... 23 September 2004 - Telescope First Light! ... 30 July 2004 . ... NIC-FPS is an instrument combining the capabilities of a near-infrared imaging camera with a cryogenic Fabry-Perot etalon currently under development at the Center for Space Astrophysics and Space Astronomy , University of Colorado with support from Rice University , Ball Aerospace and the Astrophysical Research Consortium. It is scheduled to begin operations on the ARC 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory in 2004. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Conferences . ... Borysenko S.A. A program to discover comets. ... 6th Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, April 27-30, 1999, Kyiv Borysenko S.A. First results of dynamical spectroscopy of comet Halley. ... 8th Open Young Scientists Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, April, 2001, Kyiv Borysenko S.A. Solar activity in November-December 1985 and its effect on the fast variations in the spectral lines of comet Halley ....

CATS home ] [ Back to CATS list ] [ ftp ] . 1989AJ.. ... Title: The use of IRAS data to define H II regions Authors: HUGHES, V. A.; MACLEOD, G. C. Affiliation: AB(Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) Journal: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 97, March 1989, p. 786-800. ... 786H A total of 2298 IR H II regions in the IRAS Point Source Catalog are identified to a confidence level of 77 percent. ... Criteria are from Hughes McLeod (1989). of HII regions in IRAS catalog: . ... 0.0 . ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... X CB (X) Opening of a set X by a disk B. Closing of a set X by a disk B. Science-Driven Feature Selection (a) (b) Mount Wilson Classification The Mount Wilson classification scheme groups sunspots into four classes based on the complexity of magnetic flux distribution in associated active regions [1]: class : groups dominated by a single unipolar sunspot class : a pair of sunspots of opposite magnetic ... Convex hulls are utilized to measure polarity mixture in (j). ...

... a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... During magnetic storms, the glow may move southwards, and on occasion it can be seen in much of the US. ... A similar phenomenon is also seen in southern polar regions. ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ... The green light of the aurora puzzled scientists for many years, since it fit no known...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . September : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

Olga V. Kochina . ... Russia, Moscow, 119017, . ... Modeling the synthesis of complex molecules in protostellar objects', Kochina O. V., Wiebe D. S., Vasyunin A. I., 2012, Physics of the Universe, Conference for young scientists, Ekaterinburg, Russia . Modeling of the formation of complex molecules in protostellar objects', Kochina O. V., Wiebe D. S., Kalenskii S.V., Vasyunin A. I.,2013 Astronomy Reports, Vol. 57(11), pp: 818 - 832 . ... Ultraviolet Universe - 2010", Saint-Petersburg, Russia. ...

... For new participaing countries and the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), presenting the short report is optional. ... May 18 , 2013. moved to 15 weeks before the Olympiad (according to common solution of OAC and LOC): . ... The (age) groups are defined by rules 4.5.2-4., i.e.: . ... Participants of the both groups must be not younger than 14.00 years on December 31, 2013 (i.e. born in 1999 or earlier). ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / File-based filters region(reg.fits, x , y ) is true if the point is contained in any of the regions specified in the region file reg.fits . If the second form of the region filter region(reg.fits) is used the coordinates of the test points come from columns with names taken from the MFORM1 attribute in the specified block. ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2006-06-28 ...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Dust has been on my mind lately. ... It made me realize: dust affects every aspect of astronomy. ... It's not the kind of dust you see around here on Earth. ... This has been known for a long time; you cen see it for yourself on a dark, cloudless night. Look for the Milky Way, the faint patch of light that is actually the glow from all the stars in our Galaxy. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Missions Archive . ... News . ... The flight control and vehicle and station system status monitoring during the rendezvous and docking were provided by the lead operational control team formed by RSC Energia, MCC-M and space companies specialists. ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... astro-ph . ... We present the goals and preliminary results of an unbiased, near-infrared, narrow-band imaging survey of the First Galactic Quadrant (10deg<l<65deg ; -1.3deg<b<+1.3deg). ... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ...

... What was needed was a complementary instrument consisting of an array of detectors designed to map the clouds using the signals emitted by the molecules in the gas. Such a facility, offering simultaneous spectroscopy and imaging, is currently being commissioned on the JCMT. ... ACSIS was built by the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, Canada, and the UKATC. ... HARP/ACSIS can map molecular gas in molecular clouds throughout the Universe rapidly and with great sensitivity. ...

... BIG BANG COSMOLOGY, GALACTIC CLUSTERS, SPACE DENSITY, UNIVERSE, FRAGMENTATION, HYDROGEN CLOUDS, INTERSTELLAR GAS, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, VOIDS . ... The fragmentation theory of the formation of the large scale structure of the universe is explained and contrasted with the continuous clustering theory. ... Use: Authors Title Abstract Text Text Query with Keywords Return: Query Results Query Form Database: Astronomy Instrumentation Physics and Geophysics ABSTRACT QUERY USER FEEDBACK HELP ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...