUMYAN
Victor Hambardzumyan was a Soviet Armenian scientist, one of the founders of the theoretical astrophysics.
Hambardzumyan was born to an Armenian family in Tbilisi in 1908. His father was the philologist and writer Hamazasp Asaturovich Hambardzumyan, the translator of Homer's Iliad into Armenian.
In 1924 Victor entered the physico-mathematical department of Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute and then of Leningrad State University. As a student in 1926 he published his first scientific article, devoted to sun jets. Hambardzumyan continued his postgraduate studies at Pulkovo Observatory under the guidance of Professor A. A. Belopolskij in 19281931. In 1930 married Vera Feodorovna Klochihina, born at Lisva, Solikamsk uyezd, Perm).
After three years of affiliation at Leningrad University in 1934 Hambardzumyan founded and headed the first astrophysics chair. In 19391941 Hambardzumyan was the director of the Leningrad University Observatory. In 1939 Hambardzumyan was elected a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1953 he became a full academician of the Academy.
In the beginning of World War II he was the Vice-rector on Academic Affairs of Leningrad University. The scientific laboratories of the University were evacuated in 1941 to remote Elabuga (Tatarstan) where Hambardzumyan spent four years directing the work of the refugee laboratories. In the heaviest period of the war, in 1943 the Armenian Academy of Sciences was founded. Probably, this was a reward Armenia received for her loyalty to the Soviet Union in the Great War effort. Iosif Orbeli was appointed as the President and Hambardzumyan as the Vice President of Armenian SSR Academy.
In 1947 Hambardzumyan was elected as the president of the Armenian SSR Academy and since then he was invariably re-elected to the position till 1993. In 1993 he became the Honorary President of the Armenian National Academy.
In 1946 the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory was founded. Hambardzumyan became its first Director and directed the Observatory till 1988. Hambardzumyan was the President of the International Astronomical Union from 1961 till 1964. He was twice elected the President of the International Council of Scientific Unions (19661972).
V. A. Hambardzumyan died on August 12 1996 in Byurakan and is buried next to the Grand Telescope Tower.
Из интервью директора Пулковской обсерватории Назара Ихсанова
В Санкт-Петербурге сотрудники Пулковской обсерватории собирают подписи против строительства крупного жилого комплекса по соседству.
In St. Petersburg, the staff of Pulkovo Observatory are collecting signatures against the construction of a large residential complex in the neighborhood.
Comment director of the Pulkovo Observatory Nazar Ihsanova.
MINI ICE AGE IS COMING - Global Unrest, Famine, Mass Migration, Increased Vulcanism, Flooding
The Little Ice Age, following the historically warm temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from about AD 950 to 1250, has been attributed to natural cycles in solar activity, particularly sunspots. A period of sharply lower sunspot activity known as the Wolf Minimum began in 1280 and persisted for 70 years until 1350. That was followed by a period of even lower sunspot activity that lasted 90 years from 1460 to 1550 known as the Sporer Minimum. During the period 1645 to 1715, the low point of the Little Ice Age, the number of sunspots declined to zero for the entire time. This is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after English astronomer Walter Maunder. That was followed by the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1830, another period of well below normal sunspot activity.
The increase in global temperatures since the late 19th century just reflects the end of the Little Ice Age. The global temperature trends since then have followed not rising CO2 trends but the ocean temperature cycles of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). Every 20 to 30 years, the much colder water near the bottom of the oceans cycles up to the top, where it has a slight cooling effect on global temperatures until the sun warms that water. That warmed water then contributes to slightly warmer global temperatures, until the next churning cycle.
Those ocean temperature cycles, and the continued recovery from the Little Ice Age, are primarily why global temperatures rose from 1915 until 1945, when CO2 emissions were much lower than in recent years. The change to a cold ocean temperature cycle, primarily the PDO, is the main reason that global temperatures declined from 1945 until the late 1970s, despite the soaring CO2 emissions during that time from the postwar industrialization spreading across the globe.
