The brightest comet was seen in Novosibirsk
The author of the picture was Michael Maslov and all he needed is bridge camera. Micheal is an engineer from Vega observational and he was in Kolyvanskiy district which is on the north of Novosibirsk oblast when he took the picture of C/2014 S2 (the brightest comet at the moment). The picture was taken at the place where the clarity of the atmosphere allows to see the numerous quantity of objects in the sky. As it was already said the picture was taken without help of telescope and that means that each professional photographer can take a picture of that comet. The comet C/2014 S2 was registered by PanSTARRs (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) in Hawaii. The star magnitude of the comet is 9.4 and the closest point to Sun of this object is 2.10 astronomical units about 299 million kilometers.
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The high quality sleighing track in Kemerovo
The new track can be used even in warm weather because it will have special cooling system. The sport center will be located near Tebenkovka village (Kemerovo district). The sport center in general will consist of sleighing track, hotel, one finish and three start lines and many others essential objects. The total length of the track is 1200 meters with elevation of 81 meters and with average rated speed of 100 kilometers per hour. The head engineer of the project Gennady Shmidt told that they received all the necessary recommendations from the head coach of Russian team in luge Albert Demchenko. The building of the sport center will be launched in 2016.
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