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Sternberg astronomical institute activities on site testing programs review Victor Kornilov comprehensive/characterization/of/astronomical/sites > kislovodsk/russia/2010/october/4-9 > Introduction This presentation responds on our activity in 5 last years only, inspite of that in SAI site testing researches have been started many years ago. ... More detailed discussion is devoted to MASS and DIMM measurements processing, some additional effects which were taken in account in last year. ...

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... Observatory . ... THE HISTORY OF AAAP . ... After introductory remarks by Robert Sanders, founder of the Association, it was moved that the name of the organization be Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton. ... 2/72 First issue of Sidereal Times, so named by Editor Roxanne Tobin. ... 5/72 Election of officers: Norman Sperling, Director; John Church, Assist. ... Sidereal Times, John gives the following report: . ... Sidereal Times.) ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Т? 2015. ...

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... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Une Fran†зaise d†йcouvre une com†иte . ... Claudine Rinner, une astronome amateur fran†зaise, a d†йcouvert dans la nuit du 28 au 29 novembre 2011 une com†иte qui porte d†йsormais son nom. ... 29/02/2016 - Neuvi†иme plan†иte : une †йquipe fran†зaise indique o†µ chercher . ...

VISTA Data Flow System: Status Jim Emerson*a, Mike Irwinb, Nigel Hamblyc b a Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary Universit y o f London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Inst itute of Astronomy, Universit y of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, c Inst itute for Astronomy, School of Phys ics, Universit y of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK ABSTRACT Data from two IR survey cameras UKIRT's WFCAM and ESO's VISTA can arrive at rates approaching 1.4 TB/night for of order 10 years. ...

... 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. ...

... Soc. 376, 1033­1046 (2007) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11549.x Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653 I. V. Chilingarian,1 1 2 ,2,3 P. Prugniel, 2,4 O. K. Sil'chenko1 and V. L. Afanasiev 5 Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, Universitetsky pr. ... Fitting the spectra with synthetic single stellar populations (SSP), we found an SSPequivalent age of 5 Gyr and nearly solar metallicity [Fe/H] =-0.06 dex. ... 2007 The Authors. ...

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 349, 1397­1418 (2004) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07619.x The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey ­ XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function S. M. Croom,1 R. J. Smith,2 B. J. Boyle,1 T. Shanks,3 L. Miller,4 P. J. Outram3 and N. S. Loaring4,5 1 2 3 4 5 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead CH41 1LD Department of Physics, University of