At first the current stall out of global warming was due to the ocean cycles turning back to cold. But something much more ominous has developed over this period. Sunspots run in 11 year short term cycles, with longer cyclical trends of 90 and even 200 years. The number of sunspots declined substantially in the last 11 year cycle, after flattening out over the previous 20 years. But in the current cycle, sunspot activity has collapsed. NASA’s Science News report for January 8, 2013 states,“Indeed, the sun could be on the threshold of a mini-Maunder event right now. Ongoing Solar Cycle 24 [the current short term 11 year cycle] is the weakest in more than 50 years. Moreover, there is (controversial) evidence of a long-term weakening trend in the magnetic field strength of sunspots. Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed. Independent lines of research involving helioseismology and surface polar fields tend to support their conclusion.”
That is even more significant because NASA’s climate science has been controlled for years by global warming hysteric James Hansen, who recently announced his retirement.
But this same concern is increasingly being echoed worldwide. The Voice of Russia reported on April 22, 2013,
“Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless.”
That report quoted Yuri Nagovitsyn of the Pulkovo Observatory saying, “Evidently, solar activity is on the decrease. The 11-year cycle doesn’t bring about considerable climate change – only 1-2%. The impact of the 200-year cycle is greater – up to 50%. In this respect, we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years.” In other words, another Little Ice Age.
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Hubble - 15 years of discovery
ESA’s anniversary DVD film “Hubble - 15 years of discovery” covers all aspects of the Hubble Space Telescope project – a journey through the history, the troubled early life and the ultimate scientific successes of Hubble. This portrait, directed by Lars Lindberg Christensen, contains large amounts of previously unpublished footage of superb quality. With more than 500,000 copies distributed, this DVD movie is probably the most widely available science documentary ever.
Hubble's spectacular visual images make a stunning backdrop throughout the film, bringing an immediacy and vitality as the narrative reveals the new insights Hubble has inspired in all fields of astronomy from exoplanets to black holes. Complex though the science behind the telescope’s images often is, Art Director Martin Kornmesser has developed a unique style of elaborate 3D animation that enhances and vividly clarifies the underlying science.
The movie is presented by an ESA scientist, Dr. Robert (Bob) Fosbury, who has himself used Hubble for his own research on many occasions.
More information:
Movie Credits
This movie is dedicated to all the hard working people in USA and Europe who have made the Hubble Space Telescope an incredible scientific success
Executive producer/director
Lars Lindberg Christensen, ESA/ESO
Art director/production designer
Martin Kornmesser, ESA/ESO
3D animations & rendering & DVD Authoring
Martin Kornmesser, ESA/ESO
Cornel Swoboda, ESA/ESO
Written by
Stefania Varano
Lars Lindberg Christensen, ESA/ESO
Stuart Clark
Editing
Martin Kornmesser, ESA/ESO
Cinematographer
Peter Rixner
Music composed by
movetwo - Axel Kornmesser & Markus Löffler
Vocals: Axel Kornmesser & Audrey Quinn
Sound Effects
movetwo - Axel Kornmesser & Markus Löffler
Sound engineering and Mix
Peter Rixner, perix.de
Lead scientist
Bob Fosbury, ESA/ESO
Stunt coordinator
Britt Sjöberg, ESO/ESA
English Narration
Bob Fosbury & Howard Cooper
German Narration
Bernd Bundschu & Achim Höppner
Greek Narration
Manolis Zoulias & Dionysios Simopoulos
Italian Narration
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Movie Translations
BULGARIAN
Mariya Lyubenova (Astronomical association – Sofia, Bulgaria)
DANSK
Anne Værnholt Olesen (Voksenuddannelsescenter Frederiksberg)
NEDERLANDS
Eddy Echternach (freelance, The Netherlands)
SUOMI
Silva Järvinen (University of Oulu, Finland)
FRANÇAIS
Celine Peroux (European Southern Observatory)
DEUTSCH
Arntraud Bacher (University Innsbruck, Austria)
GREEK
Manolis Zoulias (Academy of Athens, Greece)
ITALIANO
Stefania Varano (Italian National Research Council, Italy)
NORSK
Margrethe Wold (European Southern Observatory)
PORTUGUÊS
Mariana Barrosa, António Pedrosa, Pedro Russo (Centro Multimeios de Espinho)
RUSSIAN
