... To mark coordinate net in plot, first select Plate in menu bar and then Coordinate net in drop-down menu. ... User has possibility to save plot of sky or to print it using standard means. To save the file select File item in menu bar and then Save As... in drop-down menu. ... To print plot of plate select File item in menu bar and then take advantage of options Print Preview , Print Setup , Print. ... To return to the list of centers click on x button in title bar. ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... To address the problem of point-source photometry in restored images Lucy (1994) suggested a two-channel photometric restoration method in which the points are represented as functions in one channel and the background, constrained to be smooth by an additional entropy constraint, in the other. ... In the new CPLUCY implementation the stars can be at arbitrary x , y sub-pixel positions but the entropy constraint on the background, used by PLUCY, is retained. ...

... CBET now has an M31 novae page , M33 novae page , and an M81 novae page . ... Also, see W. Pietsch's M31 (apparent) optical nova catalogue , M33 novae catalog , and M81 novae catalog Please note that I do not keep track of galactic novae . Nova M81 2016-04a? (= PNV J09560598+6900401 ), ATEL 8904 discovered 2016/04/02.876 by Kamil Hornoch and H. Kucakova . ... Nova M31 2016-03a? (= PNV J00421695+4059098 ), CBAT TOCP discovered 2016/03/01.721 by unknown . ... other extragalactic Novae from 2016 . ...

... In January 2015 using the Mini-MegaTORTORA multichannel optical sky-monitoring system with subsecond temporal resolution, the observations of comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) and asteroid 357439 2004 BL86 were carried out. ... It was put into operation in 2014. ... Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). The 60-min-long observations with the Mini-MegaTORTORA system on Jan 19, 2015 at 16:50 UT, exposure time 30 s, BVR synchronously . ... Asteroid 357439 2004 BL86. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2009 . ... Direct Measurement of the Contribution of Point Sources to the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission in Record Deep Observations by the Chandra Observatory . ... These demonstrate that electrons generating hard X-ray intensity have been an initiator and main source of flare plasma heating, the particle acceleration and the plasma heating is a system with positive feed back. ...

APO/GIFS Instrument Factsheet The Goddard imager and Integral Field Spectrograph (GIFS) has recently been commissioned on the APO 3.5 m telescope. This factsheet presents a high level overview of the GIFS instrument. ... GIFS Imaging The GIFS imaging mode is used for imaging science and target acquisition for the IFS mode. ... Imaging Mode pixel scale: 0.168"/pixel · Comparison to Other APO 3.5m instruments: The GIFS field of view is smaller than SPICAM, but the filter set is far more extensive. ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

... The information is submitted as the tables and is distributed on given years of the observation, each of that, according to an adopted classification, includes the information about six active basins of the World Ocean: · the Northwest Pacific; · the Northeast Pacific; · the Northern Atlantic; · the Northern Indian ocean; · the Southern Indian ocean; · the Southwest Pacific. ... Lat' is latitude in degrees (up to one tenth) of the geographical place of the disturbance's onset. ...

... GCR and SCR are primary cosmic rays. 10-15 years after the discovery of cosmic radiation (1919) there emerged two main avenues of investigation in the physics of cosmic rays (CR): 1) nuclear - elucidation of the origin of elementary particles and nuclear interactions; and 2) astrophysical (space physics) - solution of the problem related to the origin and variations (changes in intensity) of CR. ... Besides, the CR flux in interplanetary space is, strictly speaking, not isotropic. ...

HARD X-RAY EMISSION FROM THE GALACTIC RIDGE R. Krivonos 1 2 1,2 , M. Revnivtsev 1,2 , E. Churazov 1,2 , S. Sazonov 1,2 , S. Grebenev1, and R. Sunyaev 1,2 Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia Max-Planck-Institute fur Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. ... Extensive study of the IBIS/ISGRI detector background allowed us to construct a model that predicts the detector count rate with 1 - 2% accuracy in the energy band 17-60 keV. ...

... Gravity data reflect changes, related to the groundwater redistribution, ice melting, and precipitation accumulation. ... We apply Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (MSSA, or extended EOF) technique to filter GRACE data and separate the principal components (PCs) of different periods. We performed data averaging over the large river basins of Russia. ... Fig 1. ... MSSA is a promising method for GRACE data processing, de-striping, filtering, and Principal Components (PCs) separation. ...

SN 1989B Light Curve Analysis. ... In the light curve depicting their observations, definite trends are noted, here is a "thumb-nail" analysis of the the magnitude estimations of the bright SN (1989B) in the galaxy NGC 3627 (M66). ... The observations were inserted against the V magnitude templete of BL, CCD photometric data, (Wells et. al, (1994) and a color trend (B-V) histogram of the mean type Ia SN (BL)(nutemp.gif). Key Words: Amateur Observations, Supernova, Magnitude Estimates, 1989B . ...

... Home Gallery Club Events AAA president Marcelo Cabrera presents AAA Amateur Astronomers Medal to Al Nagler of TeleVue Optics with AAA vice-president Susan Andreoli. ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... AAA president Marcelo Cabrera presents AAA Amateur Astronomers Medal to Al Nagler of TeleVue Optics with AAA vice-president Susan Andreoli. by . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Astronomy in Ukraine Past, Present, and Future (MAO-2014) . July 17, 2014, Kyiv, Ukraine . ... of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . ... The Conference MAO-2014 is devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MAO NASU). ... The Conference will be held at the MAO NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine. ... Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine . ... Main Astronomical Observatory . ...

Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... Educational programs (English) . Educational programs (Russian) . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... Samara State Aerospace University proposes to develop scientific and educational projects in the field of advanced space technologies together with developing countries. ... The University also took the initiative to hold in 2017 the United Nations Symposium in Samara, confined to the 60th anniversary of the space age beginning (launch of the first Earth satellite vehicle). ...