Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Next to "What telescope should I buy?" this is the most common question I usually get asked. ... What you can see depends on a lot of factors, including the type of telescope you bought, the quality of your local seeing conditions, and your level of skill. ... As a result, an experienced observer might enjoy deep sky objects in an 80 mm refractor, while a beginner with a light bucket next door is still struggling to find the Orion Nebula. ...

Next: SAS processing Up: Maintenance procedures Previous: Maintenance procedures Contents . Suitable observations should be longer than about 20 ksec, cover all the considered time period, and have different background levels, in particular the highest ones, so the sample should include observations taken at the beginning and end of the science window. It is helpful to consider objects for which no RGS spectrum is expected or to look at the RGS monitor pages. ... Michael Smith 2011-09-20 ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

... Our Milky Way galaxy is host to a number of companions. These companions are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way and are stellar systems in their own right. They include a population of about 150 globular clusters (GCs) and some 30 dwarf satellite galaxies (DSGs). ... These DSGs are more extended and diffuse compared to GCs. In fact the larger satellites of the Milky Way (and other galaxies, for that matter) host their own small systems of GCs. ...

Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002bu in NGC 4242 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. This is a type IIn supernova found in a galaxy which is in Canes Venatici. ... Mag . ... 2002/03/28.26 . ... A Leroy image . ... SUPERNOVA 2002bu IN NGC 4242 . ...

... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б  . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...

The overall efficiency (including atmospheric transmission, reflectivity of the telescope mirrors and overall efficiency of the optics and of the detector) for broad-band imaging should be about 25% in H and K, and about 15% in J. The main noise source for both broad- and narrow-band imaging should be the photon noise associated to the background+source flux. ... Flat fielding (and possibly background subtraction) might increase the noise by a factor 2 ? ...

... The chemically peculiar star HD965 belongs to a rare type of very slow rotators. As far back as in the 90s, G.Mathys (ESO, Chile) supposed its extremely slow rotation as observing split Zeeman components in the spectrum, from which he measured the magnetic field on its surface. Field variation proved to be very slow, and G.Mathys determined that the variability period should be longer than two years. ... Up to now, only two stars with periods longer than 20 years are known. ...

These include satellites which monitor the weather, such as the GOES series (one of which is shown on the right) of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ... To this class also belong "spy satellites" which observe the ground from low circular orbits. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) is currently studying the Earth atmosphere. ...

... 29a. Satellite looking up . 29c. Satellites probing around . ... The US Air Force furthermore sponsors polar satellites of the DMSP series, scanning the cloud cover of the polar region and also studying ions and electrons of the magnetosphere. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has studied the Earth atmosphere. ... Next Satellite Class: #29c Those observing local conditions . ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... 55 years since Yuri Gagarin's flight . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . ... History of flights . ... Acquire the data on dynamics of the body composition including the liquid media of the human organism and their distribution in a long term space flight. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... The molecular content of the DMTau and GGTau disks . ... 317, P L55-L58 (1997). ... Article in PDF format . ... 317, P L59-L62 (1997). ... 317, P L63-L66 (1997). ... 317, P L67-L70 (1997). ... 317, P L71-L74 (1997). ... 317, P L75-L78 (1997). ... 317, P L79-L81 (1997). ... 317, P 303-317 (1997). ... 317, P 318-327 (1997). ... 317, P 328-349 (1997). ... 317, P 350-357 (1997). ... 317, P 358-384 (1997). ... 317, P 385-392 (1997). ... 317, P 393-396 (1997). ... helpdesk@link.springer.de . ...

Some peculiarities of orbits of observed comets. ... Icarus, 2005 Simulation and reality Distribution of anti-perihelia of short-period comets with e 0.9 ( ecliptic coordinates ) Distribution of anti-perihelia of short-period comets with e 0.9 ( ecliptic coordinates ) Distribution of anti-perihelia of long-period comets with 0.9 e 1 ( ecliptic coordinates ) ­ ...

Magnetic stars, 2004, 268-271 The movie about the magnetism in isolated white dwarfs ґ Sliwinski M.S.1 , Krzyczkowska L.I. ґ 1 Astronomical Observatory of the Warsaw University, Al. ... Key words: white dwarfs ­ stars: magnetic fields ­ education 1 Isolated white dwarfs White dwarfs are intensively studied end products of stellar evolution. ... The progenitors of the vast ma jority of the isolated magnetic white dwarfs are likely to be the magnetic Ap and Bp stars. ... Astrophys., ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...