... Sky Guide . ... Turbulence explains magnetic field misbehavior in solar flares . ... New research led by a Johns Hopkins mathematical physicist focuses on the т??misbehaviorт?? of magnetic fields in solar flares. ... Using complex computer modeling to mimic what happens to magnetic fields when they encounter turbulence within a solar flare, the researchers built their case, explaining why the usual rule did not apply. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Winer . ... The Irvin Marvin Winer Memorial Mobile Observatory, Inc. was named upon its incorporation in 1983 after Irvin M. Winer. The Winer Scientific Director, Mark Trueblood, met Irv at Wesleyan University in 1971, when Mark had just begun his graduate studies in physics and Irv had just completed his Ph.D. and was staying on as an assistant professor. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... Almost all DSOs require a telescope to see in any detail at all, though some can be detected with just binoculars, and a few can be barely seen with the unaided eye. ... DEGREE: Distances on the sky (sometimes called the celestial sphere) are measured in angular degrees rather than inches or feet. ... The magnification is the focal length of the telescope divided by the focal length of the eyepiece. ... Short focal length eyepieces are also termed high power, long focal length are low power. ...

Surface-layer turbulence measurements with lunar scintillometer Idea of the method Hardware & software Campaigns & results New horizons Andrei Tokovinin NOAO/CTIO Kislovodsk Oct. 2010 1 Turbulence measurement from scintillation of extended sources Moon's angular diameter =0.5 deg Correlated scintillation for b > z z=10m b=0.1m z=100m b=1m z=10km b=100m BI(b) = W(b,z) Cn2(z)dz Weighting functions zW(z) for b=0...0.4m and d=1cm 2 Kislovodsk Oct. ... 2010 12 Paranal: October 14, 2008 Kislovodsk Oct. ...

... The then president of the Society, Mr. Robert Burke, appointed a committee of eight or ten members, most of whom had made smaller mirrors, as an instrument committee, with Mr. Thorpe as chairman. ... Seriously, the best practicable solution seemed to be to build a machine to do the grinding and polishing. ... It was decided to grind the edges of the mirror to make it truly circular, as the rough cast glass was some 3/8 inch longer on one diameter than on the other. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... The unlocked gate at the entrance to the observatoryтАЩs gravel driveway should remain closed to prevent the public from driving back to the observatory. ... This means that if there are still members of the public present at the observatory who do not wish to leave by 11:30 PM they will be locked in the park until a keyholder leaves and secures the gate(s) behind him/her. ... Roll the roof back using the hand crank near the computer room. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

Observing sessions Dippach . We will meet every first Saturday each month. Meeting point will be on the parking in front of the railway station in Dippach-Gare. ... Only under clear skies . ... at: Clubroom 05:30 pm . ... Observation session . ... Meeting point: Dippach-Gare . ... AAL Facebook site . ... O Farol 72,rue Jean Jaures L-3490 Dudelange 05:00 pm . ... Meeting point: Parc Leh Dudelange . ... Meeting point: Dippach-Gare / side Dippach . ... Meeting point: Clubroom Dudelange . ...

... Appropriate values of DIT the integration time (DIT secs) for each individual integration, are lmited by various considerations. N.B. Ndit individual Integration s each of DIT secs are coadded to form a single Exposure of time Ndit*DIT]. The recommended minimum DIT is one sec (the minimum possible exposure time) or the value at which the noise becomes sky (rather than detector) limited. ... The recommended maximum DIT is such as to keep the detector wells less than half full. ... 40 sec . ...

Lectures . ... Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?? ? by Alan Guth . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Dr. Alan H. Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf professor€аof physics at MIT, will deliver the AAA?s annual John Marshall Memorial Lecture on Friday, November 6, when€аhe discusses ?Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?? ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... Properly set up your telescope as described in your telescope user's manual. ... Focus the telescope for use with the camera. Focusing a telescope with a CCD camera attached is one of the most difficult tasks in CCD imaging. ... This is so that a part of the image (the part you want to focus on) is downloaded each time, for quicker response. ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

... 000, 1­12 (2009) Printed 11 February 2010 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands I1gor V. Chilingarian1 2 ,2,3 , Anne-Laure Melchior 1,4 and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2010 February 01; in original form 2009 August 14 ABSTRACT To compare photometric properties of galaxies at different redshifts, the fluxes need to be corrected for the changes of effective rest-frame wavelengths of filter bandpasses, called K -corrections. ... Table 1. ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .