Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... At our last meeting Ron Mittelstaedt showed me his recent copy of an observing guide to The Caldwell Objects by Stephen James O'Meara published by Sky Publishing. ... Another item is my observing chair. ... There are 122 members. ... I am not going to send out renewal notices to members who get magazines, they get enough notices from their respective publishers. ... This effort was called Project Orion. ... The University Store will be selling copies of Project Orion at the meeting on Tuesday...

... By undertaking a spectral and photometric investi­ gation of the central part of the bright elliptical galaxy NGC 759, we have found an optical counterpart for the circumnuclear molecular gas ring with the radius of # 3 ## (# 1 kpc) which was earlier reported by Wiklind et al. ... 2 Fig. ... More likely, this ring may be a consequence of a tidal encounter between the elliptical galaxy NGC 759 and a large spiral galaxy which was accompanied by a substantial gas accretion. ...

... 000, 1­13 (2010) Printed 21 September 2011 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) A universal ultraviolet-optical colour­colour­magnitude relation of galaxies I1gor V. Chilingarian1,2, and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2011 Sep 15; in original form 2011 Feb 6 ABSTRACT The bimodal galaxy distribution in the optical colour­magnitude diagram (CMD) comprises a narrow "red sequence" populated mostly by early-type galaxies and a broad "blue cloud" dominated by star-forming systems. ...