The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

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Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . ... International Astronomy Olympiad . The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad was carried out by Euro-Asian Astronomical Society and took place at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus on November 1-8, 1996. ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... Grades 11-12 . ... Russia) . ...

GALVESTON FLOOD It was a September evening when the sky was dark and grey Raging wind and water battled Hell in its sway The rich folk in the mansions and the poor ones in the dell Were swept into eternity the story left to tell Wasn't that a mighty time Wasn't that a mighty time that evening Wasn't that a mighty time When the storm winds struck our town The men left home that ...

... Three ` flavours'of binning and discard: · Discard 9 rows , readout 1 row, cut 10:1, resolution 1.75ms · Discard 90 rows , bin 10 rows , cut 10:1, resolution 2.76ms · Discard 95 rows , bin 5 rows , cut 20:1, resolution 2.76ms · Compared with normal timing : · 100 rows and readout, no cut, resolution 1.75ms Bin · Tested on XMM on Crab during rev 333 - 3 October 2001 Crab - rev 333 - Bright timing ... Counting mode and FIFO full errors. ... Crab - rev 333 - Bright timing mode ...

... Telescopes . ... But regardless of where you observe from or whether or not you have a telescope, exploring the many aspects of astronomy can be an exciting hobby. It can be an activity shared with thousands of other amateurs all over the world. ... Or it might be pursued more actively by joining a local astronomy club like the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston and learning by direct association with other amateurs. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

I recieved PhD in 1998 and now I'm a reseacher at the division of Relativistic Astrophysics at Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University. ... Isolated neutron stars and black holes. Their evolution, distribuion, accretion onto INSs and BHs . ... My 4th year work (B.S.): Accretion onto isolated neutron stars and accretion in X-ray pulsars. ... My diploma (M.S.): Binary evolution after the starformation burst at the Galactic Center, Moscow State University, 1995 January. ...

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