... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

Short-Period Comets: Origin and Terrestrial Impact Hazard . ... The model is consistent with the basic observed distributions of near-parabolic comets, short-period comets, Centaurs and high-eccentricity trans-Neptunian objects.This model requires that initial objects in the early Solar System are concentrated to the outer planetary region, and the physical lifetime of comets in the inner planetary region at the present epoch is an increasing function of initial perihelion distances. ...

Next: This Work Previous: Rotation Periods of ZAMS Stars . ... There are currently several groups involved in the studies of the rotation periods of PMS stars. ... Overall, there are about 100 rotation periods known for PMS stars. ... Furthermore, the stars with periods near 8 days also tend to have infrared excesses which can be interpreted as arising from disks. ... In the first interpretation, the gap occurs because locking mechanism holds stars at a eight day rotation period. ...

We report here on those proposed UIT targets that, in fact, were successfully acquired. Where possible we provide an optical CCD image of the target or the field. ... A1 centered at 2500 angstroms with a width of 1200 angstroms . B5 centered at 1615 angstroms with a width of 150 angstroms . ... The exposure was 1174 seconds through B5. M31 southern field was imaged for 1045 seconds through the B5 filter. ... NGC 1291 a nearby elliptical galaxy was imaged for 505 seconds through B5. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 04 - 10.11.2013, Forecast on 11 - 18.11.2013, Carrington Rotation 2143 (25,43.10.2013) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN REMAINED AT THE HIGH АND THE MIDDLE LEVELS. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE MID- DLE AND THE LOW LEVELS. ... BY SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS DATA THERE WERE OBSERVED 46 CME FROM WHICH 2 WERE THE "PARTIAL HALO III" TYPE AND 6 - "PARTIAL HALO II". ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . CPO was formed in 1997 to promote interest in amateur astronomy and observing the wonders of the night sky. ... Listed Since July 15, 1998 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... The highlight of the month is the total eclipse of the Moon during the night of December 20/21. ... Listed below are some of the key events, and the times they will occur, during December's total lunar eclipse. ... The eclipse is also visible in its entirety from Alaska (local time is UT тАУ 9 hours) and Hawaii (UT тАУ 10 hours), but be aware that most of the eclipse occurs on the 20th in these two regions. ... Penumbral Eclipse Begins . ... Partial Eclipse Begins . ... Total Eclipse Begins . ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

... Many of these radi HII regions lie beyond the range of optical detection, at distances exceeding several kpc; they thus provide a comprehensive coverage of the southern HII regions in the Galaxy over the longitude range 210 to 360^o and consistute a vital data base for the study of galactic structure. ... C Caswell (1972) . ... In column 16, "V", or a specific nebula name, denotes the presence of a visible optical counterpart, and "A" indicates the absence of an optical counterpart. ...

... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

Next: Transparency of the Stochastic Up: Model of the Galaxy Previous: Frequency distribution of galactic . ... The parameters of the model resulted from a numerical fitting of various data, such as the observed distribution of the young star population and neutral hydrogen, the density of population II stars in the vicinity of the Sun, the galactic rotation curve and the dynamics and distribution of globular clusters   and dwarf irregular satellites of the Galaxy. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS015, 2001 TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE "SOUTH POLE - AITKEN " BASIN. ... Head [2] and Spudis [1] suggested in their reviews that the existense of the structure identified later as the South Pole - Aitken baasin was first predicted on the basis of a relief analysis of the mountain ridges observed in the libration zone be Hartman and Kuiper [7], i.e. after the first images of the lunar far-side had been obtained. ... SOUTH POLE-AIKEN BASIN: V.I.Chikmachev et al. ...

... Between them, the following points are touched: ICRF-2 structure, ICRF Core sources selection, and some expected user's requirements. ... Suggested total number of sources is close to the number of sources already observed in the IVS and VCS sessions, and for most of them reliable positions are derived, mostly for declination > -40 deg. ... So, results of source position time series analysis heavily depend on method used for time series computation and should be used with care. ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Gregory Errol Chamitoff (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: In 1995, Dr. Chamitoff joined Mission Operations at the Johnson Space Center, where worked as a Guidance and Control Flight Controller. ... SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Expedition 17/18 - In 2008, Dr. Chamitoff served as the flight engineer and science officer for a 6-month mission aboard the International Space Station during Expeditions 17 and 18. ... OCTOBER 2013 . ...

The preliminary version of documentation of the format for the interchange of calibrated optical/IR data being developed by Tom Pauls of NRL and John Young of COAST was presented and a number of issues discussed. The proposed format is in the general form of a relational database with different components stored in FITS binary tables. ... Should there be a single data table type that includes all data types, or multiple table types, one per data type? What data types are needed? ...

... ASD-002 SDSS Observers' Report for 2.5m secondary incident . ... The SDSS 2.5m secondary has developed a crack in it. ... The Observers were asked to analyse any and all data from the October 1999 dark run (which spanned the dates 1 October 1999 to 15 October 1999) for any clues or evidence that the secondary was in trouble during the dark run. In this report we outline the last few weeks worth of work in on the analysis. ... Night logs . TPM log files . Focus sweep data . ... TCC logs . ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

Space Radio Telescope . The space radio telescope antenna consists of a deployable parabolic reflector (10-m diameter) which is made of 27 carbon fiber petals and central solid portion (3 m in diameter). The radio telescope has focus to diameter ratio F/D=0.43 and overall RMS surface accuracy 0.7 mm. ... A concentric feed arrangement at prime focus will provide the possibility of observing at two frequencies or two circular polarizations simultaneously. ... Observing frequency (MHz) . ...