Olga Tsiopa (Pulkovo Observatory, Russia)
ESPAÑOL
Eva Carballeira, Pedro Russo (Fundação Navegar – Portugal), Francesc
Vilardell (Universitat de Barcelona)
SVENSKA
Martin Lundqvist (Lund Observatory, Sweden)
POLSKI
Jacek Szubiakowski, Ewa Janaszak and Boguslaw Kulesza (Olsztynskie Planetarium)
Partners
Academy of Athens
Eugenides Planetarium
Eleftherotypia
Hamburg Planetarium
Sterne und Weltraum
Astronomie Heute
New Scientist
ESPACE magazine
Expresso
Tycho Brahe Planetarium
Danish National Space Center
Politiken
Ursa Astronomical Association
The Finnish National Technology Agency
Centro Multimeios de Espinho
Fundação Navegar
Le Stelle
Zeiss Planetarium Vienna
SDC
Armagh Planetarium
DeKoepel
Veen Magazines
Thanks to
Adobe® Systems
American Institute of Physics/Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Dorothy Davis Locanthi Collection
Hale Observatories
Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum
MAXON Computer
NASA
Physics Today and Fermi Film Collections
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Ulster Planetarium
In particular thanks to
Greg Bacon (STScI/NASA)
Lars Bachmann (SDC)
Dimitri Bogdanov (Voksenuddannelsescenter Frederiksberg)
Cornelia Borrmann (Deutsche Welle)
John Dubinski (University of Toronto/CITA)
John Kameel Farah
Jane Fletcher (BBC)
Claus Habfast (ESA)
Peter Habison (Wien Planetarium)
Robert Hill (Armagh Planetarium)
April Hobart (NASA/CXC)
Robert Hurt (NASA/SSC)
Thomas Kraupe (Hamburg Planetarium)
Zolt Levay (NASA/STScI)
Loch Ness Productions
Mariya Lyubenova (Astronomical association – Sofia, Bulgaria)
Audrey Quinn
Susanne Radman (Wien Planetarium)
Anne Rhodes
Pedro Russo (Centro Multimeios de Espinho, Portugal)
Sasa Stanojcic (designliga.com)
Frank Summers (NASA/STScI)
Taho (lumina.ws)
Aline Tsiopa
Manolis Zoulias (Academy of Athens, Greece)
And of course: our girlfriends and families!
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
Chelyabinsk's school children run away from meteor - Russia
A meteor has crashed in central Russia's Ural mountains, injuring hundreds of people as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings.
A large fragment is believed to have landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in the neighbouring Chelyabinsk region.
These Chelyabinsk residents recalled the moment the fireball streaked by.
The meteoroid -- estimated to be about 10 tons -- entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000mph, producing a sonic boom. It shattered into pieces between 18-32 miles above the ground, showering the Urals city of Chelyabinsk with debris.
Glass windows and doors were blown out, several building were damaged. Hundreds of people were injured -- some with serious head wounds -- and 110 victims remained in hospital, many of them children.
A chunk of the space object apparently smashed into a frozen lake, leaving a six-metre wide hole in the ice.
The meteor streaking through the sky at supersonic speed at about 9.20am local time, and then a blaze of light followed later by the sound of explosions and breaking glass. Residents immediately expressed their shock and fear on social media.
I thought the world was about to end! said one. A video clip showed men shouting It's a bombardment! as a noise like an explosion set off car alarms.
A warehouse wall at a zinc factory in the industrial city collapsed from the force of the shock wave and almost 300 buildings had their windows blown out.
Anna Kolesnikova, 31, a website editor who lives in Chelyabinsk, told The Daily Telegraph: I was getting ready for work when I looked out of the kitchen window and I saw this very bright light and thought, 'How sunny it is'. And then suddenly it faded, as if it was some kind of illusion.
A minute later, I went into the other room and suddenly there was a loud explosion and the door to the balcony blew in. I crouched down out of fear. There was a series of smaller explosions, about five, and then I looked out and saw a trail of smoke in the sky. All the car alarms were going off. I thought maybe it was a military aircraft crashing, because they do test flights nearby.
Sergey Hametov, a resident of Chelyabinsk, a city of 1 million around 900 miles east of Moscow, said: There was panic. People had no idea what was happening.
We saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud, thundering sound,
A teenager who was meeting friends outside at a nearby stadium later told teachers they had felt a warm wind blowing on their faces after the flash in the sky.
