... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

... The files in this directory are for installing the latest version 3.0.0 of AstroImageJ on Linux, Windows, and Mac operating systems. ... If you have Java already installed on your system (32-bit or 64-bit), download the following version of AstroImageJ that does not include Java embedded in installation. ... To install AstroImageJ on a 64-bit Windows machine, install the following file which includes the Java 7 64-bit runtime environment ( jre ). ... Run AIJ by double-clicking AstroImageJ.exe. ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

... Gallery . ... The Common Room roof is completed . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: The Common Room roof is completed . Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... The Common Room roof is completed NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). Solution of problems at identification of star field. ... 2) Scale is not correct. ... In this case algorithm of identification will revise all values of scale from twice smaller up to twice greater. ... There should be more than value of the field "Number of stars in frame". ... The star field is considered identified if number of the identified stars more or equally to this value. It is necessary to set value from 4 up to value of field "Number of stars in frame". ...

Next: The Present Situation in Up: No Title Previous: Case A: . Why it is possible that the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit exceeds ? ... The lifetime of HSP (``hot'' spinar) is completely determined by the cooling time which is of the order of s according to different calculations. ... It seems very attractive to identify this cooling time with the mean characteristic gamma-ray burst duration s! . ... Finally, for the high Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit for the cool non-rotating object, when . ...

Up: Sky Surveys . ... The object catalogue and compressed pixel data are stored online and are accessible via the WWW. ... small area (up to 15arcmin) pixel images with attached object catalogue, . ... The primary data format is FITS for both images and binary tables of object catalogues, which enables porting of the data into established software packages. ... In this way, it is possible to browse the data by clicking on objects in the image display or the catalogue list to highlight them in both. ...

ATM Forum Message . ... Post . ... A.S.I.G.N. Observatory . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Barry on March 4, 2007 12:37:34 UTC . ... I have also had a professional re-design on the website, so now it looks better and is NOT located at the old barry's home-made observatory (iinet.net) link. It has been re-named A.S.I.G.N Observatory. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . GRB workshop 2009 . ... GRB host galaxies are not peculiar objects. ... At present, long GRBs are identified with explosions of (probably) usual massive stars at the end of their evolution, i.e. massive (core-collapse) supernovae (CC-SNe). Thus, now GRBs are identified with 1) regions of the forming of massive stars (with massive star-forming) in host galaxies and 2) with explosions of short-living massive stars in the same galaxies - CC-SN/GRBs. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... GSC 4232-02515, NSVS 3147658, NSVS 3174760 . ... 14.2-14.9 (R, NSVS); . ... During observations of a secondary eclipse of GSC 04232-02830 (Goranskij et al., 2005) on August 8, 2007, we identified GSC 4232-02515 as a W UMa eclipsing binary. ... VAST software was used for aperture photometry. ... This method produces a light curve with an arbitrary zero point. ... Light Curve . Light curve of GSC 4232-02515 in NSVS magnitude scale. ... gsc423202515_kadar_nsvs.dat . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Все про астрономическое оборудование > Астрономическое оборудование > Вопрос Лорду Вэйдеру. ... Просмотр полной версии : Вопрос Лорду Вэйдеру. ... 29.11.2007, 12:39 . На облачных ночах появилась любопытная информация от Лорда Вэйдера. ... В общем то да. ... Если в данный проект вложены огромные деньги (примерно так в тексте), возможно что-то готовое в конце концов и появится.. Забыл добавить - Вэйдер это вероятно VD? . ...

... Font: Text: Variable: Symbol: Times New Roman Times New Roman Italic True Type Symbol font (Type 1 fonts only) Type Size: Paper title : Author (s): Affiliation (s): Normal text: Text in tables: Symbols: Sub/super-script: 12 10 10 10 9 10 7 pt pt pt pt pt pt pt bold ( TITLE ) bold ( Author ) italic ( Affiliation ) (regular text) ( ) (x y) GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS For Latex users, a set of macros is available on the ESA Publications www-site ... Papers must be prepared in this two-column format. ...

MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . ... PROGRESS M1-5 CARGO VEHICLE . ... The Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle launched on 24 January 2001 from Baikonur Cosmodrome following the completion of a three-day autonomous flight in a near-earth orbit to the MIR Orbital Complex, docked to it on the Kvant module side. ... At 7 hours 28 minutes 42 seconds Moscow Time the Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle-tanker was launched to the MIR Orbital Complex. photo-report . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Armagh Planetarium Events News of events at Armagh Planetarium . ... Education . ... Written by AP_admin on February 29, 2016 in Family Events . ... Over five weeks, the course takes a season by season look at the stars in their constellations and the mythology surrounding them.б We will look at how to spot satellites and planets too. If you want to discover the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Stargazing the Night Sky? ... 2016 Armagh Planetarium Events. ...

CERTIFICATE Alexander Wolf alex.v.wolf@gmail.com has successfully completed: Semantic Web Technologies by Dr. Harald Sack The course covered the following topics: the basic architecture and applied technologies knowledge representation with W3C standards such as RDF , RDF Schema, OWL, and rules storing RDF data in triple stores and using SPARQL to query RDF data publishing Linked Data and ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...