Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... Science . ... Since the early 1970's, Mark Trueblood has observed lunar occultations. He began observing minor planet occultations in the late 1970's. In late 2000, Mark began working with Robert Crawford of Tucson to observe minor planets to refine their orbits, concentrating on NEOs. A list of Minor Planet Electronic Circulars observed by Mark and Robert is available. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... 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. ...

... New offset/filter box. A new filter/box is available. ... It is lighter, smaller and sturdier than the filter/clock and offset boxes used till now. ... The offset is stabilized to a few parts in a million. ... Notice that only positions 0-3 are meaningful, while values of 4 and above will leave the signal unfiltered. The box has one input BNC, and two output BNC: one outputs the signal with the same polarity as the input, the other reverses the signal (remember that FIRPO has negative output). ...

... The IVOA Data Access Layer (DAL) working group is defining a Simple Spectral Access (SSA) protocol for accessing 1D spectra and SEDs. ... The survey consists of two parts. ... Elodie: 25000 extracted Echelle spectra, resolution 42000, 4000 - 6800 ? ... ISO 1D Spectral Data: 10000 files, 2.4-197 micron, resolution 40-30000 . ... XMM-Newton 1D Spectral Data: XMM/RGS, 20000 spectra (expected), 0.35-2.5 keV, resolution 200-800; XMM/EPIC, 1.5 mio. spectra (expected), 0.35-15 keV, resolution 20-50 . ...

... At 22:42:27 UT 26/07/09, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on board of the SWIFT multi-wavelength space observatory triggered and located GRB 090726 gamma-ray burst event. ... About half an hour after the BAT trigger, the first images were obtained with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope in four BVRI filters (see Fig.1). ... The spectrum of the optical transient was obtained with the SAO RAS 6-m BTA telescope 1.54 hours after the burst, using the SCORPIO instrument in the spectroscopic mode (Fig.2). ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1998dh in NGC 7541 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... Perpignan Observatory 1998dh page in French [ Translate ] . ... LOSS image sequence (color) marked images NEW 4/6/99 . click on image for more color images) This is a color composite image of Supernova 1998dh in NGC 7541 . ... Perpignan Observatory images 7/30/98 00h25m31s . ... Pedro RИ image 8/21/98 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

... Membership . ... The name of this organization shall be Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Incorporated (hereinafter abbreviated as AAAP). ... General membership shall be open to any person paying dues with the proviso that any member under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult while at any AAAP meeting, other function, or observatory. ... A. Director The Director shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees and at all general membership meetings. ...

In the this version .. ... Adaptable to any dome with relay control of rotation and optionally the shutters . Rotation encoding with RFID tags using Phidgets RFID tag reader . Used with XmTel and XmCCD provides automatic dome rotation to follow the pointing of a telescope . ... PyDome provides for local or remote operation of an astronomical telescope dome. While specific to the hardware we use for the Shared Skies programs at Moore and Mt. ... Latest version 1.0 updated July 23, 2012 . ...

... This telescope is also able to be used in a non-assisted manner. ... Upon availability, the use of the Club's 10" dobsonian mount telescope. Upon availability, the use of the Club's 16" Meade LightBridge telescope. ... Use of the Club's Coronado Personal Solar Telescope and Cemax Eyepieces. Use of the Club's Video Eyepieces. ... Use of Club Binoculars. ... It's all part of being here and just one of many telescopes that are the benefit of being a member of the Richland Astronomical Society. ...

Astronomy Department was found in Kyiv University in 1834 together with other twelve departments of the Faculty of Philosophy. ... At that time V.Struve was a World famous astronom, and helped V.Fedorov in creation of Kyiv University Astronomical Observatory. ... M.Khandrikov successfuly modernized the Observatory. ... Researches of the history of Kyiv Observatory say about an important contribution into development of orbits theory made by the famous Kyiv astronoms I.Illinsky and I.Putilin. ...

... Prompt and Follow Up Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts . ... Video weather at MASTER-Domodedovo . Video weather at MASTER-Kislovodsk . ... Survey data . GCN sites and links . ... GCN . ... Conus data . HETE data . ... Weather . ... Last SN . Last SN: full list . Comet Observation Home Page . Gaia Science Alerts Working Group . ... The Earth-Orbiting Space Junk Tracking Page . ... GCN Circulars . ... Internet observations . Hete pointing direction . ...

. The following commands can be used while you are preparing a mail message in send mode. To ... Do this . cancel the mail message ~x preview the mail message ~p add users to the Cc: list ~c users add users to the Bcc: list ~b users display this list of commands ~? use the visual editor on your mail message ~v insert a file into the mail message ~r filename add your signature ~a or ~A add users to the To: list ~t users run a shell command ~! command include output from a shell command ~<! command .

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Lowell Observatory . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Links on this page are to sites that hold information on the Sun , our nearest star . ... Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) , California, USA. Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) , Hawai'i, USA. ... Space Environment Center, Current Solar Images , Boulder, Colorado, USA. ... Solar Data Analysis Center, Latest Images , at GSFC, Maryland. ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Solar Physics (at GSFC). ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Space Physics (at GSFC). Back to Links ...

The first character in each record (line) of formatted output defines a carriage control character to the lineprinter, often called ASA-character, for a previous name of the US Standardization Organization ANSI. ... When using VAX/VMS for output first on a file, which is to be printed later on paper, it is advisable to use the extension .DAT . ... You use the compiler switch -vms f77 -vms prog.f and get the control characters removed from the screen output. ...

NOTE: The storm sudden commencement data file was updated on 18 Feb 1998. o Revised data for 1968-1975 were taken from IAGA Bulletin No. ... Indices aa and storm sudden commencements"; see also IAGA Bulletin 39: " Supplementary Geomagnetic Data 1957-1975", including a new list of ssc's 1968-1975). ... From the monthly reports of Rapid Variations prepared by 43 magnetic observatories (see list page 121), a combined list of all events is compiled. ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...