Yevgeny Skorynin, 30, a lawyer, said: There was a light like a giant welding lamp and then a series of jolts. Some people thought it was an earthquake. Bits were falling off the ceiling in our office.
Vladimir Prokhorov, a real estate agent in a village about 70 miles from Chelyabinsk, said: I'd just got out of my car when I saw a fireball shooting across the sky. Everybody just stopped and was saying, 'What is that?'
Schools and kindergartens were closed because they were too cold in the -18C temperature without windows. About 20,000 rescue officials were put on high alert, while the city's internet and mobile phone services were disrupted.
It was a meteoroid that burned up as it approached the Earth and broke into pieces, an emergencies ministry official told news agencies. The object left a clear double trail in the sky.
Police said they had initiated Operation Fortress, increasing security at strategic buildings. It was unclear how many fragments of the meteor reached the ground.
Police cordoned off a six-metre wide hole in the ice in a lake near the town of Chebarkul, 50 miles west of Chelyabinsk. Small shards of the meteorite were found at its edge. The interior ministry said it had identified two other landing sites.
This was a very bright bolide that was perfectly visible in the light morning sky; the object was quite big with, apparently, a mass of many tens of tons, Sergei Smirnov of St Petersburg's Pulkovo Observatory told Russian state television. Another scientist said it most likely weighed a few tons and was probably made of iron.
Astronomers said the meteor was not linked to the asteroid, 2012 DA14, which was due to pass closer to the Earth than any other space body later on Friday.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, promised immediate aid for people affected by the meteoroid blast, noting that schools and factories had been damaged.
NEW YEARS 2014 COMETA ISON COMET GHOST FRAGMENTOS IMPACTO AL PLANETA - POSSIBLE IMPACT THE PLANET
NEW YEARS 2014 Científicos rusos aseguran que fragmentos del cometa ISON, que se destruyó al acercarse al Sol el 28 de noviembre, PODRIAN IMPACTAR A LA TIERRA y podría entregar sus 'regalos' en forma de actividad meteórica para los habitantes terrestres justo en Noche vieja.
El 'cometa del siglo', como previeron algunos astrónomos, no sobrevivió a su acercamiento al Sol, después del cual la luminosidad del objeto celeste se redujo en 100 veces, dijo el portavoz del Observatorio Astronómico Púlkovo en San Petersburgo, Rusia, Serguéi Smirnov, según la agencia de noticias rusa Itarr-Tass.
Sin embargo, según el astrónomo, el cometa no ha desaparecido por completo y su cola todavía es visible, lo que significa que después de su desintegración o evaporación dejaría grandes fragmentos que pueden llegar a ser visibles para los habitantes de nuestro planeta.
De acuerdo con Smirnov, la destrucción del cometa provocó un fuerte descenso en su velocidad, así como el cambio de dirección del movimiento de sus pedazos. Si el ISON no se hubiera destruido, se acercaría a la órbita de la Tierra el 24 de diciembre, pasando a 65 millones de kilómetros de nosotros. Sin embargo, debido a la des-aceleración general del movimiento de la nube del cometa en comparación con su núcleo y al retraso de los trozos separados de su cabeza, los restos del ISON cruzarán la trayectoria de la Tierra alrededor del Sol una semana más tarde, justo antes del Año Nuevo, y podrían chocar con nuestro planeta.
La Noche-vieja, y también el período desde el 2 hasta el 4 de enero de 2014, podríamos esperar una intensificación de la actividad meteórica. Pueden ser llamaradas brillantes en el cielo causadas por numerosos meteoros diminutos, por su combustión al entrar en la atmósfera de la Tierra o hasta un fenómeno más espectacular como una lluvia de meteoros, explicó el científico.
Según él, en este periodo no se excluye incluso la caída de un meteorito de mayor tamaño a la superficie terrestre. Los astrónomos van a precisar la probabilidad de este evento mientras seguirán analizando la velocidad y la luminosidad de los fragmentos del cometa.
