This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Al Takeda on 06/06/2012 13:24:43 . Venus Transit and Clouds Movie . In an attempt to find a clear area to view the Venus transit, I drove down to southern New Jersey. ... During the transit, a few tiny sucker holes would cross the face of the sun and show Venus transiting the sun for a few fleeting moments. ... 08:06 EDT, 5 June 2012. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... We are obtaining Cousins (B)VRI photometry for the brighter southern stars. Initial results from observations of stars from NLTT sample 1 were obtained from the South African Astronomical Observatory, and are presented by Reid, Kilkenny Cruz (AJ 2002). ... Figure C2.2 compares the 2MASS near-infrared and SAAO optical photometry of the NLTT dwarfs against data for well-studied nearby stars. ... Weis . ... Bessell, M.S. Weis, E.W. 1987, PASP 99, 642 . ... NStars proper motions index . ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... On 26 October 2009 in Moscow, in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) a meeting was held of the leading Russian scientists and statesmen with the Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw and the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey. ... Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw. ... Balega, the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey, Director General of the ESO Tim de Zeeuw, deputy director of the SAO RAS V.V.Vlasuyk . ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... Up: Applications of CCF Previous: Cross References to In-Flight Contents . ... Table 8: Cross reference of use of telescope related CCF's. CCF Component . ... CAL_rgsgetXRTFigure ( 3.4.33 ) . Table 9: Cross reference of use of EPIC related CCF's. CCF Component . ... Table 10: Cross reference of use of RGS related CCF's. CCF Component . CAL Function . ... left empty -- unused . ... Table 11: Cross reference of use of OM related CCF's by CAL call and corresponding SAS task. ... omlcbuild . ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...

... Karpachev A.T., IZMIRAN, e-mail: karp@izmiran.ru . ... The empirical median model of the shape and position of the MIT (Main Ionospheric Trough) in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is presented. ... Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.26, ? ... Karpachev A.T., Afonin V.V. Dependence of the ionospheric trough occurrence probability on the season, local time, longitude, and level of magnetic activity Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.38, ? ... Karpachev A.T. Characteristics of a Ring Ionospheric Trough. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... main [?] . ... Cross-match your data with our catalogue! User table: Must be valid VOTable or CSV file . Format of the input file: . VOTable - XML-based format . CSV (Comma-Separated Values) - simple text format . CSV format requires names of columns with coordinates. Name of RA column: Dec: . Hint: CSV is a simple text format where the data columns are separated by the comma and the first line contains the names of the corresponding columns. ...

... General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database, Version 2012 Feb.) ... The cross-identification tables of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) contain all GCVS (including extragalactic variables from vol.V), NSV (New catalogue of Suspected Variable stars) and Supplement to the NSV stars as well as stars from the name-lists of variable stars nos. 67 - 80; it also makes it possible to find out identifications between the GCVS and the NSV catalogue. ... I-III) names are included. ...

... 18 июня 2000 . ... Млечный Путь в окрестностях Южного Креста . Благодарности: Greg Bock , Southern Astronomical Society . Пояснение: Поразительная небесная заплата в центре этой фотографии была бы у вас над головой, если бы вы стояли на Южном Полюсе Земли. ... четыре звезды, которые отмечают границы знаменитого Южного Креста . ... оранжевая Гамма Южного Креста . ... темная туманность Угольный Мешок , а у правого края яркая туманность Киля . ... А. Сергеев , оформление, 1999, 2000. ...

... The solar regions . ... The description of the solar regions . ... The fine bipolar sunspots were observed at the mid latuitudes of the Northern hemisphere since 22.09 to 24.09, to the West of the Sun disc. ... The high latitude bipolar sunspots which were observing in the Northern hemisphere since 24.02 to 26.02 near the central meridian. ... The bipolar sunspot's cloud was observing at the middle latitudes of the Northern hemisphere since 13.05 to 20.05 in the West part of the Sun disc. ...

... Up: Sky Surveys . ... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search - PS reprint - PDF reprint . McCullough, P. R. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... The scientific motivation for the survey and its photometric and astrometric calibration were described in this ADASS presentation and in Gaustad et al. 2001). ... Gaustad, J. E., McCullough, P. R., Rosing, W., & Van Buren, D. 2001, PASP, 113, 1326 . ... McCullough, P. R., Fields, B. D., & Pavlidou, V. 2002, ApJ, 576, L41 . ...

I/199 Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola+ 1987) =============================================================================== = Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog Klemola A.R., Hanson R.B., Jones B.F. <Astron. ... Positions are given for equinox B1950 and computed epoch 1950. ... Other data given for each star are: the original mean epoch, a stellar class code, the number of NPM fields measured, and discrepancy flags for position, proper motion, and photometry. ...

... Количество полетов - . Продолжительность полетов - . ... Родился 31 октября 1949 года в городе Расселлвилл (Russellville), штат Кентукки (Kentucky). ... В январе 1990 года был зачислен в отряд астронавтов НАСА в составе 13-го набора в качестве пилота . ... С 30 сентября по 11 октября 1994 года в качестве пилота шаттла Endeavour STS-68. ... С 16 по 26 сентября 1996 года в качестве пилота шаттла Atlantis STS-79. ... С 23 по 31 января 1998 года в качестве командира экипажа шаттла Endeavour STS-89. ...

Welcome to the AAAP Simpson Observatory 2016 season information page. The Simpson Observatory is located in Washington Crossing State Park, [on the NJ side] several miles south of Pennington, NJ. The observatory is a slide-roof design, allowing for optimal viewing of the sky in any direction. http://www.princetonastronomy.org/directions.html . ... THE OBSERVATORY WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC . ... Enter Washington Crossing State Park (NJ side) off of Bear Tavern Road . ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...

... Main mirror of the radio telescope consists of 36 groups with 25 elements of each one. ... Size of a element 11.5 x 2 m. Thus total geometric area of the main circle is equal to 20000 m in square. Southern sector (nine 26-35 groups) are driving with new automatic system of the. ... Simultaneosly Southern sector could used for observations with Flat mirror. ... The asimuthal observations are possible with system: Flat mirror and Southern sector and feed-cabine #3 at arc-rail-ways. ...

Supernova 2006X in M100 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2006X in NGC 4321 = ( M100 ). ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered is shared by Shoji Suzuki (Japan) and M. Migliardi of CROSS (Italy). ... Icon generated from the CROSS color image. ... APOTD for 2006/03/07 . ... CROSS image . ... Discovery, mirror . ... JM Llapasset image . ... J. Nicolas image . ... Joel Nicolas image . ...