... Paper by Bessell on Hipparcos and Tycho Passbands . ... Paper by Sung and Bessell on 40inch CCD UBVRI extinction and standard transformations. ... Paper by Bessell on Standard Systems for Encylopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics . ... Corrected fluxes for Hamuy et al. standard stars. ... Contact: Prof. Michael S. Bessell Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Mount Stromlo Observatory Cotter Rd, ACT 2611 Australia telephone: +61 2 6125 0268, fax: +61 2 6125 0233 email: bessell@mso.anu.edu.au...

... Archives . ... AstroStat special session at HEAD . ... Jan 25th, 2008| 12:37 pm | ... Only three papers this week. ... Category: arXiv | Comment ( RSS ) | ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... Table of Contents -- Index -- PS reprint -- PDF reprint . ... The recently reshaped VizieR system, a unified query interface to an increasing number of catalogs (presently ), is presented. ... Besides the adoption of this new protocol, the most visible changes in this new version of VizieR are an easy access to notes, and possibilities of navigation between the tables of a catalog. ... There are presently rows in this table, i.e. an average of tables per catalog. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Sky Guide . ... Hubble pins down age of oldest known star . ... A team of astronomers using NASAт??s Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star thatт??s been around for a long time. т??We have found that this is the oldest known star with a well-determined age,т?? said Howard Bond of Pennsylvania State University in University Park and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore,...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... What's the farthest distance you can see? Looking around during the day, chances are the farthest you can see is only a few kilometers. If you are up in a tall building, you might be able to see objects as much as 100 kilometers away. ... But if you look up , you can see for about 150 million kilometers! ... That's about 20 million million million kilometers away, or a 2 followed by 19 zeroes! ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The package includes a new ``hybrid'' symplectic integrator capable of handling close encounters, described at the conference: The Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , Namur, Belgium (Chambers 1998). ... NRC Research Associate, NASA/Ames Research Center , Moffett Field CA, USA, planetary accretion, formation of the asteroid belt and extra-solar planets. ... G.Laughlin and J.E.Chambers (2002) Astronomical Journal, , in press. ... American Astron. ... Home page of planet hunters Marcy and Butler ....

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... NASA Sun Earth Connection Education Forum . ... Venus Transit 2004 . ... This was made possible by Johannes Kepler's understanding of the orbital behavior of celestial objects (his now famous three laws of planetary motion), careful inspection of Kepler's predictions by an English astronomer - Jeremiah Horrocks , the wisdom of Edmond Halley who not only discovered a comet but developed the first detailed plan for calculating the AU from transits of the sun, and a concept called "parallax"; . ...