Para alegría de los astrólogos y de los aficionados al estudio de las 'ciencias ocultas' y lo paranormal, el paso de la nube del 'cometa del siglo' sobre la Tierra casi coincide con el 'desfile' parcial de planetas que tendrá lugar el 4 de enero, cuando Mercurio, Venus, la Tierra, Júpiter y Plutón se alinearán con respecto al Sol.
ENLACE ORIGEN DE LA NOTICIA
Russian scientists say fragments of Comet ISON , was destroyed when approaching the Sun November 28 , MAY CRASH TO EARTH and could deliver their ' gifts ' in the form of meteor activity for terrestrial inhabitants right on New Years Eve .
The ' comet of the century ' , as some astronomers foresaw not survived its approach to the Sun , after which the brightness of celestial object was reduced 100 times, spokesman Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in St. Petersburg , Russia, Sergey Smirnov , according to the Russian news agency Itarr -Tass .
However, according to the astronomer , the comet has not disappeared completely and his tail is still visible , which means that after disintegration or evaporation would leave large fragments that can become visible to the inhabitants of our planet.
According to Smirnov , the destruction of the comet caused a sharp decline in its speed and change of direction of movement of its pieces . If ISON had not destroyed , would approach the Earth's orbit on December 24 , from 65 million miles from us . However, due to the overall slowdown of the motion of the comet cloud compared to its core and the delay of the separate pieces of his head , the remains of ISON cross the path of the earth around the sun a week later , just before the New Year, and may collide with our planet.
Night - old , and the period from 2 to January 4, 2014 , we would expect an intensification of meteor activity . Flares can be bright in the sky caused by numerous tiny meteors when burning when entering the atmosphere of the Earth or to a more spectacular phenomenon as a meteor shower , said the scientist.
According to him, in this period is not excluded even the fall of a meteorite larger the earth's surface . Astronomers will specify the probability of this event as further discussed the speed and brightness of the comet fragments .
To the delight of fans astrologers and the study of ' occult ' and the paranormal , passing cloud ' comet of the century ' on Earth almost coincides with the partial ' parade ' of planets that will take place on 4 January , when Mercury , Venus , Earth , Jupiter and Pluto will align to the Sun
LINK FROM THE NEWS
To the Struve Star
This video was created for the festival Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum, St. Petersburg, 2007, curated by Olesya Turkina
Joulia Strauss in collaboration with Moritz Mattern
The skies over St. Petersburg dynamically gather into a portrait of the founder of the Pulkovo Observatory Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, who announces with the voice of the artist, that he is himself Knowledge, which has become possible thanks to participance of different types of views in the assembly of the simulation of the space.
Struve recommends to get involved with astronomy in order to sence the laws (NOMOI) of being of the universe, reads a poem by Vyatcheslav Kupriyanov “With the Naked Eye” in German, or just discusses to the fairy jingling of the stars: “Reflector, refractor, radio telescope, satelites, laser… I was conducting the observation of hundereds of stars with my eyes, do you understand me, I was talking to them, felt myself as if I was one of them, nowadays indeed called by my name: Struve.
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История: Пулковская обсерватория РАН
Георгий Хохлов (сотрудник Пулковской обсерватории) рассказывает нам о выборе места для строительства и о первом директоре обсерватории Струве.
Stars of an Uncertain Age: The Problem of Determining Stellar Ages
Richard Kremer (Dartmouth)
David Soderblom (STScI & Johns Hopkins Center for Astrophysical Sciences)
The painstaking project to restore the historic Great Melbourne Telescope, destroyed by bushfires.
L. Ilsedore Cleeves (CfA)
Пулковская обсерватория 1876 г. Here I present an album of photographs taken in 176 of the Pulkovo Observatory in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Music by Gustav Holst: .
Ludmila Belova/Various Observations
ludmilabelova.com
Exhibition: Contemporary art in traditional museum.
Project Observatory
Institute PRO ARTE, Pulkovo Astronomic Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences
September, 2007
Curators: Sergei Vassilievich Tolbin, Olesya Turkina
Authors: Elena Gubanova, Ivan Govorkov, Ludmila Belova, Sergey Bugaev - Afrika, Peter Bely (all St.Petersburg), Joulia Strauss (Germany), Susan Klenberg (USA)
Защитники Пулковской обсерватории вышли на пикеты
Под петицией в защиту Пулковской обсерватории подписалось более 23500 человек.
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