... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/21/2010 11:27:35 . Dec. 21st Total Lunar Eclipse; Partial phase through the clouds . ... Around 1 am I could see the outline of the full Moon shining through the low cloud deck. ... Around 1:41 EST (06:41UT) I took a few images of the partial phase before the clouds thickened and completely obscured the Moon for the rest of the night. 1/100-second, f/8, ISO 800. Lens: Canon EF 400mm f5.6L + 1.4X Extender. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at ESO s Paranal Observatory in Chile has obtained the sharpest view ever of the dusty disk around the close pair of aging stars IRAS 08544-4431. For the first time, such disks can be compared to the disks around young stars and they look surprisingly similar. ... The inset shows the VLTI reconstructed image, with the brighter central star removed. The background view shows the surroundings of this star in the constellation Vela the Sails. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... The Astrophysics Group is now based in the new Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, which is located close to the Institute of Astronomy off the Madingley Road to the west of Cambridge city centre. ... The Cavendish Laboratory itself is on J.J. Thomson Avenue on the University West Cambridge site across the Madingley Road. ... If eastbound towards the city, look for a long traffic island with a right-turn break through signposted J.J. Thomson Avenue . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

... Of course, at the time, I did not realize that the phone call that night would alter the course of my life.It seemed like a normal phone call, nothing out of the ordinary, just a call from Sam asking me to meet him the next day. ... He seemed so anxious to see you," she worried. ... Although Sam did not call again, Mirabella continued to pester me about going to see him. ... We arranged to meet the next day. The day I went into town to see Sam was the first really cold day of fall. ...

... Discussion of Declination Drive Design . ... It is held in my personal stock of parts to replace a drive that might go out of service for some reason on one of the two LX200 telescopes that I am responsible for keeping in good repair.  ... The photocells detect light from a pair of small lights through the encoder mask and encoder wheel encased in the gear box housing. ... In one case of declination drive runaway, the cause was breaking of one of the leads to one of the photocells.  ... All fixed!! ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

Subatomic resolution on Cu(014)-O . 3nm x 3nm STM image of the Cu(014)-O 0.5ML surface measured with MnNi tip. ... This result has been discussed in Phys. Rev. Letters, 98, 206101 (2007) (A.N.Chaika, V.N.Semenov, S.S.Nazin, S.I.Bozhko, S. Murphy, K. Radican, I.V.Shvets, "Atomic Row Doubling in the STM Images of Cu(014)-O Obtained with MnNi Tips"). Image courtesy of A.Chaika. The image was measured in constant current mode using RT STM GPI-300. Copyright ISSP RAS, LSSS, 2006-2007 . ...

... It's the Asiatic Society, Mumbai State Central Library. ... We are going to visit the Elephanta island. Here are the boats that convey people to the island. Warning: never buy the tourist guides (about the Elephanta island) for 100 Rupees in Mumbai! They cost about 10 Rupees on the island. ... It's so-called Gateway of India. ...

... Additional training . ... TU-154 landed on Smyshlyaevka airfield for the first time of its history. ... This plane TU-154 should complete its aviation life as a training tool for students of Samara Aerospace University. ... Ruben Yesayan is the aircraft commander. ... But no one believes that this bright and brave man - Ruben Yesayan again will not sit at the wheel of Samara TU-154 his own favourite aircraft - as he admitted himself. Transportation of the plane on SSAU training airfield is ahead. ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... By the early beginnings of NASA's and America's human space program some 40 years ago, the Langley Research Center in Virginia had a long and rich history. ... It was the first home of the Space Task Group (STG), which was formed with NACA/NASA engineers to conduct the Mercury Project. ... Though physically located at Langley until the completion of Project Mercury, the STG was initially part of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Beltsville, Md. ...

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EPIC/MOS Diagnostic images analysis Philippe Ferrando, Michel Lortholary - CEA/SAp · The figure sh ows 100 frames of data taken in threshold mode (threshold at ~ 1.5 keV). Cosmic-ray tracks are clearly visible. ... Radiation meeting - Vilspa Nov.30, 2000 Philippe Ferrando CEA /SAp Flux and caracteristics of tracks (II) Deposited spectrum · By adding all the amplitudes of pixels in a track, a lower limit of the energy measured per track is obtained. ... The average is 73 sterilized pixels / track. ...

... 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., ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of "hibernation". Yesterday, on the first day of autumn, new sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun following an absence of almost 50 days. ... The first low lasted 51 days, from 21 July until 11 September last year. ... Now, almost a year later, it seems the Sun has hit a new low almost as "deep" as the first. ...